Suppose someone offered you $500 for parading whatever crap around for a few hours. More? $5000? (What?) However it was imparted (as if a prank? part ...
, Robert Francis Kennedy Junior is an idiot with a cause, a category or two (or three) below his uncle. What's up with these mad in the US anyway? Ber...
From the looks of it, the east is where the mercs are sent to die. Only need (a less expendable) regular army to ("volunteer" locals to) dig trenches ...
Certitude? :brow: Many would like to know what happened regardless, but you claim to know. Why just him? :chin: Means :up: Opportunity :up: They were ...
? is a number (real), ? is not, hence they're not the same. ?2 and e are other examples of irrational real numbers, not ? either. ? or 1/3 is a ration...
The 2020 documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (1½ h), featuring Harri Hursti, might be a worthwhile watch for the interested. ...
, at first I thought the date was significant; either way Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Not posted on Apr 1st: How Our Reality Ma...
Take a walk on the wild side ... Researchers Make A Bold Claim About The Real Origin Of Octopuses — Kelsey Nighthawk · DigitalTrends · Apr 1, 2021 Pan...
10 great ideas in philosophy from the past 50 years, according to one scientist — Wes Van Voorhis · Big Think · Apr 30, 2023 100 (or 150) years instea...
As-is or a ruse or something? I guess we can only wait and see. Prigozhin threatens to withdraw his mercenaries from Bakhmut if they lack ammunition —...
, for all we know, the onslaught in the east could be part diversion from digging in elsewhere. Ordinary strategy anyway, but it's anyone's guess. Ukr...
, so, Russia rolls into Ukraine at the Gremlin's orders, bombs blazing, grabbing land, Ukrainians defend with foreign aid, and the defense are labeled...
Where the World Wants to Work: the most popular countries for moving abroad Would everyone end up in Japan...? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGy9uom...
Reactionaries on the move in Texas? Texas state agency orders workers to dress ‘consistent to their biological gender’ — Sam Levine · The Guardian · A...
, nope, not like that. Like "off-topic mudslinging" where two (or more) posters sling mud at each other in a thread. You thought the tankie comment wa...
Tidbits from the science community ... Even with quantum entanglement, there’s no faster-than-light communication — Ethan Siegel · Big Think · Mar 9, ...
@"invicta", not sure if this is what you had in mind or otherwise helps any... The truth values of indexical propositions are context dependent. SEP, ...
Wait, that annoys you , bothers you, irritates your bones, rankles your wit, ... :D Well, get to it then... Moldova goes the same way, down the Kremli...
As of typing, the votes are about fifty-fifty, so I'm wondering about the certainty you express. (Please keep in mind, it's not so much about "possibl...
PeoplePeople, please keep the off-topic mudslinging elsewhere. The INBOX for example, or set up a "Flamery" thread in The Lounge or something for more...
Nah, your questions aren't necessarily others' questions, except in your head. There are potential concerns that may or may not have eluded you, say, ...
Some polls of varying quality, but there you have them: Donbas ? Russia in 2014: 35% :up:, 65% :down: (May 12, 2020) Donbas ? Russia in 2015: 19% :up:...
, ahh no, the quote was your average rambling point from a movie. :D Vaguely related, might let you know if you need to pay special attention in the f...
A theme running through certain comments, often implicitly: The state is an alien Kafkaesque entity, remote and distanced from oneself. (Almost like a...
Will this work? What do you think? The Kremlin wants ‘real men’ to prove themselves by joining the fight in Ukraine — Yuliya Talmazan · NBC News · Apr...
Once the called the "breadbasket" of the Soviet Union, then of Europe, moving control thereof from Kyiv to the Kremlin would be a win for Putin, both ...
, right, anarchy (true individualism, absence of organized state, or whatever) is "unstable" by nature, tending away therefrom, like the 1 anarchist b...
, well, sure, "everyone bad", and Facebook handed over data, Apple once refused, Chinese government agencies have a pipe into TikTok, London UK has a ...
What the heck is the deal with those supposed "Chinese police stations" outside China anyway? Weird. Suspicious. Warrants investigating. Maybe just lo...
There's something strangely absurd about this... Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers — Al Jazeera · Nov 8, 2021 39,000 tons of cl...
An observation regarding taxes... The places I call home have what some would call fairly high taxes. Yet, I know a few ordinary families with, say, m...
That wasn't the point. It's like a 100% tax throughout. (more of a semantic/dictionary difference, like "state" versus whatever you might call it, not...
The plot thickens ... Text messages reveal Trump operatives considered using breached voting data to decertify Georgia’s Senate runoff in 2021 — Zacha...
, well, you're not going to get executed for not paying taxes. :D In the US you could (conditionally) get 5 years behind bars, according to H&R Block;...
, well, sure, except for observations. It's just that you've expressed the diversion thing as more than plain speculation, while seemingly ignoring ot...
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