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Yep, there still is this absurd idea of an economic rebound once the pandemic is over. It will be only a statistical one, not a real economic upturn. ...

That's your first false idea, as if I'm promoting a short timescale answer. Or that just throwing money to everything is an answer. Believe me, the US...

That's nice to hear positive things about the Reagan era. Unfortunately you might get that violent revolution (or something like it), which just makes...

Well, that gives a short timetable for the protests against the Biden administration to begin. The "Well, at least he isn't Trump" attitude will wear ...

Ooh, those evil diabolical physicists! I mentioned them earlier already. Still, we use the term "technology" rather than "science" when talking about ...

Then they aren't actually making science. No really, science and implementation of a technology should be two separate things. Science and technology ...

At least this forum has helped me understand mathematics better. Doesn't that count in our age of hedonism?

First of all, science tells how the World is, not how it should be. It doesn't tell us which things are right and which things are wrong. Science isn'...

Likely the countries that score the highest points in various studies with the public health sector. Japan for example has a quite well performing hea...

I think your answer points out fairly well just what happens. And if the virus infection rates have been low (as here in Finland), then there is the f...

Again here notice that it isn't just one or two governments doing this, this is a global effort. And in that global effort there might be also players...

Europe looks bad compared to other continents: https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/D9CB/production/_115055755_optimised-2020-10-24-ecdc.timeseries.continents.c...

I wouldn't call it lunacy especially as the investment does also go into treatment, not only in a vaccine. The HIV pandemic that has killed roughly 32...

First ask yourselves, how much investment and focus is put into vaccine research generally? Compare that with what is now happening with Covid-19. You...

And then the reality of Alaska: https://www.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/B95C3FF4-3B26-49C6-9A24-A27C5B2B9BE2_1_201_a-scaled.jpeg https...

Let us hope for a negative result, Tiff!

Would 'Student Birth' be better? Professors have students. Born Student?

Interesting, even if the doctor went a bit off the topic when looking at population age pyramids of various countries. Yet it's very interesting to co...

But it was seen coming. There were lot of plans already in existence. In the US both the Bush and Obama administrations had done extensive plans how t...

Yet notice that the number of deaths hasn't gone up in similar fashion. For the health sector covid-19 starts to be an old "known friend". Notice that...

Ok. Quoting what I wrote two years ago. Well, not much has changed. :smile:

Sasha Baron Cohen has a habit of fooling Republicans into hotel rooms. Remember Cohen as Bruno with Ron Paul. A continuation to the tape of Donald Tru...

So now we believe the FBI. But not before. :smirk:

To understand modern science one ought to look first at philosophers from the Age of Enlightenment, empiricists like John Locke, David Hume and George...

Commitment to a relationship is seen as a burden and our consumer society upholds individualism alongside materialism. There are long term changes beh...

I fear that the online behavior will have an effect on our "offline" interactions. And the reasoning behind that might be that "having manners" and "b...

Inclusiveness indeed lowers the quality and creates that noise. I do miss many members here that truly upheld some topics in the Forum with an educati...

Good luck finding that mature and coherent criticism of anybody today.

It's true that net and social media interaction alters our way of discuss issues as many things are left out from net conversations that would happen ...

I would add upholding a fraudulent bubble economy, which doesn't create much else than asset inflation that deepens the divide between the rich and ot...

So... nothing dramatic happened until 2010??? Even if off the topic, I'd argue that a lot has happened in Sweden before that. Perhaps starting from th...

Have to agree with , as this is way off. Just putting things into context, how many people in the US are actually starting to be non-believers or agno...

Interesting to see that now Sweden isn't taking a hit anymore as before. https://billkingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sweden-1-1024x648.png htt...

I have no idea how American net corporations make their own regulations, obviously using an army of hilariously overpaid woke lawyers teamed with woke...

This is true. Ah, to get a presidential candidate to "get people to notice the party". It's psychology: people see everywhere just how fed up with the...

Even if this is going a bit off topic, I agree. Although they still have buttons and ports, to make it difficult... uh, call that back: https://i-cdn....

Yet is this different from the view of the Egyptians, the Chinese or the Aztecs? What I gather, large empires are typically quite ethno-supremacist an...

The Bourgeoisie would be close to upper-middle class. Those people who indeed do have actually capital, at least once in older age they have paid thei...

Blame it on the media? Likely the way America's new "civil war" will transpire.

As you noticed, in the UK there is more physical demand for houses as your population has rapidly grown, as the following graph shows: https://www.sta...

I see a system set up to create asset inflation, which then creates huge wealth inequality. And that has been policy. This should be obvious from the ...

The who live in the borough, craftsmen, artisans, merchants and other urban dwellers aren't the elite. Today small business owners, mid-level managers...

That's how the left typically portrays the right, quite like the classical view of the bourgeoisie as a willing partner of the elite in suppressing th...

Well, it would be nice that the war in Afghanistan would finally end. A nation having war for over 40 years is extremely depressing. Last February the...

One should not confuse populism and something being popular (although populism is often popular). Populism seeks to divide people into two categories:...

At first it doesn't seem to make any sense: how can the same person talk of being for a law and order platform and praising the law enforcers and then...

At least with these examples we don't judge people from a totally different era and World with the morals of the present, but see just what values hav...

I remember from the university a professor of economic history, that only had and bought cars that were older than mid-1970's. The reason was that in ...

And then the evil car manufacturers in cahoots with the fascist governments will put airbags, collision avoidance systems and automatic rescue service...

I mainly try to judge any administration on what it actually does and how it deals the various issues and crises that it handle's. Even if a President...