From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 4 Apr 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   >>> Not an unwise decision.  But the wises decision is to buy a house.  An   
   >>   
   >> True. But a house means higher cost, more maintenance, more time lost doing   
   >> things I do not enjoy. So there is no perfect solution. But I have actually   
   >> thought about getting a house. So let's see what the future holds! =)   
   >   
   > I hope you get one.  It's all true about the work, but I also think   
   > that's good work.  A lot less USENET, a lot more house work is a good   
      
   Haha, well, my wife would agree with you there!   
      
   > idea.  We can start with offlining the USENET.  If there's little work   
   > to do, increase the uniform distribution of times you connect to   
   > exchange articles.  If there's more work, decrease it.   
      
   True. My usenet/mailinglist debt is starting to grow. I have become involved in   
   way too detailed and deep interesting conversations, and they are starting to   
   take their toll. =(   
      
   >> True. It is a little bit better in northern europe where people do not   
   >> want to socialize. Most of the time you meet no one. Another solution   
   >> could be to buy a nice pent house apartment, making sure you share the   
   >> floor with no one, and ideally, a private elevator! =D   
   >   
   > Living in an apartment never feels like the right thing.  One almost   
   > doesn't own the place.  If you decide to do something to it, you get to   
   > approval of the condominium.  The same would apply if you live in a   
   > house in a condominium.  Of course, the same thing applies to any house   
   > in any country.  But the less the better (while holding other important   
   > variables constant).   
      
   True. I have heard someone describing apartment associations like   
   "Karen-factories". One community in my apartment in sweden is quite alright   
   though. I'm starting to feel that that is pretty rare!   
      
   >>> Dude, 66% is no good. :)   
   >>   
   >> It's better than 0%! ;)   
   >   
   > Better doesn't imply good. :)   
      
   Depends on the starting point. ;)   
      
   >> Interesting, I have never seen this burger in europe! How does it   
   >> differ from regular cheese burgers?   
   >   
   > I think a regular cheese burger would not be a Cheddar cheese burger.   
   > But I agree any Cheddar is a cheese burger.  Over here now they have two   
   > options: you get the traditional Cheddar McMelt or you can order the   
   > double one.  The double one comes with three burgers, IIRC.  Besides the   
   > melted Cheddar, it also comes with chopped onions mixed in the Cheddar.   
   > I think that's it.  And a cheese burger is a burger with some slices of   
   > cheese.  I'm not the right person to ask about such things because I go   
   > there once in a few years, always planning never to come back. :)   
      
   This is making me hungry! =D   
      
   >> Sounds like a nice group of people to identify with if you can find   
   >> them. =) I've always been a loner from that point of view, so I tend   
   >> to not identify with others much at all.   
   >   
   > Oh, if you're a loner, you can identify yourself with pretty much   
   > everyone. :)  In a way I'm a loner as well.   
      
   Yes same here. But periodically I do feel a need for some company, but a pub   
   quiz or two quickly cures me of that. While fun, I don't really feel the need   
   for it more than 2-3 times per year or so. =)   
      
   >>> Yeah---the experts always include nutrition in their hypotheses.   
   >>   
   >> The question is... how can we, you and me, change the trend? ;)   
   >   
   > I don't think we can.  That would mean that a point can change the   
   > uniform average.  We could do something if we go from a uniform average   
   > to a weighted one and we somehow acquire the huge weight.  Nah.  I don't   
   > think there's true change that way.  I don't think we can change the   
   > world.  I don't think we should change the world.  Let nature follow its   
   > own course.   
      
   What if it is in my nature to change the world? Then that would be nature   
   following its own course. ;)   
      
   The biggest change can start with the smallest idea!   
      
   > Should a 4-leaf clover try to make every other a 4-leaf one?   
      
   Yes!   
      
   > Hey, there are 7 helicopters going round and round around a certain   
   > region where my house is.  They're all gray in color.  One follows the   
   > other.  They're really going around a circumference.  Any idea what this   
   > is?  I'd guess it's military exercise.  They're boringly going round.   
   > Not in high speeds.  They're not high in the sky; probably between   
   > 100--200 meters from the ground.  Probably 50 meters from the top of a   
   > hill around which they seem to flying.   
      
   Sounds scary! Be safe! =( In stockholm, due to the excessive uncontrolled crime   
   recently, police drones and helicopters are becoming more and more common. I   
   hate the surveillance society that sweden has been turned into and do not want   
   to live in it.   
      
   As we discussed above, I think a house in the country side, deep inside the   
   forest would be the ideal place for me!   
      
   >>> I had never heard of practical philosophy.   
   >>   
   >> It is a fairly new branch of philosophy, about 100 years old or so,   
   depending on   
   >> how you define it.   
   >   
   > Kinda funny to me.  Philosophy is totally practical.  The impractical   
   > philosophy is that which is nonsense---you can't make sense of.   
      
   Ah, you mean modern analytical philosophy? ;) Pick up a book on metaphysics and   
   marvel at the nonsense! ;)   
      
   > I think it's the most practical of them all because it applies to what   
   > happens most of the day---for those who don't ignore the stimuli.   
      
   I'm not a buddhist but I admire the mans practicality and empiricism! I have a   
   feeling that all buddhist deities and 1000s and 1000s of pages of text and   
   buddhist philosophy would make the original rotate in his grave. ;)   
      
   >>> No.  Certainly not.  I have nothing to do with consensus.  Truth should   
   >>> have nothing to do with consensus.  We can easily imagine an outrageous   
   >>> group denying obvious facts.   
   >>   
   >> There are facts, and then there are "facts". Is it true that blue is   
   >> the best color? Good luck answering that objectively. ;)   
   >   
   > There are meaningless sentences and questions.  Chomsky constructs the   
   > famous one---colorless green ideas sleep furiously.  Good luck trying to   
   > picture that in any way.  Truth (and philosophy) is not about nonsense.   
   > It's about honestly making sense of things.   
      
   Sometimes I think that is lost in a lot of modern philosophy.   
      
   > Sometimes people take language to great abstractions, which should come   
   > with lots of examples and simplicity.  If people fail do that, it is not   
   > a bad idea to ignore it.  For instance, Kant is recognized for having   
   > made the distinction between synthetic truths and analytic ones.  Have   
   > you ever understood?  I don't think it too unwise to ignore all that.   
   > But I don't mean it's bad work.   
      
   Well, for me, Kants biggest insight, is that we can never get to the   
   metaphysical through the physical. But then he adds a lot of stuff onto that,   
   and I don't quite agree with where he goes.   
      
   >> Is it true that there is a coffee mug on my right on a table, yes! And   
      
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