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What you stated are the theoretical extremes, which basically cannot happen. Furthermore, when asking about the civilization in 1 million years, do no...

In a World where there are flat-Earthers and all kind of truthers around, this surely will continue. Trump needs his hardcore followers and this is th...

Isn't the formal process coming also to an end as the electoral college is meeting on Monday? Surely fitting that the cases have been solved.

And what you are talking about, just like above "But fuck, I don't think Pfizer have quite enough money yet. Perhaps we could shut a few more clinics ...

Oh yes. That's the real issue here as you said.

That SpaceX first flight actually went awesome. Yeah, in the end one of the Raptor engines didn't work. Still...way to go!!! :up: A nice debrief of wh...

Why don't you listen to Faucci? Or you assume he is a corporate hack? Wearing your tinfoil hat are you, Isaac? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40EhQ5c...

First of all, Isaac. Where the corners have been cut in the "race to a vaccine" is that before the approval was gotten, the large scale production of ...

Well, good to weigh those negative effects. Yet do weigh then them on the fact that now the US has lost daily the equivalent of those lost in 9/11 to ...

At least you said so:

That's the spirit! :up:

Oooh, frank, that's too positive. Especially being positive about technological innovation and that it will improve things in the future. People don't...

Well, coming back to the discussion above with Isaac just two months ago: I think we can say that indeed yes, when there is an urge to do something, a...

So you assume it went through all the nursing homes? It's not like the pandemic has gone through the population, which is obvious when you look at the...

Is the government going to ship Viagra to us now?

I think the whole discussion of anti-natalism is a symptom of a larger problem. Jack Cummins makes an important point about anti-natalism: I see that ...

Yet you say... Which I agree. Yet highly less than earlier.

Based on what it says there on the chart: "Limited testing meant that most infections were not confirmed during this wave". I get your point, that par...

How important we must be!

What is interesting and I think is an explanation just why the US appears different from other countries is because of the utter lack of testing at st...

This is directly from the populist playbook, actually. The populist has to give the image of being somebody else, being not part of the elite. Best wa...

Well, some times you need a carrot and stick approach to handle potential insurgents. Or to get an insurgent force back to normal life. And it's a dif...

Several things have made corporate culture so bad, even if there always have been bad apples. First, now days the CEO doesn't have strong ties to the ...

And this is what fanatic Trump supporters cherish the most. Forget what he actually says, the main fact is that he has gotten these people angry. No. ...

The basic problem is that people are putting far too much things in what they regard as "science" and "scientific view". It's either used a sledgehamm...

I agree. My point is that having those creation stories or other myths doesn't make religion totally false as it gives us moral rules how to behave. W...

Another viewpoint in the picking of general Austin is that Biden continues with the similar line with Trump of appointing a former general to lead the...

I'd refer to that quote by Felipe Fernandex-Arnesto: science and religion aren't enemies. One doesn't refute the other, even if some atheist would dis...

If you have fought a long war where a large part if not all of the males of the younger generations have learned only warfighting and not have been si...

I assume this is a reference to an all out war, where basically the country itself is the battlefield. In the case of the US kept secure by those two ...

This debate around Covid-19 would be even more vitriolic in the US if the country would have successfully handled the pandemic. Now as finally the cor...

Naturally for us it works well, as there actually aren't so many occasions when the "hän", referring to both he or she, would lead to problems or misu...

Oh I know!!! Trump will go around preparing for a "The Real Inauguration", the inauguration of the real President, but in the end nothing will come ou...

When people talk about the 1% in the US, one has to remember that you are talking about 3,3 million people. So you have people like physicians: A grea...

And doesn't a negation of H leave it quite open? Like I cannot give the correct answer, yet here's my answer A and it's not it so there you go. Many t...

I think the former CIA directors outcoming says it all. If it was an Israeli/US/joint venture, that isn't certain. But that it had the US approval is ...

The assassination of Mohsen Fakrizadeh seems to be the final Trump era action on Iran before the Biden administration takes over. Seems that Trump and...

Just interesting. But note that people take these things seriously. Let's not forget what happened to all those poor Danish minks, all 17 million of t...

When it is appropriate. That's all I want to say.

Newborn babies rarely get the cold. And if your baby would die of COVID, I guess that would get news coverage. But I guess the probability is similar ...

Well, you seem not to hold philosophy in high regard compared to natural sciences. But just like "pure math" isn't at all dismissed by natural science...

You don't notice just how illogical you are. Firstly, retreating from the mess Bush and the neocons made was the reason for Al Qaeda to morph into ISI...

Well, John McWhorter describes this as a religion. It's not open for debate, but a belief system where everybody criticizing it obviously is a racist.

For starters, remembering just what you said there: the current state of science isn't the last word or the truth about nature. Hence don't make your ...

The thing is that being childish or naive is seen as something negative. Knowledge and understanding is also seen as the opposite to thinking of thing...

And don't think it won't have consequences. You see, if the US simply disregards it's leadership and "goes home", it will simply be regarded as a some...

It is just a simple fact the when the US leaves some area, it creates a void. And those countries left in the void, will have to adjust to the new sit...

Worst arguments are those when there are no arguments, when it's just strawman after strawman with some covert or overt ad hominems added there. Or th...

Was it Kant earlier that went a bit astray when referring to Euclidian geometry and not knowing that later non-Euclidian geometry would be a hot topic...

I fully suspect that NATO leaders have said that to Biden. You see, nobody wants to fill in the place that the US left during the Trump years, as that...