Sure. There is only so much one can take in and process, young or old. The good news about mentioning other depressions, aside from the great one, is ...
@"Athena": Oh, I just noticed from your profile that you live in Oregon. For some reason I thought you were Canadian. I pictured you living somewhere ...
If we are going to psycoanalyze the country's mental health with respect to the Great Depression, which I enjoy doing as much as the next armchair psy...
Per Hanover, It was probably not aimed at Georgia. But who knows what evil lurks in the heart of MAGA? Immigration raids have occurred at a wide varie...
I'll say AMEN to that. I have been reading a history of Amsterdam, a place that invented and applied the term "liberal" back in the 16th century, and ...
I was certainly stupid, afraid, and lonely, and that spells trouble ahead, but people frequently survive the process of becoming less stupid. Lonely--...
Properly so, and I hope it isn't picked up on by anyone in this thread. The existential import of a decision whether to bear children or not is altoge...
It could make no difference to me, whatsoever, since, if I had not existed, I wouldn't be present to have an opinion. Having not existed might make so...
I am not sure whether the existing liberal center should be likened too an avocado (no), a peach (maybe), or several little apple seeds (I hope we're ...
I don't know much about the over-estimation of the world's liberalism, but that is certainly the case for the United States. It might seem like libera...
You can imagine, then, how much bigger a disappointment it is for Americans who didn't vote for Trump and altogether disapprove of him and his policie...
Hypocrisy is a universal trait (even if it is undesirable) among all humans and all human institutions. It's just easier to see in other people, other...
By "state" I mean either a federal state (US GOV) or a subunit (Florida, North Dakota). I live in a state, Minnesota, that abandoned the death penalty...
Isn't this where reward and punishment play a major role? From an early age on we are offered rewards for acting the way an agency prefers -- that age...
First, people are born into societies with a standing system of values (reflected in law, religion, manners, and so forth). So from the start, that is...
Thanks for calling me out on that. Sadly, "the extent of the law" may include capital punishment. I am against capital punishment for two reasons: #1,...
I'm not worried about you plagiarizing anything! I think we are both in the same age group--aged and high functioning. We are in a position for a late...
Wisdom tells me that the second hanging is a formality, since the hangees will no longer be 'present'. On the other hand, I'll own up to a certain amo...
Which AI are you using? Are you using the summary labeled as AI which Google provides to a query? For quick checks, it generally delivers acceptable a...
Some of us don't need grapefruit to get a hard on. Whatever turns you on. I didn't like it either, which surprised me a little bit. It was just too mi...
"All this" will crash. The young of 2125 won't be grappling with an oil shortage. In 100 years heat will be the biggest problem -- heat; previously un...
Well, geology IS the bedrock of reality, so, yes. Iran is currently in a water crisis -- not enough to go around. The SW United States is headed towar...
No so far from the matter of raising children. Children can grow up to be open to the always-changing world, to new music ("All music was once new"), ...
Yes, but whores usually don't go in for a lot of batting practice, probably didn't play football in school, didn't golf, or go out for track and field...
Really! Who knew? I am tolerant of other people's sexual behavior. Part of this comes from liberal thinking about behavior, and part of it comes from ...
The mood of the country is different than it was say 70 years ago. But then those 70 years have changed us as well. So neither the world nor we are th...
Carrots are also enigmatic. They are very orange, though, and what's not to like about orange fruit and vegetables? Parsnips tend to be diffident. Cor...
Of course it isn't good to bring everything down to the lowest level. Sex in itself is not a low level. It's a topic. It can be treated in a lot of di...
Censorship is fine when one doesn't like the stuff the censor is shredding, anyway, but not so great when it is one's favorite books, poems, newspaper...
Granted, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is not up there with Giacomo Puccini. "Yesterday" by Paul McCartney is a good song by any standard. McCartney was 22...
One of the problems with AI and it's large language model is that when it answers a question, it is drawing on that vast ocean of print which is what ...
There is nothing inadequate about rutabagas. Normally they have a touch of sweetness, whether raw or cooked. This is a rare song about vegetables by F...
Granted, one would not be able to imagine a cow based on a steak, but the steak is still 100% cow. So, even though social research generally examines ...
Yes, for the beer garden -- where the beer is 100% free of garlic, P, S, R, & T, or Simon, Garfunkel, and all other folk singing groups. None of them ...
I very much enjoyed the cartoon about round animals. Thanks. Beer or wine arose according to dominant agriculture. Where grapes were grown, it was win...
Well then, it must be TRUE. AI says so! But this is an old debate, and as I recollect there has never been a definitive answer to the question of whet...
AT least the internet, but chances are the computers would not have fared well being banged around in the ox carts on the way west. Then there was the...
In Deuteronomy 14:26 it God himself says, with respect to being unable to make it to the Temple to celebrate, So, if God himself is in favor of strong...
Additionally... 30 million words heard by age 6 isn't hard to achieve in a family that is literate, quite verbal, and engaged with it's children. That...
One of the many things I don't much about are the theories (good and bad) about teaching reading. I have seen several studies that emphasize the impor...
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