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>It also doesn't help that 80% of toys is cheap plastic tat Yes. Amazing how many people are content to makes presents of such dross to their young friends and relations. Alternati…

If one man produces 1000+ hours of content then there's always going to be dodgy stuff when stuff is taken out of context. ('If you give me six lines written by the hand of the mos…

Nah; I've listened to a number of his shows. He's a popular political commentator who is anti-communist/leftwing -- that's why they banned him.

Important to recognise that Stefan Molyneux is not far-right, whether or not the far-right are encouraged by his YT channel deletion. I would classify him as an atheist/libertarian…

>> Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first It seems as good a rational definition of faith as any.

>They exist, but the woke crowd is purging them hard now. Yes, thereby creating tomorrow's woke crowd. Tomorrow's woke crowd will ultimately purge today's woke crowd. So we may as …

Speech isn't free. It's a form of action and actions are constrained. As the West changes from a Christian to a post-Christian culture, one set of blasphemy laws are being replaced…

Don't disagree with the facts but the suffering of humans depends as much on the content of their thoughts as it does on material conditions. A civilisation at the apparent height …

The closing scene is priceless. Clive Sinclair defiantly drives into the future on his C5, without helmet or neck support, overtaken by lorries/juggernauts: https://www.youtube.com…

I've also heard private debt jubilee put forward as a solution. Don't know which (if either) is preferable.

Can anyone explain why banning credit/usury wouldn't help in the longer term?

>How can you evaluate cost of managing basically forever (at the human scale) dangerous wastes? I think we need to be optimists. Not 'glass is half full' optimists, or 'humans are …

Perhaps it would melt down through the tarmac. As the article states, 'Yeah, let that sink in for a moment.'

Science is a set of evolving traditions about how to fix errors and it relies on the consciousness/perception of individual scientists. Consciousness/perception is error-prone but …

Misleading in some respects, but overall helpful. Like a computer desktop.