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Have you seen this Reg?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70223461/constant-universe-time/

PopeBeanie:

This is my wild guess. Seems to me that Bannon’s stirring the pot ahead of time, expecting MAGA (or some future evolution of MAGA) to own the presidency.

Bannon and his “Team” can stir the pot all they want, but if they can’t amend the Constitution to give Trump more time in office, it means nothing. And the amendment process is d…[Read more]

Jake:

Awaken and smell the fetid politics!

Did you listen to Bannon? I know you heard him. Did you listen? Zero attempt to argue about the inarguable unambiguous plain language of that amendment. One hundred percent graft. This mofo will be prez on such and such a date. WILL.

And notice how Bill Maher humored and condescended to Steve Bannon,…[Read more]

Reg:

Jon Ossoff does characterize MAGA properly, but there is probably enough Venn Diagram intersection between the elites in both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party contained in the Epstein files to stifle running on being the Anti-Epstein.

Also, Tucker Carlson would still find any angle to bring Antisemitism into any campaign…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…

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Jake:

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Again, short answer: No, the United States of America is not and should not be ruled by Chinese-style dynasties that take up whole lifetimes under…[Read more]

Reg:

Four years of war in Ukraine: How ordinary lives were turned upside down.

I hope all these people persist when Putin and the Putineers flee, and rub it in the noses of J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson!

Reg:

Will anything persist when the Universe dies?

Self-answering question. Whatever persists IS the Universe, even a burned-out shell of a star and the diffused energy, which will go elsewhere. Wasn’t this all addressed with The Laws of Thermodynamics 0 to 3? Somebody needs to ask the right question, which is: How does Nothing come out of Something?

Reg:

The Catholic obsession with dead body parts is weird.

What’s really weird is how much science and technology the Church puts into preserving bones. Why not put that effort towards preserving the living, o ye Church who professes to be “Pro-Life?”

This gets me also:

Likewise, a major joint document issued last July by the bishops of Asia,…

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Jake:

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…

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Reg:

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Everyone believes something and everyone knows something. The division is between those whose belief only matches their knowledge and those whose belief doesn’t match their knowledge.

And, of course, there are varyi…[Read more]

Jake:

I couldn’t have expressed it better myself. As the old Murphy’s Law puts it:

There are only two types of people: People who put people in two groups and people who don’t.

🤨🤔

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How do some people go against the moral grain?

The article talks about wanting to please a “moral audience”, and this could be one way that we choose our moral principles.  Maybe this is true.  What about an audience of one – me?

I think this comes down to “subjective endorsement” – i.e., moral principles carry n…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

“Men” = “people”.  We’re all men.

Reg:

Philosophers Debate. Is it time to say R.I.P. to P.O.C.?

I wonder if N.P.R. is self-aware enough to know how that sentence sounds, as well as how they perpetuate the very hack terms they now disparage.

It should be time to say R.I.P. to Identity Politics and just use proper names for individuals when you know them and “You” for…[Read more]

Reg:

Pete Hegseth invited far-right Christian nationalist pastor to host a face scrunching event at the Pentagon. Patriots not loyal to the King are not happy about it.

“I did find today’s email stark, depressing, almost threatening. Horror movie vibes,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

I think somebody deliberately made the e-mai…[Read more]

Reg:

I don’t have it front of me, but there was a great video of Richard Dawkins denying the legitimacy of Theological degrees as well.

Jake:

Keeping government out of religion would keep either Islamic Sha’ria or Christian Ecclesiastical Law from asserting domination over anyone except willing adherants to the religions. And impartial enforcement of anti-terrorist statutes can address non-State actors.

And making Rwanda and the rest of Africa more prosperous will require freer…[Read more]

Jake:

Hold your praise. This would just mean that the only Churches and Mosques allowed would be ones that favor the religion, ethnic group, or tribe of the ruling regime, not a promising prospect, give the recent history of Rwanda.

Also, I’m pretty sure that all witch burnings, heretic burnings, book burnings, exorcisms, pogroms, honor…[Read more]

Jake:

Lol is another mindless utterance. What sort of laugh is silent?Lol is another mindless utterance. What sort of laugh is silent?

If you’ve ever listened to Tucker Carlson, he is evidently suppressing laughter with every sentence until his incredulity gets the best of him and it comes out at the the most unfitting times. He ain’t right.