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Emphasis mine ... It's unclear what that will mean for ... Russian attack on western Ukraine hits an American factory during the US-led push for peace...
August 26, 2025 at 23:36
Do people out there really just swallow all this? Unsubstantiated postulates (as usual) just in that post: very high popularity (self-appraisal) accor...
August 26, 2025 at 22:50
Does that count as free speech, or, more generally, free expression? Is flag burning protected speech? What to know about Trump's order (— BrieAnna J ...
August 26, 2025 at 20:54
, you can click on your name () to find the older post. The current Gaza situation is a humanitarian disaster. (If I remember right, Biden started put...
August 25, 2025 at 20:37
, were you thinking of this (poster)? /uploads/resized/files/sv/xorin18p9cfe1n9q.jpg I'm in. I'm not on board with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. No...
August 25, 2025 at 19:22
Trump keeps pulling this one ... What are the supposed real, (magnitude) higher numbers that he's using for comparison? It's a standard case of "Put u...
August 24, 2025 at 20:28
Nope. They have all kinds of funding, some including from the US State Department, the Economist Intelligence Unit mostly from revenue, ... It varies,...
August 24, 2025 at 04:12
Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says — Phys.org · Aug 22, 2025 The "accelerating" part is a downer. (Is that still a word?) E...
August 23, 2025 at 20:47
How public lying can work: Feb 27, 2014 · Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War) (— various via Wikipedia) Feb 26, 2019 · From 'Not Us' To 'Why Hide I...
August 23, 2025 at 05:12
, you've repeated that already and have already gotten responses. As to my comment, should I take that as a "Yes" + a "No", then?
August 23, 2025 at 05:12
, globalization has already happened in whatever ways. Goods-versus-bads is apparently a hot topic in some circles. Blanket globophobia is a wee immat...
August 22, 2025 at 14:30
Neat that it can return to its recharging station. Can you teach it new tricks? Has anyone equipped it with a shotgun yet? Makes you wonder how far mi...
August 22, 2025 at 01:43
Leavitt: Countries 'respect the United States again' (— NBC · Aug 19, 2025 · 49s) (via Fox) Not really. Though some have learned how to entertain him ...
August 22, 2025 at 00:54
, Washington (again)? Are you claiming that the reports are all plain wrong?
August 21, 2025 at 16:28
, oddly enough, such reports tend to come out of places with sufficient freedom and review. Go figure. You're free to call them a collective of conspi...
August 20, 2025 at 20:50
That's what you see? Not supporting the Ukrainians trying (despite getting sh¦t all over again and again), wrestling free from their old northern shad...
August 20, 2025 at 20:07
You think Orbán (2024, 2025) and Fico (2024, 2025) are down with trading Hungary and Slovakia for Ukraine? A territory swap, an exchange, perhaps acco...
August 20, 2025 at 01:31
Close call on Jul 15, 2025: White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off Hegseth wasn't fired over the incident. Democrats are expected to be blam...
August 19, 2025 at 19:48
Speaking of freedom, , here's a list from higher to lower: ? Norway, Australia, United States, South Korea, Singapore, Russia, North Korea • Interacti...
August 19, 2025 at 17:18
, that makes it 20 years before the new tsar broke their own law along with the agreement you mention. Add Trump's Crimea Declaration of 2018, and wha...
August 19, 2025 at 13:34
:up: to Melania if the reports are accurate: Melania Trump Letter to Putin Handed Over in Alaska (— Newsweek · Aug 16, 2025) Trump • cut tracking of k...
August 19, 2025 at 04:28
FYI, here's how some Russians took the Trump-Putin meeting: Not much new I guess... Trump could trigger a financial crisis in Russia — if he wants to ...
August 17, 2025 at 12:26
, "Leave no one behind" has taken a new meaning under Trump: fire specialists, hire loyalists. Musk later turned less loyal, it seems. :grin:
August 15, 2025 at 04:58
, for a while, I was waiting for DOGE to raise cases of fraud and crimes, like they advertised, with much cheering from the Trumpists, but I gave up w...
