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Thinking outside the bubble--confessions of a reluctant liberal. (Edited) - ER - 5/11/2023 1:34:05 AM
- As for the other big liberal sob story...immigration... - ER - 5/12/2023 2:54:37 AM

Woke Western? - ER - 5/1/2023 2:23:57 AM
- Earthsea - podrock - 5/1/2023 6:27:39 PM

Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind - ER - 4/17/2023 3:48:52 PM
- Bad link - Fixed - BuckGalaxy - 4/17/2023 10:00:19 PM
  - Bad couple- should get them 'fixed' as well - RL - 4/25/2023 6:20:36 PM

War Comix - ER - 3/22/2023 11:31:42 PM
- Was never a comic book kid myself. - podrock - 3/23/2023 6:09:29 PM
  - I wasn't either, bu tI occasionally indulged. - ER - 3/23/2023 7:35:04 PM
    - Mostly, I didn't have access. - podrock - 3/23/2023 8:15:50 PM

Phenomenal video and animation - ER - 3/18/2023 8:38:09 PM
- stunning work - podrock - 3/18/2023 9:36:55 PM
  - Remember, - ER - 3/18/2023 11:31:35 PM
    - Yes - podrock - 3/18/2023 11:59:00 PM

Top Gun - Maverick - podrock - 3/8/2023 10:21:24 PM
- I think you'll find what your missing in "Devotion". - RobVG - 3/9/2023 7:53:38 PM
  - I'll look into that - podrock - 3/9/2023 8:14:39 PM
    - Hard pass on The Whale then. - RobVG - 3/10/2023 6:21:50 PM

Also 50 years old, "Gravity's Rainbow." - podrock - 3/2/2023 6:14:52 PM
- Never read it. - ER - 3/2/2023 6:48:09 PM
  - You have to be able to get through - podrock - 3/2/2023 7:04:37 PM

Emotional response to recent events in Ukraine. - RobVG - 1/17/2023 9:32:40 PM
- That's not what I'd do, but... - ER - 1/18/2023 1:31:41 AM
  - I would imagine you're right about Washington and Kiev preparing for war. That's probably why it's gone on for almost a year. n/t - RobVG - 1/18/2023 7:14:09 AM

Bolsonaro's Brazil -- An example of emergent complexity? (originally from Mysteries of the Multiverse) - ER - 1/10/2023 3:26:21 AM

What's the big deal about rate hikes? - RobVG - 12/15/2022 12:29:03 AM
- Contrary to popular belief... - ER - 12/15/2022 4:02:04 AM
  - Wow - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 12:40:34 AM
    - podinium - podrock - 12/22/2022 4:34:12 AM
      - podinium is basically worthless - podrock - 12/22/2022 4:49:10 AM
        
        Your point? - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:09:08 AM
        
        My point. - podrock - 12/22/2022 5:22:48 AM
        
        If something has no value it's demand is zero, according to the Law of S&D. - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:39:02 AM
        
        Value is often an illusion. - podrock - 12/22/2022 9:01:00 PM
        
        One man's treasure is another man's trash - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 10:58:20 PM
        
        Demand can be created, is what I am saying. - podrock - 12/23/2022 1:31:42 AM
        
        and what I'm saying is that doesn't matter - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 1:56:26 AM
        
        Only it does matter - podrock - 12/24/2022 4:59:49 AM
        
        Where you are right - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 7:51:29 AM
        
        Name ANY variable and I'll explain how it fits into eIther supply or demand - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 7:19:38 AM
        
        Greed. Morality. Ponzi schemes. Tax free church collection plates. - podrock - 12/24/2022 8:32:26 PM
        
        epipen cost, etc - BuckGalaxy - 12/25/2022 12:08:32 AM
        
        Here's the thing about the epipen - podrock - 12/25/2022 1:28:52 AM
        
        It's a simplification BUT - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 6:54:21 AM
        
        If value is assigned it exists. - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:32:04 AM
        
        Assigned? By whom? - podrock - 12/22/2022 9:03:21 PM
        
        by whoever wants it - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 11:00:37 PM
    - Economics is not physics - ER - 12/22/2022 3:19:56 AM
    - In your defense - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 3:05:57 AM
      - We've covered this before, but you refused to accept it. - ER - 12/22/2022 3:36:54 AM
        
        As for ice cream... - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:48:05 AM
        
        You get it right? - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 6:20:07 AM
        
        Sorry if I'm coming across as a dick - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:10:14 PM
        
        No offense taken. I'm having fun. - ER - 12/22/2022 5:36:01 PM
        
        Free market fundamentalists... - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:50:49 PM
        
