Lars

Strega wrote:
After this, let’s debate the color unicorns get when they’re old.

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After this, let’s debate the color unicorns get when they’re old.

Robert for President!

Chuckles

Simon Paynton wrote:
I would say a thought experiment is “valid” when it produces a model that appears to be correct. A thought experiment could maybe sometimes be thought of as a hypothesis: “if the world was like [hypothesis] X, what would happen?”. If “what happens” matches up with observable reality, then it’s good supporting evidence that…

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Zombies? In your head, in your head, they’re fighting. In your head…

I saw a lot of power outages there Reg.  Hope you’re ok

@reg Silly man. Kelvin was so chilled he didn’t need a uni

Belle I sent you a PM before I read Diane’s comment, but it echoes the situation we had here!

Thanks all for the supportive comments. I’ve spent the last day listening to otherwise rational and compassionate friends and acquaintances trying to justify the violence. “We have to sustain public order”. “Yeah…but the referendum was illegal”. Egad. Nationalism is a horrid sickness. Turns cool headed reasonable people into sociopathic imbeciles.

The national spanish press is muting the abuse and NOT showing the most disturbing videos of police violence. Only the international press is doing so. Instead they focus on a small counter protest, show a few radicals throwing things at the police and one or two minor scuffles and lament that three policemen were hurt.

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Where do they go from here?

Violence. Thats what happens in places that are not given the right to vote (Chechnya, Kashmir, Kosovo, East Timor, Dagestan, Basque country).

It will escalate by the day. The shadows of Basque terrorism may even pop up again. Places that were given the vote (Quebec, Scotland, Montenegro, Slovakia) were given the…[Read more]

I’ve been watching it with dismay, Davis. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it blow up over the last few weeks. Where do they go from here?

Belle…most of these were today. The Catalonians have been wanting a referendum for decades and the national government never budged. They called their own referendum which the government says violates the constitution. So while Catalonians were voting for possible independence…heavily armed national police were sent in the thousands to…[Read more]