Recent content by an0maly

I agree that part 2 of the series is just clunking along on four square wheels, and in so many ways. Ellie flips from a playful kid, the way she was early on with Joel in part 2, to a revenge-driven demon human. The perfect hair styles of others and the ease of life presented at times seems all...

This thought experiment is one of intuitive appeal without reference to any real world example, and shifts a burden of proof to where it is not indicated. The notion that a philosophical zombie could "run" (not chase like the monster kind, but run like a computer program) without being...

When playing the game Monopoly this card can relieve stress and allow some confidence in the conception of how the game will go, as can obtaining a second queen in a game of chess. Robert Sapolsky and others have noted that many animals have a clear conception of their own possible death, but...

To donbosco and other contributors, I appreciate these. Not on the board a whole lot this summer, but always stop and read these.

That's fine, and I am going to also push back to defend my stances, and try to offer some details from the game to defend my views. Several things wrong there. Starting here, the characterization of "strangers" is a charitable deflation of what they are. The FIreflies were identified throughout...

Best sound system you can use, please:

I may catch grief for this, but I was disappointed, ultimately, with that whole series. I thought the mentally ill brother thing (who is at the same time supposed to be a great lawyer) was a ball and chain the show dragged around. I thought it was too cute in writing and was bugged by how much...

For everyone like me that thinks-thought Jordon Peterson is-was (mostly was, these days) a tiresome, freakazoid imbecile.

This reminded me I had accidentally noticed the same sort of thing in April last year: with five numbers, 4/20/24, 4/22/24; with seven, 4/20/2024 That made me think of a further two years past set, 2/20/22; 2/20/2022 There are more, but my useless brain distraction work is done here.

Best info on the ship hitting the bridge:

Conservatism was Once Upon a Time pragmatic and somewhat moral restraint, for example Eisenhower's speech warning of the Military Industrial Complex, which of course happened and became outrageously, impossibly worse than he feared. Back further, it was moral guard rails of the Adam Smith...

Well, "cool," for me, counts as what I started with, which is not looking at the sky of stars in the same way.

I'm fine with providing a modifier for you, that is, "generally speaking"no thoughtful person would see the night sky in the same way. But I am baffled by this stance and if you care to, would like you to write a few sentences about underlying reasons for "not being affected one iota." That in...

National Science Foundation being destroyed, with attendant diverse damages, and I don't expect any sort of recovery during our lifetimes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2025/05/09/the-national-science-foundation-is-being-dismantled-what-the-economy-needs-is-more-investment/

I have pushed the time-for-TV chips all in for Your Friends and Neighbors. At first I was getting tired of some too-cute, almost sitcom type dialogue and narration, but I've gotten used to it, and the sharp observations of the Rich and Meaningless are really on-target. Hope they have a plan for...