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As a followup from my memetic speculations in the prior comment (which hopefully will pass the mods’ standards), I suppose in broad strokes, and as an openly analogous copy-paste of the biological concepts of […]

Alan Appleby, at #97   “superior morality”   And Michael 100, at #98   “imagined orders,”   The calling cards of the authoritarian personality, indeed.   It makes a kind of sense through a black-and-wh […]

Speaking of the British navy, I should also have mention the U.S. military’s dishonorable discharge for same sex relations, and who can forget the police raids on gay bars.  The list is endless.

Zeuglodon # 96 I’ve never understood the “moral debate” over whether being gay was innate or a choice. Nor have I. I’m reading Yuval Harari’s Sapiens. One of the themes running through the book is “imagin […]

Zeuglodon Beta says: Literally the only ones who seem to have a problem with it also tend to be reproductive control freaks anyway,   It would seem to be a control mechanism to motivate those low in the […]

I’ve never understood the “moral debate” over whether being gay was innate or a choice. Firstly, origin is not nature: you still end up with someone willing to have sex with the same sex either way. Secondly, […]

Strato #94, I also composed comments under that podcast I linked to, on why there are gay men. Richard referred to the male birth order and homosexuality in subsequent sons, in The Selfish Gene. The excellent […]

This podcast is pretty priceless from Friendly Atheists, Alabama.   On the absurdities, contradictions and hypocrisy in particularly southern conservative states’ laws and lawmakers. It’s always reducible to […]

Strato says: @496 Methane discharge is way out of control worldwide, but our scientists are launching new satellites with the latest sensor capability for penetrating cloud, providing data for processing for […]

thanks mods

Sorry, offg #498. For some reason, they’d landed in Trash. We’ve retrieved one of them now, and it’s at #497 The mods