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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compass.

The author, Dan Ariely, makes a good case that morality should be taught in schools, because students need to engage with it and have a hand in creating it, in order to want to follow it, which is understandable.  What makes it legitimate is being an au…[Read more]

I think that ex-astronaut, hero, faithful and devoted husband, and responsible gun owner Mark Kelly would probably wipe the floor with Trump.

That said, I can see why Kamala is the necessary choice this time around. Imagine the reaction of the nonwhite community if she was shunted aside in favor of another white guy yet again.

I don’t have money…[Read more]

https://emilyslist.org/

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
President Biden wrote on social media that he was ending his campaign for re-election after intense pressure from within his own party.

Woo hoo!  He’s a good guy, but he’s got to go.

President Biden wrote on social media that he was ending his campaign for re-election after intense pressure from within his own party. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him atop the Democratic ticket.

@Robert

The human race has de-evolved so much since the COVID 19 plague that now I find myself uncaring about events. Just living day to day and avoiding “the news” and focus on family, health, art, music and happiness.

I hear you! I feel the same way. The only thing I am focused on is getting my son raised. Keeping him alive with the dan…[Read more]

The human race has de-evolved so much since the COVID 19 plague that now I find myself uncaring about events. Just living day to day and avoiding “the news” and focus on family, health, art, music and happiness.

Thanks Strega, you are very welcome 🙂

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

@ Anyone Curious about Who’s Buying Your Search History on Amazon

Do a few searches for something you’re really not interested in (snowshoes? solar birdbath fountains) and then watch the advertising suggestions that start happening.

“The Spotify conspiracy theories”
No surprize here. ‘Search’ has long been monitized.
The first result on google or DuckDuckGo is always a paid result. On reddit, the second post on any thread is an ad. every 10th is also an ad.
Ebay commission is 10%, but for an extra % (you set the %), you get prefered placement. The only places I haven’t seen…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

Simon Paynton wrote:
The proposition has a truth value: true or false.

A truth value is a linguistic/logical utterance or statement about the truth.

You’re c0nfusing statements about the world, which can have a truth value, with what they are statements about the world, which is truth itself.

Truth is not a construct.

Reality, however, maybe?

Or are they inextricably linked?

Unseen wrote:
the truth being that which is the case.

Surely reality is that which is the case.  Truth is a quality of a proposition.  The proposition has a truth value: true or false.

Strega wrote:
Truth doesn’t have to be logical and realistic. Fiction does.

But truth / reality is logical, that’s one of its properties.  If you pull out facts from here, there, and everywhere, you find that they are all consistent and sometimes form patterns.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
The simplest definition of “the truth” is “the truth is that which is the case (whether you know it or not.”

Surely it means “that proposition that corresponds with that which is the case” or “that proposition that is consistent with that which is the case”.

A true proposition is one that corresponds wit…[Read more]

“Truth doesn’t have to be logical and realistic. Fiction does.”

Truth is not dependent on belief or opinion.

Good fiction has to be logical and realistic or in some way cause the reader, listener or viewer to suspend disbelief. Fiction in ideology/cults and religions are clearly not tied to the above strictures.