Alexander Gabuev (Financial Times; Sep 23, 2022) writes: Putin has once again overplayed his hand in Ukraine Source is respected enough, but some deta...
If Russia was to take over Ukraine (in whichever way), then Putin's whi...err rhetoric about NATO, equally becomes Moldova's, Poland's, Romania's, Hun...
Land grab. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (Apr 30, 2022): Draft Document Gives New Clues To Russian Plans For Occupied Ukrainian Regions AP News (Sep 22...
Why Vladimir Putin is raising the stakes in Ukraine war Max Seddon (Moscow), Polina Ivanova (Berlin), Ben Hall (Kyiv) Financial Times Sep 21, 2022 /up...
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out th...
, and people with no military training are being drafted. There was an interview on TV last night. Whatever Putin has in mind, it doesn't seem to be p...
Evidence/observations that Putin wants to enroll Ukraine in Russia, as far as feasible at least, has been mentioned prior. The NATO thing applies to a...
Well, US intelligence (with the UK close behind) had warned (at least) since Oct 2021 about Russian moves and danger. The EU and Ukraine kind of fumbl...
, meddling was/is in all kinds of places, not just "the West". (I suppose we could start categorizing meddlery, like rationales-outcomes, material for...
, , since I got this stuff started, here's when Ethan chases ever-moving science frontiers (chrono-ordered): May 2020 · The Four Different Meanings Of...
Misc reports, not much new I suppose ... RAND (Jul 11, 2016): The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model CSIS (Jul 20, 2020): Russia Ramps u...
In the scheme of things, I'm guessing this won't change much with someone like Putin (or worse) at the helm. The history, measures taken domestically ...
, right, even just spacetime isn't absence of everything/anything, it's still something at least. Earlier comment - physicists/cosmologists use the ve...
Could the Russians hold Donbas and Crimea if they settled into just those regions? It would at least be in line with their earlier propag...err statem...
Not quite science, at least not at the moment, maybe some day? Ethan Siegel writes: This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists (...
Via TASS (Sep 5, 2022): Kherson region postpones referendum due to security considerations — authorities Via RFERL (Sep 5, 2022): Kherson Referendum O...
A couple of things that's come out so far ... NATO getting directly involved or officially at war with Putin's Russia ups the stakes markedly, be it i...
There's a rail nexus in Kupyansk east of Kharkiv. Might be of some importance, don't know. Who knows how many civilians, children, non-combatants have...
TikTok can track users’ every tap as they visit other sites through iOS app, new research shows (Aug 24, 2022) Jaja Liao raised some warnings in 2019 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpvlV_X02Q More or less the usual, "the evil hemisphere" is mad about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin seems to ha...
A deglobalising world will be an inflationary one Climate change and conflict are challenging the Federal Reserve’s efforts to combat rising prices Ra...
, do you mean whether 3-dimensional space needs another spatial dimension to wobble in and out of, if you will? From memory, that's not needed (for re...
, the Kherson counterattack? The Russian puppets were preparing for a vote, with the usual propaganda etc. Maybe they'll get interrupted by the counte...
"Programmers may be programs" could go on indefinitely/infinitely/regressively. There's a whole class of these kinds of thought experiments ... brain ...
NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World (Sep 1, 2022) https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/wp-content/uploads/sites/326/2022/08/STSCI-J-...
:up: We're all African apes. If someone discriminates personally prejudicially by shoe size, place of birth, freckle count, melanin pigmentation, or s...
Circus. House conservatives prep plans to impeach Biden (The Hill; Aug 30, 2022) Should we expect impeachment of ? every president onwards? Future sta...
, more realistically, Putin is out to grab as much of Ukraine as feasible. Limiting factors include military resistance, domestic politics, resources,...
Valentina Matviyenko is the head of Saint Petersburg and chair of the Federal Council of Russia. We believe in Russia (Jun 10, 2022; in Russian) :brow...
(don't know the origin, allegedly a protester's sign) As mentioned before in the thread, this does put a liability/accountability/onus on Putin. https...
Don't think that quite captures it. (Unless you're using the word in an unusually broad sense?) Check examples; science has also done away with bloodl...
Keep an eye on this guy. DeSantis Suspends 4 Elected School Board Members After Report on Parkland (Aug 26, 2022) https://twitter.com/DoomScroling/sta...
*gah* A couple links over, polls suggest DeSantis is up-and-coming The rise of sentiments like those of ... Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Fuentes, Laur...
(my emphasis) But then the methodologies are sort of self-verifying because of successful models. The success stories are the evidence. Otherwise the ...
Peripheral to the thread, about ambitions and moves (and pushing it or gambling perhaps) ... • Russia extends its claim to the Arctic Ocean seabed (Ap...
Had a chance to glance over that "World Climate Declaration", only verified a couple of the undersigned. ( or whoever knows climate stuff well) Their ...
Scrolled by: World Climate Declaration: There is no climate emergency (Global Climate Intelligence Group; Jun 27, 2022) Haven't had a chance to go ove...
Another aspect of the war ... via UNICEF Over half of Ukraine's children are now refugees or fleeing (some more or less kidnapped), with no light at t...
Is this legal? • Texas public schools required to display “In God We Trust” posters if they are donated (The Texas Tribune; Aug 18, 2022) • Alarm over...
"Look what you caused, Putin." Russian-speakers in Latvia told to pick sides in test of patriotism (Aug 19, 2022) (by the way, I don't think such drac...
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