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jakelafort wrote:
I think you may be insinuating that my interpretation of POC is idiosyncratic and personal and therefore insignificant. If so you may be correct.

I’d never say the way that anyone feels is insignificant. I’m open to hearing about other experiences too, especially  the younger people you’re thinking of. The tween and teen years…[Read more]

( @Unseen, I think these posts on usage of POC are off-topic but interesting, so I’ll create another topic and move them from here to there, unless you object?)

Jake, you’re probably more well read than I am, and have a valid perspective. (And I mean that, as I admit I’m not well read, in general. But then I have a natural empathy for people who…[Read more]

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]

_Robert_ wrote:
N95 while working on cleaning out a moldy old boat’s cabin

In my research I learned that mold can also raise CO2 and other gases (known as TVOCs). The CO2 I don’t worry about and I detest and resist the meter makers using scare tactics to sell CO2 sensing. I think TVOCs still aren’t much to worry about from molds… guess I’m j…[Read more]

Kristina wrote:
It’s not silly or deadly. It doesn’t reduce the number of vaccines being given at any point in time. It’s just an emotional/ empathic response to a prioritization system that may leave people in greater need exposed to greater risk for longer.

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the OP, so I don’t have to repeat it. (…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Sam Harris can put me out in 5 minutes, LOL

Haha, me too! One of the few podcasts “exciting” enough to stay awake longer to was when his wife was the guest.

Davis wrote:
Pope…do you have tits?

I was going to joke that all popes have tits because they’re old, but I can’t find any appropriate images to present as evidence. I’m going to take a selfie now and ask others to comment…