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  1. Augustus

    My government is…

    In addition to this thread Do you trust the government of your country Few people trust their government, but how do you guess your country compares to others worldwide? There are 195 countries in the world, how well governed is yours comparatively? (Of course this requires a lot of...
  2. Augustus

    Woke nonsense that -phobia = hate

    People often argue that the -phobia suffix to mean hate/animosity is part of some "woke" agenda to distort language. Just by chance, I happened to notice that not only is that usage far older than many seem to think and is probably not far off contemporaneous with the common usage of "fear" in...
  3. Augustus

    How rational are you?

    Simple question: How rational do you think you are? By beliefs I mean things that are at least contested/debatable to some degree: political beliefs, contested scientific beliefs, religious or irreligious beliefs, beliefs relating to culture, history, psychology, etc. rather than obvious fact...
  4. Augustus

    Trusting chat GPT

    Yesterday I noticed for the first time a poster quoting ChatGPT to provide an explanation of a term and several posters responding favourably to the answer. When I've played around with ChatGPT I've found it to be very unreliable on anything remotely subjective. Bias tends to be towards the...
  5. Augustus

    Inappropriate 80s music videos

    There is the classic Lionel Ritchie stalker vibe while singing "hello, is it me you're looking for?" at a blind woman (bonus points for wearing a jacket with rolled up sleeves). Toto having some African chap appear, start chucking spears and seemingly killing a woman reading a book and...
  6. Augustus

    A world without colonialism?

    If there hadn't been any European colonialism/imperialism, what do you think the world would be like today? (allowing for the existence other forms of imperialism/colonialism and the transfer of technologies, weapons and disease via trade, and Europeans could still fight and conquer each other)...
  7. Augustus

    Evil carnivores

    Scenario: It's the year 2100 and all meat is now lab grown without harming any animals. The global trade in animal meats was unanimously outlawed by global treaty in 2060, and eating animal meat is today viewed as being almost as bad as eating human flesh. As with cannibalism today, outside...
  8. Augustus

    Living on stolen land

    Some people talk about “stolen land”, usually in relation to the ‘settler-colonialist’ states like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and also Israel. Is this a meaningful concept though? Do any groups live on land that is rightfully “theirs” who didn’t ultimately acquire it through...
  9. Augustus

    History's greatest champion...

    Or from the perspective of the :tiger::tiger:, it's just a gibbon being a ****. Longer version: Does anyone else have good videos of animals being ****s (especially gibbons as they are the greatest of all animals)?
  10. Augustus

    Educational statues

    In discussions about the merits of keeping controversial statues, some people have argued that they serve an educational purpose that makes them worthwhile beyond any artistic or historical merits. It sort of sounds like it makes sense, but are they really a useful learning mechanism? This made...
  11. Augustus

    Child-like faith in reason

    Given current events and the hand-wringing about how to end violence and live in harmony with each other, it's worth remembering that this is never going to happen. Proposing solutions that assume humans can be consistently rational in the pursuit of humanistic goals is folly, and the creation...
  12. Augustus

    God's champion. The mighty St George!

  13. Augustus

    Theism means...

    Per the OED, the authority on the English language: Atheism, a-theism, is simply a lack of a morbid condition characterised by headache, sleeplessness, and palpitation of the heart, caused by excessive tea-drinking. Nothing more, nothing less. Contrary to popular misconception, one doesn't...
  14. Augustus

    What is your least favourite accent?

    What is your least favourite accent and why is it the American accent?
  15. Augustus

    First NFL player comes out as gay

    In this day and age it shouldn't be a big deal, but it's a major step forward. Good for you, Carl. Nassib first active NFL player to come out as gay Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Nassib, 28, made the announcement...
  16. Augustus

    Religious v secular belief systems

    While we use it frequently, we never really define what it means to be religious and how this differs from being 'not religious'. When people discuss the link between religion and morality, religion and violence, the decline of religion, etc they take it for granted we can easily distinguish...
  17. Augustus

    Before the internet...

    Before we all had the internet telling us the answer to everything, was there something you were 100% correct about but nobody believed you? For me, I went years where no one believed me there used to be a cartoon premised around the Fonz having a time machine. I literally got mocked for years...
  18. Augustus

    Bronze age goat herders...

    Some folks who really gets my 'goat' are those amoral and ignorant philistines who dismiss parts of the Bible as 'the raving of Bronze Age goat herders'. Even the most incurious cod rationalist worth his salt should know that the historically correct periodisation for this banal but...
  19. Augustus

    Who deserves a statue?

    ‘Crook’: Julius Caesar statue vandalized in Flanders The vandalism of several statues in Flanders has left locals questioning the motivations of the damage, after a statue of Julius Caesar – not Leopold II – was defaced over the weekend. The statue of Caesar in Velzeke, in Zottegem (East...
  20. Augustus

    The benefits of extremism

    This was a part of a British party political election advert in 1987 (for the centrist SDP-Liberal Alliance), and was shared by John Cleese on Twitter. How accurately do you believe this describes the current political climate?
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