Fine, if we’re doing this, then my trump card is SCTV.

Royal Canadian Air Farce.

He knew. He just thought a special kind of clever-stupid would work.

“Prime Video’s The Consultant Does Dallas”?

Sumptuous?

That’s what’s ending up in the ocean.

In the Pacific, it’s mostly Asian (Chinese, Indian, Japanese) fishing gear.

One exception might be those that are used on some fresh fruits and vegetables. Like, thin-film sealed plastic can make a cucumber last far longer than without it. But obviously we should also be trying to figure out how to deal with that kind of plastic waste in better ways too.

You stole Tool's bit.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Someone get David Chalmers on the line… I’ll hold.

The same way they’ve figured out how to measure all kinds of other things in medicine—from what happens when things go wrong, or from correlates. E.g., Ramachandran’s work on sensory illusions, or Sacks’ work, or, like, anesthesiology. It’s not simple or easy. It’s extremely difficult and confusing and basically a giant mess. But that doesn’t mean it’s mysterious.

No.

“Put a hat on a turtle” does not mean what I thought it meant.

Get a copraphagic dog. Problem solved?

80 year olds who aren’t suffering from chronic, debilitating, progressive diseases are typically in surprisingly good shape. For people like that, it’s really more the back half of 80 where any random stress or trauma or infection might hasten things.

We write like that sometimes too.

It’s an old discussion—goes back to antiquity (e.g., Seneca), and Bacon, and many others. There is a fairly common view that death itself can’t be bad, but dying is often quite bad. The ethical upshot of that is pretty obvious: making dying less bad is good. There are other arguments for the badness of death, in e.g., Parfit’s Reasons and Persons.

Here’s an article that denies that we can measure the badness of death for the person who dies: https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824612100031X

What article is not a single point of view? What even is this objection. You write like a bot.

Wrecked by excellence.

Or as Michael Hutchence of INXS once put it: “elegantly wasted”.

Ваджущ.

Yeah, but somehow messier than Robert and OJ.

I poured him a Limoncello he couldn’t refuse. (Because otherwise all his old scars would reopen and he’d bleed out and die.)

Going from half of all cancer sufferers dying within 5 years to two thirds of them surviving longer seems pretty good.