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unapologetic wrote:
And of course vote AGAINST Trump.

I’ve not decided on that, yet. I don’t like DeSantis and other GOP choices, although of course DJ McNasty would be the worst. And I’m more hopeful that someone other than Biden wins the primaries. (It’s like, hopeless in any case.)

I’ve not paid attention to the polls, and I probably won’t…[Read more]

I’m learning from what may be the best reactors now, who have obvious expertise, and experience with critiquing music. So I think they fit into this topic as much as great music videos without a critic. Anna Vaskelainen is one of the smartest I’ve discovered so far, and passionate as well. She picks up so much on just her first watching. Turn on…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
As to why it is a bad idea…it would draw additional attention and scrutiny of the trans folks. It would be like a freak show.

I agree it could be, for a while at least. While as physically and mentally handicapped competitors now have regular events, maybe we could learn from how policies and measurements of “fairness” across d…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Bad idea.

Worse than what we have now? I’m all ears.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Not all trans categories are a single category.

(I wasn’t finished editing my post before you responded… sorry.)

In any case, it could be left up to them (and those non-binaries, and so on in any other category) to come together and make those kinds of determinations themselves. With as much additional support from all…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
They seem like two very different athletic categories.

What Unseen first said didn’t hit me as obvious either, but I think that what you and Unseen say relate to my point:

Help make inter-trans (intra-trans?) competitions more common and popular, because trans people deserve to have them. I think that least some trans events…[Read more]

Maybe trans men and women could compete in their own category someday, even in (say) the Olympics. It might be interesting to see how trans men and trans women would feel about competing with each other, instead of (or in addition to) just competing with their own assigned gender-mates. It might be one way to discover whether or not the genes…[Read more]

For others here, out of dozens of reviews of Hi Ren, none disliked Ren’s musical style, and most, especially the professional guitarists, commented on how creative and talented he is as a guitar player. I’m still in awe of it every time I watch. I consider Hi Ren as a short opera, as the story takes us through a very emotional topic, and the…[Read more]

On a related note, boosted now by the House out to Cancel the Executive Branch’s use of a word. I had no clue that use of the term LatinX was yet another propagandanismistic (sp) tactic of Woke Culture.

As just another naive white guy, post-colonist, I sought out and found a bit of Latin[?] history and insight from someone, who I think is one of <…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Unseen wrote: I’m not clear on why you’re bringing up communication.

That is probably the only way that alien living beings can reach us – virtually, rather than in person.

I agree, and my wild guess is that AI could be sent far in tiny packages, and assembled into bigger agents near its destination, depending on the missi…[Read more]

If corruption in government is the issue, I just don’t see Putin as a hero hoping or intending to get rid of it.

michael17 wrote:
The internet is abuzz but the end of the age followed by the second coming and the millennium of peace is not here yet.

This has been a topic that has been coming up repeatedly over hundreds or thousands of years, while humans keep looking for ways to prove prediction in scripture.

While scriptures were written solely by…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Speaking of Apocalypse, Steven Pinker has said the wisest thing I’ve heard so far about both the nature of intelligence in general and about the Apocalypticism surrounding Artificial Intelligence:

I love that youtube short! I would rarely click on an article with a headline that includes something like “This person D…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
What we all as Employees and Management need to be concerned about are the Nihilistic looters who walk out of our doors with around $1.5 Million a year just in our store and who have forced us to end 24-7 hours and forced employees to go years at a time without a Quarterly Bonus. Alas, such worldly concerns are trifles to…

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Unseen wrote:
Would any of these qualify?

Wow, I haven’t used the word eschatology in so long, (years?), I feel neglectful!