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The Beginning of History

Surviving the Era of Catastrophic Risk


We stand at the beginning of history. For every person alive today, ten have lived and died in the past. But if human beings...

When a group of tourists visited a crocodile farm, the owner of the place launched a daring proposal. “Whoever dares to jump, swim to shore and survive, I will give 1 million dollars.”

Nobody...

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Oh stop making sense!!!

Thinking of Glen today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9PuLcoZMM

^^^^^

Precisely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9PuLcoZMM

He'd never do that. They're key components of his beard.

Biden quietly met with a group of historians who warned him about threats to democracy and compared the current moment to the pre-Civil War era, report says

President Joe Biden privately met with...

AP FACT CHECK: GOP skews budget bill’s impact on IRS, taxes

Republican politicians and candidates are distorting how a major economic bill passed over the weekend by the Senate would reform the...

Happy Birthday!

As y'all probably know, I like to read history. Just today, I discovered an interesting bit of trivia: Capt. Hook bought his hook at a Second Hand Store...

I could show you... but then I've have to [redacted]

It appears to have been cobbled together by a 'content provider' and not well researched. Or they used a very strange definition of 'liberal'.

Something mighty fetching about them Polish Toes. At least for fish <G>

I did it back before it was cool. Had a buddy in the 70's who was a nut about it, and tried several times to show me how it was done. It didn't take. I guess we could say I 'outgrew' it before it...

Happy Birthday, Ian Anderson --


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A little twang for y'all...


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Tulsy is too shy to brag about his athletic accomplishments... but her ya go --
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Mine also.

Meanwhile - the grind continues --

Trump to be deposed over real estate practices, his net worth could be key topic

President Donald Trump will be deposed today as part of the New...

^^^^

Morning All,

Today should be more civilized. Only supposed to hit 80. Today's list is fully packed.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, ya ol' Codfish. Hope it's a lovely day, and the first of many more lovely days to come. That bottle with your name on it is still gathering dust, awaiting your arrival... but one...

Yes... some of this going on. The consequences seem to roll around in achingly slow fashion... but the mills are grinding away. Will it be enough?

Yes, there is that. Even (in theory at least) knowing better... I find myself slipping back into that trap on occasion.

At the same time - there is truth to the assertion that some folks...

I've been having thoughts along the same line. It's interesting how often, in times of turmoil like these, what one hopes for turns out to be less than ideal. And what one fears turns out to have a...

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Mellow is good...

Any number of candidates. But, in many ways, there are more impediments in place.

Mellow is good. I'm happy Tulsy has joined you!

You GO Kansas.

There is apparently a plan whereby your carcase is dumped in a burlap bag which is topped off with soil... around the root-ball of a small tree. Then you are planted, and become the tree. No idea of...

Well... one of us is.

Wrong again. The logical fallacy you are falling into is NOT only about yes/no questions. Which is clear from the definition. Reactive again.

I think THIS Diffie ditty is more like Tulsy!! <G>


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VKdwx5AB5k

Let me put it another way... my critics here are embracing a Logical Fallacy I run into all too often --

The Complex Question: The fallacy of demanding a direct answer to a question that cannot be...

Another nicely annotated list of fallacies --

https://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/english/traskd/upload/Master%20List%20of%20Logical%20Fallacies.pdf

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I'm glad ours are there. The raspberry patch is done for the moment, and (sadly) no in in the neighborhood is growing Marionberries (my faves).

Changing? Yes.

Something more palatable? Nope... just something more relevant.

Easier to answer? No, I'd call that one a wash.

Sidestepping involved avoiding a topic. I did not attempt to...

I tend to get work clothes from the thrift stores. Then I have no angst if they get trashed. A good # of the 'cargo' pants/shorts I stumble across come from outdoor/fishing outfitters like LL Bean,...

Also -- https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/alex-jones-likely-win-large-005437849.html

Disqualification from federal office: apparently NOT settled law --
...

I did it and I'm glad!!! <G>

You insist on 'sidestep'. I insist that reframing in a more nuanced, more productive fashion is not only not sidestepping, it is taking things to the next level. And you want to call me 'dishonest'...

I'm glad I could provide some entertainment.

But you left one small detail out of your synopsis.

Of course you get to frame your question the way you like.

AND... of course I get to reject...

Your insisting on the framing you do is simply incorrect. Not useful as far as I can see.