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Humans create purpose. Meaning and purpose does not arrive by any other force. So you’ll have to create a purpose for your own life or adopt someone e...
May 08, 2020 at 19:38
I suppose the presence of suffering isn’t inherently bad either. Running a marathon or getting a tattoo aren't necessarily pleasurable experiences. Ei...
May 08, 2020 at 16:23
Yeah I didn’t see that. You outlined the opposing ideas accurately, I think, and it’s a very interesting dichotomy. It’s just a bloody shame the stake...
May 08, 2020 at 05:28
It is also a fact that Flynn has been trying to withdraw his guilty plea citing government vindictiveness. Given newly released documents this appears...
May 07, 2020 at 21:42
The author suspects that there is no stopping the virus, and any lockdown is simply kicking the can down the road so to speak. He speculated that in a...
May 07, 2020 at 21:36
Flynn replaced his legal team last year and has been trying to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing he is the victim of misconduct by prosecutors. In lig...
May 07, 2020 at 21:31
That might be the case, though I believe the case against Flynn was politicized, not the other way about.
May 07, 2020 at 21:19
An interesting piece in The Lancet. The Invisible Pandemic https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31035-7/fulltext#%20
May 07, 2020 at 21:16
He was railroaded. This was just the first domino to fall.
May 07, 2020 at 21:02
Wow. The case against Michael Flynn has been dropped! Finally some justice. https://apnews.com/ae1ad252bb13490db2ceffc5d17b6d92 Incoming meltdown.
May 07, 2020 at 20:34
Perhaps some people are proud when they get caught in a sex act or must speak of their sex life in any detail, but I wager the common response is sham...
May 07, 2020 at 16:41
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SAGE? I bet they came up with the acronym before they came up with the name. Such is the hubris of experts.
May 07, 2020 at 15:46
More often than not sex is unattractive and shameful for anyone but the participants. Therefor it should be a private affair.
May 07, 2020 at 15:36
Lockdown for thee but not for me. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/uk/neil-ferguson-imperial-coronavirus-sage-gbr-intl/index.html
May 06, 2020 at 19:33
Victoria is the capital. Even lovelier place. Less crowded.
May 06, 2020 at 17:55
Yea, that makes sense. It’s true, I do not think the virus is such a threat that it warrants these sorts of lockdowns. I’m of the mind that life is a ...
May 06, 2020 at 17:53
I live in the capital of British Columbia, Canada. The rules here are not as hard elsewhere in the country.
May 06, 2020 at 17:32
No, because you would not only eradicate suffering, but also joy, love, beauty, etc. One can only minimize suffering in living beings, so if the great...
May 06, 2020 at 17:28
Right, the “hammer” is the initial lockdown, the “dance” is what we do afterwords to mitigate. You have told me about this, and it might very well be ...
May 06, 2020 at 17:21
What happens if the infections continue? I suspect it is unlikely we will get a vaccine.
May 06, 2020 at 17:06
The policies you advocate are authoritarian. But I don’t think they are effective because they are unsustainable.
May 06, 2020 at 17:02
There was also a very authoritarian/anti-authoritarian dichotomy. The ease with which so many people in nearly every country accepted authoritarianism...
May 06, 2020 at 16:13
I don’t care what republicans think, frankly. In fact the rearranging of republican politics was one of the greatest things of a Trumpian takeover. Tr...
May 05, 2020 at 23:49
I think questionable statements are commonplace outside of the public relations politics we’ve all grown accustomed to. I remember a time when a weird...
May 05, 2020 at 20:12
Another symptom of coronavirus...falling out of windows? “Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions amid coronavirus pandemi...
May 05, 2020 at 18:06
I hope that not all criticism of the federal reserve system is rooted in anti-Americanism and communism. I could be wrong.
May 05, 2020 at 18:01
You’re speaking my language. Hopefully that doesn’t frighten you.
May 05, 2020 at 17:51
I think you’re right. Just another reason why governments should keep their hands away from the market.
May 05, 2020 at 17:21
Right, let’s just forgive all loans. Free money for everyone. Just fucking brilliant.
May 05, 2020 at 16:43
The fed knows where that money went because the money has to be payed back. Companies are owned by, run by, and employ actual people the last time I c...
May 05, 2020 at 16:36
I understand why you’d feel that way and agree that his style may “impassion opposition”. The issue I have is I’m not sure that this differs much from...
May 05, 2020 at 15:09
“But muh bailouts!” The Fed’s $1.5 trillion loan injection, explained The Fed Did Not Just ‘Spend’ $1.5 Trillion
May 05, 2020 at 14:45
Pay for Medicare for All through short-term loans from the Federal Reserve. Brilliant. Why has no one thought of that?
May 05, 2020 at 06:22
He does not lump them all as terrorists, and he does not apply anything to any group of people by race. Why can’t you prove your accusations, Tim Wood...
May 05, 2020 at 05:54
Most of his words are not irrelevant to me. The ones that are sensationalized by a belligerent press are irrelevant. For instance I doubt anyone can r...
May 05, 2020 at 05:49
I’m not saying you have to believe it, but you suspiciously leave it out. I do not believe Trump is racist.
May 05, 2020 at 00:58
It might hurt their feelings, sure. It would certainly be awful to have a visa revoked. But the ban on terror-prone countries was done in the interest...
May 04, 2020 at 23:37
French doctors are now saying they found a coronavirus patient in December, which suggests the coronavirus was circulating among the European populati...
May 04, 2020 at 20:46
Unfortunately for us we do know what happens after death and we have the cadaver farms to prove it. But because life is brief makes it all the more pr...
May 04, 2020 at 20:10
I try not to confuse poor speaking with poor action, and I cannot see why anyone would unless one was fooling himself through blind hatred. But I am o...
May 04, 2020 at 19:21
I was admittedly disappointed with Trump's response to a question in his most recent town hall. The question from a woman about not receiving her fede...
May 04, 2020 at 19:02
DHS report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies
May 04, 2020 at 18:51
“Gaining money” and using it how one chooses is one thing; taking and distributing that money to others is quite another. The former is just; the latt...
May 04, 2020 at 17:46
You’re right. It was an ambiguous statement, and a drunken one at that. What I mean is a wage, an income, money, doesn’t just fall out of the sky. It ...
May 04, 2020 at 16:48
Why don’t you give them your money, then?
May 04, 2020 at 09:33
The notion of unearned income is fundamentally flawed because income is never unearned.
May 04, 2020 at 03:31
You’re an odd duck, aren’t you?
May 02, 2020 at 18:29
I doubt that.
May 02, 2020 at 18:25
No need to pretend I said something I didn't. I'm just saying there is documented evidence of the DNC working with particular journalists for the purp...
May 02, 2020 at 18:17
They certainly lean in a particular direction and appeal to a certain segment of the population, but to say they propagandize to maintain Trump's/Repu...
May 02, 2020 at 18:00