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surely Padraig's hypothetical thermodynamics experiment (point taken about specific methodologies) is, yes, obviously enacting reality, but at the same time describing it, since he is down to brass tacks there. though i'm not sure about claiming that most science won't acknowledge its own...

yes, i was very grateful, and had a pleasant chat/some banter. :D

OK OK, some very careless phrasing from moi (to say the least).

actually Tea, it certainly wasn't. it made a point and was funny, so you were bang OTM w that observation. very well put. (it certainly worked on me; look at my reaction a few pages ago.)

now now :o obviously whilst i'm grateful to Droid for rightly pulling me up over inappropriate language and totally misdirected outrage, that Moore could 'get away' w it (but presumably not w say a black character) certainly does buttress something Zhao said, tbf. ('Chinky' from Blyton's old...

i apologise Droid. (i could see it was a pisstake, yes. even i wouldn't go around calling Alan Moore a racist out-and-out. it just made me very uneasy and caught me at the wrong mo.)

tbf, i know Nomad's been busy on this thread, but i don't quite see it like that myself. i think the crucial leap in the thread from this pov occured from page 1 onward when she asked WOEBOT about gangs/geeks, and perhaps didn't 'get' that WOEBOT might well have understood (though i know i...

i noticed this from a well-known right-leaning US twitterer earlier today and it really vexed me. maybe a US citizen (of Pakistani heritage, or Pakistani National, says Breitbart, whatever) and a white guy both have fairly pale skin tones, and maybe it was on the night and witnesses were not...

i don't want to sound overly cynical, as preparedness is good (certainly in major world cities like NYC) but Peter raises a good point. presumably anti-terror money is one area where senatorial pork can come into play? or i am being too cynical here? i don't know if anti-terror money in the...

i bolded Tea here purely cuz i wanted to say something that i mentioned on another thread recently. don't ask me to find the source as i can't but i'm not making this up, i definitely remember reading something once (this was a few years ago, granted, it was a paper or article, quite well...

this is all a very nice rejoinder to some of the horribly ham-fisted and simplistic templates i was chucking around earlier w abandon i must say.

his suicide taxonomies were definitely game changing, tbf.

obviously if it was the same amount of white kids being stabbed to death in south London we would be getting far more coverage. though the issue does receive a fair bit of attention tbf, speaking in British media terms. Grizzleb very true about gangs and class of course, Glasgow notorious for...

yes a shame to see and gutted for Wednesday. my Hull mate is piping up about parachute payments for them, they want Lord Windass of Hull back quick sharpish i think! very sorry about Luton toward Pat, obviously a minority of saddoes made the news this morning trying to get at the travelling...

can i just add Zhao i liked your correctly drawing an equivalence between the equally capital-infused foundations of gangs and the world of computer wizardry. WOEBOT to his credit appears to be giving pause to owning purely through personal discomfort because he believed the word to be...

well all our offline examples thus far tend to involve pick-ups, alcohol, etc., so it seems a worthwhile first line of speculative enquiry...

i can see that's true re elisions, truly, i can (despite what problems and pauses this gives myself when i think about my own responses to these issues); i think my responses are suffering, tbh, from only jumping into this thread to see something Grizzleb said that i liked about victims (my i am...

you really are a neurology-fascist, eh? ;) (fascinating on brains giving up on inhibiting the mimic response when one is in, say, a tired and emotional state.)

deffo to all this.

i got an undergrad degree in sociology and social anthro from a university that was at least at that time rated very well for those things (bully for me...), and must say my favourite thing about Durkheim are the cartoon caricatures of his wondrous facial fuzz that's pretty much all you need...