I urge caution. Start with two cohorts, one lower than the other, and then reduce that inequality, and it can be said that the other cohort is "fallin...
Me, not so much. A recent discussion on Mathematics showed that he had a very poor grasp of some basic concepts, together with an unwillingness to lea...
Sure, all that, more or less. Mixed results. But... 11 points, 22 points... and 101 points. Which should be our primary concern? My critique of Reeves...
If you need folk to genuflect, then I do agree that the US was a great civilisation. The issue in this particular thread is, what next? Especially for...
Indeed, famously Australian, but Arnott's were purchased by the US corporate Campbell's Soup in 1997. There followed an explosion of varieties in the ...
Yes, responsibilities - things the US undertook to do, then backed out of. Nor can the USA, as it turns out. I hope I would be aghast. Such purchases ...
US postal rates are so much higher than other regions - Canada, for example - that again, we don't make such purchases. Again, the point MAGA misses i...
The USA can do as it pleases. But having said that it would provide aid, defence materials and so on, and then having rapidly and unilateral backed ou...
...and that neither can be trusted shows us what? The point being made is that the USA was reliable, and now it isn't. So why do business with them? W...
"Here is a hand" is a proposition. It is not justified by some other proposition. It is a hinge proposition, one on which other propositions may turn....
The traitor-in-chief is actively, if not directly, killing millions word wide. Yep, the USA in the last month or so has reneged on responsibilities un...
Cheers. That girls are doing well in PISA only matters if one supposes that it ought be boys that are doing well. Why not just say "good on 'em!"? Why...
Alan Kohler, again: We're at a turning point in world history but our leaders are distracted Given that our great and powerful friend has abdicated it...
It doesn't much matter for the purposes of the discussion if masculinity and femininity match biological gender. Margaret Thatcher comes to mind. My q...
My apologies - to all, but especially . The temptation was to great. Excellent thread, Tobias. Gotta love Hegelian analysis. The definition of masculi...
:lol: it was an environmental group claiming that a reactor would need a thousands times the available water it there was danger of a melt down, compl...
He he... Banno is my name. That's cool, since you are an idiot, and hence your opinion isn't of much consequence. Are we having fun now? * But see Sno...
Yes, there is very much a failure to take responsibility for their predicament in incel thinking, a powerless resentment, to the point of ressentiment...
You see ethics as a set of rules. Better to understand it as a conversation, or as a progression in our acts. There is something repugnant, something ...
Another problem. The presumption seems to be that ethics is about rules. While arguably, morality might be about rules, ethics not so much. In the las...
Notice that this doesn't follow? Another use of false dilemma, a pattern in your posts here. It's not that either something is the result of a constit...
There's a certain obsession with commandments on your part. Did you decide that baby stomping is a bad thing all by yourself, or did you need help? Wa...
Do you need all your morality in terms of commandments? The point being made is that, contrary to 's suggestion, social institutions do not rely on fa...
Murder is unlawful killing. Being against the law is being against a social institution. So why is murder wrong - becasue is breaches a social institu...
As trust in the US collapses, leaders in Australia and around the world are frantically recalibrating The stupidity of AUKUS and the failure of succes...
Apparently the freeze on military support to Ukraine by the Traitor-in-chief has prevented or at least delayed the delivery of superseded M1A1 vehicle...
Believing that putting the ball in the net counts as a goal is not an act of faith but simply to understand how to play football. Consenting to our so...
Me, too. So we agree on that... If we disagreed, there would be more to say. Does that make our agreement subjective? Is our agreement relative? Or is...
You are not the first to mistake their misunderstandings for something profound. I suggest you read and try to understand Cantor's diagonal argument -...
Strictly, when properly stated, that's undecidable. But as I say, you need a mathematician. Well, no, since for every whole there is an odd, as has be...
Yeah, we do. We learn how to count, then notice that whatever number we chose, there is a bigger number. Or most of us do, around the age of seven or ...
I can't, becasue they are incoherent. Take Yeah, we have, at least enough to be getting on with. For every number there is a next number. They cannot ...
Yep. It is also connected and complete; it has a topological structure. Of course, not all the issues are ironed out and answered. If you want more yo...
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