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  1. brennan

    Castro posts public information

    It is easy to imagine that if a Republican had publicised a list of democrat voters the reaction would have been exactly the same. These are small-time donors really and i'm not convinced their information should be public knowledge any more than what people voted should be public knowledge...
  2. brennan

    Are you Politically Correct?

    Hell no. Incidentally 'guys' in the dictionary and in common usage these days is primarily a genderless term. Its usage as such actually demonstrates the breakdown in significance of gender divides. Avowed feminists should be embracing this usage.
  3. brennan

    The Thread Where We Discuss Guns and Gun Control

    It's the other way around: The idea-free-populist Trump is echoing the right-wing talking points.
  4. brennan

    The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread さんじゅうなな

    Sounds like cross stitch...? :confused: (Which my beloved is doing right now)
  5. brennan

    Should ***** and its ilk be shut down?

    These people already exist, the conditions that result in their ideas having traction with a small minority of the population already exist. Banning them from speaking will not change that first condition and will make the second worse. It also is unlikely to work - banning ideas has a...
  6. brennan

    [RD] Will we ever travel faster than light speed?

    From the point of view of light, light travels infinitely fast.
  7. brennan

    Complicity

    As an aside, in the UK we have 'building council houses creates Labour voters'.
  8. brennan

    The science of God, or, the God of science

    This is wrong. The rules of logic tell you if an argument is valid. The subject concerned is not necessarily true because the argument is logical - it stands on the foundation of the assumptions made in the argument. If the assumptions are wrong then the argument can be valid, logical, and...
  9. brennan

    [RD] Will we ever travel faster than light speed?

    I'd like to be proven wrong, but i'm gonna say no to FTL.
  10. brennan

    Brexit Thread VII - Revenge of the Brexiteers

    "Tougher sentences for Geography teachers"...
  11. brennan

    Complicity

    I have criticised comparison of detention camps with nazi death camps myself, but your reading of Hobbs' post is unnecessary. He makes his meaning clear and the point he intended for discussion is not affected by whether or not his post was a bit hyperbolic.
  12. brennan

    Random Rants 79: [Impassionating Intensifies]

    Rant: the universe picks on Aimee too much. We should mobilise and teach it a lesson...
  13. brennan

    Complicity

    That is itself a hyperbolic reading of Hobbs' post. He specifies "...massed, indefinite interment and the separation of children from their families...", not genocide.
  14. brennan

    Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

    Bee sentenced to death by UK government escapes
  15. brennan

    Complicity

    Sometime between around 400BC, when even an ancient Greek you would almost certainly have thought there was nothing wrong with slavery (even if you'd actually been a slave yourself in fact) and today, most people in Europe decided slavery was immoral. I've thought it was immoral all my life.
  16. brennan

    Are You Going to Watch the Debates?

    The NHS cover everything except some stuff considered to be unessential like cosmetic surgeries. But private healthcare providers like Benenden and Bupa essentially offer a parallel service without waiting (they have their own clinics). I'm afraid I can't tell you precisely how comprehensive the...
  17. brennan

    Complicity

    I think the dodging of the question is noteworthy.
  18. brennan

    Possible Nuclear Accident in Russia. . .

    That's literally emission of less than one Beta particle per square km per second. Obviously an unknown source is an issue and it's widely spread, but it's no major health hazard.
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