Shawn

It's always easier to play dumb than justify and defend a position. Dubya was a master at this.

Is there something wrong with me if I find Kellyanne Conway hot?

For some reason I find this hilarious.

People in the 1970's never saw the advent of shale oil or fracking. As technology progresses comparatively to the scarcity of oil and coal, then techn...

That's a sentiment peddled by the left. I think, I've already demonstrated that climate change isn't a necessary evil.

What compels you to say that? If we do a simple cost-benefit analysis, then investing in solar or renewables now is impractical. If we end up being un...

I think predicting the future is irrelevant here, at least to the degree that you demand that it be predicted. For example, see how Warren Buffet make...

I've been talking with a friend and essentially the argument goes that limiting growth today (sacrificing GDP) instead of saving it at a higher discou...

Well, call it what you want. I don't think any conservatives are jumping on the Musk-Mars interstellar highway.

No, I'm actually making the case that climate change isn't as bad as it is portrayed to be. Yes, I'm pretty sure China is much more informed on the ma...

I'd argue that innovation is encompassed by competition. Meaning competition and innovation aren't two mutually exclusive ideas. Take China for exampl...

Yeah, but without competition, you have no progress. Not everyone can have a product that initially doesn't have any sort of competition even though t...

I'm not sure; but, I think the Prisoners Dilemma would be apt as a reference here. Furthermore, it seems that most countries have bought into the neo-...

Efficiency. Ie. a process that can be made more efficient (via technology). Then, via competition the technology gets implemented in day to day living...

There will be a new equilibrium and the Production Possibilities Curve will shift to the right, I guess. Heh.

I think the risk, is that a small increase in temperature will lead to greater longer term effects on rising temperatures. Meaning, if you pass some t...

Agreed. Let the invisible hand operate freely. If the liberals will feel safe on Mars, then let them have cake.

The only issue that bugs me is the flat out denial by the right to claim there is no human effect on climate change. If they got their act together an...

Here's another article going into detail about the scientific ramifications of climate change, up to 2.2 C as previously mentioned. http://www.spectat...

Well, a lot of the answer depends on if you believe in free markets or not. Given those such people like Musk or Bill Gates making contributions to th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUmMCb4r-U

What if the bullshitter is so deep in his bullshitting that they believe it to be the truth? No matter what evidence, his mind cannot be persuaded fro...

Then 'good' should suffice. Have a good new year.

Yeah, I'm trying not to get too hyped. As usual, I will be home observing other people having fun, and I'm quite content with that. Cheers.

Hah, over my dead body. If anything building a stronger work ethic and such are instrumental for possibly going after a degree in philosophy in the fu...

Yes, variety is good. Kind of reminds me of that joke of people being held up by a philosopher, with the couple asking each other if they can reason w...

Well, I am pretty much against most metaphysics by default. I always felt Heidegger played peek-a-boo with reason in most of his work. Thinking encomp...

And yet, reason was applied liberally to derive that conclusion.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Pretty much the whole philosophic community would beg to differ with you.

Ahh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig's_law_of_the_minimum Yes; but, even in some cases like with seed priming with stuff like melatonin and shiki...

Thank you all for your responses. I really appreciate them and have a good contrast with other places where I posted this. Most of them indicated that...

Is the valence of this statement in the positive or negative. Can't tell.

Well, I intend to test some of the compounds in my own leisure time. I already compiled most of the compounds and requested a lab in China purchase th...

But not all.

Locke given his influence over the political landscape.

Well, depression isn't treated nowadays by people who you seem to portray as completely incapable of taking care of themselves, by locking them up in ...

Most people who voted for Trumpo thought Obama was a Muslim. Go figure.

Karl Marx

It's my hypothesis that depression slowly creeps up on oneself until one realizes how much of a nuisance it becomes a day to day functioning. It's a s...

Well, behaviors and thoughts can be changed before the depression becomes such a nuisance. Either way, it's a nuisance; but, there' no other option th...

Well, regardless of what came first or not, the imperative is to come to terms with depression before one needs to see the doctor and take the happy p...

Yeah, but then the mindset is that the pills will do all the work, which they can't and never will. And this seems like the sentiment both the doctor ...

Here's the problem, and while I'm at it, my dislike for calling states of mind as 'disorders', is that we don't really know what exact amount or the r...

I don't know how you got that idea. My point with the title of the thread was that embracing what one has is a sine qua non for getting better.

I don't think that is quite true. That sort of like telling a patient their gonna die in 3 months and let them suffer or not tell them and let them li...

I think that's a gross misunderstanding of my claim. If there are means to minimize suffering at little to no cost (side effect wise) I feel that ment...

The level of lithium I'm taking is far lower than the typical clinical dose range of 300 mg or even more. As far as I know 5 mg is a baby dose that ca...

I'm no doctor and don't pretend to be one; but, try some lithium. It's as harmless as one can get and is quite effective as an adjunct to most medicat...

I have always held the view (from personal experience) that depression and other mood disorders (how I hate that word, 'disorders') are a result of an...