the same situation — Echarmion

Starving millions of people is not a good reply in any situation. — Manuel

It would turn into an absolute bloodbath that would probably haunt them for the rest of their existence. — Tzeentch

One cannot determine who has or has not been subject to prejudice by perpetuating pseudoscience or noticing the color of someone’s epidermis, and one certainly cannot solve any of the material conditions by doing so. You’re being both useless and unjust, which is not a great combo. — NOS4A2

The peril of centralization just there. Economies perhaps have to be de-centralized in order not everybody makes the same mistakes. — ssu

That is another point of communist confusion. Because it is materialistic at heart, the loftiest entity that a communist can recognize is the State. And given that tyranny is the default position of the State, it is very reasonable to be suspicious of any state that wants to centralize power in order to bring about some hypothetical utopia. Compare this to the competition, a metaphysical reality of infinite possibility and ethical certitude (God and religion are very compatible with the capitalist republic, which generally delivers a higher standard of living) . . . it makes sense that people can't make a spiritual commitment to communism. — Merkwurdichliebe

Now, however, McCarthy seems to think it's a boast! As if 'being an adult' is something the brag about. But then, I guess with the company he's keeping, it kind of makes sense, sad though that may be. — Wayfarer

Section 1512(c)(2) makes it a crime to “corruptly ... otherwise obstruct[], influence[], or impede[] any official proceeding, or attempt[] to do so.” Federal prosecutors have used § 1512(c)(2) to charge individuals for conduct such as falsifying evidence to influence a federal grand jury investigation and tipping off the target of a grand jury proceeding about an undercover operation. Numerous individuals involved in the unrest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have also been charged under the provision in the same jurisdiction where the Indictment has been filed. In one such case, United States v. Fischer, a split D.C. Circuit panel held that Section 1512(c)(2) “encompasses all forms of obstructive conduct,” including “violent efforts to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.” — Congressional research service

Without some kind of explanation of how they worked, it's hard to take the yacht story seriously. — Tzeentch

A lot of you are missing the point when they start applying Zeno's paradox to real world circumstances. It was an allegory for a mathematical argument he was having with other Greek philosophers. It isn't intended as a theory of motion but as argument against the then prevailing idea that a mathematical line is build up of points (atoms) and a finite number could not be divided infinitely (again, atoms!). It's an argument against there existing an indivisible mathematical quanta that they thought existed at the time.

As a mathematical argument it's quite good and easily imagined but the allegory is just an aid for understanding the mathematical argument not intended as to say anything sensible about the real world. So once you realise it isn't about physical reality, the paradox disappears. — Benkei

This land is your land, this federal government is your federal government. It’s not just the sole province of people in the metro D.C. area. — corrected Paul Dans quote

I suppose the covid policy that we were all forced to comply with did him no good. — Merkwurdichliebe

Nonsense. You yourself equated the damage to heavy exercise. There are plenty of people from whom heavy exercise would be potentially dangerous, so you're just contradicting yourself at this point. — Tzeentch

Yes, it is listed as being very rare, whereas myocardial injury is apparently very common. To list one and omit to other I find misleading. Period. — Tzeentch

I don't find that very compelling. — Tzeentch

You seem to be extremely agitated at the idea that a medical professoinal asks critical questions when such a discrepancy is brought to light. Why is that? — Tzeentch

I'm not sure who you think you're fooling if you are seriously arguing this was all common knowledge when people were being vaccinated en masse. Yourself, perhaps? — Tzeentch

Classy opening, by the way. Yea, I'm sure Campbell is the idiot here. :roll: — Tzeentch