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by vixen99 6y ago
No copyright broken if the music is filtered out prior to upload to a public platform. At the same time, deliberately playing music while conducting an activity that entails conversational interchange is clearly a ploy to prevent that which
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Be nice if this philosopher started by defining terms. For instance, are we all crystal clear as to what pseudophilosophy is? A quick search came up with (chiefly pejorative) Any philosophical system that does not meet mainstream academic
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by vixen99 6y ago
Your first sentence can be used by folk who don't share your political stance to support the reverse of your second sentence if, like you, they make assumptions to fit their beliefs.
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Or if you really want to open up a can of worms - the firebombing of Dresden in which (it's suggested) 25,000 people, mostly civilians, died as a result of an attempt to intimidate/frighten the German population. But to take an ov
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Clive James' website is and will (I believe) remain up. https://www.clivejames.com/ Definitely worth a visit. Try video/talking in the library for a load of fascinating interviews. His book 'Cultural Amnesia&
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Sea level rise has been 2.12 cm (0.83 inches) since 1900. The graph (August 20th 2020) is here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-led-study-reveals-the-...
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No, the smart thing to do is to let readers do the job with comments that show up such nonsensical statements. This is how we get to the truth, not by authoritarian censorship (as against the application of reasonable rules for a site like
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Conclusions based only on clinical data (deaths) miss the point. A cost/benefit analysis (in any country) would also take into account the effect of any measures taken (including lockdown) on issues like mental health, children'
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Given that toleration is understood to mean recognition of the rights of individuals and groups to hold dissenting opinions' it might be interesting to ask cancel culture' advocates as to the views which they <do> tolerate
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The 'problem' is introduced by you. The subtitle is "The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies" and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Romanian death rate per 1000 (8th highest in the world) has increased monotonically from 12.7 in 2015 by 0.1/1000 each year to 13.2 in 2020. In other words Covid has had zero effect (to one significant place) on the increase in rate of
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Not defining terms and making huge assumptions is vital if you want to offer a comment like this.
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Surely, this evaluation relates to the public sphere perspective. Along with insurance companies, every single relevant government action that requires estimations of life value, tacitly or explicitly agrees that later years are indeed less
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Capitalism doesn't 'deem' anything. Let's remain literal. It's a word denoting the concept of freedom for individuals to extract and use value from their activities to secure an economic base for themselves. Groups
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You are correct but there's an interesting question here with ramifications worth thinking through. Would we stick to this view if 90% of the world's population used it instead of the current 34%? Is there any % at which we might
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Is there a site posting the face of everyone who participated in the 633 riots (ACLED) with associated death and destruction at a cost of $1.2 billion that marked the US summer of 2020? https://acleddata.com
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'human behavior should be interpreted as a variant of mammal behavior' is a discredited concept. Is it? Given the closeness of the genetic codes of humans and animals and the proven relationship between genes and certain behaviour
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What's with this tendency to stick a binary label on every controversial issue? There are peer-reviewed valid concerns about these vaccines. Are the authors lumped into the anti-vaxxers category? Regularly watching BBC World I've
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People's wellbeing improves the wealthier they become, no limit identified(dailymail.co.uk)
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Seems rather obvious that this 'Big Tech bloc' will eventually turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.
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For anyone who doesn't know: Wiki: In modern Hebrew and Yiddish goy (/ ɡɔɪ /, Hebrew: גוי ‎, regular plural goyim / ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm /, גוים ‎ or גויים ‎) is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew. Through Yiddish, the word has bee
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Finally someone's cracked it. The binary solution. They've perfected a process for identifying 'misinformation' in black and white, as it were. This is a huge step forward.
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It seems that Britain celebrates this extraordinary man with not even one single statue. There is a statue of Blake in Bridgewater, Somerset but it's Robert Blake, a naval commander, worthy no doubt but hardly a global figure. Anyone c
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It is also clear that sperm counts have declined very significantly in the past decades. Some estimates put it at nearly 60% in Western men. But similar reports can be found for China https://www.nature.com/articles/s41
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Good to see Twitter condemning internet shutdowns! "Ahead of the Ugandan eleection, we're hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block s social media and messaging apps. We strong condemn internet shu
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Indisputable that he can't be replaced. To be fair, not everyone is an ardent fan. George Monbiot thinks he's betrayed the natural world he loves https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/0
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To be precise if you don't know what the tweets were (I don't either) then shouldn't you say 'that have been alleged to lead to the riots'. This is nothing to do with lending support to him or not.
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I'm curious to know what apart from pornography (volumes of which have been part of comprehensive book collections for eons as in https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/oxford-university-obsc... ) is included i
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He could be both unless someone actually says 'just ...'.
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Brilliant summary. Let's not pretend it isn't. Everybody would agree that it was cogent, persuasive and utterly compelling. Good to be know what world outside the US thinks and I like the cherry on top: 'reality is biased aga

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