Marmalade hit a low, alright, November of 69, in the form of the band, "Marmalade". Their song, "Reflections of My Life" is just too limp and vague, e...
Orange marmalade is 1 step away from disgusting. Old people eat it because they have lost most of their taste buds. Tampering with honey, for example....
I'm sure several militaries are thinking about it, but it might not be ready for a war yet -- it should be able to go up and down stairs competently, ...
No, but I did buy some old family / sex education books from between 1900 and 1920. Their advice on family and marriage (sex) was perhaps applicable b...
3 questions (to which you might or might not know the answers) 1) What is the difference between "training material" and reference material for a LLM?...
Contemporary society would choke Greek philosophers in ever so many ways. Look, I'm not proposing that we toss Greek philosophers into the fire, but t...
I do not agree that everything is reducible to "imperialist race supremacy". There are several "isms" that can be cited as a universal cause of all pr...
In evolution, Task #1 is reproducing. Beauty is better at promoting sex than being clever at organizing a group sing-along. A better word than "aesthe...
One might ask where VISUAL CAPITALIST gets its facts, but here is a graph from VC ranking the sources of AIs like Chatgpt. Reddit? Why? How reliable a...
I like orange lentils -- mainly from an aesthetic POV. Much more attractive than the dirt colored ones. I like them stewed with onion, carrot, celery,...
I haven't heard of the podcast. It sounds quite interesting, but I'm plowing my way through the American Revolution and War of 1812 right now. Learnin...
American anthropologist and artist Tobias Schneebaum published a book quite a few years ago, Keep The River on your Right, which was about his contact...
A normal temp is 37°C; you have had a high fever. Two weeks of a high fever is cause for a visit to a doctor/ER/urgent care. Could be covid or some ot...
Don't we want to live in a 'knowable world'? Not everybody does; some people like Mysteries, arbitrary gods, and the like; I for one do not. Physics a...
Or don't make friends with food. We had two pet chickens at one point. They started life as dyed easter chicks. They survived and lived in our yard an...
AI says that Plymouth Rock chickens are gentle and good around children. One might wonder how much experience the computer has raising children, chick...
In the US those are called 'Plymouth Rock' chickens. OK, no, they're not exactly the same, but per Heraclitus, you can't fry the same egg twice. This ...
So this discussion was caused by ejecta from those two volcanoes of bullshit, 'critical theory' and 'postmodernism'. No surprise there. I had hoped th...
Not to mention that social workers can't solve every problem either! The fact is society is not fair, and those who suffer most from unfairness are us...
This is true, up to a point. Schools are not social service providers. No surprise. What might be more surprising is that "educating kids" is calibrat...
There's an erroneous understanding that the influence of parents and teachers last forever. There is actually a point in the life of children when the...
Goodness, Athena; I've been waiting EIGHT YEARS! for your comment. This is a quoted AI answer. Note that 2023 was not the year with the most shootings...
I graduated from Podunk; there were no elites there -- just us hayseeds. We hayseeds don't really like being in places where the elite hang out--be th...
@"javi2541997", Here is an interesting interview with Mary Beard, British scholar and author. She does speak about sex in Rome among other interesting...
You didn't mention the minor problem of going under bridges with your falling-weight-driven car. So, maybe this would be most practical for crossing t...
The problem isn't putting a leash on the dogs; the problem isn't even getting good (or at least 'better') dogs. People are corruptible, and bad system...
No, as far as I know. The young men taken on by the older men were from other ruling class families. They were not picked up off the street, as luscio...
Thank you. I wish there was more interest in the broader aspects of Greek and Roman culture, rather than the narrow focus on a handful of philosophers...
I suspect that major changes in Greek culture began way before the G. O. church got going. General Octavian defeated Greece in 29 BC at Actium, defini...
What in God's name were they thinking? Judging by the art work at Herculaneum, covered by ash from Mt Vesuvius, AD 79, they were obsessed with sex. A ...
Many Americans, in particular, seem to have difficulty thinking calmly about eroticism in Ancient Greece because of near-hysterical attitudes toward p...
Way back in 1982 I took a classics course at the U of Minnesota, Eroticism and Family Life in Ancient Greece. Was it a wonderful time, erotically? For...
It may be the case that at a given time, one race performs better on "x" measure of quality -- income, # of patents, height, IQ, longevity, etc. IF we...
ball; bawl; brawl; call; crawl; fall; gall; gaul; haul; maul; Paul; pall, tall; trawl, ya'll Some words might or might not rhyme with 'awl', depending...
There is no reason to suppose that life is "absolutely" equal; there is far more reason to suppose that life involves significant inequalities. "Life"...
Your desire to get a HS diploma (and more) is excellent. Full speed ahead! No need to apologize for learning from videos on philosophy and religion. M...
Sort of like a tapeworm, I suppose. What little amount of reading is most responsible for this eating away -- a little religion or a little philosophy...
That's a nice piece, family connection and all. "Junk stores" are always interesting, though they are likely to be classed as "vintage" or "collectabl...
The number of clocks is never enough. I think of infinite rooms with an infinite number of clocks (cuckoo's if it is possible), and it makes me happy....
Another reason clock time was invented was to make sure monks said their prayers on time. Little known fact: God is very particular about punctuality,...
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