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, the Kremlin deciding to lay ? waste to Finland (or Ukraine) would be bad for Russia/ns. The Kremlin would have to harbor madness of sorts to go down...
April 09, 2024 at 20:36
Some speak of cultural pendulums swinging throughout history. Inglehart and Welzel tried to quantify cultural changes since the 1990s in two dimension...
April 09, 2024 at 04:12
How do these people get elected for office? https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1776282144416972941
April 09, 2024 at 01:42
A brief timeline of events: 2010 Jan 17 · Ukrainian presidential election 2010 Feb 7 · election runoff (Yanukovych, Tymoshenko) 2013 Nov 21 · Euromaid...
April 08, 2024 at 21:54
, double down insisting on teaching select parts of US history? :grin: (2023Mar21, 2023Dec17 - no sainthood there, but no matter) Resume the analysis/...
April 06, 2024 at 21:47
FYI, some election-related events (tass)(rferl)(csmonitor)(bbc)(politico)(nytimes)(bbc)(wired) around the Euromaidan / Dignity Revolution commotion (2...
April 06, 2024 at 03:33
, so, using the thread to air other grievances? I suppose that could explain the Kremlin-blindness here. (Say, how to differentiate from an anti-US ca...
April 06, 2024 at 00:04
Surviving the NYC Subway (Paul Olima · Nov 4, 2023 · 1m:5s) :D
April 05, 2024 at 17:33
Well, that's kind of odd, since you've repeatedly railed on just about the evil US, with being a rare exception. :D Countless comments have been repea...
April 05, 2024 at 17:18
As to causes/explanations, maybe people just generally live healthier, or train/use the brain more, who knows. I doubt it means better/smarter. Heck, ...
April 05, 2024 at 13:20
Bigger brains? Trends in Intracranial and Cerebral Volumes of Framingham Heart Study Participants Born 1930 to 1970 — Charles DeCarli, Pauline Maillar...
April 04, 2024 at 21:56
, that's not what Dignity (or Euromaidan for that matter) was about, though it was about looking west (democratic EU) rather than north (Putin's Russi...
April 04, 2024 at 19:15
, so, back to the inquiry, what the heck was the Kremlin to do with that, with what UA wanted? (? still part of the analysis) , some cherry-picked sug...
April 04, 2024 at 04:51
, I'm guessing most on the thread know about this point of yours, since you've repeated it a few times. My inquiry was a different one, though. You de...
April 03, 2024 at 14:22
, I guess you think that what they wanted was genuine (in lack of a better word), as opposed to instigated by the US? That's consistent with their eff...
April 03, 2024 at 00:24
, maybe, but you responded to something else. Here :point: (? part of the analysis)
April 02, 2024 at 06:32
Is the US ready...? Pro-PRC DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Campaign Leverages New TTPs to Aggressively Target U.S. Interests, Including Midterm Elections — Ma...
April 02, 2024 at 03:39
I guess that's a way to have others do their bidding ... Czechia busts Russian propaganda network targeting European elections — Martin Fornusek · The...
April 01, 2024 at 22:53
There have been some reports of thermobaric bombs (2022Mar1, 2022Nov17, 2024Mar16), this time Velyka Pysarivka (between Sumy (?nw) and Kharkiv (?se)) ...
March 31, 2024 at 16:02
That's your response? Maybe give it some more thought. There's a war between Russia (invader with support) and Ukraine (defends with support). This pa...
March 31, 2024 at 07:07
In the news, imperialist hegemony :D Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen area — The EU · Mar, 30 2024 , I'll try clarifying for you, let me bullet'...
March 31, 2024 at 03:21
:D Ukraine was the one being invaded. Invaded by Russia at the Kremlin's orders. Which wasn't invaded, or attacked. North Korea and Iran are waging a ...
March 30, 2024 at 00:33
$65US for a small shield? :) Invisibility Shield (Mar 2022) Not exactly perfect, but kind of neat.
March 28, 2024 at 21:31
Reflexive control came up again in ISW's analyses. Dis/mal/misinformation, manipulation, get others to speak the Kremlin's case, in addition to the sh...
