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:D What a circus 'More than a majority' of RNC members want to help pay Trump's legal bills: insiders — Travis Gettys · Raw Story · Mar 6, 2024 Bloodb...
March 12, 2024 at 04:33
Posts like these seem tankie to me: 10 years since the far-right coup in Kiev — A Ukrainian socialist · World Socialist Web Site · Feb 28, 2024 In Kie...
March 11, 2024 at 18:26
On a Russian perspective (Kremlin really), here are some options (inexhaustive), not mutually exclusive: • ? Ukraine to develop on a self-chosen path ...
March 11, 2024 at 16:17
Great :/ Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images — Marianna Spring · BBC · Mar 4, 2024 Fake images made to show Trump with Black sup...
March 11, 2024 at 13:48
I think it depends. People are ... taught a main language, rarely more than a couple others ... incentivized to not just shoot others on the street (e...
March 09, 2024 at 17:09
Infinites can be counter-intuitive but are not themselves logically contradictory, e.g. Hilbert's Hotel and Shandy's Diary. Here's an old attempt to d...
March 09, 2024 at 08:56
In some places you're not allowed to laugh... Ironically, this was during a "Knowledge.First" marathon of the Russian "Knowledge" Society. :)
March 08, 2024 at 21:36
Russian missile may have targeted Zelenskiy, Greek PM, says Ukraine aide — Yuliia Dysa, Bernadette Baum, Gareth Jones · Reuters · Mar 7, 2024 (— WION ...
March 08, 2024 at 06:46
, alternative brief: "Witty defender of democracy retires"
March 07, 2024 at 22:18
Gave Annihilation (2018) (sci-fi) another spin. Had forgotten how creepy the screaming bear-thing is. Also reminds me a bit of Solaris (2002). I suppo...
March 07, 2024 at 07:02
Quick read for the interested: The surprising origins of wave-particle duality — Ethan Siegel · Big Think · Feb 21, 2024
March 05, 2024 at 16:37
, would it be better to say that there are lots of fools (of whatever sort) around? It's not confined to people that are extremely ignorant, though. I...
March 05, 2024 at 14:44
Understanding these arguments is the easier part, agreeing is harder. Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly — Vladimir Putin · The Kremlin · Fe...
March 03, 2024 at 19:21
And those thefty/violent settlers should be hit by Israeli law and order as readily as we might expect elsewhere. To the extent that Palestinians woul...
March 03, 2024 at 04:43
, are you going by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis here...?
March 01, 2024 at 04:58
Putin's address to Russia's parliament — Lucy Papachristou, Gareth Jones, John Davison · Reuters · Feb 29, 2024 Uncanny how little change to the relev...
March 01, 2024 at 02:08
News from Canada Turkey that terrorized Quebec town taken down by slingshot-wielding resident — Cassandra Yanez-Leyton · CBC · Feb 29, 2024
March 01, 2024 at 01:21
:D Pesky to announce that the Kremlin is carefully considering their request to come to the aid of their operativ...err...pu...cough compatriots, ahem...
February 29, 2024 at 03:02
Thanks for the history lesson, . Wash? No, observation.
February 27, 2024 at 15:12
Fellas, the heated he-did-she-did routine isn't really adding much. The Middle East thing has been developing (unveloping) since, let's say, the end o...
February 27, 2024 at 03:15
Another example of tiptoeing around Russia: Scholz Reiterates No Taurus Delivery To Avoid Ukraine War Involvement — dpa via RFE/RL · Feb 26, 2024 Alth...
February 27, 2024 at 02:29
And now the Afghans have been left in the hands of a barbaric theocractic cult. How unfortunate. You wrote "generally " which applies to an emerging E...
February 27, 2024 at 00:10
And thus by that note, abandon defense, especially sufficiently strong ones? Nah. It's not just nuclear deterrence. But Europe should get its act toge...
February 25, 2024 at 22:32
Lots of talk at the UN, New York ... Ukraine accuses Russia of 'colonial conquest' at feisty UN session — Bernd von Jutrczenka · dpa international · F...
February 25, 2024 at 06:54
Hmm. Well. Cannon ball trajectories (roughly) form a parabola over time. The position (spatial) can be expressed as a function of time. Physics. (High...
