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Well, usually it starts with the objective being winning the argument just for the sake of winning.
October 10, 2025 at 00:34
Yes, it's a huge introductory book to the subject. I think we simply haven't understood the importance of the undecidability results of Turing or Göde...
October 10, 2025 at 00:32
In what context? What was the difference with a completely original thought than what TM's do? Or (I fear) the next thing you say is this completely o...
October 08, 2025 at 19:05
Yet making the difference between people and animals doesn't mean that we would be cruel to animals. In fact, we do take care even of the machines tha...
October 08, 2025 at 18:27
We do refer to animals, even very smart ones, as "it". Yet this is more of a semantic issue, but still. (I personally do like to personify pets, btw. ...
October 08, 2025 at 13:35
Well said. This is what the strategy of the new populist right is: entrench yourself in your own echo chamber and create your own version of reality b...
October 08, 2025 at 12:43
Have to say I've listened to many of their shows. It is truly great. If only the discussion of race issues would be on this level. Actually the US nee...
October 08, 2025 at 12:18
Japan is a great example because the population decrease has already dramatically started, the economy has underperformed for a very long time, yet th...
October 01, 2025 at 09:39
I see the change coming with simply the society adapting to the "new normal" in a way that isn't obvious to everybody. Likely there's not going to be ...
September 30, 2025 at 11:41
I'll simply repeat myself: there was no famine or even fear of famine when the US and it's allies destroyed ISIS in similar urban fighting. Period. Th...
September 30, 2025 at 07:54
One thing that is rarely mentioned is how long actually this decrease of fertility has been going on, because population growth has increased by infan...
September 30, 2025 at 06:15
The inability to view Fox News as also mainstream media is very telling of you. That media channel would simply have a bias to the right, yet not much...
September 21, 2025 at 18:39
I actually had that in mind. The whimsical thing is that these talk show hosts (Kimmel, Colbert) don't actually rock the boat in any way. For decades ...
September 19, 2025 at 08:57
I meant the US. In general. Sorry, you're from the down under Continent. I forgot. :sad:
September 19, 2025 at 07:33
In the Trump era, does it? I think you have a gone way downhill from the past. And I think the American public discourse and media environment is very...
September 19, 2025 at 06:00
Do notice that when the US and it's allies fought Al Qaeda and ISIS in large urban areas, there was reports of famine and malnutrition among the civil...
September 19, 2025 at 05:55
So, what do you then think about Osama bin Laden's message? OBL declared that killing even American civilians would be correct and justified for Musli...
September 18, 2025 at 16:26
That's actually how partisan Americans think (as others in other countries). Partisanship has taken such a firm grasp over the discourse. If you do ca...
September 18, 2025 at 16:12
Lol. Well, if the enemy makes the living conditions of the civilians totally unlivable that leads to famine, that's a war crime. That's not inescapabl...
September 15, 2025 at 20:32
But notice the other perspective here: people will likely have offspring. The majority will reproduce. The families aren't going to be as big as earli...
September 15, 2025 at 20:03
When the world seems to be full of butterfly effects, starting from our conception (or our parents meeting, or our grandparents meeting), it looks lik...
September 14, 2025 at 12:53
Do notice that nobody is supporting or justifying the attack done by Hamas, but they are questioning the legitimacy of the objectives of the Netanyahu...
September 14, 2025 at 12:28
Qatar has a quite Byzantine diplomacy on the World stage, once they noticed that money talks and bullshit walks. Hence they can play the game just lik...
September 12, 2025 at 23:40
So Netanyahu attacked Hamas in Qatar. https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/09/09/15/31/SEI265371115-copy.jpeg Yeah, don't mind the Qataris being alli...
September 10, 2025 at 20:20
It's a good point to look at the US as separate states as there's obviously a huge difference between Massachusetts and Wyoming and Alaska. Yet I'm no...
August 24, 2025 at 21:29
This might be actually simply globalization, when we all watch the same movies, follow the same TV series and sports and listen to the same music and ...
August 24, 2025 at 21:12
Do notice that this has been an universal transition that has happened in all Western (and other) countries. Yet not all countries have suffered simil...
August 24, 2025 at 16:20
One may then ask, where did the polarization come from? I think one reason is that people are simply dissatisfied about the political establishment an...
August 22, 2025 at 05:58
Notice that everything called to be a "ponzi scheme" isn't one. Social security systems aren't ponzi schemes, even if they will have problems if the y...
August 21, 2025 at 21:14
Or is put on the other side now, like with Melania suing Hunter Biden for 1 billion dollars? :lol: (Might be quite indeed the Melania was handed down ...
August 21, 2025 at 21:01
Then please refer then to the facts. Have links to studies proving this. Really, I honestly would find that educational and informative for me. This i...
August 21, 2025 at 20:55
It's not only Identity politics. Political discourse has dramatically changed after people have taken up to use social media. The role of mediators, l...
August 21, 2025 at 20:45
Some points: - Cryptosceptics aren't in authoritarian countries, on the contrary, authoritarian countries are prone to have problems of inflation and ...
August 21, 2025 at 11:24
Is it really so? Because I would think many people, also who are politically in the center and on the right, were agreeing with the above far before t...
August 21, 2025 at 06:09
Are you actually in the shower curtain business? No. Your whole issue is a thought experiment. Yet if you would link to an article on how the shower c...
August 21, 2025 at 05:37
But it is to think that nuclear deterrence doesn't work is wrong. Nuclear powers keep their nuclear deterrence as the last defence and WILL NOT escala...
August 19, 2025 at 06:21
Lol. Putin won't risk nuclear war over Ukraine. His nuclear rambling has already paid well off for him. And this has to do everything with agent Trump...
August 18, 2025 at 18:43
Will it, really? Is it the mythical "domestic manufacturer" whose situation will improve when global trade / foreign competition is stifled? Well, whe...
August 18, 2025 at 16:41
As if Putin has made ANY sacrifices towards peace... https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-2229497982.jpg?c=original&q=w_1280,c...
August 18, 2025 at 11:47
One has to understand that the whole discourse about anything that involves especially sexual minorities has been hijacked by the politically driven c...
August 18, 2025 at 06:08
Frank, one should remember just how GDP growth is calculated. Imports are subtracted from the equation, meaning that as imports to the US fall and as ...
August 18, 2025 at 05:53
What's the irony of intelligence services simply doing their work? A sex offender like Trump can easily have 'kompromat' here and there.
August 15, 2025 at 13:57
So Ghislaine Maxwell got a sweetheart deal, can go off from prison to work, something similar that Epstein himself got the first time in Florida. Well...
August 15, 2025 at 08:06
:rofl: Great one.
August 13, 2025 at 19:52
Let's see how the talks in Alaska will go. Not very hopeful as Trump is a very lousy deal maker, and there's still the possibility that Trump pushes U...
August 12, 2025 at 08:40
The largest outcome naturally is that we aren't alone as a 512-page book with obscure writing doesn't accidentally form just by accident in the univer...
August 11, 2025 at 18:30
Trump is a president that will do what he says. Hope the US military will collaborate with Mexico, or it will be something like the US going after the...
August 11, 2025 at 18:14
What the Civil Rights Movement in the US fought for or labour laws in my view isn't anything to do with woke or wokeism. Just as isn't the shortly liv...
July 26, 2025 at 13:41
The problem with this is that basically "woke" and "Wokism" is defined by those who reject the whole thing. It already is a critique. Many of those th...
July 25, 2025 at 19:49
I just love the now Trump is fighting with Rupert Murdoch. I feel good for the Americans who don't like either of the two political parties running th...
July 24, 2025 at 10:52