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  The Trolley Problem

  by Simon in

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  so you've probably heard of the ethical dilemma question which is a thought-experiment where you imagine there is a runaway train-trolley, a junction with a lever that you can pull and two tracks - one with 5 workers on it and another with just 1, but no way to warn them.. all you can do is pull the lever, or not, thus allowing 5 people to die or through your direct action sacrificing 1 to save them.. what should you do?.

  this sort of thing may seem silly but it comes up in real life.

  should a self-driving car for instance, faced with a certain collision, chose which pedestrians to run over?

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  joey jojo

  Haha- the kid decided to leave no witnesses.
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  Are We Now Living in a POST-Science world (at least politically?)

  by Terry in

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  if your sex is only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, .

  your race can be only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality.. .

  is this repudiation of science?

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  Gender issues are starting to become a headache. I believe I read that science recognises 6 genders. These are male and female of course, and then variations of hermaphrodites. I think most people can understand that not everyone is made the same physically.

  The problem arises when your senses and life experience are telling you that the person in front of you is clearly male, yet is requesting you refer to him as 'her' , or 'they'. What if they decide they are xenogender? And yes, xenogender people already have their own flag. They dont relate to normal male, female, non-binary descriptions, no -they are too special for that. They relate to concepts, or spirit animals and feelings, when they describe their gender.

  Then you have hormone blocking used on children to prevent the onset of puberty, which to me falls into the same category as witnesses refusing blood transfusions for their children, when a child , according to the law, cannot understand the gravity of their choices, especially in regard to an optional medical procedure.

  It is so frustrating trying to discuss this issue with people that believe its fine.

  You have triggered my inner spirit tiger Terry- I have to lie down for a while.
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  GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up

  by Simon in

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  in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.

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  Brock Talon:

  "House flipping is what led to the 2008 market crash, which hurt the little people the most. The subprime house loans were ginned up by the ever escalating home prices created by fake turnover in the market due to home purchase/flip speculation. Eventually it all collapsed (like all ponzi schemes) and I and people like me were left holding the bag for many, many years. House flippers made their money and walked away and the banks were bailed out and walked away. All at our expense. Shameful."

  There are a lot of people that should be in prison that were involved in the GFC, but of course they were never charged with a crime and most continued their careers with barely a pause. House flipping, though, was not what caused the GFC.

  It started with bundles of risky mortgages that were sold as investments and importantly, were used as collateral to borrow even more money. These sub-prime mortgages were deemed to be safer than normal by some shady grading practices, which allowed confidence to keep pumping them out. When house prices fell and the people who owned those mortgages defaulted on the loans, all of a sudden, the bundles of second and third grade, risky mortgages, upon which, so much money was speculated, fell apart and unraveled world markets. There are 'reputable' institutions- household names, that dont deserve to still be trading today and without government bail-outs, would have been long gone.

  As an example, citigroup lost over $18 billion in 2008 and were given $45 billion in bail out money. The same year, they gave 738 of their employees a bonus of $1 million each. No-one went to jail, or lost their jobs for ineptitude- they were rewarded with tax payer money for failing.
  
  
  
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  Anyone notice how when some of us older ones were in the cult.......

  by mickbobcat in

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  when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?

  i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.

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  How many people were persecuted , or fell out with their family, for becoming JW's, based on this , now erroneous information.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

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  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  joey jojo

  I've only used the search feature.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

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  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  joey jojo

  Yep- its great, no ads and encrypted.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

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  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  Government is saying Google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news. Google says they will geo-block Australia from search if forced to.

  Raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

  There are other search engines which work fine for trivial searches, which is what most of us actually use the search engines for according to Google's own stat's.

  This raises the question, should a company have the right to know absolutely everything about you just because you googled a recipe for sweet and sour chicken?
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  Stats of bible studies vs baptisms

  by joey jojo in

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  david splane once again 'davesplaning' facts and figures.

  10 million bible studies and 200 000 baptisms.

  how many of these would be jw kids with no choice?

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  joey jojo

  The title of my post was changed. Is it because I mentioned a certain youtubers name?

  If it was , I didn't know that was against forum rules. I just happened to be watching it and it piqued my interest.
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  Stats of bible studies vs baptisms

  by joey jojo in

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  david splane once again 'davesplaning' facts and figures.

  10 million bible studies and 200 000 baptisms.

  how many of these would be jw kids with no choice?

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  joey jojo

  Yeh same here Hoser , still not many though and the reason they did it was because they fell for the honey trap. :)
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  Stats of bible studies vs baptisms

  by joey jojo in

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  david splane once again 'davesplaning' facts and figures.

  10 million bible studies and 200 000 baptisms.

  how many of these would be jw kids with no choice?

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  joey jojo

  David Splane once again 'Davesplaning' facts and figures.

  10 million bible studies and 200 000 baptisms. How many of these would be jw kids with no choice? Over my whole life as a born in, I cant remember many people that became jw's cold from the territory. I could probably count them on 2 hands but I would really have to think about it.