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Actually, the current globalized economy gives a rise to oligopolies. What Economists love is a Perfect Market with Perfect Competition, which is extr...
July 21, 2025 at 15:31
Last time I wrote was two days ago, so couple of weeks is a bit of an exaggeration. And having a summer vacation... Well, what do you think Patel and ...
July 18, 2025 at 21:55
I agree with you. I think it might very likely truly be true, the World is simply such a crazy place. And years ago I remember one US media (I think i...
July 17, 2025 at 20:20
Nope, reality of the Trump presidency. Which is something like a tragicomedy. Just last year Maxwell lost the appeal against her sex trafficking convi...
July 16, 2025 at 16:33
So now when Trump is saying there's no Epstein client list, will Ghislaine Maxwell walk free and have evidence dropped? Talk about where Trump & frien...
July 15, 2025 at 10:33
Yep, now it's time for the usual actions of the Trump administration. And this is just his first year. I start to anticipate that we really can have t...
July 13, 2025 at 12:13
But this doesn't at all counter my point of there being uncomputable mathematics and hence uncomputable problems. Or to put it another way, undecidabl...
July 09, 2025 at 10:26
Do note the "as a kind of machine". Yes, we can talk for example about molecular machines in our body, but there still is a difference between living ...
July 06, 2025 at 20:07
Machines and living entities are a bit different (as I assume you know), but let's accept the very broad definition here and ignore the obvious physic...
July 06, 2025 at 10:18
So now the Elon/Donald breakup has gone to the point where Elon is saying that he will create a new political party, the America party. Yet what's the...
July 06, 2025 at 08:42
Russian imperialism 1.01, the short version covering the past and the present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEmQmUTaEqw Noteworthy comments from th...
July 06, 2025 at 08:36
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It seems so. We agree on this. Perhaps the policy of Trump is be in the limelight at all times and make people/countries react to your actions?
July 05, 2025 at 16:31
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You have a strange idea of hostage situations, but anyway. Very typical to totally forget and sideline here the House of Saud, which is very crucial t...
July 05, 2025 at 16:29
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It's not irrelevant. How did the Warsaw Pact countries then show their gratitude towards Russia after being former "allies" of the Soviet Union? Of co...
July 04, 2025 at 14:34
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I don't have a hatred towards the US. The US has had a great foreign policy in the long run in Europe. When other countries voluntarily join your alli...
July 04, 2025 at 14:21
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If your previous allies turn into your enemies, how do you think that would be a success of any kind? Bullshit. Laying waste to a region isn't anythin...
July 03, 2025 at 23:31
It's simply human behavior. It comes from us being aware of our surroundings and simply from survival skills. Reasoning, logic and putting things into...
July 03, 2025 at 10:03
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You are right. If US Middle East policy is looked on the long run, it really has been a train wreck. But people just don't think about it. Yet when yo...
July 03, 2025 at 09:50
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In the long run maybe, yet it wasn't a disaster. Iran isn't parading captured Israeli or US pilots. Nor are there pictures of IDF or USAF/USN aircraft...
July 02, 2025 at 15:38
Well, technological advances have kept up, so even if we already have experienced Peak conventional Oil many years ago, yet we don't have a crisis of ...
July 02, 2025 at 00:13
Well, the so called High Art has it's tendencies to go the extreme as @"Count Timothy von Icarus" gave us an example with "stuff like human excrement ...
July 01, 2025 at 23:14
At least here I can say that this is a good thing. And also that Trump has gotten the 5% defense expenditure in NATO going forward... and he didn't le...
July 01, 2025 at 22:44
What is interesting that both in the fall of Rome and the fall of Constantinople you have in both cases a huge logistical disruption of simply there b...
July 01, 2025 at 19:24
I wouldn't say that. Simply after the technique was basically universal, which any art school could teach, then the focus was simply to have other tec...
July 01, 2025 at 18:12
Don't forget Trump's war on international institutions, like the ICC and the UN. In economics I'd say Trump is at war against international trade and ...
