Recent content by bilby

Oh no, what have we done!

...and now the UK makes almost nothing. State owned companies may have been inefficient, but at least they existed. They employed workers, and manufactured and extracted strategically important materials and minerals. Thatcher sold my shares as a citizen in British Gas, British Steel...

Our head of state is King Charles III, so I am going to go with "yes".

Yes, it is. As a colony, we can appeal our Supreme Court's rulings to the British House of Lords. Which seems bizarre and stupid, but nowhere near as bizarre and stupid as planning to take on the entire US military and police, with a few handguns and rifles, in an effort to overthrow with...

You couldn't, because it's just as much make believe as the starship Enterprise. You do know that the starship Enterprise is pretend, right? Just like Hell, or Pokemon, or God, or Sherlock Holmes? Humans love a good story. Sometimes they lose track of what is stories, and what is real. The...

We also have two words in logic and philosophy, ethics and philosophy, metaphysics and philosophy... Or for that matter, red and colour, blue and colour, green and colour... Saying "Science is not the same as philosophy, [therefore science is not philosophy]" is as wrong as saying "Red is not...

Wrong thread...

Surely that was Truman, not FDR? FDR planned to do that to German children, not Japanese ones; And he died before it was known whether he could.

Almost all medications do, because drug companies cover their asses by putting that on anything that hasn't been specifically tested for safety during pregnancy - and they almost never test for safety during pregnancy, because doing so is hideously expensive and brings its own liability...

You can't see the wood for the trees. How do you determine that these are the steps you should follow? How, for example, did you decide that "Experimentation and testing" was a better option than "Prayer and quiet contemplation"? What made you think that "Gathering information" was preferable...

All had cult followings that look exactly like religions to me. They were God Kings in the style of the ancient Roman and not so ancient Japanese empires. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18507857 In some parts of Georgia, Stalin is still worshipped as a God...

About three thousand more than I would like. ;)

You should probably be aware that this philosophy is a very effective multiplier for confirmation bias. When you keep seeing claims of X, which you are predisposed to believe are false, you figure that X is at best rare, because if they had real examples of X, you would surely be more inclined...

Sorry. I do that all the time.

Perhaps they were put there by agents of the Department of Redundancy Department. Now, what is redundant about Air Traffic Management Machines, and how do you know that ZiprHead has patents on such machines?