An insightful and interesting interview with Jeffrey Sachs. I think Sachs puts the "doom & gloom" into a reasonable perspective. https://www.youtube.c...
It is interesting to see how the Ukrainian counterattack goes. The simple fact is that even with military aid they have gotten, they don't have enough...
Wow. Now that would be a dramatic move. But after this we haven't anything new about this, I guess. I remember that Morocco offered cavalry to Finland...
In some occasion, people do understand why someone would have this feeling. If someone kills your family and other loved ones, is it morally wrong to ...
With something quantitative you get people doing quantitative measurement. That is something people simply do. You don't get just an answer of one act...
Well, if you are unethical or try to be something you aren't, then I guess looking for brownie points and measuring ethical conduct as a performance s...
Have to look the articles. I think that both sides did break the so-called cease fire. Before the February 24th assault, the Russian artillery intensi...
I don't think that she's going to be ousted. Basically the opposition understands that attacking Marin now can end up damaging them and they can just ...
I don't think it was a typo from @"Olivier5" (but I could be wrong, of course). Well, I'm not sure just when Russians weren't Russians. Or the time wh...
I don't think they are slaves, and haven't been for a long time. Sometimes you are just in a country where politics doesn't work so well as in other c...
Why would any hatred of a large people or a country be morally right? I think you should judge individuals by their actions. Regimes can be totalitari...
As an old saying goes, everything is fine "up to a point". Perhaps it's that there are many videos. Actually, she didn't apologize, but made a tearful...
I think the feeling is mutual with the Slavophiles in Russia. They haven't ever liked the West and especially they haven't liked the westernizers, the...
Except that usually arms are sold. Not given. That's the real difference here. So I don't understand what your point is with this kind of rhetoric. Po...
Except giving military and financial aid to Ukraine. Which actually rarely happens. How isn't the ANNEXATION of Ukrainian territory clear evidence of ...
There's a huge difference on what kind of subsidy one wants for a negative outcome than with the tax one would pay for there be no negative outcome. F...
Russian fighter Igor Mangushev tells what he thinks about the goals of the war, with a skull of an Ukrainian soldier as a prop: https://www.youtube.co...
:smile: Well, people just evading authorities and moving into the forest is said to be one reason why Russia didn't have similar feudalism as in Weste...
By logic, do you mean first order logic? To me it seems like one takes the natural numbers and then assumes you can deduce from the natural numbers th...
One thought, hopefully adequately understandable: What if our premisses are wrong when we try to make a theory of truth as we try to do it? That we ju...
There is a very interesting longue durée in the way Russia works it's imperialistic goals. The methods and tactics are basically same. From Putin's sp...
In Kekkonen's and Koivisto's time yes, but in the 1990's the tabloid press started to be "normal" even in Finland by European standards. For the last ...
I remember when they studied the effects of WW2 on children in Finland, they found that the most traumatic experiences were with those children that w...
I think you are correct. Anyway, elections are held in 2nd of April next year and likely this administration will limp forward until there. I don't th...
HAHAHAAAA! Four pages already of our PM. :razz: Well, Sanna basicallty jumped to this immediately. I think only some opposition politician tweeted tha...
I think you and me will have to wait about 30 years before we have a reasonable view of what likely happened. It's true that only 50-100 years history...
In my view the February 24th attack was simply a gamble where the risks didn't seem so huge as prior gambles had worked. We forget just what have been...
Again the "Putin attacked Ukraine because of NATO-membership" argument? I think everyone agrees that one single reason doesn't explain a decision to g...
I'm not so sure about that. We do know something about how Russia works. Don't think it's all speculation. Starting with the US knowing that Russia wo...
But they have not. And that's the important issue here. With the information we have, we can at least quite confidently say that Russian morale isn't ...
Yes, this came first apparent when Putin's own intelligence service raided the FSB headquarters responsible for Ukraine after the war had started. Lik...
I had no idea that I was talking to a women. I've seen studies that the diet worsened from the Early Middle Ages to the age of industrialization, but ...
I had that response from reading the OP, which was quite on with the lines how typically these debates go. And sorry if a see this issue more from the...
US demographics is far better, thanks to immigration. And you think in those profit and non-profit organizations the managers didn't listen one iota a...
Might be. But usually these issues are more about virtue signalling than about the actual issues. So few are actually trans, for example. Some people ...
Fair enough, I haven't read all of your posts. But I still think there's a lot of hubris in our thinking that we are sooo different from animals. Yes,...
Why bash animals? I've always thought that we are just smart animals, but otherwise there's not much different other than our extreme hubris about our...
Thanks for making a video. Just a question: is metaphysics really "the science of reality"? I think it would be study of what is outside our objective...
When you start a large conventional war and don't call it even war, you have this. Putin had the balls to put the Russian Armed Forces to make an all ...
We've been created to go well without food for one day, actually. It's water that we need basically daily. Well, sort of. Assume if you had eaten for ...
It is true that they have raised millions from poverty and don't face starvation as they did in truth with the failed Maoist experiments. But what is ...
Really? Compared to what? North Korea? :roll: Even if they (the CCP) say there still Marxist-Leninists, they do have private property (especially afte...
I don't confuse the two. I think that usually those think that capitalism is immoral and a world without private property would be moral. Yet all we h...
As many of the owners today are institutional investors and mutual funds, the role of the employed managerial class is the most important. The owners ...
Even the FSB personnel don't seem happy to go to Ukraine: Similar news and that some Russian troops don't want to serve in Ukraine (see here) or some ...
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