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Allegedly real (am not watching myself). :lol: The headline I mean. Defendant was arrested. /uploads/resized/files/vv/ul8epbbf8abv5t4k.jpg Fox News la...
June 14, 2023 at 17:39
Some news on the street about the present situation ... NATO leader says Ukrainians are making progress and advancing against Russian forces — Chris M...
June 14, 2023 at 01:50
Those apologetics don't make much sense (to me anyway). Socialists sort of promoting nationalist authoritatian oppressive degenerative capitalist Krem...
June 13, 2023 at 16:06
Ukraine denounces Russian MH17 'rambling conspiracy theory' at World Court — William Maclean · Reuters · Jun 12, 2023 ... has been implicitly confirme...
June 12, 2023 at 17:57
Newly discovered FW13 is something like 15 meters across. It's been (sort of) orbiting Earth for a couple 1000 years, and will continue for another 16...
June 12, 2023 at 12:39
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam ... Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for disastrous dam collapse in southern Ukraine — Susie Blann, Danica Kirka, Edit...
June 12, 2023 at 00:13
Also, the "Ukraine Crisis" thread.
June 11, 2023 at 01:48
An example of sorts over in this parallel post: Tiananmen 1989
June 11, 2023 at 00:59
Caught :) Radio New Zealand investigates Russia-friendly editing of Ukraine articles — Tess McClure, Luke Harding · The Guardian · Jun 9, 2023
June 10, 2023 at 00:48
Not sure how funny this is in the scheme of things, but gave me a chuckle anyway. "Take that, damn tractor!" :fire: :rage: :death: Video shows Russia ...
June 09, 2023 at 23:54
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the Kyiv attack had not been part of the Feb 24 invasion. In terms of strategy, what might reasonably have bee...
June 08, 2023 at 22:08
There's a fair amount of critique of the US, coming from the US, documentaries, movies, interviews, whatever. Some were posted in the thread. Might be...
June 08, 2023 at 00:08
Well, whatever you do with the old stories, ... (incidentally, self-entitlement/bolstering is one of the tricks of the trade)
June 07, 2023 at 03:22
What #legos do when we aren't looking. https://twitter.com/jedipadmaster/status/869196225295392769
June 06, 2023 at 23:07
In: UFOs  — view comment
Lazar gained a bit of fame or notoriety some decades ago when starting similar claims. Types of claims generally easier to prove than disprove (due to...
June 06, 2023 at 13:55
Explainer: What would it mean if Ukraine joined NATO? — Sabine Siebold, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Mark Heinrich · Reuters · Jun 5, 2023 Makes it sound...
June 05, 2023 at 18:13
We can read religious texts as having metaphors, allegories, parables, poetry, creative storytelling/speculation, (apparent) fantastic truth claims, e...
June 05, 2023 at 18:12
Last Stand | Sci-Fi Short Film Made with Artificial Intelligence (9m:59s), by AI, Hashem Al-Ghaili, Tiago Nugent (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
June 04, 2023 at 22:06
Russia's Lavrov accuses West of 'supporting genocide' in Ukraine — Gareth Jones · Reuters · May 30, 2023 Give it up, Lavrov. Still not working. What w...
June 04, 2023 at 16:07
, the Ukrainians want the invaders to leave them alone, the Kremlin wants, well, hard to tell exactly, but officially no Nazis, no NATO. Whatever the ...
June 04, 2023 at 02:41
Indonesia proposes demilitarised zone, UN referendum for Ukraine peace plan — Kanupriya Kapoor, Olena Harmash, Gerry Doyle, David Holmes · Reuters · J...
June 03, 2023 at 20:02
1939 Germans were both, though not because one implies the other. 1929 Fascist Italy made Catholicism the State religion; in 1938 they made some moves...
June 02, 2023 at 15:08
, sure, if the Catholic and Protestant organizations couldn't be reined in, then they might have faced disassembly of sorts; I guess we'll never know....
June 02, 2023 at 01:49
, I don't think Hitler could be called a Christian soldier, more like an opportunist occultist or something. Nazi racism and the Holocaust rode in on ...
