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I'll note the statistic on crime rates is misleading and outright wrong. This has come up many times, had a number of citations, and been ignored every time. If you would like to dig up the statistics on crime rates and transition, be my guest. That's yet another political topic, however...

This doesn't change the fact that AntiChris was right about what he said, even if not about the need to say it, nor did I say anything incorrect on the subject either.

Enemy Mine. (Speaking of which, now that I think about it that movie taught me some things about myself, and about love).

Reading the post again, I think I need to reiterate that "free" in terms of "not may, but shall", in terms of "has multiple degrees of freedom available to the heuristic of selection", and in terms of "inside/outside" quality are all completely different usages. If someone is claiming any of...

The fact is that as much as this entertains, it also distracts from a much deeper issue: https://newrepublic.com/post/181718/aoc-darker-intentions-mtg-hearing-chaos

It's almost like TSwizzle sees justice as a transactional exchange rather than an effort to actually prevent ongoing disruptions to society. In some ways an attempted murder can indicate more a need to sequester than a successful one, depending on how specific the urge to kill is. If someone...

The problem, to me, wasn't the comment. The comment was bad, sure. Disrespectful. It might be grounds in saner times and places to eject and censure. The problem is in fact what happened in the committee immediately after that nobody here is talking about, namely the fact that they used this as...

I mean, this might have a lot to do with the recent surge in populist nationalism and the entitlement of conservatives. I blame the conservatives for throwing tantrums and the permission granted to such activities by such brazen moves as pardoning a casual murder because the person who got...

Quite true. I do my work of defining a will as an algorithm: a series of heuristics and other contingent structures that defines, over a wide range of preconditions (possibly even an infinite or even complete set of preconditions) how the system will decide a future state. When I say this, this...

Ah. To say something on the subject, then: definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive. Some folks here and there will commonly lean to the way some word is "defined", in their mind, to present an argument. This has limited applications in the respect that certain words are more invariant...

This why audits. I want to know if they're just laundering mass produced printing to a Bible publisher, too, or whether they're sending shit that has actual survival value like food. I would be alright depending on the textbook publisher, if they were for actual legitimate textbooks. I think...

You don't get to hear about it. I told someone here about it. Maybe two? I think @ZiprHead might be one of them. I cry about it every once in a while. It's less traumatic in some ways only because I would have lost my one favorite thing from that encounter had things gone any further, on account...

Are we taking an over/under on how many people will be murdered this June for Pride in Texas? Last I knew, gay, and especially trans people, are pretty heavily armed. Maybe we should set up a betting pool to see what day is the day someone first shoots someone at a gay event in Texas, and...

Phone Booth

Wait are we seriously asking about homeless folks in California being violent when we have folks in Texas casually shooting people from their car windows and being given a pass for it? I mean shit, at least the guy in Cali got arrested and will go to jail in the first place...

I would say much of human cognition is based on effects that minimize probabilistic effects: there are many opportunities for the necessary and particular change to nucleate. Imagine for a moment an event that only happens when an electron enters a specific orbital of a sodium ion in a sodium...

Last I knew, morals, ethics, and desires for transparency will often translate into governmental change, especially depending on political activities that express such. You have discussed "is" and I have discussed "ought" and the bridge from an "ought" to an "is" is decisive action. This...

That's why I don't claim this. Rather, belief is deluded, superstitious, and irrational, and ought be replaced as soon as is feasible by something less junky. Believers are believers for a myriad of reasons, many amounting to "we don't have the available time or ability to convert from belief...

In some respects this indeterminism helps add a "fog of war" that itself produces certain freedoms, by eliminating the ability to be certain about what preconditions are present or absent: it gives us a clear need for having multiple contingencies, and an exercise wherein we have to test out...

I'm more concerned with the need to present some legally necessary ratio of charity to administrative costs, a measure of the objective quality of the charity itself. I think that this needs to be well documented in terms of administrative costs, and this needs to be well communicated up front...