What sentiments are there here...? • irrelevant, there's no climate change • there's climate change, and it has nothing to do with humans • there's cl...
A mad time + place. The Great Purge preceded the Great Patriotic War. Incidentally, invading Nazis found mass graves from the genocidal activities of ...
A century or so ago saw idiotic authoritarianism emerge in several places. Mussolini, to be called Il Duce by his followers, kick-started his fascist ...
Russia boosts nuclear forces amid ‘hybrid war’ with the West: Putin — Al Jazeera · Dec 19, 2023 The article summarizes some of what's come out of the ...
I'm not quite sold on modal metaphysics, at least not as distinct. There are incompatible metaphysics that each are unverifiable and unfalsifiable. Me...
Depraved clown. What does that make his voters? Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ — Chris Michael · The Guardian ·...
Ukrainians may have a not-so-merry Christmas this year: Analysis: Ukraine has had a terrible week. Blame the US and the EU — Nick Paton Walsh · CNN · ...
According to multiple sources, Dec 17, 2023: Starting false here (nope, Finland chose, Sweden chose, Ukraine chose) again exemplifies the alternate wo...
If nothing else, at least the story hasn't been "disappeared" / suppressed. Opinion: ‘At my first meeting with Saddam Hussein, within 30 seconds, he k...
Ough :/ Microplastic pollution rained down on Canada during a hurricane — Carolyn Wilke · New Scientist · Dec 7, 2023 It's raining microplastics: Hurr...
'I Didn’t Change My Number': Macron Still Open To Dialogue With Putin If It Helps To Bring Peace — Samuel Petrequin · AP · Dec 15, 2023 How to negotia...
, Iraq was based on false/fabricated intel and later turned into a disaster. (also Nov 14, 2023) If not much else, at least Saddam Hussein's wretched ...
Justified yes (evidential), proven no (purely deductive). ? different By "properly" do you mean deductively, with logical certainty? Metaphysics that ...
That would be my guess as well, though there are some (ambiguous) signs... "others are out to destroy Russia" tightening domestic control + nationalis...
Incidentally just scrolled by: Comparison of mild physiological effects of surgical masks and N95 respirators over 60 min at rest — Valerie C Cates, A...
There's a fair roundup over here, though the latest may not have made it in: ? Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Wikipedia) Collaboration, mRNA/protei...
Because a group is more powerful than any of its individuals alone? No individual alone could put a satellite into orbit, end the Holocaust, create or...
In a TV Q&A (of sorts) on Dec 14, 2023 with Pukin (NBC, AP, Reuters), Mikhail Khodorkovsky noticed some unanswered Qs: “Why does your reality differ f...
Quickly thrown together (some of those on the left are related): * Nazi Germany Contemporary Russia (or the Kremlin) systematic oppression yes yes aut...
Hyper-critique could be down to finding a single fault + subsequent complete dismissal, not in logic/mathematics, but more social/human matters. Norma...
FYI Anyone interested in what Russian propaganda looks like can check Ural Daily (Dec 10, 2023). Not sure of the intended audience. Really? :D The Kre...
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks — Tara Copp · AP · Dec 10, 2023 So, Kremlin saber...
:D There's something funny about this: Russia’s Latest Disinformation Tactic Exploits American Celebrities — Steven Lee Myers · The New York Times · D...
, plus with some (typical) partners, the UK, France, Canada, Poland, Romania, whoever, a no-fly zone of sorts could have been imposed and maintained e...
If one does not believe an external world exists, then one is a solipsist, right? Or, if one is not a solipsist, then one believes an external world e...
I guess formal law amendments can be done during wartime + martial law: The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk reported on th...
FYI, interview with Sergei Ryabkov: “I don’t think that relations between Russia and NATO will be restored” (en) — Semyon Boykov · Izvestia · Nov 29, ...
I guess people are used to Medvedev's ramblings by now... Oddly enough, (threats of) nuclear world war by and large only come out of the Kremlin circl...
What's different between what we want to reconcile? (mind and world, perception and the perceived, etc) For one, introspective (self-referential) vers...
FYI, here are some grim trackers: • HermanCainAward (w) • sorryantivaxxer • CovidiotDeaths Somewhat akin to the Darwin Awards (w). Similar lists have ...
Might we not as well shut down elementary (and other) schools then? In case Trump's crap was true, it would merit action (like the My Lai massacre and...
Via Die Welt and Passauer Neue Presse on Dec 7, 2023: I'm guessing a few echo Wittmann. (you can translate the German via google translate or similar ...
:D I'm pretty sure there are radicals shooting at Biden in the US as well. (They probably don't know (or care about) those others.) In Russia, childre...
As far as politics go, Yekaterina Duntsova seems a good candidate. In Russia, war and fear trouble one presidential hopeful — Guy Faulconbridge, Ed Os...
Just watched The Mill (2023). Don't know the fancy terminology, but, anyway, it's like an abstract social critique, perhaps mostly of corporate cultur...
Exactly. Hence, the Kremlin circle = serial liars (+ hypocrites). Dis/agree? Whether you do or not, the Kremlin circle does, and employs that as a rat...
, if you went over the thread, I think you'd find that there's no denying that Ukraine has a slew of social problems, so don't put words in my mouth. ...
Impressive. Different from your old-fashioned bank heist. Ransomware group 'Black Basta' has raked in more than $100 million -researchers — Raphael Sa...
:D , everyone having followed already knows (re-repeating, again), in fact, extremism is a problem all over (e.g. † below), yet, again, ... in fact, t...
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