...Quite a lot about the problem of evil, and the various theodicies which attempt to explain the existence of a benevolent and omnipresent deity and the existence of evil in the world.

Of course as an Omega Point Mathematical Fundamentalist expressed through syncretic classical pantheism I do not have the problem of evil. In a multiverse where ( Read more... )

Now if you want to make a grown-up conservative politician really nervous use the words "deontologically" and "consequentiality" in proper context in friendly conversation when talking about policy.

It's a lot scarier if accompanied by structured analysis of aforementioned policy from a consequentialist and deontological position.

And then drop in ( Read more... )

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-dominic-cummings-hacked-eu-referendum-lloyd-hardy

Which, with footnotes and references, analyses Classic Dom's referendum and election victories.

But not it appears that Classic Dom has a few more problems; his flight to Durham during lockdown may not have attracted the scrutiny of the DPP but it appears the council of ( Read more... )

...Gatekeepers are useful to have in place:

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/09/nhs-blood-unit-systematically-racist-internal-report-finds

The Colindale NHS Blood Unit certainly seems to have a few "True Believers" doing the hiring and firing. The BBC and the Emergency Services might also prove to be interesting ground for the statisticians.

In ( Read more... )

However, after I got things wrong about Covid in January I've been striving to put it right by blogging and tweeting all the expert advice I could, alongside all the numbers I could lay my hands on. I had assumed, like most folk in the UK, that we had all of our much-lauded pandemic response plans together; and I knew that Gordon Brown had left us ( Read more... )

Classic Dom (as John Crace has named him) has been cautioned by the police for... let's get this right... breaking quarantine. Not breaking lockdown like the Bonking Mathmo Prof (who resigned) or the Scots Tory Minister (who resigned) but breaking quarantine.

He was fucking infectious at the time he broke lockdown - he broke quarantine. May I just ( Read more... )

...I feel there is little point in communicating with folk.

All the things I have to say I find stale and profitless; even if true or right. Everything appears to be a grey despair excepting I'm actually pretty happy in my personal working life - despite lockdown. For the fist time in a decade I feel positive about my playing, my kit, and my ( Read more... )

Happens to be the name of perhaps the greatest of all the Terry Gilliam's films.

I doubt though if even Terry Gilliam collaborating with all the other Pythons could make as an absurdist piece of theatre as is currently going on in the nation of Brazil.

Bolsonaro seems more unhinged than Trump. They have had two Health ministers resign in a month. ( Read more... )

After the hacking of passwords a lot of my crossposts from DreamWidth haven't reposted on here. I'll catch up manually...

14th May 2020

Some figures in...

... about Obamacare being good for people:

www.snopes.com/ap/2020/05/13/study-ties-obamacare-to-fewer-cancer-deaths-in-some-states/

Who would have thought it? How strange. Anyway, we will have ( Read more... )

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