Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

and that he believed he had won legitimately.

And yet the 'Insurredtion Hoax' insists he really believed otherwise. They intend to use the 14th Amendment based on that assumption. Parlous times.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

And yet the 'Insurredtion Hoax' insists he really believed otherwise. They intend to use the 14th Amendment based on that assumption. Parlous times.

The "mindreading" fascinates me. I'll make some statement online similar to "I don't enjoy eating kale", and someone will insist I love it more than anything else in the world. I'll point out I never buy it, never suggest others buy it, never complimented someone on their excellent kale dish.. and their response is that some people like kale, and I'm a person, ergo I'm a deplorable kale lover. My suggestion that we not have kale for dinner is in fact a kale-whistle that somehow both kale-lovers and kale-haters hear. I form a coalition of kale-lovers by cleverly claiming it's gross, and should be totally absent from the menu.

Those folks start with the conclusion they wish to believe, and then hallucinate back from there, even claiming supernatural mindreading ability as their reason to dismiss actions and deed.

It terrifies me that there are unkown, unknowns that make me susceptible to believing in my ability to mindread, and beginning with a conclusion (which is unavoidable because everything is predicated on unprovable "givens") and forming strong opinions based on that.

[freebeard]

Solipsism
Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. Wikipedia

Once you slip into Solopsism, other people's thought can be anything you want.

Sounds like a good reason to avoid anything but Ecomodder and Youtube. Or maybe just commenting elsewhere.

Anyways, Golden Age....

According to You Won’t Believe It! SpaceX Starship 6 Update?t=155 We're two weeks from SpaceX attempting to catch both the booster and the Starship. Big implications for Starlink speed and efficiency.

Gwynne Shotwell continues to deliver, but according to Elon Musk if they're not failing they're not innovating fast enough.