Oh hey Ossan. I feel like something being limited in distribution is correlated to business practices.
Ossan??
Subway is really good because you get two small sandwiches on whole wheat with lots of vegetables for $5. Taco Bell is okay because it's …
Ahahaha, Simple Ways was hilarious. It's my favorite of the season now. Rarity being oblivious to Spike and then the accent and overalls - hysterical. And then came Apple Jewel.
^ I totally didn't drive. She got as far as 94th & Foster on mass transit and then we walked to my house. Then we walked to Fred Meyer and back in the afternoon blizzard instead of using the bus, because we are insane.
Om nom nom.
There was one where ninjas wanted to fight the Assassins, but they needed a bus to get to the Old Man's mountain. So they chartered mine and this seemed like a logical job even though I almost got killed.
Yeah, that met my expectations. Weird Al basically plays himself (as opposed to a robot motorcycle, I guess).
I was amused by the implication that Pinkie's goal in life is to be a big fish in a small pond. I mean Cheese Sandwich started later and be…
The deaf communicate by sign language to the parents or teachers who try to teach them to read and write. How does the process work without communication by the learner?
Furthermore, even previously nonverbal autistics have often been able to communicate and communicate well through things like the Internet.You just blew my mind. We're missing a step here: how do they learn to read and write if nonverbal?
Well, the point is that it's a continuum: Extreme cases of Asperger's syndrome can in fact be more debilitating than some mild forms of classic autism or other such disorders. This is rare, but it does happen; it is believed that this, rather than s…
I for one find the new "autism spectrum disorder" extremely confusing. I learned psychology from the DSM-IV, and was under the impression that people with classic autism need care about as intense as people with Down Syndrome. It would be horrifical…
I am in the 1066 start. And yeah, that's what I was thinking: stay n the defensive with the Muslims until a collapse, then strike, and gobble up independent duchies while leaving the Catholic kings alone.
Trying to restore the Pentarchs is gonna be …
Gothic in brick or stone. Art Deco looks good in metal and glass, or at least a damn sight better than the ornament-hating pathology of modernism. Maybe concrete buildings should be Neoclassical.
I started a game as the Eastern Roman Empire to complement reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall vol 5 (the one that goes from Heraclius and Mohammed to the Fourth Crusade). Should I be a good Komnenos and prioritize the religious goals? The Turks and F…
But what do you personally think? There's what other people believe, and personal conviction.My personal conviction is that Neoplatonism was neither logically rigorous nor scientific like the Peripatetics (who are obsoletely scientific anyway) and t…
My opinion of Pinkie Apple Pie is the consensus one.
More specifically, Pinkie's enthusiastic attempts to fit in even when the family was arguing were funny and sweet. Big Mac's delivery was funny. And I was laughing at loud at the sight gags with d…
But what can we know about the first cause?
brb legally changing my name to Blaise Pacal
Duuude that's a huge subject. Start with Plato's Timaeus (Whitehead's Process and Reality could be useful in inspiring you not to write it off) for reasoning …
But a "first cause" can't really be proven either. The only solutions to it rely on faith, which for scientific purposes is insufficient. It's not that science disproves the existence of a creator-god, but that it cannot prove such an existence--whi…
Richard Dawkins argues that the universe is uncreated because creationists read Genesis 1-2 literally, which contradicts the science of biology.for someone complaining about misrepresentation of religious beliefs I'm pretty sure this is a massive …
You are right, of course. 'Absolutely everything' was a gross exaggeration, and i apologize for it.
What i do maintain is that much of today's bigotry (and a great many bad arguments) are attributable to an unquestioning essentialism which is extr…
Odradek: "wut" is the benefit of specializing in knowledge of biology? Is it abstract knowledge (but a materialist would say that abstracts are figments of our imagination), or also practical?
Essentialism has absolutely everything to do with racism, whether you want to attribute that to Plato or not.
And while irrational constants like pi do present challenges for non-Platonist mathematics, i don't think it's right to suggest that they'…
"Essentialism rears its ugly head in racial terminology. The majority of "African Americans" are of mixed race. Yet so entrenched is our essentialist mindset that American official forms require everyone to tick one race/ethnicity box or another: no…
Dawkins openly admits that he has no interest in theology, on the basis that its foundations are wrong so that's all he needs to know about it
Oxford University has a philosophy department, where professors would probably be happy to discuss princi…
mmm... correct me if i'm wrong but you seem to be assuming these machines are intelligent in the same way that human beings are intelligent, rather than simply very efficient at performing certain tasks they've been programmed to perform
Yes, for t…
I'm suggesting that if superhuman machine intelligence were possible, it would have drives and desires as incomprehensible and inimical to us as ours are to apes.
Even human-like or subhuman machine intelligence would be alien to us, since conscious…
I'm suggesting that the needs of each person should be distributed fairly, without money. The robot overlords would control birth rates and societal infrastructure in such a way that everyone can find a job to do in exchange for expendable credit to…
Christian name is Fitzwilliam, which was previously my mother's surname, being a patronymic marking descent from a prominent William of Ireland.
Surname is Darcy, Anglicized from D'Arcy, Norman for "of Arcy", being the original fief of my distant pa…
can we define "transhumanism" before we continue with this line of the discussion
because I have a feeling people might be meaning different things by it.
but seriously, the word "transhumanism" lumps together a bunch of different ideas, from th…
And my favorite fanon on that is that the jealousy wasn't entirely unwarranted either. Like, maybe Celestia did let their crusades go to her head a bit, and between that and just being more approachable, the public would've naturally gravitated to …
Elves are painfully over the top in this, made whores by the fact that there are very few places where they even really belong.
Yes, elves are whores. They're stupid hos.
Then again, everything was stupidly padded from the book, except Beorn's role…
So the moral was "If you're a PETA activist, don't let friends pressure you into being sane"?
The mama and papa bats were hilariously cute. Meh overall, though.