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tomasth

this line of thinking is right, it is possible that elephants – and parrots, corvids, dolphins and orcas – currently have only the basic elements of personhood but could have full, human-style personhood in their futures. I am suggesting that what stands between elephants and us is not necessarily limited intelligence, limited ability to report facts to one another, or limited ability to signal preferences. Rather, it might be a lack of ability to store records of reasons in the environment....
Today, 02:03 PM

Erowind

Roaring20s 2.0?
Today, 10:57 AM

starspawn0

As the far-Left might say: the guy who wrote that Tweet must work for the CIA. How else to explain that Tweet, as we all know how idyllic the life is for the Uyghurs living in China, and how evil and all-powerful the U.S. government is.
Today, 12:50 AM

Erowind

Even within that wiki article you posted Starspawn it states the the conflict is between the socialist government and the police and military with protestors on both sides. The governments of Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and the president of Argentina are calling it coup too.

What is your definition of a coup? Because to me, and anyone defining the word, the opposition removing a democratically elected official through illegal military and police force sounds like a coup.

Be...
Yesterday, 09:59 PM

Erowind

Before anyone says, well the election was disputed. The Morales government agreed to holding a reelection and OAS audit in November, likely because they did legitimately win and have nothing to hide.
Yesterday, 09:59 PM

joe00uk

Well, it was a soft coup of sorts. And either way, it's a disgrace!
Yesterday, 11:12 PM

Erowind

A level 7 warlock Tiefling appears. Roll for initiative.
Yesterday, 09:21 AM

Outlook

Honestly I can see how they could be personifications for their own party.
Yesterday, 06:06 AM

Erowind

Obama was more conventional. Then again I didn't really have a political consciousness then and I haven't made that comparison before so my understanding is less informed.
Yesterday, 09:14 AM

eacao

What do you mean, OL?
Yesterday, 11:55 PM

caltrek

I think he commented on one of my posts not too long ago, or perhaps I am confusing him with somebody else. At any rate, I fear all of the libertarians are running out of energy. Sorry about that :)
Nov 10 2019 11:52 PM

Erowind

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like they tax people lol. You and I share that it seems Caltrek.
Yesterday, 12:53 AM

starspawn0

... the moralizing seems to be.
Nov 10 2019 03:16 PM

caltrek

Fee will is a tricky concept. I like William James. I think he might have said something like it doesn't really matter whether free will exists or not. What matters is that people think it exists.
Nov 10 2019 08:44 PM

Erowind

/\ This, I'm a determinist but I act as if and conceptualize the world outside of scientific models as if free will exists. Even in some scientific models it makes sense to for the model to act as if free will exists though, especially in some social science work.
Yesterday, 09:16 AM

Erowind

I've only ever seen Anderson's stop motion works I'll have to check out more of his movies :)
Nov 10 2019 09:45 PM

starspawn0

I just typed in "Bong Joon-ho parasite Wes Anderson" into Google and got several reviews that compared them. Here is one with a line *exactly* matched one of my thoughts: https://www.screenhub.com.au/news-article/reviews/film/mel-campbell/film-review-parasite-is-satire-at-its-most-entertaining-258289 "Parks’ Wes Anderson-esque young son, Da-song (Jung Hyun-joon)." When I saw that little boy, I thought to myself, "That looks like a character straight out of Rushmore (an...
Nov 10 2019 09:57 PM

starspawn0

... an Anderson film).
Nov 10 2019 09:57 PM

Outlook

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration
Nov 10 2019 05:54 PM

Erowind

I shouldn't be surprised but those dinosaurs look so much like birds. Especially microrapter, I've seen that blue sheen irl on birds before.
Yesterday, 04:04 AM

Outlook

I used to take care of my cousin's parrot once. Often I'd dangle a piece of sunflower seed just out of the cage's reach, and whisper "This is for my ancestors."
Yesterday, 06:04 AM

kjaggard

he's not the star of the movie from what I hear, also we've had commercials with recreated stars in them (there was a singing in the rain one) and they brought Tupac back for a concert. Everything about this just seems like a publicity stunt to me.
Nov 10 2019 05:13 AM

wjfox

I hope they do one for John Lennon.
Nov 10 2019 06:50 AM

starspawn0

I forget what else I saw on the floor. There was at least one other office with a cult. Will seemed totally oblivious to the fact that there were all these cults where he worked.
Nov 09 2019 12:33 PM

wjfox

lolololol.
Nov 09 2019 01:07 PM

Erowind

Anytime I've dreamt of ftn members it's always either been their avatars or dreaming about posting/reading on the forums
Nov 09 2019 09:34 PM

Erowind

Going to see Parasite tomorrow, excited
Nov 09 2019 07:00 AM

tomasth

Noting to do with Clarke "Dial F for Frankenstein".
Nov 08 2019 07:32 PM

wjfox

Lucky old Northern Ireland, eh? Maybe the rest of the UK could benefit too? And then join the other countries with free movement and the single market? We could call it something like... I dunno, the Union of Europe, or something?
Nov 08 2019 01:31 PM