Useful (especially for me, found accidentally), visible when one clicks on “Forums” at the top of an AZ page: You’ll see not only a list of all…[Read more]

Abridged explanation: Change “shorts” in the URL to “v“.

I don’t know if it works every time, but it has worked in all of my tests. Also, since my instructions came from AI and not Youtube, I imagine this method could be deprecated by Youtube at any time. Please let me know if/when…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
Quick shout out to @unseen – hope you’re OK mate, I gather Portland is under assault from the military – can’t believe I’m even typing this – stay safe!

Portland is not the dystopian hell Trump seeks to have The Great Unwashed believe. He’s sending troops to liberal cities in preparation for having people used to seeing troops avai…[Read more]

@Unseen, I’ll just respond by mentioning that yeah I agree, Waarburg makes sense; NATO countries moving defenses to their own borders instead…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
[In reply to @Unseen‘s I’m on the right side of history, I feel, on Gaza.]

Feelz is not an argument.

I feel, in this moment of Hamas vs Israeli history, there is no “right side of history”.

Humanity has fucked up here, with no quick fix. All we can do now to inform our future, is to review history, debate, cry, and d…[Read more]

No, not at all. However, I did entertain that thought myself at one point, when Trump allowed his sycophants to make a lot of money when he said “Now would be a good time to buy shares”.

On QI once, Stephen Fry brought up the subject of ‘tmesis’ – a peculiar word that describes the insertion of a word into an existing word for descriptive emphasis.

Stephen Fry:- like abso-bloody-lutely, or un-fucking-believable.

Jo Brand:- or Scunthorpe

Strega wrote:
@unseen you made the exact point that I also thought. Empathy is the feeling when you can relate to an injury or event because you have been through similar events and you  feel knowledgable sympathy. You do not feel anyone else’s experience.

Indeed, if I stub my toe and keep quiet about it, who is going to say “I feel your pa…[Read more]

You hear people all the time saying their empathy forces them to feel everything (usually bad things) fr…[Read more]

I was on a client site yesterday. A department manager recently brought in 2 bee hives to the large green area behind their building. It is part of a “green initiative” for businesses. We were talking about “how rumors spread within a…[Read more]

The Martian air is 95.3% CO₂ and only 0.13% O₂. The atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth’…[Read more]

Project 2025 ‘is the agenda’ for Trump’s second term and they admitted it the day after the election.  The thing with the lies is that there were so many of them and fired from various sources simultaneously. There was too much to unpick. By the time people got over the “Eating the dogs and eating…[Read more]

The mayor of Perugia in Italy where Meredith Kercher was murdered was annoyed that Knox filmed her “Blue Moon” documentary there. Knox did not bring shame to the town, its own police force did. The mayor was more concerned about the public image of the town being associated with the crime again than with the 16 years Knox had spent cle…[Read more]

They paid the price because the GOP amplified their “wokeness”. It got major airtime on Faux News and the other platforms that MAGA tune in to. It was always headline news for MAGA even when only a small minority of the Dems had vocalized it. The GOP got voters foc…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
@unseen

Every relationship you’ll ever have will end badly, except maybe for the one you are in now or the one after that.

Truest words ever spoke. I’m stealing it. 😂

I don’t remember, but there’s half a chance I heard it from someone else and it stuck in my mind.

Every relationship you’ll ever have will end badly, except maybe for the one you are in now or the one after that.

Truest words ever spoke. I’m stealing it. 😂

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unseen – You were a victim of Rickrolling 🙂

Oh yeah. I’m quite aware of the phenomenon. It was rampant for a while. There are many Youtube videos of successful rickrolls.

Strega wrote:
@unseen Nice! Thanks! Great analogy. I support your position. Your consciousness is like your digestive system. Where does that go when you die?

Your consciousness is like your digestive system. Where does that go when you die?

Simon Paynton wrote:
Do all our choices, all the results of our executive decisions, have external causes?  Or are some of the causes free conscious deliberations – free thoughts?

Is not one choice wiser than another, with respect to long-term flourishing and survival?

In short, we have a combination of freewill and restriction, in reality. 

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Here’s a take on freewill.  The perception is one of (limited) freedom of choice at any one moment.  This perception is a conscious perception.  This conscious freedom of choice can be further limited or shaped by subconscious factors.

Yet the background physical substrate upon which perception and consciousness “l…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
@unseen, yes I’m afraid for my son’s father. His dumbass hasn’t gotten his citizenship yet when he could have years ago. I’m afraid they will deport him. My son hopefully is safe. I’m a citizen. But then again you just never know with these assholes. They’ll deport anyone who “looks Mexican.” Next thing you know will come the g…

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Belle Rose wrote:
@unseen, it’s already a huge nightmare. All of it. Did you see that basically Putin has already made a laughing stock of Trump? And Trump is already saying things about them deporting even people who are here legally. It’s really scary. it’s going to be absolutely horrible. He’s going to cause world war 3 and a Civil War at the…

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_Robert_ wrote:
absolute morality

There’s “absolute morality” – whatever that is – nobody can say – and “moral absolutes”, which are the strict rules necessary for ethical behaviour.

@unseen – if moral values are absolutes, then what do we do when two or more values apply?  Which one is “absolutely” correct overall?  Are the others wrong?  Do…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
@unseen, have you thought about what you might want to say to Pau, if it ever seemed like she’s deeply troubled by the prospect of death? (I know she’s already talked about it, and a possible afterlife, to some degree.) If she ever considered and followed through with suicide for some reason — and I’m not implying that there’s…

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@Unseen that liqueur was a major element to the choice. Also, S is a straw yellow, very similar to the liqueur.

@Jake I like the weirdness.  I met someone who has sound synesthesia and listens to music whilst she watches colours dance.

It’s a fun oddity

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unseen – The Law of Forms is a very interesting idea. I had never heard of it before. It is like applying an “Occam’s Razor” to algebra.

Many years ago, when I was in college, I was obsessed with logic, so I studied Russel, Carnap, the early Wittgenstein, and others. However, when I stumbled onto Laws of Form, i…[Read more]

The experiment you’re describing sounds like a variant of a Galton board (also known as a Quincunx), which is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem. In a Galton board, balls are dropped from the top and bounce through an array of pins, with the outcome forming a normal…[Read more]

Rather, I’m saying that the day will come, probably soon, that an assassination is carried out by a drone rather than a rifle.

This world sucks. No one is safe and we are all going to die lol

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

Why? Because it seems very very convenient.

The main evidence is that the shooter somehow was allowed to get into a suspiciously obvious shooting position on a nearby roof. A position that any normal person would think would be off limits and watched constantly by Secret Service agents and…

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“Queers for Palestine” is akin to “Chickens for KFC”. Imagine if these campus-clowns and moron-professors who are wearing desert scarfs are ever called on to defend our nation’s existence the way young Israelis are doing right now.

@Unseen,

Watch the video to see who you are rooting and tooting for. I suggest you have an empty…[Read more]

I hate to bring this up, but are you prepared to deal with potential violence in any way?

Yah, unfortunately I have to be ready. I’m terrified. Yah there will be a protection order but that’s just a piece of paper it means nothing.