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Probably the #1 thing we could do to reduce the human footprint is to drastically reduce the number of humans down to somewhere what it was when those Siberians walked across the ice bridge into North America.

Blaming meat eating on Christianity is overthinking it. People were eating mammals, birds, and fish long before Abraham. Even in…[Read more]

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I watched an OK Netflix movie the other day, The Mother starring Jennifer Lopez. It’s about an ex-special forces operative (JL) who winds up in the underworld of illegal arms dealing. She turns on her boss in the gang when she discovers he’s also doing human trafficking. She turns him in and he does time. When he gets out, he kidnaps the…[Read more]

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Of the two, I’ll take RFK Jr, though I really wish Mark Kelly (the ex-astronaut) would run.

Biden seems dead set on getting us into a shooting war with China. If it turns out to be Biden vs. Trump in 2024, I can’t rule out a Trump win, even if he would be running from a prison cell.

But don’t worry, with the current “Censorship Industrial…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@jake Concrete example of demonizing the enemy: We hear regularly on the Mainstream Media about Russian atrocities in contravention of The Geneva Conventions, sometimes with blurred out video, showing them supposedly killing Ukrainian captured soldiers and civilians. Anyone caring to go outside the mainstream can easily find videos,…

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@Jake

Concrete example of demonizing the enemy: We hear regularly on the Mainstream Media about Russian atrocities in contravention of The Geneva Conventions, sometimes with blurred out video, showing them supposedly killing Ukrainian captured soldiers and civilians.

Anyone caring to go outside the mainstream can easily find videos, blurred…[Read more]

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If AI doesn’t kill us off first, we humans will kill ourselves off.

My guess is that our antagonism, justified or not, of adversaries will end us all. My guess is that ultimately a nuclear war with N. Korea will be the means to that end. Even if we don’t end up in a nuclear exchange with them, we can’t seem to do anything about the rogue…[Read more]

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Human relationships can be a dreadful distraction and sometimes dangerous (especially for “the tender gender”). Speaking as a guy, a physically-attractive pleasure unit that would not distract, would satisfy my sexual needs, would not have a wandering eye, and would look 20 years old till the day I die would be tempting to say the least.

I…[Read more]

@Jake

Good podcast. BTW, most people may not realize (by perhaps not paying enough attention) that McWhorter is a black man.

@jake you sent me down a foxhole looking for Raëlism information.

In short, alien godlike creatures in UFOs were the intelligence that designed humans.

Had more fun looking for the umlaut for my ë

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Only 21 Assholes?

@Jake,

And i for one will not sit quietly as you and Enco hurl racial epithets and minimize their place and importance.

Jake I am not hurling any racial epithets or minimizing their place of importance.  Not by a long shot. I even said it in my post. The comment “ Maybe a lot of other things, but racist is not one of them” I also have deep resp…[Read more]

@Jake

Unseen: Your argument seems to be that determinism can’t be true because were it so, there would be no moral responsibility.

Not a clue where you got that notion.

Fine, I misunderstood. Put it in a correct or more correct one-sentence formulation for us.

Then…

Clarify. What is the difference between someone being responsible and being <…[Read more]

@Jake

While not as impressive as America’s war production of tanks and planes, Russia exceeded the production of Germany several times over. Of course, they did it with slave labor, but hey, ya do what ya gotta do to win, right?

One of Putin’s biggest problems is the lack of enthusiasm for the war not only on the streets of his country but among…[Read more]

@Jake

The conservatives talk like health care can be a “free market,” but how free can your choices be if (a) it’s an emergency or (b) your choices are opaque, or (c) too many (tyranny of choice)?

Health care isn’t subject to free market forces.

@Jake

Cats do not want our approval. They want our body warmth, our strokes, and the food we give them. Plus, they want to be left alone a good deal of the time.

Unseen wrote:
@Enco @jake @robert So, I guess the consensus is that, yeah, sometimes war crimes are okay.

It would have been a much worse war crime not to drop the bomb, IMO.

I feel that a defending nation that has been violently attacked by an invader nation naturally has a softer moral standard because starting a war to gain territory, money,…[Read more]

@Enco @Jake @Robert

So, I guess the consensus is that, yeah, sometimes war crimes are okay.