June 01, 2023 at 22:29
There's a bit more history to this stuff. The founder of Protestantism wrote On the Jews and Their Lies around 1543. The Church of England also publis...
June 01, 2023 at 04:31
Scientific epistemology: How scientists know what they know (2009, 15 pages) by Carl J Wenning, Illinois State University included in Teaching High Sc...
May 31, 2023 at 22:55
What's up in Idaho? Committee introduces bill on prohibiting ‘vaccine materials’ in food — Ruth Brown · Idaho Reports · Jan 24, 2023 Idaho bill would ...
May 30, 2023 at 04:15
, so, with definitions of meters, miles, stadia, whichever, we can get it wrong. It's not about our definitions, it's about a distance that we may or ...
May 28, 2023 at 14:04
, then how come we sometimes get it wrong? We can get estimates wrong. (Some more than others.) Doesn't make sense for inventions. That's the directio...
May 28, 2023 at 05:58
? backwards Distance to the Moon doesn't begin to exist because someone makes an estimate, rather it can be estimated because it exists.
May 28, 2023 at 01:15
Reports from the streets... ‘Get out’: Influx of Russians to Georgia stokes old enmities — Christian Edwards, Niamh Kennedy, Eve Brennan, Rhea Mogul, ...
May 26, 2023 at 22:33
Hm? :brow: Well, if you ask how far away the Moon is, someone might variously say "No clue", "Between 200,000 and 300,000 miles", "The average distanc...
May 26, 2023 at 15:14
Distance between Moon and Earth is in our heads...? :chin:
May 24, 2023 at 14:24
Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges — AFP via Al Jazeera · May 24, 2023 Someone's busy.
May 24, 2023 at 14:21
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May 24, 2023 at 05:50
Dating ... :D Thomas J Kendall ... https://twitter.com/thomasjkendall2/status/867450471870590976 Marie Connor ... https://twitter.com/thistallawkgirl/...
May 22, 2023 at 02:44
He gets around. G7 summit: Zelensky accuses some Arab leaders of 'blind eye' to war ahead of Japan trip — Tessa Wong, James Gregory · BBC · May 19, 20...
May 21, 2023 at 13:54
Darn universe. Gravitational lens gives us a third estimate of the Universe’s expansion — John Timmer · Ars Technica · May 12, 2023 With such grand sc...
May 20, 2023 at 18:56
:up: Seems odd (to me) that people keep missing the obvious
May 20, 2023 at 13:30
FYI ... Wikimedia Foundation 2021-2022 Annual Report Sales pitch aside, they're doing a fair job.
May 18, 2023 at 14:34
, whip up a new post on that. :up: Discussion-worthy, yes?
May 18, 2023 at 06:02
Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says — Shane Harris, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Mary Ilyushina · The Washington Post ...
May 15, 2023 at 18:56
Monism is an odd word in a way, ambiguous by itself. Not contrary to parallel universes, though. Say, relativity will have spacetime being one whole, ...
May 13, 2023 at 03:03
Isn't skepticism more of an epistemic matter (like justification) than of truth? I doubt (pun) anyone wouldn't value truth one way or other; that seem...
May 10, 2023 at 01:33
Should we put this to the vote? :) Might not be worth it. Who knows how real/honest people would be. I'll just note that I'm confident some would. I.e...
May 09, 2023 at 12:40
, I was thinking of this Tarskian definition, defining finite, then infinite from that... S is a set ?(S) is the set of all subsets of S including ? a...
May 09, 2023 at 12:20
Mathematics has developed a fair understanding of ?. But ? can be a few different things. Cantor (? cardinals) showed that there are infinite differen...
May 09, 2023 at 03:14
, thanks for the comments. Cognitive biases can easily be part thereof. The argumentative aspect (and recognizing it) was more my aim here.
May 09, 2023 at 02:27
CNN reports on the ground ... Russian forces lash out indiscriminately as Ukraine increases military pressure on frontline towns — Nick Paton Walsh, N...
May 09, 2023 at 02:03
, I wonder, how many would say yes/no, and at what $amount (and doing what). Then there are those on more regular payrolls. The full range of spreadin...
May 09, 2023 at 00:22