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Please provide evidence for this claim. Please provide evidence for this. Please provide evidence for this. Or you could admit you are just making this stuff up.

That is probably very true, and very sad. (But I'm not sure how it is relevant to the thread.)

The US edition of The Guardian has invited students from the "Eagle Eye" news magazine at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School to guest edit the paper for the day: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/parkland-student-takeover

It is obvious. And everyone gets it. Everyone already knew it. You are not saying anything new. Isn't that true of everybody? There is nothing new here. I have to say, it seems as if you are the one who is not reading what other people have written. No one has dismissed your idea, or even objected to it.

Another claim you need to provide evidence for. That is two so far. Are you going to do that? Or shall I just ask the mods to close this now?

Or, back in the real world, he would say that he was looking forward to seeing the film but helping his family was more important to him. In other words, the film had value but his family had more value. You seem to be making up bizarrely unrealistic claims about human nature to make it look like you have thought of something clever.

I would be surprised if people didn't value things that were associated with positive emotions. So assume you can show the evidence for this? Obviously, that is not the only definition of value but it is clearly one of them. So perhaps the only thing I would disagree with is "the" perception of value (rather than "a" perception of value.) It is like you have taken one slice from Maslow's Hierarchy and are passing it off as something clever. (The whole Hierarchy is ridiculous. I'm not sure if just using a bit of it is better or worse.) Why do so many people assume that?

I can't see anything of value in this. You seem to be stating the obvious. What is the point? Is there anything new or useful here?

Is that supposed to be insightful? "If you get what you want you will experience a positive emotion" Wow. Amazing. You should get a Nobel Prize.

Japan isn't that remote

As a result of the activism of the Parkland students there are now more than 840 marches taking place around the world tomorrow to call for better control of guns in the USA: https://marchforourlives.com It does look like this time it might be different... And in case anyone thinks the NRA might have got away with it if it weren't for those pesky kids... Veterans for Gun Reform: https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/veterans-for-gun-reform/

OK. How do you start spinning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force No. You need to push against something. p.s. Mach's principle seems so vague as to be useless. I suppose there may be some way of relating the total mass distribution in the universe to a local frame of reference, but I have no idea what it is or if it is useful.

Do you not realise how bizarrely illogical this statement is? What if your god is the wrong one, and someone else's is the true creator?

Quite the reverse, I would have thought.

I'm not sure. I think some people (who hold the views being expressed) laugh because they enjoy insulting or ridiculing the target of their prejudice. And there are some comedians (fewer nowadays, perhaps) whose humour consists solely of pandering to those prejudices. With zero irony or satire.

I agree completely with your post. But I'm sure there are quite a few people who would find offensive comments, with no deeper purpose other than to be offensive, very funny.

Without evidence, I don't believe it. But as you have made up your categories and can assign whatever you want to them, then you can make it true, I suppose. You have made that up, as well.

I suspect it was intended to do more than make people laugh. It is satirising those viewpoints.

"Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people" (attributed to HL Mencken)

I am allergic to some toothpastes (teethpaste?) but it definitely isn’t the SLS.

Nowhere near. Really? Just, no. “Bethe: It is such absolute nonsense”

Tell me about it. A cousin came to stay and helpfully insisted on doing the washing up after each meal. He got through most of a bottle of washing up liquid in a weekend. Can’t remember if he rinsed or not ...

You could create a poll with those options. Or you could ask people to use the up/down votes to show if they agree or not.

I didn't know that. (I had provisionally guessed Polish possibly, just based on "Pavel". Sorry about that!) It seems odd that this doesn't seem to cause very much criticism within Russia. It seems to be just accepted as more evidence of his strength.

One of the best jokes of all time. I don't think the problem is with adoption but treating people as objects. (But as others seem to have stooped even lower in the name of "comedy" maybe we should let that one go.) Ob. Joke: A woman walks into a bar and asks the barman for a Double Entendre. So he gives her one.