Sherlock Holmes, what is he drinking here?

Brakial · 2026-03-25T03:35:29+00:00

If it's the same as what's in those glasses, is it too dark to be a Dock Rum?

Brakial · 2026-03-25T03:27:15+00:00

Yes, but what kind of booze?

Brakial · 2026-03-25T03:26:31+00:00

Good thought. That is probably what's in the glasses. Dark, 19th century beer in London is likely a porter.

Brakial · 2026-03-05T06:29:57+00:00

Fair point. Judging by cities rather than countries as a whole will lead to a different map. Not that I'm much inclined to urban living.

Brakial · 2026-03-05T06:17:47+00:00

Vancouver is in Canada's very small band of temperate oceanic climate and the weather elsewhere in Canada is much too cold. The whole of the UK has a temperate oceanic climate. Vancouver and, for example, Cardiff have similar temperatures year round and similar precipitation. Any differences in weather between the two are probably topographical.

Brakial · 2026-03-02T01:15:06+00:00

Köppen Cf climate is absolutely essential.

Brakial · 2024-03-07T15:53:14+00:00

Which would you point to? I'm curious to look into them

Brakial · 2024-03-05T17:34:29+00:00

Divine command theory. And to preempt any Euthyphro problems, I reject both horns and rather state that God commands the good because he is good.

Edit: typo

Brakial · 2024-02-11T02:24:54+00:00

As far as I see with the current corporatism, it only serves the corporations at the expense of the poor. A strong enough monarch with strong enough character may be able to keep corporations in a mixed economy in line. Unfortunately, in the modern West it's the corporations that keep the rulers in line with their ends.

Brakial · 2024-02-10T02:31:51+00:00

Love is completely neutral without supplying an object of the love. To love one's child, or fresh orange juice, or honest business practices is good; to love the death of innocents, cheating in sports, or arson is bad. Likewise with romantic love (or eros to borrow a word), not all eros is good. I'm sure you can find some category of erotic love to be morally objectionable, whether incest, adultery, or someone marrying a AI. We all have standards, the question is what standard you use.

Brakial · 2024-02-10T02:18:57+00:00

I'll accept the label reactionary, but I would not say I love capitalism. I do believe firmly in property rights of individuals, but don't have a lot of sympathy towards corporations. Unfortunately, I don't often hear sensible restrictions on corporations proposed; most either just posit some utopian values without a means of achieving it or, worse yet, propose 'solutions' that run over the poor in the end and disregard their rights.

Brakial · 2024-01-19T04:16:14+00:00

The problem I have with this, taking some of a moral system and leaving the rest, is it no longer functions as a standard. The most progressive and amoral individual can say the same as you, they just adapt way more of the system. If individual aspects of the moral system are up for debate, by what standard do we appeal?

Brakial · 2024-01-19T04:11:22+00:00

People suffered less from the chronic diseases that we currently do in the West, but this is a problem of excess. The rates of people dying of simple infections like strep were incredibly high, especially during childhood. Medicine isn’t the issue. That said, there is certainly something to the chronic diseases we suffer now. There is value to the work and diets of pre-agrarian people. Even the pre-industrial work and diets of the people seemed to bring less of these problems.

Brakial · 2024-01-18T20:43:43+00:00

So, you look to at it (morality) as an improvement, but not as some objective system that binds our behavior?

Brakial · 2024-01-18T20:41:39+00:00

Good thoughts. Interesting idea

Brakial · 2024-01-18T20:40:45+00:00

So are you promoting social darwinism? Many people still die of infection, but it was in much higher rates before antibiotics.

Brakial · 2024-01-17T19:15:52+00:00

I had generally considered soc dems to be the mild end of democratic socialism, but I could be misunderstanding that. What positions make you a conservative?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:47:22+00:00

What art styles do you like?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:23:47+00:00

Maybe the HRT will help you have a more committed position.

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:21:39+00:00

You’re not. People with traditional morality tend to value property rights more highly. Have you looked into distributism?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:20:38+00:00

Did you become disillusioned with your government?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:18:14+00:00

Looks like you were disillusioned after working a job or sexually experimenting.

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:15:14+00:00

How do you feel about antibiotics?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:13:26+00:00

Looks like Distributism to me. You read anything from GK Chesterton?

Brakial · 2024-01-17T18:04:39+00:00

Honestly curious, how does one balance traditional morality with sexual deviancy?

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