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The Clown talks about grabbing the Panama Canal and Greenland to cheers in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 23:00
Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers - David Spiegelhalter — Oxford Mathematics · Dec 11, 2024 · 49m:55s https://www.y...
December 20, 2024 at 19:23
In terms of probability, it's as unlikely as any other character sequence of that length. Equally unlikely, equally possible. By the way, something si...
December 20, 2024 at 07:17
Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care — The Onion · Mar 5, 2018 /uploads/resized/files/36/d7...
December 19, 2024 at 21:36
Well that sucks Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulation Linked to Long-Lasting Brain Effects — Helmholtz Munich · Nov 29, 2024 Persistence o...
December 19, 2024 at 07:52
, talking $s doesn't mean that all else is BS (also known as a non sequitur). I suppose you might check the tragedy of the commons. Say, up-and-coming...
December 17, 2024 at 22:56
:up: If their rationale was just NATOphobia, then what would the land grabbing accomplish anyway? Bring alerts to the world (including NATO) with aggr...
December 17, 2024 at 03:56
, well, now and then I get a notice, a way to keep tabs on what's going on. Becoming informed is not the same as taking the notices/stories seriously....
December 16, 2024 at 01:39
Well, I don't think that many immigrants are headed out in the wilderness (or build residences etc), be it in the US or Canada. :) Typical destination...
December 16, 2024 at 01:21
A pretty face, and some 634K followers on x/twitter as of typing, networked. An example of what mad dis/mal/misinformation/bullshit campaigning can lo...
December 15, 2024 at 18:34
Amazon or the like doing test runs? At least the areas seem right, but maybe not that plausible, you'd think someone would speak up. Amazon successful...
December 15, 2024 at 03:48
I'm not personally big on Templeton. Some may find this a worthwhile read: Can Digital Computers Ever Achieve Consciousness? — Marcus Arvan · John Tem...
December 14, 2024 at 20:33
, regardless of the murderous rampage, with unaddressed injustices, don't expect the problem to go away. Putin's Russia employs industrialized suppres...
December 13, 2024 at 15:59
, nah, just a general well wish. Even to the idealists. ;)
December 13, 2024 at 05:16
So, we have people around here that detest kindness, condone murder, want to shut down social media, long for demolishing democracy in favor of anarch...
December 12, 2024 at 21:21
3-year-old data from the UK remains consistent with US data from 2022 Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring betwe...
December 09, 2024 at 14:48
I'm thinking that there also is a reification (model ? world) thing going on here, but that's where some physicists depart from philosophy, on the sur...
December 08, 2024 at 16:17
Russia and Iran abandon Syria, low on resources, can't keep it up, due to other crap. Ripple effects related to Ukraine and the Middle East (Israel). ...
December 07, 2024 at 20:55
212,000 lives, $105 billion ... Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pand...
December 06, 2024 at 05:54
So, lower clouds ... Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo — Helge F Goessling · Science · Dec 5, 2024 Summaries ...
December 05, 2024 at 21:06
: Scandalous. : Yeah. In some ways at least, it can go further than conspiracy theorists and such, when (otherwise seemingly well-meaning) intellectua...
December 05, 2024 at 00:52
Well, that's too bad , I guess you go by own firsthand accounts. :D If you don't (or can't) evaluate more to add more context, then that's too bad as ...
December 02, 2024 at 04:42
... to the silent cheers of a few that don't have the US' best interest at heart. All their "deep state" "swamp" enemies ... crap sells, especially to...
December 02, 2024 at 03:41
December 01, 2024 at 16:52
I guess most are familiar with this stuff, unification, when things get really small they get weird, ... Space-Time: The Biggest Problem in Physics (—...
December 01, 2024 at 02:45
, well, whatever anyone might expect, some of what happened (or is happening) in the name of peace and a neutral Ukraine: ? Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-...
December 01, 2024 at 00:08
"Your eyes are deceiving you." These Cubes are Not Moving | Optical Illusions I Science (— Our Space TV · Dec 28, 2021 · 22s) https://www.youtube.com/...
