I’d recommend everyone read about stock buybacks. A huge amount of profits go to these. Between buybacks and dividends, roughly 90% of profits go back...
Why is this simpler than having workers have a few board seats? I think that’s at least less extreme. I think we already are that species— it’s just b...
They should have input, considering without them there is no company and no profits. Unless of course we’re in favor of tyranny and slavery. But I’m i...
Any thinking is an occurrence. It’s a happening. We can observe it, we can be aware of it. When I’m imagining something or talking to myself, somethin...
There’s nothing probabilistic or reductionist about it: thinking either occurs in time or it doesn’t. You can also observe your own thoughts. You can ...
So Trump can now declassify documents with the power of his very-stable-genius brain. What are the odds that his defenders are engaging in elaborate s...
Why is science not a "thing"? Of course it's a thing. It's a human activity, yes. It's as much a thing as philosophy or art is a thing. It's just the ...
Thinking occurs in time as well. Where do you think it takes place? Outside time? Thinking takes place in the brain. It's a product of the human nervo...
There are no ghosts. There are no zombies. There are no goblins. I have used them and watched others use them. It’s long been a claim that they have m...
It isn’t. I quoted a snippet from the article, and I guess I can’t fault anyone for not reading it and taking my statement as a stand-alone— but the f...
It may very well be why we’re in the mess we’re in. Perhaps greed as well. I tried listing some concrete problems without focusing on causes, I guess....
Populations consist of individuals. So even per capita statistics are misleading. General national statistics or global statistics are even more misle...
Yep. Important to remember that the issue isn’t individual consumption, however. It’s true that rich individuals consume more than poor ones. Taylor S...
I wouldn't put it that way. I don't see beliefs as something like speaking or thinking, which I see as activities and, thus, can be analyzed in terms ...
No they don’t. Governments are bought by corporations, and corporations are not governed by “the people” — they’re undemocratic. Please do some readin...
Decisions by a handful of people in government and business. I didn’t once say that. Yes. People are real, and their numbers are increasing. The conce...
True. Our default mode is to be thinking in the sense of reverie and other types of non-philosophical thought. What I’m specifying here is philosophic...
No, I’m saying those who say there are witches are deluded. I’m not too interested in “nuance” when the claims are simply ridiculous. Witches, ghosts,...
Spare me clichés. Millions flee to the countries that have systematically destroyed theirs, sure. No one doubts the US and other “highly civilized” co...
Gravity isn’t “statistical.” That things don’t move through walls, or move “on their own” through the power of the mind, shouldn’t be controversial. P...
“Overpopulation” doesn’t cause any of those things. Overpopulation is an abstraction. Blaming the worlds problem on this abstraction is a useful ploy ...
The words help us see what's actually happening, and so it's important to understand them. The point is this: 1) "Real" is a loaded term that usually ...
So by this standard, we can invent any story we want. Maybe Santa Claus really exists in the north pole. Maybe Xarnex the galaxy god is responsible fo...
Except that’s a myth. It’s not overpopulation. When 7% of the global population are responsible for 50% of carbon emissions— I don’t think “overpopula...
Recent article in the New York Times. For those that take issue with the phrase “most important” or argue — ridiculously, in my view — that we cannot ...
I think my conclusion would be the same. If I knew nothing about the laws of nature, an extraordinary claim would still need a lot of supporting evide...
I don't think there's much lying involved. I'm sure people really believe in all kinds of supernatural, magical stuff. People believe in angels and de...
I think they can and should be dismissed as utter nonsense, if what's claimed is that because something is unidentified or unexplained, it must be a s...
We experience death every night when going to sleep. Meditation and drugs can help with ego-death, as well. No big mystery. We, the living, are concer...
They aren’t. Yes, everything we know about the world could be mistaken. But I think it’s obvious people want to believe in magic, and that delusion, t...
Sorry I haven’t had much time lately. I made a post of what I’m driving at here a year or so ago: basis for modern science. Maybe you’ll find it inter...
An opinion shaped by sources like Lomborg and Alex Epstein and Koonin. All variations of climate denial. No it’s precisely the kind I’m thinking about...
Again, that’s fairly controversial. But if it does, it’s indirect. In any case— take it up with NASA. The statement was theirs, not mine. But I’ll go ...
It is true. Air isn't ferrous and rarely does the magnetic field have an impact on the troposphere. If it does, it's an indirect one -- but that's fai...
I think the term “real” is the problem here. If we want to define what’s real as what’s understood by science, or by empirical observations, that’s a ...
@"Banno" By the time everyone comes around, I wonder how many will have died from climate-related catastrophes? Tens of millions -- maybe more. Sad wh...
I appreciate the kind comments. I wasn't going to bother at first, given I've been over this a hundred times before. But I'm glad I did. It was a kind...
Are you unfamiliar with the term "climate denial" or is this just disingenuous nonsense? If the latter, I'm not interested. If the former, you can loo...
@"spirit-salamander" I'll go through some of the claims you make. I feel I'm being charitable by doing so rather than ignoring you outright. But let m...
I wouldn’t hold my breath. For being, as Karen Petrou calls it, the “engine of inequality.” They inflate assets. Who owns the assets? We know the answ...
No, and quite rightly. Because, as I’ve repeated many times, central banks play some part in inflation. They are not alone the cause. If that were tru...
Just a reminder that Trump has been lying about the election for nearly two years and provoked an insurrection. The quicker they put this degenerate c...
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