Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers - David Spiegelhalter — Oxford Mathematics · Dec 11, 2024 · 49m:55s https://www.y...
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...
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...
Well that sucks Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulation Linked to Long-Lasting Brain Effects — Helmholtz Munich · Nov 29, 2024 Persistence o...
, 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...
:up: If their rationale was just NATOphobia, then what would the land grabbing accomplish anyway? Bring alerts to the world (including NATO) with aggr...
, 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....
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...
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...
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...
I'm not personally big on Templeton. Some may find this a worthwhile read: Can Digital Computers Ever Achieve Consciousness? — Marcus Arvan · John Tem...
, regardless of the murderous rampage, with unaddressed injustices, don't expect the problem to go away. Putin's Russia employs industrialized suppres...
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...
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...
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...
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). ...
212,000 lives, $105 billion ... Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pand...
So, lower clouds ... Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo — Helge F Goessling · Science · Dec 5, 2024 Summaries ...
: Scandalous. : Yeah. In some ways at least, it can go further than conspiracy theorists and such, when (otherwise seemingly well-meaning) intellectua...
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 ...
... 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...
I guess most are familiar with this stuff, unification, when things get really small they get weird, ... Space-Time: The Biggest Problem in Physics (—...
, 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-...
"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/...
What say you? European nations denounce Russian hybrid attacks, cable cut probes launched — Andrius Sytas, Barbara Erling, Johan Ahlander, et al · Reu...
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, ...
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...
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...
It was about Ukraine's (established) independence, sovereignty, all that, and that the Ukrainians might assert it sooner or later. "Fortunately" for t...
:up: Also, Fox and friends are entertaining, like The Jerry Springer Show. Has been referred to as entertainment, for that matter.(thedispatch, logica...
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 ...
On a Bird's-Eye View, the numerous wars waged by countries throughout history, killing numerous people, destroying, seems kind of ridiculous. Along th...
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...
, 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...
Obama urges NATO members to pull their weight — Nolan D McCaskill · POLITICO · Nov 15, 2016 Others have commented similarly to Obama. (Reasonable or n...
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...
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...
: Well, if the Kremlin circle is paranoid, then it's not about NATO in particular, but about anyone resourceful supporting Ukraine's independence, sov...
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...
, 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...
, 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...
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 ...
: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, ...
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...
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