Michael

It isn’t about private or public healthcare. It’s about the UK’s supply chain being tied to us being a member of the single market, given that we don’...

I'm not trying to persuade them. I'm saying that there is justification for holding a second referendum. And also that Brexit should just be cancelled...

This isn’t a game. It’s not about winning and losing. There are very real and very serious consequences to leaving that weren’t apparent during the re...

Dunno.

According to this, for 40% controlling immigration was the most important reason.

No. Their actions don't affect your right to vote or stand for election. You're more than welcome to post such content on a website of your own making...

I didn't even realise it happened until much later. I was living in Thailand at the time and wasn't paying any attention to politics.

So alternative vote? It's a shame that alternative vote for General Elections was voted down in the other referendum.

There’s been a material change of circumstances: the lies, the overspending, Cambridge Analytica, etc. have been exposed; there’s actual advice on the...

Haven’t the EU said that there’s nothing left to negotiate? Unless TM abandons her red lines, e.g an end to freedom of movement, this is the only deal...

I don’t. I think Article 50 should just be revoked and Brexit cancelled.

Just the worst.

Cool. The UK can revoke Article 50. Do it!

Why?

Speaker of the House after the Vice President. After Pelosi it would likely be Grassley as he's expected to succeed Hatch as President pro tempore of ...

Or they both go and Pelosi will be President.

What about commands like "clean the dishes" (verb and object but no subject) or "go away" (verb but no subject or object)? Are they not sentences?

I don't think so. It's the "it is raining" that is seen and assessed, not the "it" in isolation.

That’s what we usually do. “It is hot” becomes “the kettle is hot”. “He is running” becomes “John is running”. What can we substitute in for “it” in “...

The meteorological conditions outside is raining. That doesn't seem right.

And regarding dentures, what about half and half if that’s an option? Implants for the front teeth and dentures for the back? I guess it could even be...

May I ask why you need your teeth replaced? Medical reasons I assume? It might sound like a horrible idea, but if it really is that unaffordable won’t...

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I’m pretty sure it began with S. That’s all I’ve got. Ran a business in South America?

So like this? https://youtu.be/IgJwq7_GQgE?t=176

I was actually suggesting that she sleep with another woman, namely her ex's new girlfriend. Also, there's nothing bad about a woman having casual sex...

I too didn’t read all the posts so my suggestion wouldn’t work either. I do however condone it for those times it will. Bonus points for sleeping with...

Terrible advice. He probably wouldn’t care. She should sleep with the ex’s new partner. That’s a much sweeter revenge.

I don't understand the connection between these two things. Is exposing oneself considered bad form?

But you have to get a woman into bed (or behind the dumpster in the alleyway) before she gets to see your elephant trunk schlong, right? Or do you hav...

Good estimate. I think it was 11 years ago.

The indirect realist accepts the existence of an extra-mental world so he can appeal to the BIV scenario to explain his point, which is that although ...

That's never been a thing.

Which is just telling you something about how the object doesn't appear to you. But that's not really in question here. That doesn't really tell you m...

Different animals (and even different people) experience that wavelength in different ways. Does it make sense to say that two different organisms are...

When I put my hand in a fire what is the direct object of perception? Pain? My hand burning? The fire? Is it even clear what it means for one of them ...

It was done alphabetically. She just spelled “arsehole” wrong.

It's fine, I didn't want a mention anyway.

The same is true of elder prostitutes.

What you've said is that meaning requires a sign and a thing to be signified and that this can only happen if there is an external world, which is fal...

You’re begging the question. If there isn’t an external world then the world we live in is an example to the contrary. If you just want to assert that...

Says the man who keeps saying that it's impossible in principle for a machine to be conscious? All I'm saying is that the brain isn't a miracle. Consc...

I've been talking about using biological material rather than inorganic matter so the above is irrelevant.

We don't know how but we know it happens in us. What makes our brains so special that the same effect can't be achieved artificially? You're making th...

Arguing for the existence of an external world by saying that there is no evidence that there isn't an external world is a terrible argument.

You've yet to show that this is the case. All you've said is that meaning requires a signifier and a thing to be signified, but that can be satisfied ...

Not if there isn't an external world, which is what we were discussing. There's just the word and the experience. So, again, the existence of meaning ...

I’m not saying that. I’m saying that human brains are not in principle impossible to manufacture and that unless there really is some magic involved t...

You haven’t addressed the substance of my post.

What does it mean for an algorithm to tell a computer how to react? If we look at the actual physics of it all it just reduces to the basic principle ...