Richard Robertson

Simon Paynton wrote:
Surely it’s all about selection pressures.

OK, but I’m differentiating between natural and artificial selection processes. Human intelligence is largely selected for, yes, but so have been the “terrible angels of our nature”, even if they seem to be mostly in our past. I like that we’re generally more humanitarian these d…[Read more]

[I’ve merged the two topics having the same title and theme into one topic. That’s why some posts say that I’ve modified them, although I did not actually modify any individual posts. All posts are still sorted by time, just intermingled.]

Sex agnostic public restrooms. It’s not perfect and might not work in some areas, but I think it’s better overall in some areas/institutions for a start. If two restrooms nearby, maybe one could be for parents and children? It’s difficult to enforce, in any case. Took my young daughters (maybe 4 and 6 years old?) to a KOA in Oregon (without Mom)…[Read more]

tom sarbeck wrote:
PB, too much scifi here; too little science. Cheers.

Too much psuedo-science everywhere! I’m struggling with trying to communicate positively with people around here, especially the very noisy Trump fans that take over the local paper’s comment section, even though they’re in a conservative minority among a progressive…[Read more]

Maybe @Robert found TikTok?

Ivy wrote:
But this weekend I had to put him in his place.

I got a good feeling as soon as I read this, but am hoping that current job market shrinkage doesn’t hurt your prospects.

tom sarbeck wrote:
Where is Pope Beanie?

Tom! Nice to hear from you. 😉

Where Robert lives is somewhat windy just now…

So what company will ever pay women to raise children?

Even when raising kids is purported to be a choice, things can happen later that leave mothers stranded, so should they also be expected, with no backup from a workplace, to take the risk of having to raise kids after unforeseen circumstances?

It is society’s responsibility to make child…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
Your thoughts on gender are welcome here.

Merely human constructs. I’m not deciding until AI’s had enough time to figure it out and make a declaration.

Unseen wrote:
axolotles

That looked mispelled to me, perhaps should be an “a” instead of an “o”, so had to look it up.

Nope, I’s wrong, it shouldn’t have an “e”.

It is a rare treat to get to proofread a post from Unseen!

I’m still wrong. Should be “axoloti”! (Who makes these rules, anyway?)

Unseen wrote:
The waves of feminism are described here.

Aha, I should have hit refresh before posting that last response.

Anonymous wrote:
Some people have suggested that third wave feminism could qualify as a religion under some anthropologists’ definitions.

I dunno, “some people”, like who, and why should we care? I’m writing something up about the differences between religions and cults because I’ve heard some people say there are no differences, but… it hit me…[Read more]

In general I don’t like to play the strident criticizer, but since stridency and lack of focus on useful or interesting atheism-related content seems to be the main theme of this video, I have to ask, is this really the best example of what you do on Discourse?

There was something near the beginning about sophos, and a requirement to bring…[Read more]

So it sounds like a pulling of the plug due to lack of funds, but imo pulled off somewhat spitefully. Twitter addresses cost no money, so what reason is there to just abandon it? Which is what made me wonder if some other party hacked the AN org.

Just my wild guesses, since I was not following anything that was going on there.

Thanks again, Jade. 🙂

JadeBlackOlive wrote:
He had been looking to turn the site over to someone else. There had been a massive screw-up by Ning.

Thanks for the info. I happened to be looking at AN to see which Ning version they were using.

Just now hearing about ransomware hitting some companies… maybe AN? Not likely as there’s likely no $ to get from them, but…[Read more]