November 30, 2024 at 01:54
What say you? European nations denounce Russian hybrid attacks, cable cut probes launched — Andrius Sytas, Barbara Erling, Johan Ahlander, et al · Reu...
November 29, 2024 at 07:45
A Japanese minister brought up an Asian defense alliance: Ishiba's 'Asian NATO' dead on arrival as new PM set for diplomatic debut — Kathleen Benoza, ...
November 28, 2024 at 04:10
EDITED They went ahead with the opposite. Started a war and whatnot. Supplied the Ukrainians (+ others) with more reasons for wanting to join NATO, or...
November 27, 2024 at 20:09
I suppose, if the tariffs were high enough, then the imports would be canceled, which would be bad for the exporter (compare with sanctions). The impo...
November 27, 2024 at 01:47
It was about Ukraine's (established) independence, sovereignty, all that, and that the Ukrainians might assert it sooner or later. "Fortunately" for t...
November 26, 2024 at 22:09
:up: Also, Fox and friends are entertaining, like The Jerry Springer Show. Has been referred to as entertainment, for that matter.(thedispatch, logica...
November 26, 2024 at 16:33
, break a leg (err you know what I mean) :up:
November 25, 2024 at 16:19
Anal breathing can save lives Mammalian enteral ventilation ameliorates respiratory failure — Okabe, Chen-Yoshikawa, Yoneyama, Yokoyama, Tanaka, Yoshi...
November 25, 2024 at 16:15
My wife wanted to watch the documentary Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (2024 · 1h:24m), so that's what we did. Some will call it propaganda, others ...
November 25, 2024 at 06:26
On a Bird's-Eye View, the numerous wars waged by countries throughout history, killing numerous people, destroying, seems kind of ridiculous. Along th...
November 24, 2024 at 17:21
Of course , "it's the useful, safe, reliable implementation that needs work".
November 22, 2024 at 08:44
Seems like a case has been made. Maybe not just the EU, but including other interested European countries? And yet that's exactly what Russia kicked o...
November 22, 2024 at 08:31
, if we assume something like this can be weaponized (which it likely could), then (knowing homo sapiens) someone may do that eventually. If others do...
November 22, 2024 at 07:23
Obama urges NATO members to pull their weight — Nolan D McCaskill · POLITICO · Nov 15, 2016 Others have commented similarly to Obama. (Reasonable or n...
November 21, 2024 at 17:08
I was oddly reminded of Star Trek... If the Kremlin is willing to start a nuclear world war over a fifth of Ukraine, then everyone, including Russians...
November 21, 2024 at 01:57
Hmm... Seems like a neat idea (not quite new though)... Startup Promises to Beam Sunlight from Space (— via TheBrainMaze TBM · Sep 7, 2024 · 52s) http...
November 20, 2024 at 05:52
: Well, if the Kremlin circle is paranoid, then it's not about NATO in particular, but about anyone resourceful supporting Ukraine's independence, sov...
November 20, 2024 at 04:48
1000 days in. The Kremlin still hasn't gotten their way. Frachon opines: With Trump in the White House, Charles de Gaulle's prophecy is coming true: O...
November 20, 2024 at 04:05
, my apologies, sorry you read it like so. FYI, this stuff has been covered quite a bit in parallel threads (here, here, 2023dec31, 2024feb29, 2024mar...
November 19, 2024 at 22:08
, in more recent history, when Russia looked more like today, the invasions they tend to bring up are France/Napoleon and Germany/Hitler. I suppose th...
November 18, 2024 at 05:31
Something's a bit off ? here. NATO isn't seeking to take over countries. Countries seek to be part of NATO for defense and have to qualify (which can ...
November 17, 2024 at 06:16
:up: "The US" does not refer to a single/uniform/monolithic entity. I suppose that's exposed by the nature of democracy. Administrations come and go, ...
November 16, 2024 at 22:45
The Clown did something he's good at, "drag others down to his level and beat them with experience" (paraphrasing Twain or whoever). Why play his game...
November 15, 2024 at 23:12