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It's not described to that level of finesse.

We can judge those things with our modern lens because they are modern events to us. The effects of those choices are tangible in our present. Our judgement is pertinent.

You are pointing back to less equitable times, when societal hierarchical stratification was a thing to be promoted and lauded. I think we just have to say that it was 'right and just' for those times. We shouldn't apply our modern moral mores on times so long since gone. In a couple of hundred years time, some things that we consider moral and just now may be anathema to a future society in the same location. Societal life is like a dictionary, it's meanings are pertinent only to the times they were written.

We must not exclude the minority sensible part of that demographic.

OK, I wasn't aware of that. It's not manufactured, it's just not seeing the whole picture. You used this argument before and it annoyed me greatly... it is unjustifiably superimposing an attitude on a perceived 'group'... they are not monolithic.

Like I said, he should have kept schtum. It was an political act of overt virtual signalling to his base that he said something in advance. The fault is entirely his.

That they are represented. Even when KJB retires and there are no black female SC judges sitting, they have historically been represented, and can be content. History matters, it guides the future. Another time in the future it can be another group's turn to be represented. I meant black females.

In an ideal society it would be colour-blind, gender-blind etc and the apparent ratios of representation within the SC wouldn't matter, but historically, ethnically-based, gender-based selection bias has been the norm. It has always been and always will be. The difference this time is that the selection is geared towards those groups who appear to be under-represented, rather than the historical pattern. Every group should have a voice and representative on the highest offices of the land to the best available ability. The only really fair way to do it is Lotto-style, but given the extremely small number of 'balls', the outcome will likely not proportionally reflect that of society. People will only think things are fair when the opportunity and representation is equal or proportional. Pragmatically, he should have just have just shut his mouth and picked from his preferred demographic. By doing so he was virtue-signalling to his base and probably pissed off the excluded groups, giving ammunition to the opposition. Not a smart move really. All in all, it's not KBJ's fault, congratulations to her, and another part of society are happier.

That shallow we can't see you sideways on.

I don't need to. Anecdotes are not data. If the totality of a person's cognitive experience is in the brain, and science supports that view, there is no signal from said brain, in 4 minutes without circulation, irreversible damage will commence. If you are going to start hypothesising about some metaphysical existence, you are in the wrong place. This is a science forum and that is not science.

If there's no electyrical activity in the brain, that person no longer exists. NDE obviously means that there is stll electrical activity in the brain, and therefore the person is not devoid of life.

Like the Chinese model.

Mistermack, you are dragging this way off topic.

In your link, it was Uragan missiles the Ukrainians took. Tochka missiles are part of their amoury, which were supplied to them by the Russians in more peaceful times.

Just noticed Russian Tochka missiles used in the railway massacre are green and the Ukrainian version is grey.

A new song by Pink Floyd

A new song by Pink Floyd

@SergUpstart Have you omitted to mention that this missile has "For the children" painted in Russian on the side? I'm sure the Ukrainians put that on.

Hitler. Apparently, it's from the official Ukrainian Twitter account.

You need to diversify your reading sources, as that's straight out of the Kremlin songbook.

It's a process handled by many components, not a physical thing, like Peterkin says.

The mind's eye only exists in the subjective sense, since it seems to be a composite phenomenon, emerging from data transmitted by several/many areas of the central nervous system.

China prefers to just sneak up on borders and pinch little bits of land at a time rather than all out conflict.

@Sensei Carry putting up videos then that you know hardly anyone will look at.