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Having looked at the history of the so-called "infrastructure bill" or the earlier stimulus packages, I would look at where the money really goes in t...

Well, you would love the leftist-centrist administration here that we have, dubbed by the opposition "the Lipstick administration": (Prime Minister an...

Again this is far more a policy and legal matter than something that could be solved by more spending. Think of universal health care that costs less ...

The is a genuinely bipartisan policy. Of course where the spending goes differs a lot. Or how actually prudent an administration is. When a global pan...

Well. let's see if you get an answer.

But it doesn't matter! It can be infrastructure spending, spending to thwart the climate change, spending on health care or education. It doesn't matt...

And that's my basic point. (Yet do note that your not the World Bank, your the biggest customer for the World. The US isn't financing the World.) A la...

Yeah....but here's the problem: (US Today) So I gather that the 1% of taxpayers then make 2,38 trillion dollars annually, right? Well, just the budget...

Good luck with that. Nobody hasn't actually defended the theory itself. The "defending" comments, if you can say there are those, usually make the poi...

And let's remind ourselves that the vast majority of spending is on autopilot. Until that crash happens and some unhappy administration has to do "adj...

How about seeing the forest from the trees here? This all is simply a way to sustain the economy by more debt financing. It's basically a stop gap mea...

As I said on another thread, also the hypothetical Gore administration would have gone to Afghanistan. And to respond to a terrorist attack with a mil...

Let's remember that we are talking about Afghanistan. Trade didn't even come to be an issue: trade and economic issues are mainly for peacetime. Not w...

Math is considered to be science. You think all math is inductive reasoning? If I could add something to this. When it comes to science and scientific...

I think here is a good interview about the issue of Critical Race Theory or what the problem is with it is without the Republican / right-wing hysteri...

Just to make the observation note that this isn't just your average flu epidemic. It's not completely unsurprising: just look at the flu epidemics fro...

Someone that doesn't know or understand that there are far more Americans today than one hundred years ago has to go to himself or herself. It isn't m...

Of course there are more Americans now than then. But I think the article you referred to was referring to other proclaims. Absolute global povetry ha...

Another statistical mark reached by the present pandemic:

That's one way to justify your position. I'd say "Stop the steal" is here an even better example where the Republican politicians and lawyers that sup...

Quite an assumption to be made. I would think the layman would simply choose the option that fits the closest to his or her Worldview in general. Ther...

Thanks for your answer, Baker. I guess we often have this ideas or stereotypes of how peaceful the Buddhists are. Of course one shouldn't forget that ...

Logical positivism is the philosophical school the promotes this thinking. It differs from positivism in that the ultimate basis of knowledge rests up...

Well, basically logical empirism / logical positivism is that "shut up and calculate" attitude. Logical positivists put the data, the experiment, on a...

At least there is the stupidity of thinking that a basically totally classical computer program with just a lot of feedback loops to process gathered ...

First question: Are there militant Buddhist extremists who attack people in order to defend their cherished religion? If not, why not?

Well, I don't know so much about Nils Bohr and his philosophy, but basically what to me his theories look like to be grounded on is logical empirism o...

Those simply aren't the same things. I can make the prediction that in 200 years everybody participating in this Forum now will be dead. I think you c...

No. Just to show how non-functioning the democracy of the Weimar Republic was then and how many campaigns were about smashing the rulers or the other ...

Nuclear lobby is quite miniscule and not so strong. Besides, Coal mining has earlier been important employer for example in the Appalachian range, so ...

Actually, campaigning in elections then in Germany was quite similar with other parties too. Many anticipated, few would have really known. Do notice ...

The nasty recessions usually happen after a speculative boom that has been created by lax funding by the financial sector. Housing market booms and bu...

Let's start with the sources where countries get their electricity. Here's the pie chart for the US in 2019: https://metroenergy.org/wp-content/upload...

If you would have decreasing negative population growth in the World, I guess it would be totally OK for economy to be shrinking. Yet the population i...

Logically you should give credit for Trump too, a peace deal that Biden just implemented. :snicker:

Just thinking, would it be better to say that there is a decay in the understanding of science?

Sure. But even if per capita stats show who use energy the most, for things like climate change the real issue are the aggregate emissions: https://ww...

Oooh, that would be the day. As an European, I would like to be this optimistic. I think that nearly anything can be literally destroyed without even ...

Only that perhaps philosophy does have some fields that clearly aren't science or scientific. Or you have to have quite a philosophical view to think ...

No. Actually that is only your Philosophy. The philosophy of that "there are no Philosophical Facts, hence there can be no Scientific Facts". Sorry, b...

Yeah. Being logical is so overrated. One doctor that I know said this earlier this summer: we'll get shot just as we can get the annual flu shot. And ...

One simply has to have general knowledge and insight to the issue. What matters even more is to understand the political biases that people have. Usua...

Some are, but are they all like that? And what issues do you put into this category "not worth to engage"? How about those who say that the Lab-leak h...

Because you can make negative feedback loops, which math & logic have a problem with. Basically one gets the problem easily when thinking of algorithm...

Well, the Taliban aren't going to be just left with their own ideas. The neighboring countries and the Great Powers, even if not enthusiastically, wil...

And this just shows just how awesome the English, sorry, the British are in these things. Russia tried this with the CIS, but failed to get the Baltic...

Good informative response. It's no wonder that the ISI is praised for it's professionalism as it has obviously been set up by talented experts, the Br...

Violence can defeat quite much everything. Yet I think even the most violent, ruthless tyranny will look at part of science as important: to get techn...

Even if an Indian news channel might be biased against Pakistan, still it looks quite clear that Pakistan is at least assisting if not supervising the...

Yeah, this is your punchline argument. Hmm. What I was referring to was that for the Mamluks, the vassals of the Ottomans, and for the Ottomans themse...