The idea that voting on things frequently will motivate the public to educate themselves is beyond ludicrous, it's dangerously stupid. What you'd get ...
Putin made his country far less secular than it was before him, so they're opposites in that respect. And in their whole personalities and histories t...
Obviously nasty people end up with more money, and probably more happiness too. That's the reason it's praiseworthy to be kind. If people are just kin...
"Something from nothing" at the start of the universe is problem inherent in our understanding of linear time, whether you agree with Berkelean ideali...
As an audio drama creator, I can state definitively that radio plays are not meant to be "an aural assault on the eardrums." You can only assault some...
Simple grammar, spelling, paragraph, formatting and length checks can spot most morons. That's what we used to use, a certain number of such mistakes ...
Consciousness can be a fundamental property of the universe, but only if you reduce consciousness to an essentially meaningless property which only ta...
As far as I know he primarily did stage acting in Alberta, but has been focusing on voice acting lately. Don't know if he was ever in a movie, he does...
Maybe a film student with lots of local friends wanting to act in it for free could, but I certainly couldn't. I'd have zero actors for that, zero cre...
It'll probably be another month or more to produce the audio, but I've finally finished the script, which has evolved the story considerably: Godfried...
You want to absorb all the hefty ongoing legal fees when Porat sues me for illegally replicating the data of the site I sold? I wouldn't like to do it...
Eh, none are essential and 99% of what I use is open source. But how is that important? The big bad evil corporations have to rely on an ecosystem too...
Lots of us these days are online sole proprietorships. I work for myself doing what I choose when I choose to. I own my means of production, but it ha...
When it comes to the specific issue of guns as self-defense, a technological solution would be ideal: the invention of non-lethal devices that can inc...
I honestly don't know what there is to explain, I can only repeat myself. After the transplant, the world including bankers obviously considers the na...
I went into some detail about the repossession being caused by a latent personality in the body which can only dominate a sleeping mind. The narrator'...
You still got my vote, because as much as I disliked the ending on a personal level it was still a powerful ending that stuck with me and made it the ...
Interesting idea but a little lacking in character development. Would be nice to have a conversation between Mrs. Godfried and the narrator to reveal ...
I like this one. It's the sort of thing I'd write. But I feel the human should accuse the gods and try to hold them to account for their injustices. A...
It's such an interesting, mysterious, evocative, promising setup. It had me trying to imagine what strange secrets the Captain and his wife and their ...
"Genetic psych type" is nonsense. Their quiz questions are about your present personality, not your genes. Personalities change drastically through li...
It's not like astrology, because it actually parrots back what you tell it instead of inventing randomly. You're asked a bunch of questions about your...
Except for the countless episodes where Data uses contractions and nobody mentions it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1KdQNodN0 It never made the s...
Evil can be unifying, in fact it can be the only thing capable of holding a nation together sometimes (the Taliban, Hussein, Gadaffi could unite their...
I'd say wisdom is the accumulated ability to learn from experience and mistakes. The wise person has become capable of self-criticism and has used tha...
Did Brown ever actually publish a two sentence version of "Knock"? The "Knock" I know is quite a lot longer, and I can't find any reference to a short...
I'm defining health as a matter of... health. Living longer, having fewer diseases, being happier, not being in the dungeon getting flogged. The same ...
A global skeptical hypothesis is something which we have no evidence for or against. It's kind of misleading to ask whether it's known to be untrue, b...
I hope you don't think war is about being healthy. It seems like some of you have decided to try to redefine "healthy" to mean "whatever I think shoul...
Every society humans have ever put into action for more than 5 seconds has been profoundly sick. Only a miserable fool refuses to adjust to the inevit...
There's always community college and minor league baseball games. Although my Sacramento River Cats (cheapest ticket $15) are actually more expensive ...
Is it possible to imagine it not being possible to imagine? Sure, as long as you're not pedantic and getting into pointless arguments about the meanin...
You mean we'll spend thousands of years universally beating, torturing and murdering theists around the world until eventually we arrive at a point wh...
Can you think about one of your thoughts? Can you use your own body to move your own body? Seems easy. Why? Because these things -- your mind, your th...
"Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sens...
I respond to it by asking "What is nothing?" As far as I can see, we derive a concept of "nothing" in three ways. First, as a limit of reduction: keep...
Last night, I dreamed that I discovered this forum actually started in 2012. I was mildly confused and intrigued. (This is how boring most of my dream...
I graciously request that all the donations earmarked to me for my non-contributions to this site be sent to the state of Oklahoma, which clearly need...
I like many rich people. I can't stand people whose overriding motivation in life is simply to be rich, though -- regardless of whether they're rich, ...
The main difference between the forums is your punctuation habits would've triggered the automated illiteracy detector there, presenting you with a st...
The implicit assumption in these types of thought experiments is that what we would choose to do is always ethically pure. But surely there are times ...
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