Kara Connor

Thanks, Reg!  Happy new year!!!

Happy New Year to all!

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Bertrand Russel.

_Robert_ wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
You can tell from their outfits that it is a completely heterosexual themed song. I am going to impress my girlfriend by playing it on a loop.

Be careful you “Macho, Macho Man”.

She said to me: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk “….

You can tell from their outfits that it is a completely heterosexual themed song. I am going to impress my girlfriend by playing it on a loop.

Unseen wrote:
BTW, if you bring up the song’s lyrics, there are fifteen references to men or boys and not one to females.

However, the writer of the lyrics has recently said that it’s not a gay anthem.  He gets annoyed when people say it is.

When I first heard “YMCA” at a MAGA rally, I thought it was being played as part of some weird ‘anti-woke’ campaign. Later I realized they had no idea about the history of the song. When I saw a bunch of red MAGA hatters dancing to it and giving it the double fist pump routine, I literally fell off the chair in laughter. No doubt Trump cannot…[Read more]

…….it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers…..

I know a few women who have had abortions and it was a practical, even a somewhat mundane decision for them. That is, except for one mother of three children who would have died in Ireland last year had the murderous Catholic Church retained any power over the…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information.

That’s true, it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers.  But in wider society, on both sides, people take philosophical positions.

OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learning processes.

It will have the…[Read more]

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.

Most pro-lifers are liars as they very quickly become anti-lifers or pro-death when it comes to capital punishment. So what if a few innocent people are murdered by the State. Yet a fetus that is about 2 to 2.5 inches (5 to 6 cm) long from crown to rump (head to bottom) and weighs abo…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, the disagreements over abortion are not disagreements over facts.  They are conflicts over attitudes or matters of opinion or definition.

What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.  Pro-choice people take a longer-term approach and think about the lifetime o…[Read more]

@Strega – Too many people are afraid to live on their own for even a short period of time. I highly recommend it.

Maybe just don’t start writing a novel about what can happen to Jack when he spends too much time at work and not enough time playing. 🙂

For those with terminal illnesses, assisted dying is a powerful quality of life option. For most, just knowing that they have the legal option in place in case they want or need to avail of it at some future point, immediately improves their quality of life. It also allows their love ones, who would assist them, the peace of mind knowing they…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die.

I don’t think that assisted dying on the grounds of depression should be legal, because depression is always in theory reversible.  On the other hand, it took being genuinely offered to die for this lady to want to live again.  It’s a difficult one.

As part of my divorce, I gave the whole house and contents to my almost-ex wife. I then landed the perfect place to live. I’m ‘caretaker’ for my friends spare house (the mother died a while back) sort of like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

I pay a peppercorn rent and have a four bedroom house in the woods with 6 acres of land, and heating from…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, hope you are warm and cozy where you are. I was almost going to fly to Atlanta today but skipped it this Christmas. Weather is better here!