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Jake:

Also, after the housecleaning, fumigation, and bug extermination, there would be bidding for apartment suites, plus slots for medical facilities;

specialty shops–including Samizdat and Blasphemous Bookstores and The Singapore Chewing Gum and Confectionry;
Restaurants–featuring The Bug-Free and Happy Grill and Everything GMO;

Bars for…[Read more]

Jake:

The only additional staff needed in the United Nations building are movers, custodial staff, and construction refurbishers, for the day that U.S. wises up and evicts and deports the U.N. out and we trash our membership credentials.

I ‘m sure the Israelis have able contractors more than willing to join in this task.😁

Imagine the lefty’s at the UN how aghast they are gonna be to have Zio’s in their midst?

No double standards.

No higher standards.

Blind scales of justice. They just hate Zionists!

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-913996

Simon:

The idea of a cross-societal study of norms is a great idea worth studying. The PDF had the rightmost side of the pages chopped off, but once that is corrected, it might be a good read. (My own struggles with PDFs thoroughly leaves a bad taste in my mouth for the format.)

Maybe the Toyota Foundation isn’t the same as the car company, I don’t know.

Enco

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378138739_Moral_universals_A_machine-reading_analysis_of_256_societies

Simon:

I know of someone who got a grant from Toyota to do evolutionary ethics.

Hmmm…Interesting. Did it involve study of a large sampling of people with an experimental group and a control group? A survey with unloaded questions? Did it let the evidence guide the conclusion rather than vice-versa?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
True, but do they get scientific grants from labs, either corporate or governmental, for their speculations, however interesting they may be?

I knew of someone who got a grant from Toyota to do evolutionary ethics.

Simon:

There are people who are paid to do this kind of thing – professional philosophers. I think most of them are professors at universities and therefore are required to teach as well.

True, but do they get scientific grants from labs, either corporate or governmental, for their speculations, however interesting they may be?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Even the most generous bankroller of Science has to have priorities.

If the Thomas Nagels of the world want to be a Furrie, a Smoothie, a Scaleie, an Exoskelie, or a Membraneie and then navel-gaze over it, that’s their own business, but that may have to be on their own time and Dime.

There are people who are paid to do t…[Read more]

Simon,

Actually, thinking about this again, humans who could be another species and who could communicate to other humans about the experience could do many useful things.

It could give greater insights on diseases that cross species, similarities between biological functions of our species and other species, give further substantiation for…[Read more]

Simon:

I disagree, you never know when something might turn out to be valuable. There’s a whole picture of reality to be painted, and it needs all the pieces in place.

All this is true, but when there are problems like:

*Chronic, degenerative diseases and conditions on top of resurgent infection diseases keeping humans from living longer, h…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Being a bee while being a bee, being a bat while being a bat, and being a flying squirrel while being a flying squirrel do not fit in the budget.🐝🦇🐿️💲

I disagree, you never know when something might turn out to be valuable.  There’s a whole picture of reality to be painted, and it needs all the pieces in…

Fellow Unbelievers,

A reminder that the Left and the Islamists stand weighed the balance as much as MAGA:

Election 2026: Lessons for Liberty
Voters punished failed leadership. More government isn’t the answer.
https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/election-2026-lessons-for-liberty

Fellow Unbelievers:

Trump ally suffers an epic ‘meltdown’ after GOP midterm destruction: ‘Our country is over’
By:
David McAfee
Nov 04, 2026
8:43AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/laura-loomer-2678241160/

Ms. Skelator de Droit is right about something:

“God isn’t going to save you from Islam,” she wrote. “People need to stop using religion as a co…

[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

More Meh! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Elon Musk sulks after blowing $400 million on GOP midterm wipeout
By:
Travis Gettys
Nov 04, 2026
8:12AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-wipeout-new-report/

Fellow Unbelievers:

Meh! 🤷🏻‍♂️

‘Losing it while hate-watching Fox’: Trump’s Election Night spiral begins early
By:
Matthew Chapman
Nov 03, 2026
7:59PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2678217536/

Reg and Simon:

Another thing about Questions: Tucker Carlson and others like him are not “Just asking questions.”. Rather, they are mispunctuating statements with a question mark. Also, they have a bad habit of turning people into questions. None of that fits in the budget either.

Reg and Simon:

The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.

For the funding, though, it should at least deliver understanding for the importance of the question, and ideally as an added bonus, the answer for the question.

Being a bee while being a…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.

Trump seems to want to stuff “free enquiry” into some kind of box, but I can’t work out what kind.  I think he wants to make science come up with more answers.  I don’t think t…[Read more]