praxis

I’m in the middle of 1Q84. It's quite a long book, almost as long as War & Peace. Consistently good though, like every other Murakami book that I've r...

No, significantly it is what religious leaders make it. Religious followers can only follow. The purpose of religion is to bind groups with a shared n...

I didn't say any of that. Accepting that we're animals and unable to control ourselves isn't giving up. Stoicism is realizing that we have all but no ...

Unfortunately, I think that for the best idea to work it requires an enlightened society, and even then the prospects are dubious. Many current trends...

Ellos son muy extraños. https://designpraxis.biz/img/alien.jpg

There’s always room for better, and maybe even inevitably better. No one knows if inevitably better is good enough to at least be sustainable though.

You forgot to mention left wing gangsters.

Both leaf and stone are spinning on the surface of a giant sphere at a thousand miles per hour. They don't fly off of the earth because its mass is so...

Haha. I don't do drugs... much.

Midjourney

Trump was determined to be liable of sexual assault by a jury of his peers. Trump had the best lawyers that money could buy, it should be noted. His l...

You were trying to rationalize rape, and doing so very poorly. Do you dislike women?

Assuming that past presidents were rapists or worse in order to justify Trump’s crimes is what we call rationalizing in the US. Below is Julia Galif w...

A Trump supporter would characterize any trial that involved Trump as a show. “Not only has the Trump Foundation shut down for its misconduct, but the...

Again, the point is that Jean Carroll didn't come up "empty-handed". She was awarded five million bucks because a jury was convinced that Trump sexual...

Being found responsible for sexual assault isn't being guilty of sexual assault? Okay, whatever. The point is that Jean Carroll didn't come up "empty-...

What do you mean? A jury found him liable or responsible for sexual assault.

A jury found Trump liable for rape. You know that sexual assault isn't verbal, right? @"Hailey" It's true what NOS says about America, that if you say...

Surfline says the water is 86 degrees. :cool: No waves though.

Then they must recognize what a blatant lier Trump is. That’s good. Trump has his supporters here convinced that Biden is a communist. That’s millions...

No one in China thinks that socialism or communism is good?

You didn't answer my question about why the Chinese government would favor Trump. If anything it seems like they would favor Biden because Biden is su...

The BBC is widely considered an unbiased news source. Here is a BBC article that doesn't show Trump in the best light: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Just out of curiosity, how does the Chinese government selectively block internet access to information that puts Trump in a bad light? And any though...

Of course.

Hilarious, I didn’t know Chinese biophysicists were so funny. :lol:

My new watering schedule may not bare flavorful fruit but I’m going to give it a shot. I have nothing to lose and at least a slightly lower water bill...

I've found that using an app for the dough is best. You can enter the amount and size of pizza pies, whatever hydration you prefer, and it will give y...

Unlikely. Did you see that crust? God blessed that airy crust. Nope, I added dry and some fresh from the garden. I just asked the all-knowing ChatGPT ...

If that were the case I wouldn’t have needed to pull teeth for an answer. Your position is still not clear. We were never philosophizing.

You said that a valid excuse is being too young. That means that those not too young do not have a valid excuse and you consider them murderers (unlaw...

None of any of this is up to us. If you don't want to answer that's fine. I don't care. Until a certain age, apparently. I asked what the cut-off age ...

In the case of rape, I suppose that it would need to be a proven case of rape, like a criminal conviction? https://www.rainn.org/sites/default/files/A...

If I'm reading you right, what you seem to consider a valid excuse is that "the unborn is not autonomous". That doesn't make sense. Babies, young chil...

So you merely disapprove of killing human life and don't consider it murder. Your libertarian friends will be very very impressed. :starstruck:

Grew some san marzanos, made sauce, and cooked up some pies but it came out rather bland. Not sure how things went south. https://designpraxis.biz/img...

You're a mind reader? People make all sorts of choices in life which leave them with a dirty conscience. For instance, I feel bad about using plastic ...

Did he deliver on that promise, in your filtered view?

Funny that you get the filtered image of Trump as a saint and the image of Biden as a demon.

The amphitheater capacity is 18k. Does he always double the crowd size? :roll:

Yeah, the AI nailed it with the simple prompt: bored woman standing by a car at night on highway

My patience is limitless. :nerd: We’re treated to views beneath her appearance, her actual thoughts, and as I’ve argued they don’t show fear. They sho...

We agree that she faced the cop with mental calmness, the primary definition of equanimity. Mental calmness does not suggest fear. Yeah, I didn’t get ...

I didn’t mind the spoonfuls that tasted like toughness, in fact they were quite tasty. Anyway, my cross-examination is complete and I emphatically tha...

… her heart raced… But that’s not the point. I’m just curious if you were deliberately making her emotional state ambiguous.

A reader literally adding details to the story, like Amity saying that the woman was "continually" checking the rearview when that's not in the story,...

Photoshop reality. At least she's consistent. :roll:

For what it's worth I enjoyed the story. Whether intentional on your part or not it made me consider some interesting ideas. It was one of the two or ...

Thinking about this more, and not by choice which is kind of annoying, what I find interesting is that we may not be forced to project, at least after...

Yes, hats off and gratitude to 180! I regret not voting for it now.