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See also: An XYsplanation The man and the woman are the genres of Humankind, and there’s a comparable aspect to so very many other species of creature too: the bifurcation into sexes, roughly chromosomally-aligned, is foundational to who is essential (as in essence, at a minimum) and who comes to be expecting, generally speaking, although… Continue reading The Genres of Humankind

Mister Mayor, Regarding the prospect of photo radar and red-light cameras, I am firmly against the establishment of such technocratic terror in this developing conurbation. Just because other jurisdictions are forever finding new ways to abuse their citizens doesn’t mean those ways need to find purchase here. All things being equal, slower is safer, yet… Continue reading An open letter to CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke regarding photo radar and red-light cameras

David Deutsch’s The Fabric of Reality came recommended as a must-read. I’ll agree that it’s a worthy read, but all you really need is this: Reality is increasingly comprehensible and we blaze new trails of knowledge via suppositions that stick, because they have good arguments to support them that withstand criticism. Better arguments explain more… Continue reading Review: The Fabric of Reality

In this domesticum, we acknowledge Ukraine is her own nation-state, with all that that entails, including increasingly meaningful independence from Moscovian ‘governance’. Such does not preclude the transnational nature of a linguistic continuum. In this case, the germane one is persons for whom Russian is the mother tongue, although of course there are also a… Continue reading Ukraine: The Bumper Sticker

See also: The Genres of Humankind If you’re an XXist, that’s currently in vogue and so therefore it’s understandable. Even the Prime Minister of Canada calls himself an XXist, and depending on your point of view that might count as a significant endorsement. We all start out as being what becomes a typical XX (whatever… Continue reading An XYsplanation

“The fundamental political idea of modern times is the presumed moral superiority of centralized control.” – Paul Lutus I start this brief essay on voting with this quote to underscore the basic idea – that even unto your most private choices on a quiet afternoon at Cape Spear or Rennell Sound you are at least… Continue reading Why Vote?

Okay, hello. We’re out in the yard this time, and I gotta get this done, ’cause there’s company coming, so I don’t want to be standing around here like a madman while there’s guests. (Well, I’m not standing, I’m sitting, but you know what I mean.) Today I want to talk about frameworks and differences.… Continue reading Frameworks & Differences

Update, November 6 2023: This article may reflect my own inner soul scars between science and our actual experiences. I wrote it because I got the notion to during a time when a lot of my priors on a lot of things were loosening up. And even just a couple of months ago I was… Continue reading Astro to Astro

I uploaded this spoken essay to YouTube on May 27 2022 and laboriously changed their auto-generated subtitles to fit what I said, but I’ve since realized it’s more useful and also easier for me to simply provide what I prepared to read from, modified very slightly to fit what I actually said. Hello out there.… Continue reading What’s going on & The two ways of knowing

Voting pre-supposes an informed electorate. Okay, now that we’ve wiped the tears away and stopped laughing, if we’re still going to have voting, let’s talk about voting systems. I’ll be writing from a Canadian perspective, of course. First, there’s what we have now, FPTP. As soon as there are more than two viable options, it… Continue reading Voting Systems (if we care)