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If a woodchip floats from upstream, time to move further away into the wilderness. https://www.sytyke.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/13-3-9451213.jpg
June 21, 2025 at 23:10
I think he's not among us anymore. And people who think like him don't run the World. I mean really, how many people live like him, seriously? It's th...
June 20, 2025 at 22:58
Self sufficiency is smart thing to prepare if there is crisis and the sea routes for trade are blocked. If you're self sufficient in food production, ...
June 20, 2025 at 21:10
Never underestimate the effect an derogatory and condescending statement from a foreign leader has on a population. Add there sky high tariffs on high...
June 20, 2025 at 10:07
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To target specific buildings or SAM sites by medium range artillery missiles is very difficult. You have a lot of difficulty in making the final corre...
June 20, 2025 at 09:59
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Iran still capable of firing rockets at Israel? That doesn't sound good for Bibi. Fact is that Iran is a huge country. Israel is already starting to c...
June 19, 2025 at 22:57
Yep. When I googled images "ICE going after Latino people", I got this photo: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cf310c7693fad98d1ce32c7dace8d9aedfb8be87/...
June 19, 2025 at 20:11
Soon Nimitz will be in striking range of Iran, so there's going to be two carrier strike groups in the area. Plus the B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia, whi...
June 19, 2025 at 18:43
Yep. Definitions of invader: Merriam-Webster: one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause Oxford Learners dicti...
June 19, 2025 at 13:07
That's what I meant. It's a true political and philosophical question just where we draw the line of hate speech or inciting people to commit violence...
June 19, 2025 at 01:17
I think many government employees do realize how dysfunctional this administration is. It was surprising just how same the story was told during the l...
June 18, 2025 at 23:01
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And that's not relevant to this scenario, where Israel has a nuclear deterrent and enjoys total military dominance over it's rivals. And intends to ke...
June 18, 2025 at 22:30
I don't know if it's true or just the ramblings of this administration, but.... But at least there seems to be hope that Stephen Miller went simply to...
June 18, 2025 at 14:33
It's the latter case. What I'm saying that especially with right-wing terrorism in the US, those who want it and promote it, understand that any consp...
June 18, 2025 at 14:15
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Hopefully indeed, as that is a really foolish idea. Just look at the size of Iran. And unlike Iraq, it's a quite unified country and likely would put ...
June 18, 2025 at 13:57
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Well, in the end Operation Peace for Galilee wasn't a huge success as in the end it created Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel had to withdraw from Leban...
June 18, 2025 at 13:44
That was just a month ago what you said, @"NOS4A2". Well, seems like it's very close that we indeed get a Trump war, now with Iran that was started by...
June 18, 2025 at 00:07
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Argentina claimed the Malvinas, invaded it and then fought for them with the Argentinian forces finally surrendering to the British. That's a defeat, ...
June 17, 2025 at 17:14
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No. As I said, if you shoot a man that didn't shoot you, you simply need a lot explaining to do to the judge, because you will be the one that shot. A...
June 17, 2025 at 17:07
Thank you for one of the best replies I've ever gotten in this Forum. It's really great when somebody understands my points. Here are some comments th...
June 17, 2025 at 11:19
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I don't think so. There's no need for an escalation like the Israeli attack on USS Liberty.
June 17, 2025 at 09:44
This is about the Eagle S incident from last December. Basically the police inquiry has ended with charges laid towards the crew members. Law takes it...
June 16, 2025 at 21:54
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After they have been bombed by foreign state, why would Iranians start killing each other? Or will they say that they endured most that arch enemy cou...
June 16, 2025 at 21:46
Are political assassinations in Minnesota, the killing of Melissa Hortman and her husband and the attempt on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife a...
June 16, 2025 at 21:38
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I don't have to imagine that. I'm Finn and living next to Russia. My summer place is literally less than 10 km from the border of Russia. No matter ho...
