Richard Robertson

Language evolves, and POC seems pretty mainstream to me, lacking the sting it had in the past. Here is an example:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/23/905266596/how-women-of-color-in-politics-have-been-perceived

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Goodness knows, Ex-Muslim Secularist Ibn Warraq never heard this “dog-whistle” and the CRT/Wokeists could bear to learn something from him:

I skipped a half minute here or there several times and finished the 9-1/2 minute video in about 2 minutes! I’m pretty sure I already agree with everything said in that video, so I d…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Anything that moves in contravention of the physical laws is almost certainly an atmospheric or optical effect.

I’m especially attuned to the possibilities of deception wrt radar, and so on, since I was an Electronic Warfare Systems (EWS) technician when in the Air Force, back in the beginning days of stealth technology. The old…[Read more]

Robin Williams on Craig Ferguson (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)

(Craig’s one of the few comedians who could keep up with Robin.)

This is longer than an hour. The most I felt comfortable skipping over for you is 12 minutes.

So how do we know that time is not already reversed? Or better question, why would one call either direction forward or reverse?

I’m trying to imagine how (say) science would work in reverse. Instead of making new observations and making discoveries, would scientists be working towards undiscovery? Or perhaps consciousness would disappear while…[Read more]