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Oh but look at them! As if the rubble isn't even there. You can bomb our bookshops, but we'll just watch our step as we browse.
September 13, 2021 at 18:26
. I'm a little confused. My understanding is that you transmit the virus. Severe illness might mean you're shedding more virus, more likely to infect ...
September 13, 2021 at 18:24
See, this is why we can't have nice things.
September 13, 2021 at 17:31
Agreed. I do wonder how the trade-off is made though, as children in school together represent an excellent way for diseases to spread from household ...
September 13, 2021 at 17:26
I agree with your read of our little population, for the most part. I was mostly talking about the world "out there".
September 13, 2021 at 16:34
Then we don't use that word there same way. I wasn't trying to make a broader point with the thing about kids, just the exact point I made, as I've ex...
September 13, 2021 at 16:32
I think about waking-up-from-a-coma-on-January-6 scenarios. Fifty years ago, pre-Watergate, the scene itself might not be surprising -- students had b...
September 13, 2021 at 15:30
Civil war feels decidedly less hypothetical than it did when I was a kid. We're basically living through a cold civil war right now (with occasional o...
September 13, 2021 at 15:02
Ah. Well it was not intended as a trick, but only to demonstrate that children are not immune. The only reason to demonstrate that children are not im...
September 13, 2021 at 14:58
Sorry. What concerns me is navigating the differing perspectives of our fellow citizens. It's all very well to choose not to consider those who differ...
September 13, 2021 at 13:51
I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. Here in the US we're not vaccinating children under 12. Vaccinating those between 12 and 18 is I guess becom...
September 13, 2021 at 13:48
I agree, very strongly. But there is a clear problem. What if they consider me their enemy? (For "they", feel free to substitute climate-change denier...
September 13, 2021 at 13:35
It's complicated. There is, as I understand it, very strong evidence that the vaccinated are less likely to become infected on exposure, to develop Co...
September 13, 2021 at 13:10
Which cat?
September 13, 2021 at 12:20
But it's not what they say. You might be right. I tend to agree with your diagnosis. I tend to think you and I are on the side of reason and democracy...
September 12, 2021 at 23:25
Yeah I just noticed that. So, hey, @"180 Proof", wtf?
September 12, 2021 at 16:58
He only counts as "left wing" if that means "not a Republican". Sanders supporters were convinced Yang was a libertarian trojan horse. Nobody on the l...
September 12, 2021 at 16:56
Not sure what's going on here. I'm actually in favor of vaccine mandates. I'd be really curious to know why you think I'm an anti-vaxxer -- if you do,...
September 12, 2021 at 16:45
Fact as the limit of my will is very good. But we need to aggregate, and there are patterns. If you have a set of organisms, each is part of the other...
September 12, 2021 at 15:59
On the one hand, I see no reason to think we can separate observation and theory like this. Facts are theory-laden. That's the lesson of mid-century p...
September 12, 2021 at 13:26
One last thought, then I'm calling it a night. A tempting next step would be to suggest (?) that definiteness isn't definite -- that the boundary betw...
September 12, 2021 at 05:54
I suppose we ought to have a word for the opposite of reification, something like "nebulation", @"Banno"'s foe in this thread: the blurring of edges a...
September 12, 2021 at 04:33
I like "Reality bites back." (No doubt because it doesn't care about your feelings...) There's also the version in Chernobyl: "Every lie we tell incur...
September 12, 2021 at 04:10
I suppose we could also throw in that one of the effects of reification (or, conversely, one of its motivations) is the bestowal of definiteness on so...
September 12, 2021 at 04:03
If we didn't have the concept of height, there'd be no way for us to say anything about the height of Everest -- what that height is, that it has one,...
September 12, 2021 at 02:12
As I think about it, I think the language bit is mainstream pragmatism. It does still feel a little funny having words like "truth" and "fact" around ...
September 11, 2021 at 22:32
That's very close to how I look at it. Forced to choose, to act, to place our bets, to say one thing rather than another and then be accountable for w...
September 11, 2021 at 22:16
What I find curious is that not only can we make the distinction, we can't avoid it. No matter how convinced we might be about reality eluding our bel...
September 11, 2021 at 21:46
Yeah that is what I'm saying, but only in the damnably long term.
September 11, 2021 at 20:59
It's not a left/right thing and it hasn't been good for anyone. I don't have a solution for the "tolerating intolerance" conundrum, but I'm confident ...
September 11, 2021 at 20:22
This is true, but in the American culture war, if that's part of the topic here, it goes both ways. We're practically famous for deep currents of anti...
September 11, 2021 at 19:59
I remember some philosopher being described as "asking ordinary questions about peculiar things and peculiar questions about ordinary things." I aspir...
September 11, 2021 at 19:42
I have a soft spot for this idea, and the companion conception of science. The idea is that "the scientific method" is not responsible for the success...
September 11, 2021 at 19:32
Thanks!
September 11, 2021 at 19:23
If you cherry-pick, you invite those who disagree with you to do the same. If you believe you are countering a widely accepted narrative, I'm sure the...
September 11, 2021 at 19:21
You can accept that induction can't establish facts in the way we might have wanted, but stop somewhere short of "anything goes" or something. There's...
September 11, 2021 at 18:37
Being vaccinated doesn't make you immune. It's not 100% effective. The larger issues would be burden one the healthcare system, and simple concern for...
September 11, 2021 at 17:52
I was under the impression there's conflicting data, and obviously views, on this. That vaccination reduces the severity and duration of the illness, ...
September 11, 2021 at 17:47
It isn't obviously something you have a choice about. Right now, you and I both believe some things are Facts, with a capital F, that will turn out to...
September 11, 2021 at 15:25
I get that this is a sort of dictionary meaning, but there is an alternative usage that's roughly "to the best of our knowledge and with very high con...
September 11, 2021 at 13:24
Is the bed on casters?
September 11, 2021 at 04:56
If you have one bucket that holds two gallons, and another bucket that holds five gallons, how many buckets do you have?
September 11, 2021 at 04:26
How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg?
September 11, 2021 at 04:04
I have an answer I'm satisfied with. Cheers!
September 11, 2021 at 04:01
Your body is in the study, but your mind isn't. And you are your mind. So you are not in the study but your body is. Then you have died. We'll miss yo...
September 11, 2021 at 01:44
Stop trying to belittle everyone you speak to, unless you only want to talk to newbies who don't know that this is the level of discussion they can ex...
September 11, 2021 at 00:50
But the fetus can be a threat to the mother just by living, not by doing anything. See how peculiar the situation of a pregnant woman and her unborn c...
September 11, 2021 at 00:42
Share some links if you have any handy.
September 10, 2021 at 23:09
I wasn't critiquing your presentation.
September 10, 2021 at 23:07