Michael

You linked to an article here that is worth repeating: It's much harder for someone to possess a gun illegally if it's much harder for someone to poss...

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And the many tax avoidance schemes that the rich are able to take advantage of.

Despite what your teachers might have told you in school, it isn't just about effort. 9 out of 10 start-ups fail. The idea that just about anyone (or ...

Fact check: There Are More Self-Made Billionaires In The Forbes 400 Than Ever Before. The evolution of absolute self-made fortunes (10s) and inherited...

According to this, "8 percent of perpetrators of firearm homicides are female". Although this includes single-victim shootings. According to this, 2.2...

I'm not sure what you mean. You've said that 1) facts aren't things, 2) there's no difference between the fact that grass is green and green grass, 3)...

I don't know if that works. As Sap has said, we can water the green grass but we can't water the fact that grass is green. I know that we often use th...

Again, I have no idea what you're trying to say, or how it relates to the issue-at-hand.

None of this addresses the issue. We have the statement "the grass is green" and we have the green grass. But then we also have the fact as something ...

Information? So facts are cognitive things? I guess that the answer to the original question, then, is that facts are observer-dependent (even if the ...

Then you're just changing the question to "what is the difference between a state of affairs and an object?"

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. We have the statement "the grass is green" and we have the green grass. So where does the fact fit in her...

So what's a fact, if not the object/state-of-affairs? Is it the true statement?

And what are states of affairs? Facts or objects?

So you agree that there is the statement ("the grass is green"), the object (the green grass), and the fact (that grass is green)? Three distinct, alb...

When I used the term "things" I meant "material things" or "objects". Are facts the observer-independent objects1 that true statements describe, or ar...

My name is Michael, and I think that the moderators are just the best.

Cultural racism. This seems like a trivial discussion, though. What difference does it make if we call it "cultural racism" or "xenophobia" or anythin...

Jesus, you really do have a child for a president.

So, is calling others a cunt just banter and harmless fun? Or should I delete it all because it's offensive, bad conduct, and, as @"ProbablyTrue" has ...

Your reply was just a gif, which is low post quality.

I was unsure of that outfit at first, but it's growing on me. I still prefer the outfit in the reveal, though.

Yeah, but men aren't hunters and women aren't prey, so it's a bad analogy.

What do you mean absurd nonsense? I've been accepting your word as gospel. I thought my upcoming jail sentence was just to test my faith in you.

But we can talk about what qualities a thing must have for it to be a human or a tree. So we should be able to talk about what qualities a thing must ...

He's in his threes? So, like, there was half a person this one time?

She's referring to notches on your bedpost.

That seems uncalled for.

Can't it be both? If you drop a ball then it is certain to fall, and this is the case even if I'm not certain that it will.

No, that's me.

He is? Sap is old.

I agree.

So's prayer.

Good women can be strippers. Good women can be anything. It's the 21st century, man. Get with the times.

Yes. But don't be fooled. Kissing them won't turn them into princes. Stay away.

Doesn't work. You can't apply the transitive property to possession (i.e. using the word "have"). You need to say "dogs are four-legged, women are one...

Apparently yesterday someone was phoning registered Democrats in Virginia and (falsely) telling them that the polling booths had been moved elsewhere.

Women are cute, dogs are cute, ergo women are dogs via the transitive property.

... I have good taste.

Ditto (literally; I was about to post that exact same reply).

I preferred Let Me In. Better budget, and didn't have that weird scene with the puppet cats.

My mistake then.

I wasn't talking about the government attempting to seize guns unlawfully. Were you? Because it seemed to me that you were offering reasons for why it...

Legitimate as in they were elected (in a fair democracy). They have the legitimate authority to decide what is or isn't to be illegal (and given the n...

In the situation we're discussing, a legitimate legislature would have made it illegal to own guns, and would send designated officials to enforce the...

I understand why they did back then. From that article: It isn't at all comparable to the situation of Congress (and the States) – those with legitima...

I have no idea what that is supposed to show.

I wasn't saying that there's something wrong with American society on account of there being mass shootings (although I will also say that); I was say...