        Now you're making sense. - ER - 12/22/2022 5:52:39 PM
        
        No - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 6:02:47 PM
        
        "Naturally move to where demand wants them" - podrock - 12/22/2022 8:45:39 PM
        
        Please research this - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 11:10:09 PM
        
        Example: Pet Rocks. - podrock - 12/23/2022 2:45:35 AM
        
        The reason they want it is irrelevant. - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 1:45:43 AM
        
        Goods do not naturally flow to demand. - podrock - 12/23/2022 1:30:49 AM
        
        That's like saying water doesn't flow downhill - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 1:39:29 AM
        
        Have you ever read "Cryptonomicon" by Stephenson? - podrock - 12/24/2022 9:47:12 PM
        
        The biggest disruption - ER - 12/22/2022 6:10:14 PM
        
        Human desires are part of natural law - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 6:17:05 PM
        
        Smith also recognized the need for regulation. - podrock - 12/22/2022 9:06:35 PM
        
        And because - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 11:00:02 PM
        
        Devolve? - podrock - 12/23/2022 1:34:22 AM
        
        A true free market fundamentalist... - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 1:55:16 AM
        
        PS: We don't have money. We have currency. - podrock - 12/24/2022 10:24:27 PM
        
        I did read a college economic textbook once. - ER - 12/22/2022 5:40:41 PM
        
        Marxism is a system to change outcomes - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:56:07 PM
        
        Your idea of what Marxism is - ER - 12/22/2022 6:05:35 PM
        
        I took political economy in my Senior year from a marxist - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 7:58:23 PM
        
        Look around you - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 8:06:23 PM
        
        Don't get misty on us, Buck. - ER - 12/22/2022 9:16:51 PM
        
        Any sensible person believes Capitalism needs rules - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 10:54:36 PM
        
        Did your Marxist professor tell you about the Anarchists? - ER - 12/22/2022 9:58:44 PM
        
        Once again. - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 10:50:50 PM
        
        100% - podrock - 12/22/2022 9:24:05 PM
        
        OMFG this is frustrating - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 5:28:46 AM
        
        Yes, it is. - podrock - 12/22/2022 9:21:38 PM
        
        sigh - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 11:15:23 PM
        
        Its frustrating because we're talking about two different things. - ER - 12/22/2022 5:30:21 PM
        
        We're getting somewhere - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 11:27:27 PM
        
        No, what I'm saying is... - ER - 12/23/2022 1:48:51 AM
        
        Honestly - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 6:28:44 AM
        
        I withdraw my emoji. - ER - 12/24/2022 1:25:51 PM
        
        S&D and Human Behavior - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 7:55:55 PM
        
        And a happy season to you too. - podrock - 12/24/2022 10:03:24 PM
        
        Likewise brother! - BuckGalaxy - 12/25/2022 12:16:53 AM
        
        Business ethics is an oxymoron. - ER - 12/24/2022 8:16:09 PM
        
        Corporate Philanthropy - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 11:33:35 PM
        
        Its all about public relations and misdirection. - ER - 12/25/2022 12:31:50 AM
        
        (nicely played, by the way, given the day.) - podrock - 12/25/2022 2:09:20 AM
        
        And tax breaks. - podrock - 12/25/2022 1:41:45 AM
        
        "you are terrified I might be right" - BuckGalaxy - 12/24/2022 2:07:54 AM
        
        Star's burning hydrogen - BuckGalaxy - 12/22/2022 6:02:04 AM
- 1980 - podrock - 12/15/2022 1:16:29 AM

Have you noticed how no one's into astrology any more? - ER - 12/16/2022 1:43:39 AM
- Talk to my neighbor. - podrock - 12/16/2022 6:24:45 AM
- How can astrology compete with this? - ER - 12/16/2022 3:32:25 AM
  - "SDP" - podrock - 12/16/2022 6:30:55 AM
    - What is "SDP"/ - ER - 12/18/2022 7:42:18 PM
      - My garage band: - podrock - 12/19/2022 3:19:32 PM
        
        I knew that. - ER - 12/19/2022 4:35:47 PM

Some thoughts about writing. - ER - 11/27/2022 2:35:57 AM
- An invocation - podrock - 12/5/2022 11:48:32 PM
- Other thoughts: - podrock - 12/2/2022 1:44:37 AM
  - "like" n/t - RobVG - 12/2/2022 6:24:48 PM
  - Had to laugh - podrock - 12/2/2022 4:53:29 PM
- Wow. "Reading aloud" - RobVG - 12/1/2022 8:05:42 PM
  - Example - RobVG - 12/2/2022 6:21:29 PM
- I'm glad you chimed in on the subject. - RobVG - 11/30/2022 7:01:00 PM
  - Chime chime - ER - 12/1/2022 2:00:46 AM
    - "Who needs a book when we have ER" - RobVG - 12/1/2022 4:16:23 AM
- I have a great SF story I would like to write... - RL - 11/30/2022 12:13:32 AM