June 16, 2025 at 21:07
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That's not the contrary. What you were told is that they would never go to war. That it indeed would be impossible, because "it would be irrational an...
June 16, 2025 at 17:05
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Yep. Hopefully Iran won't enlargen the conflict by closing the straight of Hormuz. This would put oil prices skyrocketing and force Trump to go to a f...
June 16, 2025 at 08:36
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Now it's about combat survivability of the Iranian missile launchers and armament production as this becomes a battle of attrition. In the end it's ha...
June 15, 2025 at 23:13
I think it's just simply.... lovely. The tankers and IFV crews are waving at the people, some are chewing bubble gum. Some salute the commander-in-chi...
June 14, 2025 at 23:44
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Well, I don't think that Iran is economically back in the 1980's yet. Even if you have had 200 combat aircraft attack Iran.
June 14, 2025 at 23:01
Lol. Trump has never fought the Israeli lobby. What a bullshit lie. Like when campaigning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Moh4StQ6n4 Yet unlike prev...
June 14, 2025 at 22:37
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Likely they just want to bomb it back to the 1980's. They'll surely go for the (oil) infrastructure after they have finished with the nuclear weapons ...
June 14, 2025 at 22:22
Illegal immigrants usually get caught when attempting to enter the US. As everybody knows how hostile Trump is to immigration, the illegal immigration...
June 14, 2025 at 20:03
After this, it should be very obvious that the US isn't what it was before. It's far more worse than a country like Hungary with Orban. If this is the...
June 14, 2025 at 19:51
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First thing about this war, which should be obvious to everybody: Israel and Iran are separated by a long distance and thus there is no ability for th...
June 14, 2025 at 19:34
This is the reality we live in. Just remember that according Putin and Russia, Russia is at war with NATO. To the Russians, best defense is active off...
June 11, 2025 at 13:41
Did I say that? Nope, but the usual strawman argument from you. I think the real question is the enthusiasm Trump wants to federalize the National Gua...
June 10, 2025 at 04:36
The micromanagement of the universities is indeed breathtaking. Now I get it, when there's an institution, as we also have, as something like the "Min...
June 09, 2025 at 19:45
Oh, this is what basically Trump and the MAGA voters have drooled about for a long time: having riot police and the army cracking down on immigrant pr...
June 09, 2025 at 19:13
Finally, Trump is getting his riots. He has wanted this so much. And just where he wants them most, in pinko liberal California with an annoying gover...
June 08, 2025 at 22:26
Putin's Normal behaviour. And that is what the Russia armed forces can do. Large cities are easy targets.
June 08, 2025 at 22:21
I think the use of tactical nuclear weapons is only going to be used if somehow the Russian front is in such a dire position that it could collapse. O...
June 06, 2025 at 01:38
It's just wonderful that after everything Elon is now going after Trump. What better than two annoying assholes going at each other. (Of course, the s...
June 06, 2025 at 01:04
Everything is about objectivity and subjectivity, actually. It's not merely a psychological issue, but simply logical. We can easily understand subjec...
June 01, 2025 at 21:12
Very seldom does a central banker give such a straightforward lecture on the large picture of monetary policy. (Especially Fed Chairmen can give extre...
June 01, 2025 at 20:11
Seems like Ukraine did a very successful drone attack against Russian strategic bombers just today. Short range drones smuggled into Russia and then a...
June 01, 2025 at 19:44
There's actually a long thread about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies that was started seven years ago here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/245...
May 31, 2025 at 05:12
I didn't know this. Thank you! The idea is that computers (or Turing Machines) follow algorithms. An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a probl...
May 30, 2025 at 00:25
I think that here really lies some awesome axiom that is simply missing from our philosophical and mathematical vocabulary. Once we know that axiom, e...
May 30, 2025 at 00:09
Seems you don't have any idea just how a modern scientific university works. On the contrary, foreign students bring money into universities... especi...
May 29, 2025 at 23:24