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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Zero gun violence is not the goal. Reducing the amount of gun violence is the goal. If one instituted an efficient and convenient public transportation system taking half the cars off the road, road deaths would go down somewhat proportionally.

Funny, you did not allow such nuance with the…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
So did New York’s stringent weapons laws stop Salman Rushdie from getting stabbed by Shia’ lunatic Hadi Matar?

Zero gun violence is not the goal. Reducing the amount of gun violence is the goal. If one instituted an efficient and convenient public transportation system taking half the cars off the road, road deaths wou…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

I’m not sure where you’re going with that. Stop hinting and be explicit, please.

Wouldn’t you have to say communications technology should be at least as restricted as guns, if danger to lives is your concern.

A free marketplace of ideas is inherently good. By, contrast, societies with stricter control over guns…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Wall Street Journal headline: Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology; Some Sources Urge Caution

I guess being antifascist has become a vile, nasty, evil thing.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, Ideas in The Holy Bible, Al-Quran, The Communist Manifesto, and Mein Kampf put out by media technology beginning with the printing press have killed millions more than guns alone. Should such media technology be restricted to an elite few?

I’m not sure where you’re going with that. Stop hinting and be explicit, please.

jakelafort wrote:
Shitstorm is gonna intesnify a bit if the killer of Kirk is apprehended and it turns out he is a lefty. Probably is too. Imagine how the US and far right Europe would react if Trump is assassinated? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/europe-far-right-leaders-charlie-kirk-shooting-turning-point-usa

Trump is already…[Read more]

So, who was Charlie Kirk?

“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” — Charlie Kirk

Well, I think we can feel a little bit more secure now, can’t we?

Some more about the BBC bias.

Jesus is Magic!!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And in a free market, vaccines could be made available over-the-counter and administered by Epi-Pen™, and if you wish, shipped by climate-controlled truck to your door right beside the Omaha Steaks. No trips to creepy Dr. Moreau Islands required. And the supply would be plentiful enough to meet demand for far less than…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Are all you guys still supporting government-run health care after all this?

Has there ever been a more corruptive, governmental force in a civilized country, bent on destroying a health care system than what’s happening now? The damage seems so intentional. Even the incompetence seems intentionally made as permanently…[Read more]

I think Holy Water is meant to have some spirit in it? And 10 year old scotch is no longer for 10 years olds.

“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.…..W.C. Fields.

Ha! Enco, the Church guided water ignorance had a strange but happy side effect. It turns out that the locals (in the uk) discovered that people who drunk wine, gin or beer did not get sick, whereas those drinking water were keeling over everywhere.  As a result, adults and children alike were swigging back the alcohol, giving gentle rise to the…[Read more]

Was Diogenes Woke?

We agree. He was not! 🙂

Burst into bull frog? There are a few known cases of it happening.

I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced. Very few scientists claim perfect objectivity; rather, they emphasize the method as t…[Read more]