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Putin claims West made Zelenskyy Ukrainian leader to mask "glorification of Nazism" — Global News · Sep 5, 2023 · 1m:47s https://www.youtube.com/watch...
September 06, 2023 at 21:19
, nature isn't particularly fair (or unfair). But maybe fusion could be like a "magic bullet"? The source used by (I think, feel free to correct), bri...
September 06, 2023 at 19:27
Right, hence the failure in the second supposition above. Ego-priorities — of those that will be gone soon enough, leaving our children's children... ...
September 06, 2023 at 06:49
Anyone have solid/reliable numbers for • amount of fossil fuel deposits (let's say oil and coal) • amount of fossil fuels burned by humans since (or s...
September 05, 2023 at 23:03
Recruitments from prisons have come up prior.
September 05, 2023 at 20:34
At a checkpoint between Kolotilovka (Russia) and Pokrovka (Ukraine) north of Kharkiv: How Ukrainians are fleeing life in Russian-held territory — Aya ...
September 03, 2023 at 20:08
As far as Bostrom's argument goes ...
September 02, 2023 at 20:24
, are those Molotov cocktails? As to the former (Ukraine), I'm thinking that hate, unity, nationalism, patriotism grow easy during invasion, ongoing b...
September 02, 2023 at 13:45
Reports from the ground: Ukraine's Kharkiv builds classrooms underground to protect students from missiles — Vitalii Hnidyi, Max Hunder, Angus MacSwan...
September 01, 2023 at 13:56
, yeah. It's when it turns dangerous/dehumanizing/detrimental that it becomes everyone's problem. For the time being, I'm not all that optimistic.
September 01, 2023 at 13:54
, well, crazy is easy enough to come by. :) • Gypsy curse- my friend might be cursed by a rock? (Yahoo, ? 2009) (other archive) • Nigeria police hold ...
September 01, 2023 at 00:03
Felshtinsky speculates: Putin's days numbered as FSB in process of choosing next Russian president — Joel Day · Daily Express · Aug 30, 2023 Whatever ...
August 31, 2023 at 23:38
(all subject to change, incomplete, ...) Being • a being often refers to a (possibly supposed) sentient lifeform • being in general can more or less b...
August 31, 2023 at 03:32
The Western world needs Trump to be saved: Hungary’s Orbán urges US to ‘call back Trump’ to end Ukraine war in Tucker Carlson interview — Bela Szandel...
August 31, 2023 at 00:11
But that didn't answer the query. You just took an opportunity to point fingers at your favorite enemy instead. :shrug: (How about you ask a sizeable ...
August 30, 2023 at 22:33
Fvcksakes, it's 2023. Saudi man receives death penalty for posts online, latest case in wide-ranging crackdown on dissent — Jon Gambrell · AP · Aug 30...
August 30, 2023 at 19:38
Ironically enough, some air has been breathed into NATO with the moves against Ukraine. Same old in Moscow: 'I stand by my opinion': Russian on trial ...
August 30, 2023 at 19:22
:D Well, it's been a while since the US grabbed land. (I'm wondering if they should have stayed in Afghanistan, what do you think?) By the way, some 3...
August 30, 2023 at 13:35
Can you define a word without just using more words...? You can find "stampede" and "elephant" in a dictionary, which, in turn, uses more words. Yet, ...
August 30, 2023 at 05:38
Are those organized hackers Russian these days? FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime — Frank Bajak, Stef...
August 29, 2023 at 21:20
What would we ever do without a good conspiracy theory :) Body-Double? Wagner Group Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin May Not Have Been on Plane That Crashed, ...
August 29, 2023 at 20:26
As an aside, the Ukrainian counteroffensive have been propped up considerably by the press (and others), resulting in expectations (timewise in partic...
August 29, 2023 at 14:35
, I was commenting on these, mostly the former (emphasis mine by the way): How many Russian and Ukrainian troops do you think there are in Ukraine at ...
August 29, 2023 at 05:15
Well, some more numbers... Russia (largest country in the world) is about 28 times the size of Ukraine, GDP is about a factor 15 (not per capita), pop...
August 29, 2023 at 04:40
FMI, do you mean GlobalFirepower? ISW? FOCUS online? Another one? Some rough estimates of troop sizes ... Russia Pre-invasion at border: 169,000 - 190...
