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Yes, and most of the people who don't buy crystals are still eager to damage health and wallet by overeating.

Yet authority figures set a standard, whether one is able to meet it or not. If they had been sneaky, then I might sneak around sociopathically for the rest of my life, without a t…

Yes. And the parents who sneak out to smoke aren't just teaching their kids to smoke: they're teaching them to be sneaky. It would be better to smoke openly and say, 'Please don't …

>I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading I think this means you're doing it right! In Polanyian terms, your subsidiary awareness is on the particulars of the typography…

We don't know what Socrates said because it wasn't written down. He relied on his followers to improve on his ideas and transmit those improved versions, and perhaps they did. Howe…

Well, to be fair, our Stone Age did take 3 million years to complete.

This misses that it might be a rarified form of egotism to privately reject great prizes such as Nobels, knighthoods, and Oscars in the knowledge that this voluntary refusal will p…

>optimality is neither simple nor complex Yes, however, do you think that music should be beautiful? And is beauty easy, or hard, to apprehend? If your answers are 'yes' and 'easy'…

Yes. To me it seems that great players find something new and relatively simple in the music and then find a way to communicate it in performance. Likewise, the best music is simpl…

In my case K2 even seemed to prevent customary tea stains from forming.

The reason these scams seem so crude and obvious, as I learnt from Daniel Dennett, is that they're designed that way . They filter out the vast majority of the population. The scam…

>Someone has to know what other people ate, know what of what they ate killed them, remember that, pass it on, and be believed for that to work. Yes, this is the tricky part. Per t…

For people to learn to cook poisonous plants safely, a lot of other people must have died from food poisoning. So why did they eat bad stuff? Well, if you're hungry enough, you'll …

>I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism. Yes, although it does give Reg the last word, who claimed that Loretta was struggling against reality. Regardless, that scen…

If you think Taleb's wrong, explain how!

Yes, for instance Life of Brian itself contains a scene which mocks transgenderism. It seems that we haven't outgrown blasphemy. We merely go from one regime to another regime. And…

Most infectious bugs can't survive outside the human body for more than a day or two. Bugs prefer non-porous surfaces. Most books have porous pages, which is good, but of course th…

Were it released today, it would be just as subversive, but for a different reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA

I think the phrase quality time emerged in the 1970s at which time the Sexual Revolution was well underway and divorce was sky-rocketing. It's really a euphemism for scarce parenta…

Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce. Where quality time implies some kind of performance or role, which is stressful, hang…

Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extens…

Parents: hanging out with your children is reasonably-priced and can actually be fun. Non-parents: starting a family is fun and can actually be reasonably-priced.

Perhaps the increased availability of pornography is causing men to masturbate more frequently thereby lowering the average sperm count. Do studies control for this?

https://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/moredetails/508-c.pdf An imaginary friend took the blame, in her real friend's mind, for stealing dried fruit.