Ah I see Thane16 tried to recall your name/handle -for some excellent points you offered for his 1st of 2 incredibly difficult philosophy assignments. I’m his  mother hen, sometimes known as “muvverphucker” when things get tough! So thank you.

I understand your point about surnames. I have to admit it wasn’t my original concern: I…[Read more]

As someone who has a love/hate relationship with tech in general and Amazon in particular (and don’t get me started on voice menu robots that you have to wade through when you call a business… which is where I begin conversing like a mariner, singing (badly) bleep you bleepity bleeping robots to the Hallelujah chorus,…[Read more]

The system didn’t kill Kira – the terrorist did.

The terrorist who had hacked the system.

Work by definition is to through labor, physical or mental, to gain something you want or you need, it is a mean to an end

Work isn’t only a means to an end. Something like 80% of marriages are between people who meet through work.

This system, though incredibly…[Read more]

The medic who died was not presenting…[Read more]

Even if the nuances escape those of us not indigenous to Africa, there tend to be obvious differences in build and facial features between people from West African Countries and those from East and North East Africa.

Fun fact, which you may already be aware of: modern studies of DNA show that there is a much more…[Read more]

I will be deeply disappointed if I don’t count as a barbarian 😉

@idiotsavon

Yes, for all her bubbly persona, she is significantly more cautious and considered that her three forebears.

Are you by any chance composing in something else (Word, say) and then copying and pasting? That often brings a lot of bad formatting with it. The best way around it is to click the “Text” tab in the Reply box, which will show you any garbage that has cropped up.

Thanks for the comments on my query (Chinese whispers is both a…[Read more]

@lionheart564 @miapatrick

True story: In my 20’s I spent a couple of years living in Cameroon near the Chad border. Overwhelmingly, anybody there who wasn’t from Cameroon or Chad would either be white European/American/Canadian, or Chinese.
I am stereotypically white European in…[Read more]

The concept of different races did exist…[Read more]

Cool.

So is there an idiomatic meaning/ translation that captures the way the message gets garbled?

I understand what you are saying about communism -and I agree. What I wrote next embodied what I believe to be important elements of society which if delivered by profit-focussed competitive markets, won’t happen. This might assist you in your thinking:

…our taxes pay for the very issues we use to determine the signs and signals…

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Discussion of whether health care is better provided by the private sector or by a socialised system such as the NHS, funded by taxation and free at the point of service, is particularly complicated when it comes to comparing China and the UK. On one level it is, as you say, a matter of scale. The UK is geographically…[Read more]

Out of interest is there a Chinese equivalent of what we call “Chinese Whispers” (ie a message gets more and more garbled as it is passed along)?

And thank you. To be honest, he won’t, but he copes. I’m sorry about your family member, cancer on its own is bad enough luck.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who lived under the USSR suggested in one of his works that part of the problem there was that people were not…[Read more]

In terms of Doctor Who, the Silerian two-parter…[Read more]

I also fear that a company…[Read more]

how would publicly owned and regulated education and health service companies be in competition with each other, though? If they’re not profit driven, their main order of business is to do as much as they can do with the available budget.

I believe that’s quite sensible @lionheart564  ?

I really think that you can NEVER expect pr…[Read more]

I didn’t even SEE your post! I’m sorry, thank you, that was awesome! Love Dr Neil.

@idiotsavon

Good question! It is: Can God’s existence be established by rational argument?

We chose. I chose this: God’s existence cannot be established using, or by, rational argument.  You have a toddler. Say no more!

It’s very very tricky. We cannot…[Read more]

I appreciate your suggestions! Thank you. I’m not sure you can use paradox fallacies in philosophy. Premises and predicates as well as ontological, teleological or Aquinas’ cosmological arguments counter the argument. And are used as expressions of the arguments. Annoyingly, philosophy essays have a very specific method of argument…[Read more]

I dabbled in various martial arts to the point where I run from danger…. ok, limp from danger (bad knees)… I did learn one really good tai chi form and do it often… if not very well. 😉

You should never put schooling and healthcare into competitive market places (taxes provide those essentials) because it simply cannot work. Look outside China and into the U.S. Then, look at Australia. Really look.

T16

Welcome

Missy

Lovely that the Doctor is rooting for the spiders.

And He Who Shall Not Be Named was the truly scary thing… noo no nooo noooo nope train to nopeville we’re gonna elect someone…[Read more]

(also, this is a show that once used white actors in ‘yellowface’ to depict Chinese characters).

I understand it’s offensive intellectually but don’t feel offended emotionally, it just feels ridiculous and funny.

That’s a really interesting point.

I wonder if part of this is the relationship of slavery between black and white,…[Read more]

I think there is some misunderstandings.what mean is that racism or sexism isn’t a white thing, it’s a human thing.

I don’t think you would find anybody here who would disagree with you. But Doctor Who is a UK show sold (until now) to largely Western markets, where the primary privilege is held by white males, so it is bound to ref…[Read more]

But it works most of the time.

It’s a bit like The Doctor and the TARDIS in that way!

Arachnids In The UK

I didn’t write the code for this site, just bodged it together overnight one Christmas using Wordpress and Buddypress. For…[Read more]

you can see why the Doctor might come across as lesbian- relatively short hair, androgynous clothing

Big tick there.   Mum now has short hair;  wears dad’s T-shirts and his 3/4 long trackie-dacks.  In America or the UK you might not know those. In Australia it’s tracksuits in stretch fabric.

I apologise for such a long post. I was tr…[Read more]

Racism isn’t a white only thing, I have seen a good number of racists in China, all of them are Chinese and many of them are woman

And in Japan directed at Koreans.

But the show, when not in space, is only very occasionally set outside the UK. A few episodes now have been set the US (and fewer filmed there) and one of them even m…[Read more]

As for racism from people who aren’t white, the last series showed Bill, encountering a blue person for the first time, and inadvertently coming across as, well, a little racist.

Racism isn’t a white only thing

No, it certainly isn’t. But if you’re setting an episode in Alabama in 1955, chances are its white racism that you’re going to have to engage with. Quite apart from anything else, that’s the particular brand of racism that’s causing the most toxicity in the world today, so it’s a pretty good place to start.

I thought the spiders were well realised and generally looked quite real. Not really much scare factor to them though. Arachnophobes may disagree 🙂

The interactions between the companions were generally well done and we learned a good deal more about Yaz in…[Read more]