August 15, 2025 at 04:37
:D /uploads/resized/files/c9/81sro5bdg4ivlm7c.jpg (please delete if inappropriate)
August 13, 2025 at 00:37
I continue to be impressed by the amount of gymnastics to try making sense of such religious text/creed. Way back in school, we were doing formal proo...
August 12, 2025 at 21:28
Wouldn't be the first time anyway ... Putin’s warlord ally flying migrants into Europe (via yahoo) — Joe Barnes · The Telegraph · Aug 9, 2025 Not the ...
August 11, 2025 at 07:10
, I'm not sure it's so ... "non-mysterious". ;) It's not like scientific efforts to reconcile quantumatics and relativity, which are inherently open t...
August 09, 2025 at 21:47
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era — Craig S Neumann, Darlene A Ngo · Journal of Research in ...
August 09, 2025 at 21:18
I guess no one wanted to take up Hanover's comment? The perennialists sometimes bring up the parable of the blind men and an elephant. Might be better...
August 09, 2025 at 20:56
Did Trump accomplish something...? U.S. secures strategic transit corridor in Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal (— Steve Holland, Ross Colvin, Lincoln Fea...
August 08, 2025 at 00:11
Did Moscow get hit by a heatwave or something? The children of Severomorsk are told that neighbouring Nordic countries support Nazism — The Barents Ob...
August 07, 2025 at 23:58
The Cathars believed that Jesus was pure spirit, not a physical human. But, they were run over, so their faith was largely stomped out. , I just meant...
August 07, 2025 at 12:29
, watch out for explosions.
August 07, 2025 at 00:20
They're not. (I'm assuming you're referring to naïve set theories.) There are axiomatics that are free from the paradox you suggest. I'm not sure I'd ...
August 06, 2025 at 21:50
Apparently still going strong. Can be done in the right circumstances. The world’s first solar-powered train in Australia (— Bridgestone Corporation ·...
August 05, 2025 at 16:48
, this story? :D Trump orders termination of labor statistics official after jobs report and downward revisions (— Fox · 2025 Aug 1) Trump removes off...
August 04, 2025 at 15:31
, agaigain: an effect they can have is you (mis)understanding them. (and, beforehand, light, sound, or something, whichever doesn't matter much, also ...
August 04, 2025 at 13:45
@"NOS4A2", how do (or might) you learn new stuff and correct mistakes? "Move! Car!" never has any effect on you? (still not seeing much to "set this o...
August 02, 2025 at 14:11
Here's a poster. I'd include Hamas. /uploads/resized/files/8f/5z1fk7ur80th7h1d.jpg
August 02, 2025 at 12:42
, I don't think it's a concluded story. I guess we'll see. New EU Russia curbs may bolster Indian oil refiners' reliance on traders — Nidhi Verma, Moh...
July 31, 2025 at 16:09
Dropping needles on the sheet with parallel lines, and the probability of crossing a line is 2/?, of all things. Seemingly unrelated to circles. Buffo...
July 30, 2025 at 00:50
, I'm not seeing much to "set this out and how it's contrary to the above". Anyway, you read (hear, feel) the sentences by light (sound, touch), which...
July 28, 2025 at 14:50
, it seems like something is going on, but it's not clear what ... Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics (— NBC · Feb...
July 27, 2025 at 23:12
Well, she's not holding back, and also comments on ABC, Zuckerberg, WSJ: Elizabeth Warren on Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump ...
July 27, 2025 at 15:46
Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content — Benj Edwards · Ars Technica · Jun 18, 2025 Seems unlikely (if I underst...
July 27, 2025 at 14:20
Some oil trade have changed over the past three years: How the Largest Importers of Russian Fossil Fuels Have Changed (2022 vs. 2025) — Bruno Venditti...
July 27, 2025 at 13:36
Some select quotes to spice things up... :)
July 27, 2025 at 06:40
Perception machinery with side effects, not just humans: Rubber arm illusion in octopus — Sumire Kawashima, Yuzuru Ikeda · Current Biology · Jul 21, 2...
July 25, 2025 at 02:33
Burney plain-opines: Derek Burney: Disillusioned Trump tries to talk tough on Ukraine — Derek H Burney · National Post · Jul 23, 2025 Muscovites opine...
July 24, 2025 at 04:43