_Robert_

Yeah Reg,

There is no way to tell how badly religion damages people’s lives by priming them to believe in nonsense. To me they sound insane at times.

Unseen wrote:

@ Simon and Robert One can belong to various groups almost without limit and often with incompatible or conflicting interests. One might work for Willie’s Widgets and own Willie’s Widget’s stock as a retirement investment. So, joining in a strike for higher wages for oneself and one’s fellow union members (yet another group) could a…

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Unseen wrote:

What is the logic of in-group bias? When the most basic group (in mathematical terms, a set*) is the self, it’s hard to distinguish it from simple narcissism. Expand the set to one’s group (however defined, which is a problem: family? neighborhood? village? territory? nation-state? humankind?) and you have to decide to what ext…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

I asked him why he cheated. He looked me right in the eye and said it is not considered cheating because this is a college of infidels.

This is a fault in human nature – our in-group bias. Morality is a group-wide thing and no further (for highly parochial groups). Therefore: 1) other groups’ morals are inv…

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I recall in a calculus class three Iranians got caught cheating on a test, got walked out and received ‘Fs’ for the course. One of them was in my study group. I asked him why he cheated. He looked me right in the eye and said it is not considered cheating because this is a college of infidels.

@Reg,

It would take a lot to be surprised these days, but I am certainly open to it, LOL.

Contrast the slaves to a free, atheistic woman from a liberal democracy with rights to become herself.

On the surface seems like two nice ladies having a lovely chat, if you forget one of the sex slaves is peeping through eye slits. The other one is talking about things that tarnish your “heart”. Twenty-five seconds into the video, one of those terrible things is “loving this life”. These people are fucking monsters, always were, always will be a…[Read more]

And I love when the Satanists spoil the plans of Fl governor Ron dirty-Sanchez’s minions.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Well, at least we now might know where he got his brain worm from. And to think I ran close to it on a 5K run! Strega gets her fingerprints sent to space forever and I could be spending my days on the look out for pic-a-nic baskets 🙂

Yep, he was always fuckin’ nuts. That poor worm didn’t get much to eat.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.” 🙂

That guy is a conspiracy genius.  Listening to him talk is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Tras…[Read more]

Strega, that’s cool your prints are in orbit! Yeah, toasters are not my forte either. I did fix an old radio for a friend’s boss. The problem was so basic (broken power wire), I didn’t mention the issue and he got some free brownie points.

Unseen wrote:

Here’s another weird number from mathematics. It’s called “i” (the letter between h and j in the standard alphabet). I wasn’t absolutely sure mathematicians consider it a number, so I asked the Gemini AI “is i considered to be a number in mathematics?” and got this reply: Yes, i is considered a number in mathematics. While it might s…

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Strega wrote:

I have colour synesthesia :). Something like 40% of people have it in a small way. If you’d like to check whether you are in that 40%, ask yourself “What colour is Wednesday?” You will either have no idea what this question even means, or you will have a specific colour that comes to mind. The latter are those with at least a touch…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Okay, I have changed my mind and I will pick the other half of the box 🙂

It certainly has a form that lends itself to folks who are naturally visual.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

@_Robert_ The system is really “out of the box” thinking. Or in the box. Well, let’s just use half a box. If I was doing some acid I would have trouble deciding which half of the box to use 🙂

I swear sometimes I do think these math and physics geniuses were autistic. The ideas of Euler, Fourier, Laplace, Maxwe…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:

However, when I stumbled onto Laws of Form, it blew my mind.

Why did it blow your mind? I’ve heard it said it’s like an LSD trip for mathematicians.

The system is really “out of the box” thinking. Or in the box. Well, let’s just use half a box

I have a good friend who actually believes humans were created by god via a golem spell. His big argument is ‘something’ had to create all this. This is very common.

Religion gives life a purpose, explains its origins, promises eternal justice and escape from death. Plus there’s music and cupcakes and feelin good about yourself because you…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Not sure whether a fervent progressive or Trumpist is more ardent. Man oh man they despise and dehumanize the other side. Both certain of their moral high ground and how intractably stupid the other side…

The love for Hamas in American Universities is not an accident. Look at Qatar alone….

In 2022, a report by the Network C…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

Actually, even the logical construction of the premise is incorrect because of the use of ‘OR’. This implies that a migrant can’t be a mental patient AND a criminal AND a rapist. This first statement needs to be proven true before any rational inferences may be made about it.

“Or” is the oddball logical operator…

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