We won't have to wait for a flat-out frosted cosmos to (paradoxical phrased) cook our goose. Long before the last erg of heat is given up, the sun wil...
Magma seems like a fine source of energy to me, at least where it is accessible. The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by a ring of volcanic activity relate...
In 1960 the world population was 3 billion. At that time, there was, already, some concern about CO2 among expert circles, and there was concern about...
We certainly could slow down the rate at which we produce and consume, allowing nature to catch up on carbon renewal. Unfortunately, even if we did th...
I like Vaclav Smil's book -- How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going 2022. For example, he shows how much...
We are up against time. Yes, we will transition to fossil free energy eventually, because we will have used it all up--if industrial civilization last...
WELCOME to TPF. Planning is the critical piece missing from the recycling process. Manufacturers must plan for the products entire lifespan. Don't mak...
The Metropolitan Opera is performing Phillip Glass's Akhenaten. The star of the show, Akhnaten, makes his entrance naked. According to an interview, t...
Quality beef, raw onion, and very good bread is what you need. Trendy Clarky tried guacamole because he saw a picture of it in a magazine at the barbe...
I remember the geothermal / magma thread. People have hung their hats on more absurd hooks. There was also a lengthy discussion elsewhere on floating ...
Gently, brother Karl. They may be stupid dogmatic radical left wing com-simps, but they are OUR stupid dogmatic radical left wing com-simps. Cooling t...
There's nothing wrong with talking about issues of the day in a bar, or in the Shoutbox. It's probably bad form to talk philosophy in a brothel -- I m...
It is indeed soooo gay, but gay is good, so there is that. Actually, it's not all that gay. Choral music is very popular here. Minnesota itself is in ...
I'm an old working class gay white male and I agree with the objections you raised. In an analogous situation, several of us attended the St. Olaf Col...
Indeed. The numbers of deaths caused by gun fire will very likely remain high because there is a surfeit of hand guns, rifles, and assault weapons. GU...
Afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted was NEVER a function of the press or media. That honorable and thankless task belongs to gadfl...
Not so. In the not overly distant past a low-grade moron would have been demoted to an imbecile. A very high grade imbecile would be graduated into th...
Congratulations! You are the first person at TPF to use "feck" properly. (It has appeared several other times as a euphemism or local slang substitute...
Beloved he may be or not, but only once before has "beloved" and "Baden" appeared in close proximity, and that was in a statement by @"counterpunch"; ...
A hymn to shit getting done by The Fugs Gospel Choir: (gospel sound) River of shit River of shit Flow on, flow on, river of shit Right from my toes On...
"What would communism look like" is an old debate. In any case, it will be up to the people to decide. Presumably, the people will not decide on a dic...
True, the worker might feel isolated, true. But workers may well have close companionship in their isolation. Marx's description is abstract; millions...
Most organizations, whether government, corporation, or non-profit, operate under a very similar model of top-down authority and control, which practi...
I don't know what percentage of workers are alienated or not alienated. I've been in both camps (more the former than the latter). Unalienated work (a...
Well, Frank -- if a behavior is tolerated, and there are no laws defining what a behavior is, then it is a matter of personal interpretation as to whe...
No, because it has been defined as a criminal act. NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association (not sure if it still exists) held the view tha...
Did I? There is a difference between behavior we disapprove of and behavior which has been legislated against. Abortion, homosexuality, polygamy, corp...
Sex abuse (I'll assume for the present that our definition of 'abuse' is more or less the same) has been widely rejected as an acceptable behavior for...
We do not all have to agree on every definition of moral and immoral behavior. I'm OK with some people thinking that I, as a homosexual, behave immora...
The question of whether abortion is murder or not hinges on whether one considers a everything from a just-fertilized egg on to a blastocyst on to a f...
The psychologist, social scientist, wishing he needed the apparatus of a chemist, dehumanizes the subjects by making objects (it) of them. There is no...
Had I the wherewithal to answer that question, I'd probably be a tenured psych or social science professor, enjoying a comfy late career or a generous...
The social sciences--I'm including psychology--have a lamentably justified bad rep for half-baked research, sloppy methodology, unconfirmed results, a...
The graph is from this source and there is some discussion about the interpretation. "And Jesus said, "How can you help your fellow philosopher from s...
Promiscuously promoting political nouns to the dustbin of history is something like the odd condition non-soviet communist parties found themselves in...
If you have read a lot of Freud, then you would know better than me. I have read about Freud, discussed him with an intellectual type who received psy...
The political class isn't homogeneous, certainly, but most members of the political class (at the federal, state, and local levels) are quite similar ...
No doubt the Civil War was a 're-defining moment' in American history, but it seems that a strong case could be made for the US being a functioning na...
for those philosophers who sensibly don't hang around concert hals waiting for Lutheran choirs to sing it properly, here's the St Olaf Choir directed ...
The Haiku, stolen from the Japanese culture is an unrhymed poem in 17 syllables, with 5, 7, and 5 syllables in the three lines, per above. it (might, ...
Bumping threads isn't allowed? I don't know what that means. I would think that returning to a more or less dead thread and adding something to it wou...
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