February 24, 2024 at 18:34
, I'm not quite seeing the difficulty. When the bus arrives (temporal location) + where the bus arrives (spatial location) — the spacetime location — ...
February 24, 2024 at 07:40
, so a location in time and space, both? :up: I'm thinking that duration and simultaneity are reliable/meaningful enough that we depend on them, both ...
February 24, 2024 at 00:05
Navalny team says Russia threatened his mother with ultimatum to avoid burial at Arctic prison — CBS (+ AFP) · Feb 23, 2024 Would the authorities (als...
February 23, 2024 at 22:35
What am I to do over at the bus stop, when I find that the bus is scheduled to arrive in a few minutes...? Do I deny that "events have temporal locati...
February 23, 2024 at 17:03
Isn't it more that events have temporal locations? Anyway, duration and simultaneity are meaningful enough, and suggest some temporal structure taken ...
February 23, 2024 at 12:43
Sure, maybe that's an aspect of sorts, yet it was never about NATO specifically. It's about the Kremlin's vision of Russia, at least the current autho...
February 22, 2024 at 05:36
Russia is rebuilding capacity to destabilize European countries, new UK report warns — Danica Kirka · AP · Feb 20, 2024 The Threat from Russia's Uncon...
February 21, 2024 at 04:09
Ethan informs The 4 big black hole frontiers for gravitational waves — Ethan Siegel · Big Think · Feb 20, 2024 Scalar waves top left Vector waves bott...
February 20, 2024 at 21:55
COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated ind...
February 20, 2024 at 05:57
@"neomac", long tedious invasion at first masquerading as uprising. Known playbook, seen before.
February 20, 2024 at 03:37
Don't know how much of this stuff is news around here, was to me anyway: Former Wisconsin Republican Party chair says he was tricked by fake elector p...
February 19, 2024 at 05:20
:D The Donald Dog Toy
February 18, 2024 at 16:17
The largest country in the world...? :brow: Russia will persist, Putin is 71. Once again conflating grand (somewhat USSR-style) vision, at the expense...
February 18, 2024 at 15:54
:D Old Joe versus The Clown
February 18, 2024 at 00:35
(my emphasis) Not saying right/wrong, just that you keep interspersing postulates. Per earlier, the war was about loss of control. (Aren't resources/a...
February 17, 2024 at 23:00
, climate can terrorize if poked long enough collectively by humans.
February 17, 2024 at 22:39
A fictional dialogue ("When what happens in Moscow, goes to FUK3") translated to English: Some of the footage that came out of the imprisonment remind...
February 17, 2024 at 19:48
, you missed the point (again), or skirted or whatever. Regardless of Kremlin CIA Mossad Sri Lanka whatever, this is what the Ukrainians wanted (again...
February 16, 2024 at 14:41
, yes yes, I know, everyone should hate the US...and blame...at least suspect...always. Well, I've been asking "To what end" in contexts like this, an...
February 16, 2024 at 07:00
Russia and West clash over Ukraine at Security Council meeting ahead of war anniversary — Edith M Lederer · AP · Feb 12, 2024 Whenever the Kremlin cir...
February 15, 2024 at 17:09
There was and is no such independence, remember? :D Rather, regions were grabbed by the (regressing) Kremlin empire after their campaigns. (odd how th...
February 15, 2024 at 17:07
Looks like Yandex departs Russia, joining whatever others (ExxonMobil, McDonald's, Rönesans Holding, Payoneer, Match Group), for whatever reasons. Fai...
February 13, 2024 at 02:17
Okie then, you concur, land grab, because power and such, NATO or not. (By the way, they have other Black Sea presence + Sea of Azov.) Their "dire exi...
February 12, 2024 at 23:47
, again, it wasn't specifically about NATO†, it was about loss of control (any such control and influence, to anyone), hence the land grab: But, hey, ...
February 12, 2024 at 16:59
@"boethius", so, in short, you say Russia is not really a threat to anyone, but NATO is an existential threat to Russia. :D *hah* Yep, NATO is a threa...
February 12, 2024 at 04:19