I wouldn't quite put it past Lukashenko and friends to stage a fake attack on Belarus by, say, Lithuania or Latvia. Possibly (or likely) coordinated b...
, from my interactions with some of those folk, I think some of your comments are fairly accurate. Maybe some. But otherwise evangelical types, Mormon...
I guess this has been abandoned. Geneva Conventions » Protocol I » Article 1 - General principles and scope of application: 1. The High Contracting Pa...
Not spiders. ;) Neat discoveries though. Signs of spiders from Mars — ESA · Apr 24, 2024 Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City'...
, ah, but you won't find any purely deductive dis/proof of solipsism. You might think that I'm just a figment of your mind — rude. :) Seems you've mov...
, I guess we do away with errors, delineate propositions, build on what has worked, assess evidence + reason, ... Epistemic standards is a comprehensi...
, without aid, Ukraine would eventually get rolled over by Russia. Conversely, if supporters went by "give them what they want if they stay democratic...
Welcome to, . Here you'll find a good lot of smart people, some grumpy old-timers, and such. Hang your virtual coat in the virtual lobby, grab a virtu...
NATO Spending by Country 2024 (World Population Review) Which Countries Meet NATO’s Spending Target? (Visual Capitalist) Map shows how much Nato membe...
:D Lovely spot by the way. My last visit to Spain was Peñíscola, another lovely, albeit tourist'y, spot. Some of the restaurants in the castle area ma...
Johnson holds that the Earth is half a dozen 1000 years old. The universe, too. Sure, I guess biological evolution is out the window then (which, gran...
The KGB of Belarus announced the prevention of strikes by drones from Lithuania on Minsk — TASS · Apr 25, 2024 Belarus says it thwarted attack on capi...
Can anyone make sense of this? The Integrated Triad A derivation of the Trinity within our rational comprehension. — Johanan Raatz · Mar 26, 2017 · 8m...
, it's not about being a scientist (at all), it's about being reasonably well-informed, and not putting childish superstitions above evidence + reason...
Continuing on from Apr 18, 2024 ... 'Who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?' Conservative media sours on far-right rep — Carl Gibson · AlterNet · A...
Argentina asks to join NATO as President Milei seeks a more prominent role for his nation — AP · Apr 18, 2024 Unexpected? (Maybe it can help with the ...
, believing literally ... a few 1000 years ago some people lived 900 years, there was a magical world flood some 1000s years ago, the supernatural Yah...
As to my comment (can't speak for others), I wasn't surprised that you can find people with ridiculous beliefs, but that this fella' was elected for p...
Yeah. Though I think it's been known for some time. (*cough* this thread has examples) Then again, there's an elected official that believes planet Ea...
Something that puzzles me is how someone like Mike Johnson (US politician) can be elected by large numbers of adults. He's a young-earth'er, wants to ...
Evidently, shedding the shackles of the dominating neighbor is no small task; they're trying though, and have shown willingness to reform in the middl...
While checking Undersea ‘hybrid warfare’ threatens security of 1bn, Nato commander warns — Miranda Bryant · The Guardian · Apr 16, 2024 an old report ...
Criticizing one's own society is all cool, and important, except when it tends to tunnel vision (or Kremlin-blindness, apropos). Fault-finding in this...
, haven't read the books; I'm told they're good. We've started watching the original Chinese TV version, "Three-Body". Like how it tickles the imagina...
, my impression was that just about everyone knew early on. Besides, didn't some of those drones more or less fly over Baghdad, some over Syria, some ...
I'd say a Ukraine that's not Russia is in most but the Kremlin's interest, including, if not especially, Ukraine's. Been covered already. Tell us more...
, that's what I've been observing — tunnel vision, Kremlin-blinditude — that you write as if you by reducing the war to your mantra, certainly not wha...
That's it? What the Ukrainians wanted has nothing to do with it? Irredentism and Putinian Russification have nothing to do with it? Democracy versus (...
Russian ambassador sees no return to previous format of cooperation with Finland — TASS · Apr 6, 2024 Seems to me that "lost its independence in " is ...
Here are some military numbers plotted out, three graphs are about NATO, two global/general. An overall rough trend was down-slope until about 2014, t...
I normally expect world leaders to be reasonably reliable. Not perfect or anything, but reasonably reliable, fairly measured, engendering some minimum...
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