Kenosha Kid

You could just bookmark the URL? There's usually a little star or something in the address bar. What internet browser do you use. If this is being pre...

Yes, very apt. The possible trajectories are explored down from the sky to the ground, but only once it reaches the ground does it become lightning. O...

It's your claim. It's not on others to explain it to you. You still haven't given a hint of a clue that he hasn't.

I'm not sure anyone ridicules old spinsters. The typical story told is that women feel like they become invisible, but it's worth bearing in mind that...

Apparently the whole stock exchange is spooked. https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/jan/29/stocks-slump-gamestop-trading-frenzy-spook-inves...

The outrage as I understand it is not that normal risk measures were applied but that brokers banned purchase of stocks to ensure those stocks could b...

One would hope this would lead to a demand for brokers who promise not to do this sort of thing, and a mass exodus from platforms like Robinhood. Mmm ...

What's alarming to me is that, even when the stock prices started to increase, they refused to close their position. This either suggests that they ha...

Why do you think them incompetent?

Only if you value what's lost, in which case you'd opt in.

Well no, she doesn't. Or, when she does, that is wrong. You can't have a society in which a woman can wear a nun's habit or a microskirt and stilettos...

Unequally bad, yes. I'm not sure it's a thing these days, but it was in my lifetime. However even that is about how one dresses for work, not how one ...

Actually, I do have a clue, and this is quite general and unpopular: don't do business with dictatorial countries that believe rights depend on demogr...

Not a clue. But that doesn't mean we should perpetuate the myth that it's a question of choice when the choice is often a chador or a face full of aci...

Such as..? Actually, this is derailing ssu's thread. It would be welcome on mine though if you want to grind it out, old man :p

There's a difference, though, between advocating against wearing the chador for symbolic reasons and advocating against forcing it upon women for poli...

Oh, I don't object to the sentiment :)

By contradicting: Politics does not proceed on the basis of a common morality. It's becoming increasingly clear that you have an idiosyncratic idea of...

You don't need to believe that any differences between yourself and others must inevitably be their moral failures in order to negotiate with them. Di...

Honestly, I think the idea that bikinis and miniskirts are one pole and burqas another is overstated. Fashion is not the opposite of oppression. Deman...

I was talking particular stocks rather than entire portfolios. ssu was questioning the sanity of self-inflating stocks within a portfolio, not of movi...

Thanks for the uplifting (if somewhat simultaneously condescending) presumption of youth, I'll take it. :) I'm well aware that the capitalist clergy t...

I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this.

:heart: Gotta lotta love to give tonight.

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We are already at the point where, for many countries, the benefits of capitalism are waning. My generation is effectively poorer than my parents'. Th...

No, that is not equivalent to what I said. What I said was that a necessary existent is no more impossible than infinite regress. "impossible" oughtn'...

Horribly being the key word here, not "corrupt". The idea of the free market is that the interests of the business are the same as the interests of th...

Infinite regress isn't obviously any more counterintuitive than an uncaused thing. Either way, that had nothing to do with my criticism. That way roun...

Ah. Yeah, I didn't get that at all from what you smoked, I mean wrote.

Unexpected conclusion. It's pretty clear you started that whingefest with me misrepresenting JP entirely. Then it ended with me apparently representin...

This appears to conflate objects and events. 'cause' is used synonymously with 'thing', but the cause of a thing isn't another thing: it is an event. ...

If the aim is simply to make money, it doesn't matter much what it is you make, if anything. Production is much more abstract than it is for, say, a f...

It's much like a pyramid scheme. Each person is willing to pay more than the last because the next will pay yet more, until they don't, then the pyram...

The purpose of the thread is not to convert people to capitalism, but to discuss the benefits of pluralism in keeping capitalism sustainable.

The punishment for not wearing a nun's habit is not being a nun anymore. The punishment for not wearing the chador ranges from having acid thrown in y...

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Another, more recent example of the failure of capitalism to protect its own long-term interest is the UK response to the Coronavirus. In the first wa...

This is the real problem: extremists think in extremes. The options you see are: single-party authoritarianism or everyone in the country picking one ...

Partisanship is not a fundamental feature of democracy; it is the fundamental corruption of democracy: suspending your own right to vote in your inter...

Yes, which is more freedom than we have now. That was my point.

I kind of agree with this, but I think that's down to how the OP frames the problem. As Khaled and others have said, the way this is cast looks like t...

It certainly hasn't. However when this got too much, the UK got an exemption from immigration from new countries joining the E.U., such as Romania. Im...

You seem to be in an odd admixture of simultaneously arguing for and against choice. Total freedom is great, as long as it's exactly the amount of fre...

I feel like no one needs to point out the difference between special effects and making a child strip nude, but if the case need be made, I can get in...

I laughed hard. Stupidity targets sounds so official. Describes subprime mortgages exactly. Big risks, big rewards, no short-term consequences. No, th...

But that's what I mean, if they're already doing it, there's no headway for the future. The short-termism of capitalism demands that, if further profi...

So basically softcore child porn is fine: it's just the hard stuff that's wrong? What if drugs are used so that the child doesn't remember being moles...

:up: Where are you?

Well, giving people a choice between caution and recklessness is what I'm arguing for. There's no point people being careful if they don't have much c...