The taxi industry =/= taxi drivers.

Great example: A freelancer working 40 hours sets their rates high enough to cover their tax burden. An Uber driver cannot change the rate.

Thanks for the feedback, Tim.

Read “On Bullshit” by Frankfurt; it's a short essay that gives a pretty philosophically sound definition of what we laypersons call bullshit.

In American usage, reported speech is almost always surrounded by quotation marks that contain the ending punctuation, while dubitative or ‘rabbit-ear’ speech, which is sometimes tagged with phrases like ‘so-called’, is often surrounded by quotation marks that do not contain the ending punctuation. (This latter form…

Genuinely sorry, but I think we’re talking past one another.

<<Fact-checking is not part of the editing process...>>

In the media industries, proofreading is proofing; fact checking is fact checking; legal review is legal review; copy editing is the nuts-and-bolts editorial development of the copying; and “editing” is the broad category ALL of these activities (inter alia) fall into.

Why do you think anothe person’s experience has to map onto a moral scheme of your own devising? I am not arguing for moral relativism, just asking if you think you have really put enough work into the system of moral reasoning you're swing around like a big stick.

Do a quick search on SSRN for published social science research concerning the prevalence of extramarital (or more broadly, nonmonogamous) sexual activity, and let us know what you find.

Well put.

Tim, how are you single?

When you hear so many people indicating that you’ve misread or misunderstood the idea being discussed, what is your response? I suppose I’d like to know, how much time are you spending on considering the possibility that you’re wrong and the majority of your interlocutors are correct in their disagreement with you?

You’re misreading it.

Incredibly, quote might not be concerned with the offense some men might take at hearing this uncomfortable truth.

Until some logician concerned with ontological continuity raises her hand to ask how your time machine figured out the trick of duplicating the matter constituting the body sent back in time to encounter the same collection (roughly) it atoms comprising its past self. A time machine, being a matter-duplicating…

See also The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard.

Not sure what you're replying to, but I think we are on more or less the same page.

So... we agree?

I don't follow. What are you replying to?