Do you mean voters or politicians? If politicians, because their corporate donors tell them to be, because medicare for all weakens corporate power an...
We can fund Medicare as it is. If you’re talking about the dwindling trust, that was always supposed to run out as the Boomers died off, since it was ...
What influence does the political leaning of a state have on the cost of its housing? I expect it’s the other way around: people getting screwed by ri...
The state of California generally recognizes that there is a homelessness crisis here... finally, after I’ve been screaming about it for well over a d...
Maybe the DNC can implement a Condorcet method internally at least, to definitively resolve issues like this, and ensure the nomination always goes to...
It's funny that on the same day you say this, two threads piss me off on this very forum: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/384912 and...
Pointing out the implications your general principles would have on you specifically is not a personal attack, it is drawing your attention to the con...
The only kind of home that you can truly own is a house, because if you live in a part of a building with other people, even if you nominally “own” yo...
Sorry, I keep saying “hundreds of thousands” of people would have to move by your logic, but my quick mental estimate was off. It’s actually tens of m...
She doesn’t want to leave her home either. She’s even more attached to the land than me; I’m happy living anywhere in the general area where I can sti...
So long as the interest portion of the mortgage is less than the rent you would otherwise be paying, yes. Paying 6/12 your income in interest and 1/12...
A little bit of both. I’ve actually had a very bad temper for my entire life, but I’ve spent so long being so angry about much bigger problems that so...
Something being more likely and there being more possible states where that thing occurs are equivalent descriptions. If the physical laws make someth...
Thanks. The median cost for the entire state of California is over half a million dollars, and I can't find anything less than that within hundreds of...
Thereabouts yeah. The MH was paid off in cash with my entire life savings up to that point (and even then only affordable because it was in a weird fi...
I was talking about income there, as apparently the mean personal income (which I approximately make) falls at around the 75th percentile of personal ...
The tendency for (closed systems in) our universe to evolve toward states of greater entropy isn't an effect of any of our specific physical laws, tho...
Personally, that's still something I aspire to... like, the bare minimum I aspired to have had already well over a decade ago, and am still very slowl...
I can't find it at the moment, but I recently saw something about a different strain of anti-aging research, that claims that all or at least most ani...
That's actually what makes it so iron clad, in the way I meant. You're absolutely right that small local temporary reductions of entropy are possible ...
One of the top recommended things on YouTube this morning is The Democratic Debate in About a Minute, from.... Bloomberg Politics. It's a bunch of sho...
FiveThirtyEight is now showing no majority as clearly more likely than anyone getting a majority, and Bernie far more likely than anyone else to get a...
It's not so much atheist as antitheist, maybe atheist by way of the Problem of Evil: (Purportedly about the unwavering religiosity of a terminally ill...
By doing philosophy. That's what philosophy is all about: coming up with the correct processes by which to determine the correct answers to particular...
The question at hand here is exactly what the correct such process is. Where are the boundaries between these groups? If my neighbor in contemporary C...
No problem, I'm glad that you're even reading it at all, and seeing people try to argue against it does at least give me an idea of how well they unde...
I feel like you're getting hung up on some kind of confusion about "claims" here. Any claim about anything, if it is correct, tells you about that thi...
Tardigrades, immortal jellyfish, flatforms, possibly lobsters and turtles... Also, just nothing had ever been to space (well... tardigrades again, may...
@"god must be atheist" Thank you for all the feedback despite how boring you found it, I'll have to reply to you in more detail later when I have some...
I do, though the futility of it does get annoying sometimes. My patience really depends on how much else is stressing me out in life. If I'm relaxed a...
Thank you for finally explaining what you mean, but I’m still not seeing any bearing on the topic under discussion. If your point is that we can’t obs...
The bigger picture of how good or bad everybody feels, yes. I think the topic of justice is about the means, while the topic of morality is narrowly a...
I clearly distinguished between perception and sensation, which is not even my original distinction; I only extended it to normative experiences (appe...
I didn't say free from mind, I said free from its interpretation. This is the basic distinction between polling people about what they believe, and ap...
It's not one over the other. Experience is what to reason about. I use exactly that analogy in the essay I linked earlier.... er sorry, confusing two ...
Claims about what is true or real, good or moral; though that's pretty much the same thing as judging what actually is true or real, good or moral, in...
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