Richard Robertson

Tough times, Popie. I’m glad you’re safe. Volunteer work that you’re contemplating would be a great way to contribute to the wellbeing of your state. Best of luck with that!

So thousands of people and some of their representatives in the political (etc.) system complained about the power outages conducted by PG&E to prevent fires.

Two weeks later, starting two days ago (on Wednesday night), high winds, hot and dry came back, and PG&E cut power again in areas to reduce risk, but it wasn’t enough. A fire ignited, went…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If an evil person does evil or a good person does good, there have to be reasons controlling those choices and making them inevitable.

I understand this in theory, but not in practice. True, there are “inevitabilities”, but to equate that with “one has no control” seems to too easily gloss over the possibilities one has. Let’s say…[Read more]

Beauty is a brain-derived construct that feels real. It’s not easy to explain all forms of beauty, which btw can be sensed visually or audibly. Attraction to beauty can be strong even if only because it enhances evolutionary competition between mates. (Unseen, you mock this as a “calculation”, but it’s more primitive than that.) So what is the…[Read more]

Jody Lee wrote:
[…] I question what it takes for people to make change in their life.

I often don’t know where inspiration comes from, except when someone else encourages me, or someone else needs me to act.

BUT I wonder if my awareness has come from wisdom, age experience,  education?

As for myself, I was handicapped by severe social anxiety…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
but how much control can the actor exert?

But oppositely, it doesn’t feel right to not even try, right? It seems that when something is difficult to achieve, all one knows for sure is that it cannot be achieved unless one exerts effort.

Unseen wrote:
[…] MeWe, but after I joined, I couldn’t get anyone else to join with me. People simply don’t care.

I care about avoiding anything Facebook and their monster affiliates, until they can prove that they’re really sincere about being the good guys in spite of their big dollar cravings. It may, imo, take years, or it may never happen.

I use (in order of preference) Chrome, Opera, Brave, and Firefox, often running two or three of them at once. (For example, I’m writing this post in Chrome but often also use Opera to bypass Chrome cookies, for testing links and such.)

Sometimes my preferences change: Chrome’s trending down because their business is in ads and they don’t want to…[Read more]

Awesome.

😂😂😂😂😂

Excellent!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Exactly. Believing that Evolution has “intent” as a driving force behind it is one of the common misconceptions about the Theory.

I don’t see any posts in this topic inferring “intent” as a driving force behind evolution. However, since you brought it up…

When one coalition of people commit genocide against ano…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
As far as the concept of devolution i cant recall which authors but i know i have read that it is a misnomer-no such thing.

I like the term devolution as it still conveys meaning intuitively, e.g. in-breeding generally undoes evolutionary “progress” by reducing variation in the gene pool. Imo it should work when used within a…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
Short question: should we act more like chimps, or bonobos?

Accidentally was (while researching something else) offered a video to watch by some YouTube algorithm (are they in my head, yet?) but took a chance and found it very interesting:

Unseen wrote:
She will actually chase a fruit fly around my apartment hoping for a chance to kill it.

A truly sincere, egalitarian treatment of all life forms, including (it seems) the venomous and large clawed and toothed.