Kenosha Kid

Are you now trying to suggest he's not even dead?!?

Well, yes it is. It's certainly not true that everyone is in every position of power all the time. That would be nonsensical.

In the dynamic of sexual predator/target, they do not occupy the position of power. That does not make them powerless in every conceivable dynamic. If...

Disagreeing with right wing members has so quickly and consistently seen me named as a communist, or an identity politician, or some such that I don't...

This completely sidesteps existentialism. Russell didn't consider it important. As an intro, the primary sources can be pretty hard going, but Norton ...

I'm reading it as: Without punctuation it reads as gibberish to me.

I think that was apt. There's a big difference between being on the centre-ground of most things and being leftist on some, right on the others. Some ...

It should hinder e.g. racism, which tends to live on the right. But not always (e.g. anti-Semitism in the British Labour party.) It doesn't matter whe...

Wut? No, nor do I think I *was* a right-winger. Nonetheless examining our biases to avoid misleading or, in this case, failing to protect others is im...

I'd particularly like to know if this is independent of where in the hierarchy they'd end up. I confess the stasis option is the only one that made no...

Ummm dunno. Looks like whether or not facts should impact our beliefs, post-truth versus empiricism.

Pfhorrest did a poll. The forum leans toward the left, unsurprisingly.

Evolution. A great many biomolecules that do a great many whizzy things have been computationally modelled for predictive purposes. Do you know what t...

Blatent Last Jedi apologism. She's Palpatine's granddaughter and that's that! ;) It's an interesting point, not one I've thought a lot about, although...

Of course. You guys tend to do things right. We don't, which is why there's something called "the UK Variant" :cry:

Tbf you effectively live on a donut, that's got to help. :P

Chain well and truly yanked, accusations of pathos retracted.

No, I did not say that. I said you have to think about others. You can conscientiously take the vaccine to lower the risk to others without a guarante...

Everyone's in a position of power all the time. In the aforementioned context of right wing extremists peddling their uninvestigated biases, those bia...

There's no data on it because there's no long-term vaccinated population to study. However there's every reason to expect a reduction in transmission ...

That was my argument to the taxi driver: even if you're fit, you have to think about everyone you meet, everyone who touches something you touch, your...

Yes, I agree, and were Congress a noble place Trump would have been convicted of things he definitely did that were criminal and against the interests...

Good does not always mean good for me. We're a social species whose instinctive ideas of what is good are honed on the basis that what's good for me a...

I don't understand the question.

that it's not a murder if the victim is a black man in handcuffs. We've danced that jig already. I.e. they have to share their rights with women, ethn...

There's no upside to a deadly pandemic, for sure. I think my government ought to have shut down unnecessary national and international travel, locked ...

I think that is the emotive aspect: Trump is a special case, so deserves special measures. But that's not the way law works. If you set a precedent fo...

The fact that your brain takes "Murdering black people is wrong" and gets to "Would defend a black criminal against prosecution" is a testament to pre...

I'm due to get the vaccine in September. That's as long again as the pandemic has been in the UK so far.

There seems to be two schools of thought here. One is that if you're an agitator and your cult followers start an insurrection, you are culpable even ...

His supporters, before they were his supporters, liked what they saw, which was a vicious, racist, misogynistic, nationalistic, ablist, xenophobic, il...

Is this based on something? I understand why black Americans don't trust the American police, but not what they have against institutions generally. S...

Oh no, I really am. I have zero expectation that you would ever acquire sufficient humanity to give you pause before cheering on a murderous mob if th...

Remind me where here is... US? I wonder what the direct causes of that distrust are. Even in the context of economic inequality and racism, it doesn't...

If you've already decided that everything you believe is necessarily true and any contradiction must therefore be ideologically motivated irrespective...

Whatever kind of administration America ends up with, I think it's fine to enjoy the great unTrumping while it lasts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-n...

I do however think we should use social media to arrange as many indoor anti-masker rallies as possible. Big ones. With lots of booze and a charity ki...

The UK has a much higher population density than Sweden and its hospitals are already at critical stage despite the tier system. In fact, the British ...

The probability of contracting Covid is proportional to the number of people you directly or indirectly interact with, e.g. the number you speak to, t...

Now you're really trying to annoy the right. :P I mean, take their liberties, their guns and their platforms, but don't tell them that companies can't...

Which is what you described as the "worst case scenario", so yes you are advocating for it. Why on Earth would anyone choose such catastrophic brinkma...

Yes it does. Once the hospitals are maxed out, or as in your schema simply not employed for Covid, the rate plummets because there's no room for more ...

The obvious and quite huge flaw in this logic is that the limited fatality rate in healthy young people suggests that we need not handle the spread of...

:up: Post-truth is incompatible with post-modernism. It's sort of to deconstruction what intelligent design is to evolution.

I miss the lack of lacking something :(

That's the one! Thanks!

That particular defendent has had that accusation struck. That does not make the video evidence of the crowd a mass hallucination.

I often think something similar but different... I do things that I know are wrong, but they're little things, such speed a little to make a long jour...

... for someone wanting to be more rational. Do you think, say, the NRA want to be more rational, the KKK, the Proud Boys? (Give up? Answer is: No, th...

Oh, that's good. Physics journals take the full pre-print. I have often wondered how important the final author's name has been to my publication succ...