Jim

Unseen wrote:
Men and women tend to be quite different in fundamental ways, some cultural for sure but others seem to be genetically predisposed or hardwired.

I would agree with that.  I’m not sure what they are.

Frans de Waal says young female chimps and bonobos have been observed carrying around sticks cradled in their arms as if they were…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Well, Hamlet 💀😉 we help them by not destroying the greatest economic powerhouse ever on Earth and meanwhile do whatever is non-sacrificial to see that they stay helped. Providing productive work and education on frugality and investment are the number one way to see that people stay helped.

There are a lot of assumptions…[Read more]

Unseen,

There’s no greed involved in the inflation? Shortages of supplies and supply line problems drove the pandemic-related inflation, but clearly a lot of companies are treating pricing like a ratchet system that can only go in one direction. Now that the supply and supply line problems have greatly eased, have the prices gone back down or h…

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Enco,

Even if our economy were a great deal stronger it would not alter the landscape of good and bad fortune. Tragedy, abandonment, destitution, mental issues et. al. cause the greatest vulnerabilities and suffering.

So i ask what kind of a civilization do we want? Whatever our political leanings is it treason to modify political ideology to…[Read more]

Jake,

Whether your prognostications/assessments as to the American economy are accurate does not change the reality of so many who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous vicissitudes.

Should we help the needy or let them suffer and die?

Well, Hamlet 💀😉 we help them by not destroying the greatest economic powerhouse ever on Earth and…[Read more]

Reg,

World of Woo: Why won’t mediums solve crimes?

Penn Gillette and Teller of Showtime’s Penn &:Teller::Bullshit interviewed John Walsh of the TV show America’s Most Wanted and all shared the same answer too.

The Dynamic Duo of Debunking also refuted any evidence for an afterlife from which the dead can communicate when they exposed and r…[Read more]

@ Simon

Men and women tend to be quite different in fundamental ways, some cultural for sure but others seem to be genetically predisposed or hardwired.

I’ve been fascinated by the many different reactions to the movie Alien, and some reactions have been unisexual while others have been, so far, 100% gender-based.

If you remember the movie,…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a  great week!

@ Enco

There’s no greed involved in the inflation? Shortages of supplies and supply line problems drove the pandemic-related inflation,  but clearly a lot of companies are treating pricing like a ratchet system that can only go in one direction. Now that the supply and supply line problems have greatly eased, have the prices gone back down or…[Read more]

Enco,

Whether your prognostications/assessments as to the American economy are accurate does not change the reality of so many who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous vicissitudes.

Should we help the needy or let them suffer and die?

Jake and Unseen,

What makes the fate of this woman and her children so perilous is that the “Stimulus” of Trump and Biden and the inflation it has wrought makes the Dollar worth less and less with the passage of time. Inflation is a Conqueror Worm monster that hits everyone and hits the poor the hardest.

And the “Stimulus”, the “War On…[Read more]

@ Enco

If every family made a living wage from one income source and had one stay at home parent, our society would be much healthier physically and mentally.

Having someone at home to send them off or take them to school on time, to greet them or pick them up afterward, to make sure they do their homework and get to bed early enough to get the…[Read more]

Enco the sad stories are almost endless.

That is why we need to be better than libertarian. Capitalism is inherently problematic in many ways. And i am no communist/socialist. Nevertheless to offset the great advantage of the few who through any measure of fairness have not earned it dole for the unfortunate.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Yesterday, I encountered something at work that kept me up most of the night.

I was having problem sync-ing up my smartphone and getting a price for a customer, but finally managed. The woman behind this customer was visibly impatient and started removing her items from the register’s conveyor belt. I said: “I have the…[Read more]

They are not the only such societies.

Yo estoy Iroquois.

Matrilineal oh boy.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Simon Paynton wrote:
They’re both dominance hierarchies.

I think they operate through a mixture of coercion and consent.

Coercion OR consent. Of course, in a large-scale complex society as in the West, it’s neither one nor the other. Those who disagree with the arrangement may feel coerced, but the coercion  comes not fr…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Both matriarchies and patriarchies can be egalitarian or nonegalitarian.

They’re both dominance hierarchies.

That’s a prejudicial characterization. Men or women can have a predominant role in terms of decision-making by being deferred to rather than lording over the other gender.

Simon Paynton wrote:
They’re both dominance hierarchies.

I think they operate through a mixture of coercion and consent.