July 01, 2025 at 05:56
Well, there was a time called the Renaissance, so at least people back then did think that art had fallen back in the Middle Ages. Only in the 19th Ce...
June 30, 2025 at 18:57
Well, I would be really happy if the book written by Zeno of Elea would be found and we could read thodr additional paradoxes that Zeno had found and ...
June 30, 2025 at 00:09
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18th Century was a mess in Europe. A lot of wars and very unstable alliances. Yes, there wasn't yet industrial warfare, but there were the fighting an...
June 29, 2025 at 23:43
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Good point, actually North Korea is the country which is now in a firm defense pact with Russia. The North Korean troops now fighting in Europe show t...
June 29, 2025 at 23:37
To the soft skinned, any new idea or thought is a critique of something old. And then, we never start from an empty plate, we never clear our minds an...
June 29, 2025 at 23:20
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Exactly. To welcome back Iran to the international community, or at least to accept not attacking it is against the hawkish policy. Even if Iran would...
June 29, 2025 at 22:52
That was known, but the main issue is what happens to M23 or what it does. Is it capable of fighting the DRC without backup from Rwanda? And anyway, m...
June 29, 2025 at 20:58
And you understand that Rwandan military and the M23 are two different entities and that DRC is fighting mainly the M23 and that the agreement was bet...
June 29, 2025 at 17:40
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I do agree that Trump has plans. Many plans, actually. Like "Liberation Day" tariffs, remember? Great plans! Yet in this occasion it's totally clear t...
June 29, 2025 at 17:30
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Think about it, just for a while. Assume your country would be striken with missiles for 12 days. Over two hundred civilians would have been killed. T...
June 28, 2025 at 15:12
WTF peace deal are you talking about? You are basically talking about the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from Congo, but not about peace between M23 and...
June 28, 2025 at 15:08
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Israel got lured the US to join the strikes on Iran, which sooner or later (and now sooner) were stopped. The reality just why the noecons under Bush ...
June 28, 2025 at 14:43
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That's something I've not stumbled into and something totally on a different scale than the Gaza health officials are themselves stating. It would bas...
June 25, 2025 at 10:03
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No. It's because millions of Europeans died in the two World Wars and many countries have had the experience that defending their country only gave th...
June 24, 2025 at 21:50
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In truth, it isn't. If we mean by nations rising that they become prosperous. War and conflict doesn't create prosperity, it might only transfer wealt...
June 24, 2025 at 18:38
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Having a nuclear credible nuclear deterrent keeps the US from attacking an "axis-of-evil" country that has been declared to be a rogue state. Worst po...
June 24, 2025 at 09:30
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And here the courts got an ample amount of this rhetoric after the Hamas attacks. Yet I think the real threat is ethnic cleansing on a vast scale. Our...
June 24, 2025 at 09:18
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The Oslo peace process was far later than the 1970's. If you want another one to blame is of course Jasser Arafat, who didn't take the agreement when ...
June 24, 2025 at 09:11
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I understand your point. My point is that we don't really want to have inflation on the term genocide or it to be a popular derogatory adjective as "f...
June 22, 2025 at 21:48
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@"BitconnectCarlos", naturally you see lies in there being a "Nakba" or "Palestinians", but the people living in West Bank and Gaza don't see it that ...
June 22, 2025 at 20:57
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Just what genocide? I agree with you. This is Likud party's main line: there doesn't have to be any peace with the Palestinians, there can be a perpet...
June 22, 2025 at 16:45
Vera was one of those members whose comments I always liked and whose discussions I enjoyed. Very sad to hear this. Condolences to her family.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26
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Ah, Trump's big beautiful war is here. Trump the peacemaker, Trump the "no-foreign-wars" peace president! :rofl: Seems that Donald "I'm not going to s...
June 22, 2025 at 10:22
No. Don't you notice agriculture from the old times (even if it's used still today in India or Latin America)? They are creating a swidden. Very popul...
June 22, 2025 at 09:18
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Trump's war is coming closer, more B-2 Spirits are deployed forward: Seems also that Iran is still launching missiles into Israel.
June 21, 2025 at 23:15