Recent content by Antoli

Yes, I am very interested in my family’s history. This is a photo of my Danish great-great-grandfather, born in 1819 and died in 1865.

I wonder if you might have exercise-induced vasculitis, sometimes called "Disney rash." Does it tend to flare up in hot weather, especially when you’re walking?

Well then, it would be helpful if you quoted the comment you’re replying to. That way I’ll be aware of your response and can reply to it.

It would be helpful to quote the person you’re replying to, so they’re aware of your response and can reply if they choose to.

I would never remarry. I want to continue living in peace for whatever time I have left.

That mixes up two very different things. Freedom of speech in the U.S. means protection from government punishment for expressing views, it was never meant to guarantee freedom from private employment consequences. A private company disciplining or firing an employee is not the same as the state...

It isn’t a philosophy, it’s a factual description. No other species causes global habitat destruction, mass extinctions, climate alteration, and pollution on this scale, then labels the remaining wildlife as “pests” for surviving the damage. That’s not opinion, it’s biology.

If an objective, non-human observer were tasked with identifying the planet’s greatest pest species, humans would win by a landslide. No other species destroys habitats globally, exterminates competitors deliberately, alters the climate, poisons land and oceans, and then labels the surviving...

Would their names be Huginn and Muninn by any chance? :D

I used to feed crows chopped liver, leaving it on top of a large, flat fence post. Then one day I discovered a shiny piece of chromed metal with a red reflector on it placed on their feeding post. Apparently, it was a gift from the crows. I hope they have forgiven me for moving away.

True. Once someone pretends not to understand a knight’s move, the game is already over.

That’s a fair observation, and it confirms my suspicions. I initially assumed he was struggling to grasp the point and that further explanation might help. In hindsight, it looks more like deliberate non-engagement.

You’re arguing against something I didn’t say. I didn’t deny that people can feel afraid, or that the state has a role in preventing violence. The issue is how that prevention is justified and constrained. Fear by itself is not evidence. Feeling threatened is not the same thing as an imminent...

That’s a fair summary. Once “anticipation” gets detached from actual evidence and imminent threat, the leash comes off the state. And at that point you don’t get real security, you get after-the-fact justification and people self-censoring out of fear.

You’re not identifying a missing principle, you’re restating the very danger I’m warning about. “Anticipation” already exists in law, but it has strict limits such as, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, conspiracy statutes, and imminent threat standards. The state may intervene when concrete...