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That's why those with liquified gender, fluid gender, or viscous gender--whatever--have somehow gotten everyone to say "gender assigned at birth". "As...
February 26, 2023 at 00:30
I had not read your response to Storm, Mont, or Moliere. Well, maybe, sort of, sometimes, or not.
February 25, 2023 at 03:52
That our existence is a series of deliberate acts is a fiction created by our minds, which SEEM to make decisions based on rational considerations. Th...
February 25, 2023 at 01:54
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February 24, 2023 at 20:26
We don't "pretend" that we have found meaning and purpose. In a grandly meaningless universe, it's our task to create meaning and purpose. A person ma...
February 24, 2023 at 19:43
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February 23, 2023 at 19:22
No, no -- this is interesting. Don't hide your light under an inbox.
February 23, 2023 at 18:47
@"javi2541997" Millions of English speaking Christians grew up "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost". Starting back in the 1970s, f...
February 23, 2023 at 18:43
The Cat Came Back is not a long song, it just seems to go on for hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltlPINPn8UU It's still snowing. Much more to c...
February 23, 2023 at 02:01
Referring to Who Stole Feminism?, The War Against Boys and some similar titles... The following is tangentially related to Latinx. It's about the way ...
February 22, 2023 at 20:49
BTW, Old English was as gendered as modern German. Most of the gendered forms were discarded starting around 1100 years ago, as Old English evolved in...
February 22, 2023 at 20:08
More on Latinx: According to Pew Research, "About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but of that 25%, just 3% Use It". This is a link to...
February 22, 2023 at 19:59
A good case can be made for inclusion of feminine pronouns when the pronoun represents a group of people. English, as you know, long ago established t...
February 22, 2023 at 19:46
Your OP touches on many of my linguistic pet peeves. A particularly egregious practice is replacing "pregnant woman" with "pregnant person". Why would...
February 22, 2023 at 19:29
The technical term for this theory is "bullshit". Let's get technical about 's.
February 22, 2023 at 18:59
Big snow coming to the upper midwest -- maybe 20 to 24 inches by Thursday night -- wind too.
February 22, 2023 at 06:06
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One of the basic building blocks of human experience is loneliness. It is common and it is painful. I've done that often enough -- if one can call a r...
February 22, 2023 at 06:04
I definitely would NOT do this to scallops, but cod fish, especially left-overs, goes well with stewed tomatoes which are generally slightly sweetened...
February 22, 2023 at 05:52
Now is the best time to grab some scallops. Your insides? If you are going to eat the whole bag at once, you probably don't need a side.
February 22, 2023 at 04:50
The bastards!
February 22, 2023 at 01:25
The time before the last I had scallops some of you had't been born yet; it was at Legal Seafood in Boston. They were heavenly. The next time (15 year...
February 22, 2023 at 01:02
Scallops that were at home a matter of hours before they met a hot pan should not have an odd fore- or -after taste unless home was downstream from Co...
February 22, 2023 at 00:53
God made coffee expressly for the purpose of us drinking it in the morning. Before the Beginning, God knew what a drag mornings would be for us.
February 21, 2023 at 06:52
He was an anthropologist -- apparently worth something. Had he been a philosophy professor, they'd have left him alone, such having no ransom value wh...
February 21, 2023 at 06:49
A bald eagle laid an egg in Minnesota last week. The eagle(s) at this nest have been on DNR cameras for about 10 years. https://img.apmcdn.org/65cf2d6...
February 21, 2023 at 06:44
France has too many varieties of cheese to be governed, but what makes Costa Rican coffee so good? They say: REASON #1: BAD COFFEE IS LITERALLY AGAINS...
February 21, 2023 at 06:26
I much prefer freshly roasted and ground coffee for breakfast - a darker roast, preferably, with frothed milk, sourced from Costa Rica, Sumatra, where...
February 21, 2023 at 06:18
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February 20, 2023 at 20:02
Great post. OR Excellent! Either paragraph will do. Our 'intellectual facilities' like to think they are above it all, not affected by all the good an...
February 20, 2023 at 19:38
Fact: Woody phalli are the source of the expression "knock on wood" for good luck.
February 20, 2023 at 18:55
Because good food is better than bad food, I have never eaten at Taco Bell and never will. White Castle is was low as I will go, and I haven't gone th...
February 20, 2023 at 07:50
Regardless of where food is from, my policy is that 'good food is better than bad food'.
February 20, 2023 at 06:24
I admire your enthusiasm for cooking food from around the world, but what makes you think there is a single 'fully authentic' Ethiopian food flavor? A...
February 20, 2023 at 03:53
Maybe my response was too aggressive. I hadn't looked at the Huffington Post piece when I responded. I don't know what your philosophical/intellectual...
February 19, 2023 at 21:53
Succinct summation!
February 19, 2023 at 21:26
I had a Harris tweed jacket before our dog chewed off a sleeve.
February 19, 2023 at 20:24
Amity is very sharp. So is Shawn. Yes, miss them both - and others besides. Don't go away -- we would all miss you!
February 19, 2023 at 07:25
I'm sure it was fascinating, but how did it happen 'accidentally'? It's always a surprising discovery but people have lives apart from TPF. Perhaps sh...
February 19, 2023 at 06:37
Is that a fact? Is this alleged illusion your hedge against death? If self-awareness is an illusion, why isn't your claim that we exist (in some form)...
February 19, 2023 at 03:13
That is the problem. A smaller workforce (and then a smaller population) means (perhaps a much) smaller economy, with fewer surpluses to support peopl...
February 18, 2023 at 23:36
Picky Jamal sat down near a well Partook of purported prune pie. He stuck in his thumb But found not even one plum And damned Slavic pies to hell. Mor...
February 18, 2023 at 19:56
Your excellent pun did not go unnoticed! It has not been proved that time passes for the penis at the same rate it does for the rest of the body. A gi...
February 17, 2023 at 21:01
1942 to 2021 is a respectable time frame to study reproductive issues; however the article also reports that erect penile length got longer, from an a...
February 17, 2023 at 19:16
No body knew that. What you call 'amateur balloon groups' are insidious front groups for aliens without flying saucers (awfs). Commercial airline trav...
February 17, 2023 at 17:49
At the rate billions of people are not reproducing, we could be back to 3 billion people like we were in 1960 in a pleasantly short period of time (hm...
February 17, 2023 at 02:24
Ask @"Shawn". Hmm, he hasn't been active for 6 days. Hope you are OK, Shawn!
February 16, 2023 at 23:51
Because we're the tallest hog in the trough. I also have questions: How would we know whether an alien was dead or alive? Why would a allegedly dead a...
February 16, 2023 at 21:50
Your worries are why "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning" is such a great book title. And the book, which is about Mapping the Collapse of Glo...
February 16, 2023 at 20:02
Having some sort of strong central government seems to be an important factor in how much violence a society tolerates. Where there is a strong govern...
February 16, 2023 at 07:00
Responding to your year old post... Seems like you might want to find some new bars to hang out in.
February 16, 2023 at 06:53