Should Von Braun have been charged with war crimes? - RobVG - 12/2/2022 1:59:11 AM
- Perhaps - Pebble - 12/2/2022 7:46:13 AM
- Perhaps. - podrock - 12/2/2022 2:11:53 AM
  - von Braun was the ultimate space groupie. - ER - 12/2/2022 7:12:50 PM
    - Yeah - podrock - 12/2/2022 10:40:38 PM
    - about Albert - ER - 12/2/2022 7:37:39 PM

A dissenting voice - ER - 12/1/2022 2:44:28 AM
- Just another way of saying... - ER - 12/1/2022 3:38:43 PM

My first, and last, time. - ER - 11/27/2022 1:57:30 AM
- bump - ER - 11/27/2022 2:44:12 AM

Have you ever camped alone? - podrock - 11/12/2022 6:17:18 AM
- My first, and last, time. - ER - 11/27/2022 1:23:22 AM
  - Damn, ER, - podrock - 11/27/2022 1:44:48 AM
- I’m still waiting for a signed copy of your book - Pebble - 11/19/2022 1:44:34 AM
  - Did I mention the tornado? - podrock - 11/27/2022 2:29:54 AM
- No. but they sound like amazing experiences. - RobVG - 11/12/2022 8:15:15 AM
  - Hope you share it. - podrock - 11/12/2022 5:42:30 PM
    - You know what's really weird Pod? - RobVG - 11/26/2022 3:38:56 AM
      - Aye. - podrock - 11/27/2022 12:30:33 AM
      - And what's funny is.... - RobVG - 11/26/2022 7:34:12 AM
        
        True of every post I've ever made. - podrock - 11/27/2022 12:32:02 AM
    - "Like" n/t - RobVG - 11/13/2022 2:40:50 AM
      - 1980 is the year I should write about. - podrock - 11/13/2022 3:00:50 AM

One or the other, right? - podrock - 11/26/2022 11:21:03 PM
- I’ve heard it could be as high as 2/3rds - Pebble - 11/26/2022 11:39:48 PM

Un ordered stuff - podrock - 11/23/2022 5:29:01 PM
- We got the mystery seeds - RL - 11/24/2022 2:04:28 AM
  - confuses me too. - podrock - 11/24/2022 3:12:46 AM
    - The mob. - RobVG - 11/24/2022 8:01:29 PM
      - Yikes! - podrock - 11/25/2022 4:52:31 PM

"There are no cats on Mars. Curiosity killed them all." n/t (n/t) - RobVG - 11/11/2022 6:44:27 PM
- LOL - podrock - 11/11/2022 8:25:47 PM

Its a Beautiful Day - ER - 10/31/2022 6:36:57 PM
- The Airplane, Flyin over Monterey - ER - 10/31/2022 6:55:32 PM
  - Music was groovier then - podrock - 11/2/2022 12:53:42 AM

The Left Banke - ER - 10/31/2022 6:47:24 PM
- Ahoooo - ER - 10/31/2022 7:13:00 PM

We called them "iddywahs" - ER - 10/10/2022 3:29:42 PM
- A classic. - podrock - 10/10/2022 7:32:29 PM
  - Which model? - RobVG - 10/11/2022 9:23:56 PM
    - I've several different models - podrock - 10/11/2022 9:49:45 PM
      - Nice. For me, the Tinker fits great in the pocket. n/t - RobVG - 10/11/2022 10:09:51 PM
        
        The Tinker was my first - podrock - 10/11/2022 10:46:16 PM
        
        Who in their right mind.... - RobVG - 10/12/2022 12:36:22 AM

Today's kids have tranny storytellers to teach them about the birds and bees... - ER - 10/9/2022 1:36:53 AM
- The Kinks were the first group I saw in concert. Great show n/t - RobVG - 10/11/2022 10:11:29 PM
- Flip Wilson: - podrock - 10/9/2022 1:56:19 AM

Violent attack on Chewbacca cancels Disney show. - RobVG - 10/11/2022 9:25:47 PM

Reading children a story does not make you a teacher…and other cautionary tales - Pebble - 10/6/2022 9:31:45 AM
- Is Mark Dice any relation to Andrew Dice Clay? - ER - 10/6/2022 2:44:18 PM
  - A couple things... - BuckGalaxy - 10/6/2022 8:35:48 PM
    - "I consider it the worst word in the language" - ER - 10/7/2022 12:11:08 AM
  - Pretty much how I feel - podrock - 10/6/2022 4:20:58 PM
    - And I still love Dame Edna. - ER - 10/6/2022 5:58:32 PM

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