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Reg,

Why doesn’t anyone trust the Media?

Well, here’s part of your trouble within the article itself, in the last four words of this quote:

taylor lorenz: Well, I think there’s a lot of culpability on the media side. Corporate media in particular has spent years selling people out and getting things wrong. Look at mainstream coverage of the Ira…

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Strega,

your mention of Utopia touches a long-standing thought I have. How do those Utopia Warriors behave, if they finally achieve Utopia on Earth? What do they do? They’re fighters, not bakers. What do the ‘Freedom Fighters’ imagine their role would be, in the Utopia they seem to be fighting for?

Well. not speaking for Jake, but mysel…[Read more]

Belle Rose:

did AI just outsmart us all? 😂 it’s the apocalypse. There’s a virus infected monkey running the streets.

If AI can’t draw human hands or faces properly, I wouldn’t give AI that much credit.

And COVID-19 and STIs didn’t kill off humanity the first time around, whether it came from from Bat-Soup or the Wuhan Virology Lab, so a wea…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Simon, you are still redefining “faith” to make it appear intellectually respectable. You are using the religious version, which explicitly praises belief without evidence, and you are stretching it to also mean rational expectations grounded in observation.

Yet, any day of the week, faith has a dual meaning of rel…[Read more]

Reg:

It’s a big escalation from “silent time” or “optional reflection” if teachers are leading prayers that reference Jesus. You can’t treat “Christians” as one monolith on this issue because tradition, race, age, and political affiliation all matter.

I would look at their graphs more if I wasn’t so distracted by their pictures so brazenly mad…[Read more]

I’m afraid the situation is worse than most of you realize. Here’s a “what if” for you: Forget rigging the election by all the ways people are discussing. What if he declares a national emergency and simply refuses to leave office? He already ignores the law and is on the verge of defying court orders, and all the means of enforcement come under…[Read more]

Simon,

All this proves is that words can have multiple meanings, another thing that doesn’t require religion.

Jake,

Ya know that soldier who is cold and in pain danger at every moment and yet finds a moment to smoke a butt and feel the glow of life? That same guy in a quotidian mindless job at break smoking a butt might think….this sucks man. Rat on a fucking wheel. Get me off this imaginary apparatus.

In other words there are ways of achieving life s…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Simon, I think you are trying to rescue the word “faith” by redefining it. You are taking a specifically religious term that means believing in something without sufficient evidence and trying to stretch it until it becomes a synonym for “hope” or “general trust in life.” It sounds warm but it is sleight of hand.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The nonreligious might not be as spiritual as was assumed which helps counter the narrative that the non-religious need some form of spirituality (whatever that is). I know hundreds of atheists and not one has ever mentioned being ‘spiritual’.

If nearly half of the nonreligious report high life satisfaction, the bel…

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Reg,

World of Woo: Legitimizing quackery.

This has been going on for decades longer than MAGA/MAHA has been around, and to the tune of $Billions of Taxdollars. These agencies should have been DOGE-ed before there was a DOGE.

National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/

WHO Global Traditional Medicine…[Read more]

Reg,

@Enco – I ‘misspoke’ – I usually format the USB drive completely. Type each line, one at a time, from a command prompt in Windows to fully and safely delete data so it can be re-used.

diskpart
select disk 2
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit

So what does this have to do with free expression?

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Tá roinnt teangacha agam, cuid acu ar chaighdeán passable, cuid eile caighdeán “turasóireachta” an-bhunúsach. Ach tá an Ghaeilge líofa agam chomh maith, nó ar a laghad bhí mé nuair a bhí mé níos óige. Má chaitheann mé seachtain i nGaillimh (abair) tagann sé ar ais chugam. Is í an teanga is deacra a fhoghlaim.

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jakelafort wrote:
As though a lack of ideological diversity isn’t the sine qua non of indoctrination! As though that lack of ideological diversity isn’t in part a reflection of show me the money.

I think that progressive values have a momentum of their own, especially with the young.  The human race has a doctrine of helping the needy and vuln…[Read more]

Reg,

To celebrate Hamit Coskun winning his appeal for free expression, I will burn an old USB drive that holds 100 copies each of the Quran and Bible to celebrate.

Don’t burn anything to celebrate freedom of expression, especially if you’re concerned about Carbon footprints. Instead. read Al Quran and The Holy Bible out loud on a street corner…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many U.S. students will very likely start going to Chinese Universities soon.

Might be a good idea for all American schools to start teaching Chinese.

When I was young (I’m 79 now, so a long time ago), the choices were French, German, and Spanish. French was recommended as the language of diplomacy, German for kids…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The problem in colleges isn’t indoctrination. It’s a lack of ideological diversity.

The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It sounds plausible, even scientific, but it doesn’t predict, measure, or model anything.

But surely the behaviour of flocks of birds – organisation – emerges from the behaviour of single birds, following a few simple behavioural rules, and the organised behaviour of ant colonies emerge from ants, which have a l…[Read more]