Recent content by pood

Very helpful, very well stated.

I haven’t looked into this “cultural appropriation“ thing very closely so I suspect I was getting distorted information second-hand, the reason for my qualifications. How would you describe it?

There’s a relatively new forum in the Library section called Collaborations, in which I and another member are collaborating on a novel. I’m doing the writing and it’s based on his ideas. The forum is behind a firewall — viewable only by members here — which is necessary if you are trying to get...

So, let’s see. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and made a lightning strike toward Kyiv intending to overrun it in a couple of days. Instead they got their ass handed to them and had to withdraw after committing a bunch of atrocities. Now the same thing has happened in Kharkiv. They have not...

I’m sure there is a web site, many in fact, for climate change deniers to get their sound bites. Fox News comes to mind.

I still await your response to my linked refutation of your claim that all past climate change predictions have proved to be spectacularly wrong. If you continue to ignore this everyone will draw his or her own conclusions about your inclination to have a good-faith discussion as opposed to...

DBT writes: And this is the whole point. Notice, first, that we cannot run this experiment. We can run no experiment to prove your hard determinism. We can run plenty of experiments that show determinism, but none that show hard determinism. And yes, they are different, no matter how much...

Something they could have done with solid Democratic majorities under Carter, Clinton and Obama, but didn’t.

Were you planning to respond to my linked refutation of your claim that past predictions of climate change have been spectacularly wrong? When you write something like the above, it makes me think you are a troll. Surely you understand the difference between weather and climate? Or no? Or do...

Very interesting: The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth

If a government can force a woman to have a baby when she wants to have an abortion, why cannot that same government force a woman to have an abortion when she wants to have a baby? If the government should be empowered to do the former but not the latter, I ask, why? What legal principle...

Paper in OP debunked here.

It’s funny how what Barbos styles to be “our people” are fighting tooth and nail to be no part of Russia and are kicking Russia’s ass at that.

It’s not your country and it’s not your people. Ukrainians are not Russians. Their language and their culture is different. Moreover, Kiev Rus predated Moscow by hundreds of years. It was a great capital when Moscow was little more than an obscure trading outpost. Ukraine is a great country...

Right-wing, Trump-loving kooks who said that climate change was a cultish idea and a liberal plot to impose One World Government or whatever those loons think will seamlessly shift gears when climate change reaches horrendous proportions. They’ll say liberals were to blame for it, and climate...