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I think we frame our interactions with the world as if we're having a conversation with it. When I look for things, for instance, it's like I'm asking...

Pretty much. You forge ahead your own way, buddy.

I don't use it anymore.

That's a white supremacist gesture.

It's an apple.

We don't know the status of matter that isn't being measured. If that fits your conception of reality, then you're good to go.

This is a Brookings Inst. essay about the history of Russo-American relations. Republicans claimed that Putin was a bad actor, but didn't depict him a...

:lol:

I think the @"praxis" cartoon was social criticism directed at our collective discomfort with gender reassignment and men who have a Christmas light w...

Yep.

Could be. When experts on Russia are a little confused by his statements and actions, I'm not going to put much weight on my own speculations. :grin:

Jack does believe the bartender is real. He has an extended conversation with someone who isn't there. Happens all the time. :grin:

Because there's no way he could be there. They're on top of a mountain in a Colorado winter snow storm. Jack is hallucinating.

He's not, though.

But Jack Torrance thinks the bartender is real.

Was he talking about measures that were taken to prepare for Iranian aggression?

Oh yeah. I guess that came later the same year.

While he was invading Georgia? What kind of evidence were you looking for?

:victory:

That's pretty naive.

Seems? It actually was threatening. The US wanted to destroy Russia, like wipe it off the map. Putin had no choice.

According to Putin, NATO was planning to destroy Russia. He saw NATO as an existential threat. Let's go with that.

It's only been two decades since their economy was devastated, so that red line is fairly young. :razz:

It already inspired Finland and Sweden to join NATO. I think Putin has created a deep abiding hatred of Russia among Ukrainians, so I doubt relations ...

Sounds like the state by some other name. This isn't the only issue where centralized control is important. Telecommunications, highways, community ow...

The same this happening here. It's a labor shortage.

If a person has a stroke, heart attack, is severely injured in some way, etc., they'll need advanced care that probably wouldn't be available to the c...

There's a private hospital? A private ICU? Privately paid heart surgery? If so, all your neighbors are deeply in debt, which is different kind of slav...

The human species hasn't ever had the kind of healthcare we have now. It's fairly expensive stuff. Do you know of a case where contemporary, state of ...

I don't think you're particularly well informed on the issue, then.

Sure. I just told you it is. Without Medicare, most US hospitals would have to close their doors.

I won't live to see it, but I heartily commend those whose optimism creates such bold visions of what we could be.

American healthcare, as we know it today, wouldn't be possible without Medicare funding. You want to go back to 1960s funding, but keep the same level...

Which lives would you like to stop saving so we can go back to historic practices?

His question is whether people need state governance in order to enjoy those things. Marx said ultimately, no. What do you say?

Your position sounds like that of a person who can't think through an issue.

I require the funding, so I follow the rules, plus following the rules saves lives. There isn't any source of funding other than the government, not t...

No. One of the main ways the US government controls healthcare is by Medicare funding. Few hospitals in America could run without it. In order to secu...

Present as in Biden texting me about stuff? No?

Yes. I'm a healthcare worker. Without the massive load of regulations and financial support for healthcare, my profession wouldn't exist.

Pretty pervasively.

I think the founders of the US would have agreed for the most part. Their goal was to leave government some distance from the average person's life. T...

I don't think either of us cares to discuss it further, though

"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military leadership has withdrawn its officers in the Russian-annexed city of Kherson across the Dnieper River in antic...

The US participates in undermining terrorist plans around the world. I think the use of the military wrt Afghanistan was to get to terrorists who were...

It's purported to have been from an analysis of the middle eastern society, and it's also a little wisdom garnered from the American Revolution. Socie...

Supposedly the best way to invite more of the same was to look weak.

I see. I'm not holding my breath.

Exactly. Were there non-statist means to achieve the non-state that you had in mind?

"The long-term goal of world communism is an unlimited worldwide communist society that is classless, (lacking any exploitation of man by man), moneyl...