Mikie

Everything is “connected” in one way or another. Fiscal and monetary policy are very different animals. You can have one without the other, as was the...

Like the $800 billion spent on defense contracts every year? That spending? What "fiscal policy" are you referring to, exactly? And who is "everyone"?...

Make profit for whom? According to the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, it's no longer only the shareholders. True, that's just emp...

I really don't know what this means. I don't know what this means either. Quantitative tightening is the opposite of easing. That means the Fed is beg...

Sure, but when profits are so high it's worth asking whether or not these corporations can absorb the cost. Turns out they could -- I see no reason wh...

I think the Fed -- monetary policy -- is responsible for the bubbles in the major asset class: stocks, bonds, housing, and somewhat in commodities. Th...

State intervention in the service of plutocrats. Your solution: abolish or minimize state intervention; keep the plutocrats. My solution: abolish or m...

True — I should have added QE/expansionary monetary policy.

Chicken fingers, yes. Believe it or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fingers A highly contentious issue, apparently.

Already been there. Supposedly where they were invented. They add a lot of sugar to the batter. Still good though.

Has anyone read The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era? I don’t know this Gary Gerstle dude. Thinking...

Not only don’t I “dismiss” them, I hold them. One can’t read everything in such a large thread. But I suggest you go back and read anything I’ve writt...

Proves nothing more than you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I’m not sure why I was tagged in this response, since nothing I said was addressed. So I’ll repeat what I said, in case you want another chance to do ...

Never even heard of Zaxby’s. I had to Wikipedia it. Mostly in the south— none up here in NH. Too bad — sounds good.

It strains credulity to argue Russia’s actions are legitimate. They’re not legitimate nor moral, nor intelligent for that matter. This was and is a st...

I think so too. I want to believe the opposite. It was a ploy to convince myself eating bacon is good for me.

Is a Cobb salad “healthy”? :chin:

Politics Is For Power by Eitan Hersh Interesting and more relevant than ever. Will eventually create a thread in this vein.

I didn’t once say the discussion is narrow. I said the question is narrow— which it is, in the sense of asking about one species.

So what? Not all eagles fly. Should we throw out the term “eagle”?

Then you’re not answering the question. “Mammal” is also broad. It’s also true. Is that a satisfying answer to the question “what makes a human being ...

Every living thing has DNA. So that’s too broad when asking about a bird or a tree. For these things we look for specific attributes. Humans have many...

Humans that do not use language are very rare. Their existence doesn’t change that language is a human property, any more than those born blind don’t ...

Perhaps categorization of anything whatsoever will fail. Of rocks and trees and stars and donuts. Is this an argument?

It’s not a discovery, it’s just a fact. Humans have language. Pretty obvious. This is also a unique species property, and so is in the running for how...

On the contrary, I think this is one of the most important questions we face. How we answer it, even tacitly, has significant social/political repercu...

The reason I care is because he’s original, challenging, and interesting.

No, it’s a good question. At this point I wouldn’t speak for anyone but myself, so I won’t pretend to give any authoritative answer. But for me, I see...

Personally I think both are words for awareness. Dasein gets translated as the "there," "being-there." I think the "there" is existence, being -- "the...

I take the view that the defining characteristic is language. At least that appears the most obvious, in that non-human primates and other animals don...

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Exactly. As for the hypothetical of asking someone on the street— I’m very surprised to find anyone taking that seriously. I see a lot of “if you ask ...

So yet another thread motivated by gender hysterics. Got it. :yawn:

NY Times piece about the upcoming Supreme Court ruling. Referenced above.

https://apple.news/AkyZDh_aSSBWPbTZv37pusQ With the war in Ukraine as cover, the fossil fuel industry and the Biden administration are pumping more th...

I've never seen censorship and repression like today. Even just the blocking of Russian voices -- it's insane. Why shouldn't we know what the Russians...

Indeed. Put another way: if one were to really hate Ukrainians, what would be the best course of action? Do the opposite of that. I'd like to think th...

Neither logic nor disparagement work; he hasn't the logical intelligence or the emotional intelligence for either. Yet I feel it's necessary to contin...

As if NOS's laughable rantings on causality has something to do with capitalism. My (and others) interpretation of him must be fake news. It's because...

What a shocker that he brings it back to pedophilia again. Extreme right wingers do seem obsessed with it. It's strange. :chin:

…followed by the usual bullshit. :lol: Please expound more on your sticks and stones theory. It’s riveting.

Obvious to anyone not trying desperately to defend an indefensible political position. It’s based entirely on emotion, ultimately. In this simplistic ...

:lol: No no — what you choose to DO with those words is up to your discretion. Because we have free will and we’re conscious entities blah blah.

Okay. And you acknowledge its current influence on world affairs. Putting these things together, there’s every reason to assume the US has a hand in t...

The US government has a terrible history. Terrible. You acknowledge this. You also acknowledge that the US, just by being the worlds largest economy (...

This thread is eclectic. 30% information, 70% sarcasm and insults. Kudos for those continuing to try after 265 pages.

I wonder if NOS has the self-awareness enough to at least wonder why he’s often seen as either an imbecile, disingenuous, or incoherent. I wonder this...

Why? Pedophiles, rapists, murderers. They’re a set of human beings. They seem the botched and weak to me. Doesn’t seem evil to help them perish. But N...

:up: Agreed.