Kristina

Unseen wrote:

This conservative pundit thinks Biden stands a good chance of becoming one of the most popular presidents in history, especially if the GOP’s internal schism doesn’t get healed. He could become the FDR of the 21st Century. And he can do it by being semi-progressive.

Even intuitively, that feels quite plausible, and yet less than a h…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Kristina wrote:

…but I thought I read somewhere that a simple majority is enough to block him from running for office again.

Yes, but unless I’m mistaken, blocking him from running again can happen only after he’s actually convicted. In any case, I’m personally ok with the impeachment even as just a tokenal message, and ok with…

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Ivy wrote:

Yah but….Mitch McEnabler Has already said they’re not gonna do anything until January 19… They’re going to drag this into Biden’s term. And knowing the way Trump enabler’s go they’ll probably say that it’s just not worth it and this will be another slap on the wrist. I don’t think they’re going to actually get it through the Senate.

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Ivy wrote:

Is it just me? Or is this whole impeachment thing too little too late… Just like their lousy $600 stimulus check. The damage has already been done.

I imagine they are hoping they can bar him from running for office again, at a minimum.

Sorry, you asserted that social media was this big driver of Anti-Vaxxer hysteria.  I gave you the falsifying instances of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s bogus article in The Lancet, plus Jenny McCarthy’s TV hysteria on Oprah, then threw in the Tuskeegee Syphillis Experiment as a bonus, and you won’t accept anything as a falsifying instance.  “Be gone…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

Reg, One bone of contention I do have with the article: What’s all this about “saving the National Health Service (NHS)?” And why does a system that the article says keeps patients in the dark about their options need to be “saved?”

That’s not actually what it says though. It says ‘protect the NHS’ which at a quick sea…[Read more]

That scenario B answer creates some interesting implications though. What if the transporter had worked properly? The transported individual is the clone, in a sense. The original just happens to have been consumed in the process. Can you escape culpability just by using a transporter?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

This is similar to the Ship of Theseus thought experiment.

Although, notably different, the Ship of Theseus wouldn’t have had cognition and a sense of personal identity.

We may actually naturally be in more of a Ship of Theseus scenario anyway. From birth to death, how much of the original matter that made us up…[Read more]

I suppose there are two basic forms of the science-fiction transporter relevant to this scenario. One is much like a sophisticated fax machine only the original is destroyed in the process. The other seems to not just copy you, but actually convert your mass into a more transmissible form and then relocates and reconstitutes it.

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Also a time to teach them the difference between fighting ‘tyranny’ and railing against reality.

Do I trust the vaccine? I’d trust it to babysit my kids…

If I had kids…

And that was a thing vaccines could do.

That said, I’m bound to be a somewhat lower priority. Currently, about 4,000 doses have been shipped to BC (I’m not sure if that’s doses for 4,000 people, or 4,000 first doses). Total population is over 5 million, though those…[Read more]

I don’t think it is inherently unethical. My dad once considered  joining a church after my parents had separated. He wasn’t particularly religious. I don’t think he believed in any god per se (could be wrong). Mostly he just longed for a sense of community. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that as long as you accept the community as…[Read more]

It’s difficult to get an accurate landscape of wealth and income inequality in Canada and where it is trending. Compared to the 90s, inequality has almost certainly increased. Compared to five years ago, some of the more conventional measures show it as levelling or marginally reducing.

Why that is, I’m not exactly certain. Some policy shifts…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

But Apologetics are also like monkey bread: everybody at the Thanksgiving table can pull a little bun off from each direction and gobble it until it’s all gone. 😋

I had to look up ‘monkey bread’. Finally, a conversation on theology has produced some useful knowledge.

Simon Paynton wrote:

That little revelation does’t seem to bring that grey-haired fella much comfort. Maybe he should just roll with it. Might turn out to be a little ray of sunshine in his life.

Davis wrote:

From God’s point of view, everything’s running fine.

If we cannot comprehend the perfection of things then we cannot make claims about it making the whole theory fall appart.

This represents my issue with many of these arguments. It’s not about whether the argument may stand or not, but rather before they can even be evaluated, the…[Read more]