Tom

  • I would recommend trying them both with and without coconut (I much prefer without the coconut). I was told they were once available in a cafe in Edinburgh but no longer. I was actually shocked to discover a Canadian restaurant in Edinburgh. Was wondering “what the hell is a Canadian restaurant”??? They serve poutine, smoked meat sandwhiches,…[Read more]

  • LOL I had the exact same experience. I rented a car years ago with my grandmother and we drove along the Vancouver Island (insanely beautiful). Saw the huge trees, Tofino etc and the incredible murals of Nanaimo. But, I guess we were expecting there to be some central cafe with 20 different kinds of nanaimo bars or some special shop or bakery. We…[Read more]

  • I actually visited Canada in May (my mother was Canadian and I lived there when I was younger) and I tried to sample some old Canadian treats. Apart from the poutine, the things I enjoyed most were the sweets: beavertails, coffeecrisp, tim hortons vanilla dip and kriller, turtles (chocolate with caramel and nuts), peanut butter cookies and North…[Read more]

  • Thanks all for your kind replies re: Christmas greetings 🙂

    As per exercise, indeed slow and steady is important. In fact, I’ve only in the last year been able to start running again (and eventually got back into sports) after my whole kidney thing. I ran 500m one day, then 750 the next time (a few days later), 1km the next and by the 5th time I…[Read more]

  • Wishing you all a wonderful secular holiday season enjoying Christmas (if you celebrate it) and any other holiday as well as New Years. I’m truly fond of all of you (even those I frequently disagree with) and enjoy chatting and exploring topics with all of you! Enjoy very much your precious time off.

    This is my first Christmas without my mother,…[Read more]

  • Putin doesn’t give a shit about a buffer zone between Russia and any other country. No nation poses a threat to it, nor does nato. All of their neighbours (minus the little ones like Georgia and Moldova who cannot possible pose a threat) want to cooperate with them, as trade and peace suits their own interests. This includes NATO. Putin is doing…[Read more]

  • Just war theory is the principle on which the theory of “war crimes” is based. It is an attempt to find a balance between those who hold that you cannot find anything “more or less ethical” during a war (the whole enterprise is wrong) vs those who say “there are no rules during war, everything goes”. One of the least controversial principles…[Read more]

  • So actually, yeah, since Pluto is technically not a planet (but a dwarf one) Earth’s moon is, technically the largest moon in the system relative to the planet it orbits. So not entirely wrong! 🙂

  • Davis replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 4 months ago

    Ehhh, Ganymede is larger than our moon (it is in fact larger than Mercury). There are in fact four moons larger than our moon. In terms of size and mass relative to the planet it orbits, Chiron is half the diameter and an eight the mass of Pluto, this is much much much greater than our moon relative to Earth. In fact, Chiron is so large relative…[Read more]

  • Turns out, ufff…Croatia was massacred. Was painful to watch. To my surprise, the pool I’m in gives out a little cash to the 4th and 3rd place team so at least I get a pint or two out of it. Argentina easily deserved that win.

    If by some miracle Morocco wins tomorrow, then we will have the first final without a European team since 1950, and the…[Read more]

  • The United States is rightfully dragged through the mud Enco. Get over it. Your country does inexcusable appalling shit on a daily basis around the world and it trails at the bottom of the developed world in things like income disparity, education, racism, neglect of those in need, healthcare for all, violence, police abuse and toxic politics.…[Read more]

  • Risky decision, seemed to have not worked unfortunately. On the one hand, you cannot have a player emboldened by being a disruptive diva, on the other hand, you certainly want your best player on the field. There is an argument about whether he is the best player anymore. Unfortunately we won’t have a chance to see what comes afterwards as they…[Read more]

  • As I no longer live in Spain, I thought I was less attached, until I saw the horrific penalties between Morrocco and Spain. It was dire, painful and slightly heart breaking.

    Watching France play England in Scotland was absolutely hilarious. Everyone at the viewing party (30 of us) was supporting France (anyone but England) except an English…[Read more]

  • Unseen, you haven’t explained anything. You’ve just stated that we make decisions because we do one thing rather than another (huh?), despite the fact that we could not have done otherwise. Such a decision is empty of responsibility. Sorry you cannot see that. I don’t think we will go any further with that. If you want to eat the whole cake and…[Read more]

  • I am not forcing you to accept anything. You posted a video saying she speaks for you better than you could, where she defines non-free will as the inability of an agent to do other than they have done. This by the way, does not necessarily infer predeterminism. It does exclude an agents ability to have done anything else.

    She clearly says…[Read more]

  • She specifically says that you cannot do B, C, D…Z instead of A. If A is the only possible outcome, choice, alternatives, even decisions are illusions. If free will (as she describes it) is an illusion, so are all of the above. You cannot have both. A rock isn’t responsible for falling in a particular direction, nor is a person who cannot but do…[Read more]

  • This person loses me at 8:33. She is conflating something akin to a “reaction” to someone’s behaviour with “responsibility”. Yes, it doesn’t sound controversial that if x does this, that y will retaliate. However, that is not the same as saying that x is “responsible” for what they did. Unseen, the person could NOT have done other than they had…[Read more]

  • Unseen, it is an illusion that we make decisions if we cannot but do what we have done. Adding “another level” or talking about “the every day” as though it is somehow divorced from determinism is just a gross copout. I don’t understand how situating it in the “every day” avoids the consequences of your certainty that there is no free will.  No…[Read more]

  • So my answer to your question is that we can make decisions because of the language we use when talking about them at the shallow level.

    So you’ve introduced a magical shallow level where this all magically makes sense. Bravo unseen, you’ve attempted to answer my question by giving me a post-modernesque non-answer. Groan.

  • Unseen, how can someone make a decision if they cannot have done otherwise? That is like saying a computer makes a decision when in reality it is following a code it cannot but follow. It is not even that different to saying a rock makes a decision in which way it rolls down a hill. That the human phenomena is vastly more complex is irrelevant, if…[Read more]

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