August 28, 2023 at 19:10
, if you have access to Wikipedia, you can check False or misleading statements by Donald Trump. It's one angle anyway.
August 28, 2023 at 18:16
Axe writes: As Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Gains Momentum, Russia Is Deploying Some Of Its Last Good Reserves — David Axe · Forbes · Aug 27, 2023 There...
August 28, 2023 at 16:36
FYI, GlobalFirepower has various military metrics giving some indications of relative strengths/weaknesses for different countries. Russia ranks high ...
August 28, 2023 at 06:07
:D Might just turn around and take a look. Has this ever failed you? (Would you expect something more than that?)
August 28, 2023 at 02:58
Frontlines move here then there. Ukrainian forces now appear within striking distance of the next series of prepared Russian defensive positions, whic...
August 28, 2023 at 01:15
It's ice cream season in the northern hemisphere. /uploads/resized/files/sf/wd1qm0fnkw375nid.jpg /uploads/resized/files/op/rdw3mjbsszkg5f9u.jpg
August 27, 2023 at 23:13
Not all of the something-industrial complex are purely evil. ;) Are electric vehicles definitely better for the climate than gas-powered cars? — Andre...
August 27, 2023 at 23:08
:up:
August 27, 2023 at 23:06
, yeah, it's crazy. :/ The Euromaidan protests started in Nov 2013, just prior to Russia grabbing Crimea. In Feb 2014, the Russo-Ukrainian war started...
August 27, 2023 at 20:53
What's up with that? Is he just plain lying or something? Donald Trump’s ‘round of 67’ at Bedminster Club Championship has fans rolling on the floor l...
August 27, 2023 at 19:34
They'd likely have preferred US (and whatever) presence staying in Afghanistan: Female Afghan students stopped by Taliban on way to Dubai — Camilla Al...
August 27, 2023 at 06:37
In a radio interview, Danilov opines: I'm not convinced that someone else in particular ordered Prigozhin to initiate their "march of justice". If eno...
August 26, 2023 at 19:44
Prigozhin and Utkin (+ 8 more) down, Surovikin out of commission, Zhidko gone by the way — actors in a gangsterdom writ large. WATCH: People lay flowe...
August 26, 2023 at 07:44
*hah* I have a feeling this will p¡ss off the Kremlin, and I haven't seen the trailer. :D "CIA Propaganda!" "Hollywood Lies!" Then the crew might be s...
August 23, 2023 at 21:40
Chandrayaan-3 highlights: India becomes first country to land successfully near Moon's south pole (Aug 24, 2023) Way to go, great accomplishment :up:
August 23, 2023 at 20:10
, these two sentences have a kind of...similarity to them... :) • Prigozhin died in plane crash • Putin had Prigozhin killed
August 23, 2023 at 19:37
Destroy this, destroy that: Yet, the same old self-victimizing crud: Russia wants to end war unleashed by West in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin at BRICS — S...
August 23, 2023 at 19:27
Poland’s leader says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security — AP · Aug 22, 2023 More or less Russian forward ...
August 22, 2023 at 21:37
, that's roughly the story of John Chau in 2018, just not Africa but the Sentinelese. So, not hypothetical.
August 22, 2023 at 14:26
I suppose you can't doubt that something exists. Not exactly informative, though, hardly a fantastic epistemic discovery/development or grand philosop...
August 21, 2023 at 15:30
Would it not be a matter of who voters vote for? That's assuming voters are most of "the people". Of course voters can be poorly or well informed or b...
August 21, 2023 at 04:15
Increasing wildfires are likely partially + cumulatively caused by climate change, and are bound to have a climatic effect in turn. Lots of :fire: thi...
August 20, 2023 at 15:59
In continuation from an Aug 17, 2023 comment... Bulgarian minister: 'We cannot rule out' clash between NATO, Russia in Black Sea — Martin Fornusek · T...
August 20, 2023 at 05:22
Just another day in Ukraine. Seven dead including six-year-old girl as Russian missile hits center of Ukraine’s Chernihiv city — Maria Kostenko, Sarah...
August 19, 2023 at 15:15
@"NOS4A2" Some have suggested going more or less in the opposite direction than what you suggest. That's assuming you suggest no state, government, ta...
August 18, 2023 at 16:27