I don't think I feel anything toward Trump. He should probably be pitied for his psychological disorder. I feel a bit more for his supporters, who I t...
But ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOlXidHXRE But ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jJ86oY1U34 Okay, so he has delivered a "short list" of 11...
But Trump has gotten an estimated $2 billion in free air time, and is the first candidate to go into a press "spin room" immediately after a debate to...
I think the media is desperately trying to diffuse the situation. "It isn't what he said he did, but saying it is bad". That uncovers a few problems. ...
I'm not saying that they are literally socialist, but if you converted some generic large corporation into a "nation", we would probably consider the ...
From what I recall, Jefferson made comments against private banks and was warning on the dangers of not having a federal regulating bank like other co...
I hate to derail the original discussion from Nick Srnicek's book. But I was doing some re-evaluating some things, growing my own food on my apartment...
While many problems could be valid, there are just as many movements, scams and pseudo-science that start out that way too. First thing to be suspicio...
Just the description of the book was raising some alarm bells. Not wanting to pay $10 for the cheapest version, I found this video: https://www.youtub...
Check out this chart: http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2.bp.blogspot.com/_8sY9bx8acNM/SiGWHxhvAgI/AAAAAAAAAYc/k5sgQ4EDZTI/s400/Gross_2...
I think Nihilism is very liberating. How can something that frees you be negative? Maybe it appears negative from the default standpoint to hold value...
http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/trolley+problem1.jpg (click for Wikipedia) In philosophy, you shouldn't just say "mora...
If you were to take what meager gun usage statistics were available, and reword it as a medical procedure, there would be a call for banning it from e...
A common statement is that "abortion is murder". But technically, "murder" is "killing outside of legal/officially sanctioned means". If abortion is l...
Maybe it would be useful to look at the (in)famous "trolley problem". A runaway trolley is headed toward a group of people. You just happen to be stan...
The standard disclaimer is that paradise is beyond description, so the (often vague and contradictory) descriptions given are mostly analogy. There ar...
Watch "The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain", a partly fictional tale about a period when several survey standards still conside...
Assuming western culture, no I don't think you could get away with saying you are a girl without adapting to some appearance and behavior norms. Curre...
Sex, in nature, isn't binary. It bimodal, with individuals spread out along a continuous line with just some peaks along arbitrary secondary sexual ch...
The definition of "gender" means the state of being male or female according to social or cultural assumptions. So gender is not defined by traditiona...
I used to study military strategy in my youth, (despite being a pacifist, I thought it was useful for life in general). The core strategy is nothing n...
Is Trump really a Republican? If so, the party doesn't seem to be supporting him as one, (and most supporters keep saying he is an "outsider"). If not...
I think it is amusing when you compare the almost concurrent call for "ban on Muslims" ... even though a small minority might be a threat, "just until...
Don't forget, this is Florida you are talking about. I spent some of my teenage years there, and my best friend at the time was closeted gay, (disowne...
I just got back from an interview in the Mid-West. Got an offer for 6-digit income, bonuses and stock options in a really hot startup. When I got home...
Those people getting tortured weren't necessarily normal. People who torture innocent people usually don't publish studies, so the studies are from in...
Studies have shown that most people, when tortured, just say whatever they think you want to hear. So I'm guessing those people facing torture would s...
Well, I picked Louis C.K. because of the general point he was making, not technical accuracy. My first guess is that if Louis C.K. showed up in 2nd ce...
Wondering if you "suffer" from "white privilege"? Know the signs! (Just a random, not well thought out list): Police don't bother you or even look at ...
I hear a lot of obvious examples. That "Mexicans are rapists", that "Muslims are terrorists", that "blacks are gang members, or looters". As many peop...
To press the bad analogy even further, people are hardware, society is the code. And society is pretty much a game with rules that is regularly tweake...
But I'm talking about assuming that everyone in those groups has those attributes, which justifies mistreating and excluding those groups as a whole. ...
Being privileged doesn't mean you can't oppress, anyone can oppress anyone else, even within their own in-groups. Just last weekend, I read an article...
White privilege is bad because it harms all of everyone. Also, it isn't just "white privilege", but "white, male, married, protestant, upper-middle cl...
I still have a number of questions about what is going on. First, from everything I've seen, the US has a lot to gain from the agreement. What does th...
Here is some interesting trivia about Trainspotting -- the filmmakers initially considered subtitles, then decided to have all the actors dub in their...
I've seen the video before, as I was researching some stories about the history of English, (kind of an interest in linguistics), and I've gone throug...
I'm probably the weird one here, but I have to say that Trump is the most establishment, as he himself said, he has worked both sides of the system. H...
There is one monologue from Shakespeare that actually brings tears to my eyes when I read it. I really wish someone would do it in the voice I read. S...
I've heard that Yellowknife is one of the best places to see the Aurora in the west, being the closest city of any size to the north pole on this side...
When I was a teenager, I memorized the entire Hamlet monologue, ("To Be or Not to Be"), and quoted it all the time. Here is an interesting take on it ...
There was a study by "Nutrition Journal", that noticed that "high intakes of arachidonic acid (a long-chain omega-6 fatty acid", so they compared the ...
I notice that many arguments about vegetarianism and morality focus mainly on the plight of the animal, and it seems the majority of people don't care...
I think it is 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, and has always been that way. Invent democracy, then get taken over by royalty. Free the slaves, then opp...
Things were just unfolding, so they wouldn't be in the newspapers yet. Local news lead story was about a chihuahua that got out onto the Oakland Bay B...
It is described as the largest leak of data in history. It could have some really wide-reaching effect. But here in the US, the media is completely si...
I remember an interview with Clinton on some big news program around 2011. She was asked directly whether the US had any role in funding ISIS, (back w...
I did a bit of research after Hillary said something along the lines of "this kind of thing wouldn't happen if there were white people suffering". My ...
When I was in grade school, I came across some of those optimistic books which predicted flying cars and jet-packs by the 1970's. I asked teachers wha...
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