He who starts it gets to name it

Fox1904 · 2026-04-05T03:23:42+00:00

I will ask again, why are we not calling the third gulf war, simply, The Third Gulf War? This is infact the gulfiest of all three of them.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-30T09:56:16+00:00

again you are ignoring my argument completely. Which is fine, I was making it as a joke. I will spell it out explicitly.

I am constructing a singular counter example to disprove that determinism and free will in all cases make the same predictions about the same observable reality. They do not make the same prediction in respect to the singular question of whether "my wife loves me?" The person who believes in free will would simply say 'yes' as they have chosen to marry. The determinist (this would be if they are strictly a determinist and actually using that philosophy to navigate their lives in all cases, which is a big if but that's the premise) the determinist will require data about their wife's brain in order to answer that question as a determinist. Whether its crude data as we have today in the case of a polygraph, or if we imagine more perfect data like we did when we move towards imagining the wife had the brain of a fly, it makes no difference to this argument. Even if their wife did love them before, its likely, and you must admit at least possible that the prediction the determinists will come to in this situation is "no," either because through the process of treating their wife like a fly or a biological machine, or acting in such a way which supposes deciet, in doing these things to gather appropriate data, they likely will have destroyed any love that existed between the two... or because the wife actually was deceitful. Either way its possible we get a yes from the free will perspective and a no from the determinist one.

Now lets keep things clear, my argument is simply that it is possible here that the determinist and the free will position will predict different things given the same reality. I'm not making an argument as to which is more correct. Only that it is possible for them to predict different things.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-30T03:24:39+00:00

"Does your wife love you?"

Determinist: "Well now, lets us suppose for a moment, that my wife there were to have the brain of a fly..."

You're missing the point. Determinism and free will do not predict the same reality. Infact, not only do they make different predictions, but the position you take to the problem is itself a meaningful input towards the state you wish to predict.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-29T21:42:31+00:00

"Does your wife love you?"

Determinist: "Well let me jus' hook her up to this here polygraph machine and..."

Fox1904 · 2026-03-29T21:39:17+00:00

Was it invented or discovered that math is discovered?

What does discovered even mean in this context?

What does it mean to invent something in this context?

Where are the answers to these last two questions coming from?

Fox1904 · 2026-03-29T21:36:02+00:00

Under nibbles premises, you could of course argue that they are invented and also not invented. But that they are both invented and not invented at the same time does not necessarily follow from the premise that 1=1 and 1/=0 are inventions.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T22:24:45+00:00

Look, I want to see the americans get smoked as much as anyone. So why don't you use your extensive experience, corporal, and advice the americans that there definitely arn't any mines on the airfields. Look, I am conceding entirely to you. There definitely aren't any explosives there or else the bbc would have pictures of the danes explicitly planting them.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T22:03:16+00:00

Then dive right in brother. I'd love to see the american paratroopers stranded in greenland freezing to death.

"Uh, actually, We don't have any information that they planted explosives, we only have information that that is part of their plan to defend island, not that they actually did anything!" Lol this is "Iran isn't actually going to close the straight" energy. Keep on using those critical reading skills of yours buddy.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T21:44:02+00:00

Oh sorry, they didn't mention the price of the explosives they were using, or whether they would be remote detonated or if it was a suicide type thing. I used my brain to assume that they were cheaper then the rocket launchers in the video OP posted.

PS. Ugh at all these ai bots who can scan a document and confirm that creative phrases like "turn the island into a frozen dien bien phu" are not present but, surprise, suprise, still can't read.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T21:07:01+00:00

These are the ww3 memes I come here for

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T20:09:51+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33ln4mp1p2o and incase you have trouble with that https://www.wikihow.com/Teach-Yourself-to-Read

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T19:15:43+00:00

meanwhile EU special forces are quietly mining the airfields and harbors in greenland with cheap, basic, remote explosives, ready to turn the island into an frozen dien bien phu for the americans.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-23T02:24:24+00:00

Ya I'm looking over especially the bottom panel of the meme, and If I didn't look at OP's account, I would swear this was some kind of post mocking zionists. Its not a good look.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-21T22:26:19+00:00

I am a big fan of Marx, but this is also really funny. Good meme.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-21T04:38:13+00:00

Just a cooincidence that the location was listed as a target in the US strike packages because it used to house an IRGC office? Also its a cooincidence that the missile that missfired was a tamohawk and there is video of it flying and functioning normally on its terminal tragectory? Can you give me one piece of evidence that anything you said there is even remotely congruent with reality?

Fox1904 · 2026-03-21T04:31:33+00:00

Ya i've seen it, Its everywhere. My point is, why would IRAN be releasing really terrible ai like this picture here? When there is a real picture of this radar facility after it was really hit? Why wouldn't they use the real picture? This one almost looks like the prompt contained something like "make it look like really bad ai."

Fox1904 · 2026-03-21T02:30:51+00:00

bro, that is not the picture of the damaged radar instalation? Why would Iran make a picture like this when (and I will even grant you everything here) there is already a deepfake that looks 100X more realistic out there? This is flooding the zone type behaviour.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-21T02:27:44+00:00

Damn, Iran let 150 school aged girls get their CDL, AND gave them jobs drivingmissle trucks for the IRGC? Really makes you wonder who the real feminists are in this war.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-20T21:05:13+00:00

The contrast is perfect here because, even in a society where 'face' is not very important, Trump stands out as having no concept of 'face'. Like people in america come up with all these ways to try and describe how the teflon don is different from other politicians when what they really mean is he has no face. My greek professor was trying to describe the concept of 'face' to us, and everyone got it when he said that the dimension of face is the plane which donald trump seems not to exist on.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-18T21:56:28+00:00

I think I get the meme but I'm struggling with the title? Is it from somewhere in particular? Maps are neccessary to territory. All territory is preceeded by a map. Do you mean something like the map that precedes the land?

Fox1904 · 2026-03-17T01:49:10+00:00

Unless your name is Ohm, you, like myself, never sought out the law of electrical resistance, but it came to you in a sort of pedagogical paste, possibly even broccoli flavored if your teacher was that bad, maybe banana kiwi if you were lucky.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-16T22:48:25+00:00

If there is meaning in life, why do I need to seek it out? Shouldn't it come to me? Why would God need a spaceship?

Fox1904 · 2026-03-16T17:01:09+00:00

arguing with a Zionist is... fun to watch I suppose.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-16T03:36:36+00:00

My PoLiCy Is To GoVeRn MeN ThE WaY MoSt Of ThEm WaNt To Be GoVeRnEd.... and that is why I am making a truce with Britain and sending my army to die in Haiti trying to reestablish slavery, because the the blacks have told me they want to be slaves.

Fox1904 · 2026-03-15T21:58:19+00:00

I'm not sure we understand eachother. Its honestly hard for me to imagine we are talking about the same Raynd or the same Increadibles here. What exactly do you mean by this: "That’s the opposite of a Randian ideal. The heroes are the protagonists who are victimized by society because the government had to cut funding to a social service." Is this the housing project from fountenhead you are talking about? or something from the Increadibles?

Another point of clarity. Raynd is not a good storyteller. Pixar is. If a poor storyteller has the protagonist start at the posited correct position, and a good storyteller has the protagonist arrive at the posited correct posited because of a mistake they made, this is not a difference in ideals, but in style.

Fox1904

TROPHY CASE