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stanky wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:46 pm Having some trouble articulating a concept that is difficult, yet, imho, significant, in regard to the way language is used with death statistics. Bear with me? while i stumble forth:

Your "argument" is identical to that of the tobacco lobby.

'Nuff said.

And Planet America to the core.

What a shock to see the guy arrested here has both MAGA and Confederate flags on his wall.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3502 ... ion-videos

Ok....I had better throw in some disclaimers. I click on a lot of stories about trans rights issues, and because I click on them, I see more. And....some of them are dumb as hell. It's amazingly divisive and features some weird coalitions. And now, from the left. We have the National Organization f...

Hey, Stanky! Maybe you're onto something with RFK Jr.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f ... 8a72bdeea4

You have your royal commission. As you say, the results will be politicized. That's inevitable. However, there will be results. History has shown that Royal Commissions are actually pretty good. Our judiciary is very non-partisan, NZ ranks as the least corrupt country on earth, and there have been ...

I have been trying to come up with a better illustration of the issues I have with Americans today, and after rejecting a few ideas I settled on the pandemic. The only problem with that one is that I'm not sure this is a uniquely American phenomenon. It's not. Everyone made mistakes, chief among wh...

Let's not forget this:

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan, 21/5/2011

We're probably smarter than ever. Not buying it. Attention spans are now so short that scenes in movies and TV can't last more than 6 seconds. In the past, people were required to think and be imaginative. Go back before TV and people listened to radio shows, where it's necessary to edit the entire...

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:51 pm What makes you think it was unintentional?

Because it's somewhat prurient if not.

The Modest Proposal thread? Is that active? Is it the same old Modest Proposal thread? Or a new one with a similar name? It's the one I started late last year to make the suggestion that rather than let the forum wither away, let the members take it over and try to reinvigorate it through a collabo...