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by Bob Butler
Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:38 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Dollar Store Closed?

aeden wrote:
Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:22 pm
Dollar Tree store collapse at one. All employees quit.
Apparently, this was a problem with one store a while ago. After a few hours, they shifted employees from other stores and reopened.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/business/ ... taff-quit/
by Bob Butler
Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:42 pm
Forum: The Mixer
Topic: Re: Cool Breeze's Topic
Replies: 1037
Views: 344458

Perception of Superiority

The basic reasons why Europeans became dominant were summed up in Jared Diamond’s book Guns Germs and Steel . With these, they were able to implement colonial imperialism and thus gain advantage over other cultures. It is not due to superior culture, religion or genes. (He also wrote a book called C...
by Bob Butler
Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13906
Views: 8826140

Taiwan

Tom Mazanec wrote:
Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:13 pm
Does the Taiwan earthquake make an invasion more likely?
Doubt it. The time for recovery from an earthquake is small compared to the time to gather forces for an invasion. If China were to give a fast go, it would be picked up from space right quick.
by Bob Butler
Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:11 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Earth One

spottybrowncow wrote:
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:31 pm
Bob Butler wrote:
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:24 pm
Not confused. You just believe you are Daniel Webster and can define a word to have one unique and binding meaning.
Come back to Earth, son - you're lost.
Already on Earth One. You don't believe there is only one point of view, do you?
by Bob Butler
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Re: Defining Terms

spottybrowncow wrote:
Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:32 pm
Respect for human life is the issue. That's why you're so confused.
Not confused. You just believe you are Daniel Webster and can define a word to have one unique and binding meaning.
by Bob Butler
Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Defining Terms

None of our current crisis issues are particularly lethal, at least until you come up with a definition of sentient that would apply to the first two trimesters. Your suggestion to use "sentience" as a criteria to justify abortion is not catching on. In fact, I haven't seen anyone else suggest that...
by Bob Butler
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Britain and Pakistan

Yes, the difference between Great Britain's Protestant and Catholic cultures would seem small compared to Britain's and the Middle East's. If there is an instinct to hate, oppress and kill the different, someone with a different religion will be more familiar than someone from another continent. The...
by Bob Butler
Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Re: Issues

Here are some crisis issues that you omitted Mostly worthy issues. The drug wars in the big cities are due to the government in its wisdom trying to prevent the people from getting what they want. One just provides criminals with a chance to profit. Both parties are generating trouble with that one...
by Bob Butler
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Energy and Employment

Logic dictates that most of the people presently coming illegally have no marketable skills and no desire to assimilate. People with marketable skills who desire to immigrate are probably more likely to want to do so legally, so as to maximize their potential once here. It's not hard to believe tha...
by Bob Butler
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1994
Views: 3007442

Issues

In most crises, there are only one or two major issues. The Revolution may have had noble privilege as well as colonial imperialism. The Civil War may have included a power struggle between the northern industrial robber barons and the big southern agricultural landowners. Would agriculture remain p...