March 28, 2024 at 06:30
Essay might be interesting to some ... Nature Creates Increasingly Complex Systems — J X Mason · Jun 16, 2018
March 27, 2024 at 22:42
, don't forget the Sunni (85-90% worldwide) versus Shia (Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Bahrain) conflict. Internal to Islam, they're not seeing eye-to-eye, ...
March 27, 2024 at 15:11
The Baltimore bridge collapse (Mar 26, 2024) didn't take long to bring the crazy out Schlapp: lockdowns and the pandemic, yep, and drugs :mask: Mace: ...
March 27, 2024 at 00:10
:D Had a conversation about the sun at a Flat Earth Convention and it almost broke us. (Nov 1, 2023 · 1m:18s) https://twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/...
March 26, 2024 at 16:08
Maybe some will find this worthwhile giving a debunk The nomological argument for the existence of God (— Tyler Hildebrand, Thomas Metcalf · Big Think...
March 26, 2024 at 12:20
We watched 3 Body Problem :nerd:
March 24, 2024 at 21:30
Vladislav Inozemtsev lives life on the edge. Kremlin critique can be unhealthy. :) He's not far off the mark.
March 24, 2024 at 20:32
... due to existing food trucks being turned back, either at crossing points or inside Gaza. Some trucks with medical supplies turned back because a p...
March 24, 2024 at 14:24
, maybe they're seeking to justify whatever military endeavors and changes to the economy. Could also help take domestic minds off Putin having seized...
March 23, 2024 at 04:26
I guess this has become a part of everyday life in Kyiv: This Kyiv florist captured a missile attack on CCTV (— Anastasiia Shulha · Reuters via CBC · ...
March 22, 2024 at 15:07
Yeah, I don't get it... It's...random... Like plucked out of the thin air...
March 21, 2024 at 03:16
So, how to not "provoke" the Kremlin (and North Korea)? I guess it depends on their plans...? No military (or related change/activity) in the vicinity...
March 21, 2024 at 03:16
62-year-old manages to get a couple hundred shots over two and a half years...? More than one a week on average? Criminal charges weren't filed agains...
March 20, 2024 at 00:43
Medvedev is a top official, but comes through like a rambling comedian these days. He wasn't always, so what happened anyway? (Here's a detailed story...
March 18, 2024 at 05:36
@"BitconnectCarlos", @"RogueAI", ..., I think it goes both ways. Radicals (anyone really) grabbing land at gunpoint should be jailed. Caveat emptor, s...
March 17, 2024 at 16:55
, news coverage around here (or at least what I've seen) gradually changed from the initial attack, to the hostage situation and invasion, to the huma...
March 17, 2024 at 06:31
, this is straightforward bias (and flirting with ad hominem): — "Israelis commit these-and-those humanitarian offenses" — "calling Palestinians misog...
March 16, 2024 at 23:16
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March 16, 2024 at 01:31
Millions of people are trying to make it to North America. Why Chinese migrants to the US risk deadly journey via the jungles of South America — Shawn...
March 15, 2024 at 21:19
How's this for a really brief summary then? After WW2, others gave Jewish survivors places not theirs to give. Conflict. Israel established. Jews turn...
March 15, 2024 at 14:40
Parrot tells firefighter to ‘f**k off’ after getting stuck on roof (Aug 13, 2018)
March 14, 2024 at 14:57
(please note, Weiss is a Jewish Israeli, which is reflected in the article) Are Americans getting even dumber? - opinion — Stewart Weiss · The Jerusal...
March 14, 2024 at 14:17
2024 voting in occupied Ukraine: Russians bring in security forces for sham presidential elections in Ukraine's occupied territories — Tetyana Oliynyk...
March 14, 2024 at 02:32
And the invading Russians have installed people they allegedly sought to do away with. For that matter, Kadyrov's Chechnya resembles Nazi rule noticea...
March 13, 2024 at 23:10
... idea suggests a single point of decision, like monolithic or "one voice". Yet, that's the kind of thing that happens in autocracies. Ukraine's sup...
March 12, 2024 at 21:52
AI (voice only) :D AI Trump: The Second Campaign Ad (2024 Mar 6 · 1m:29s) AI Biden: The REAL State Of The Union (2024 Mar 7 · 1m:31s)
March 12, 2024 at 20:50