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Via Financial Times: Ukraine war news from February 25: Kyiv suburbs breached, Russian forces face resistance, Zelensky warns Russia will ‘storm’ capi...

Not sure that's an accurate or fair description. Experiments are often devised to focus on specific variables and to eliminate others, ceteris paribus...

, sorry, no offense intended. Deforestation, pollution, nature/wildlife displacement, population growth, renewability, ..., all related. Just thought ...

That's what trees have been doing for...some time...sort of. /uploads/resized/files/am/iyggl73ti4o3uvol.jpg (? simplified, but probably good enough he...

A quick check on the Sweden Finland NATO thing, from whatever sources: Feb 24 Russia invades Ukraine Feb 25 Russia threatens ‘military and political c...

, the usual "disconnect" is seen... :/ Of course economies, politics, etc, matter as well, yet nature doesn't care about our talking — without action,...

, wow, thought this would have been clear enough, and already spoken to in the thread, guess not.

Really? That's the story and the whole story? (And the Ukrainians are but dumb automatons? And Putin + team?) :/ "Tunnel-vision" came to mind. Was goi...

, good to have you back and kicking. Get well.

, isn't in/determinate epistemic, whereas being "this" or "that" is ontological? (ah, nevermind me, time to turn in)

Ancient Aliens: Was Noah an Alien? (Season 9) | History ;) The law of identity (1st law of logic), and identity of indiscernibles (Leibnizian metaphys...

I considered a similar poll regarding homosexuality. (In principle at least, people would/should be similarly equipped to do an assessment; this one h...

Philosophical musings: Nothingness (Roy Sorensen; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; updated Feb 28, 2022) Physicist musings: The Four Different Mea...

Thanks for posting those papers, however crazy technical they are. :up: :) Hierarchical Models in the Brain (Nov 2008), Active Inference: A Process Th...

Maybe we could categorize a bit...? • The perception = the perceived (the same) · hallucinations, phantom pain, dreams, fantasies • The perception ? t...

Putin says a lot of things, like in 2014: Don't worry, Putin says he doesn't want Ukraine (PRX; Mar 29, 2014) Others have other things to say, like in...

The Ukrainians aren't going to just give up. Been mentioned a few times in the thread on whatever angles. Comparatively, it's a fairly large populatio...

Sorry, my aim was more to expose Pesky Peskov, maybe for analysis. His comments seem kind of transparently slanted - while the bombs are going, and pe...

Dim Pesky has been chatty, sort of. (Apologies for the Jun 28 repeat.) Not really any end in sight. :/ I wonder what to make of it. Has there been unk...

Have to wonder how much fossil fuel has been transformed since the industrialization (and before), say, by decade, and how much is left to transform. ...

You want to talk about me instead...? :roll: Suggest posting about the comment.

:D (you're just dreaming that you're reading posts on a forum) There are no proofs here. Just switching to other (descriptive) verbiage.

Wouldn't it be clearer to change the verbiage somewhat? Me <-- <- Me seeing the Cup is "my" occurrence/process \ \ Cup <- just the one cup / / You <- ...

, a god? Where does a god appear in someone claiming experiences = reality? :brow: I can't experience someone else's self-awareness, since then I'd be...

Say, omniscience, contra ... Say, were I to claim my experiences = reality, I'd be reducing my neighbor a bit heavy-handedly. Solipsism. Maybe there a...

, well, when they say experiences = reality, they are saying something consequential. What could be derived?

, I suppose, idealists to who their experiences = reality, that question is settled?

Exactly? Who knows. We have some decent models. No omniscience, though. Other than that, dirt, asphalt, grass, rubble, sidewalks, rocks, granite, ...

You'll find it rather more difficult to justify other minds than the ground you walk on — we walk on. I don't walk on experiences-of-the-ground, I wal...

There are any number of reasons that others distrust Russia. I'm sure many others have reached the same impression through years of observations. A ne...

Wouldn't it be great if both parties ran out of bombs? Not likely to happen. Military briefing: is the west running out of ammunition to supply Ukrain...

Hmm... Misleading? By own statement, there are at least US troops engaging al-Qaeda and ISIS in the region.

The law of identity just states that whatever exists is self-identical, like an ontological assertion. (I guess, in terms of propositions, whatever pr...

Kazakhstan is apparently taking an opportunity to sneak off? Kazakhstan withdraws from CIS agreement on currency committee – UNIAN (Jul 10, 2022) I gu...

COVID: China's Shanghai says new Omicron subvariant found (Jul 10, 2022) With more data and studies coming through, more preprints are becoming availa...

:brow: Well, obviously it's Russia being attacked, not Ukraine, Russia is the victim here, and Johnson is a murderer of Ukrainians, it's others that a...

Let's call it a court of philosophy (and ethics, humanity) first, not like those rooms frequented by the chief SCOTUS, if you will, then legalities se...

A Moscow court sentenced deputy Alexei Gorinov to 7 years in jail for criticizing Russia’s military actions in Ukraine (Jul 8, 2022) "Special operatio...

, just relaying that they have no legal definition of "witch" (reported by whatever sources). Unless they have laws against killing, I guess anyone is...

Miscellanea ... KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945 (Paul A Goble; EP; Jan 5, 2021) It took Red A...

, , there's been a few of those probes ... 2011 Americans' Beliefs in Paranormal Phenomena (Infographic) 2014 Superstition: Do you believe the followi...

, according to some sources, Saudi Arabia does not have a legal definition of "witch", and no particular legal safeguards. Cases do not follow interna...

, that looks like a flat-coated retriever. We had'em when I grew up.

I think the vasectomy option came up earlier in the thread. Legislate female bodies, legislate male bodies, seems fair. Watch pro-life males complain ...

Caren White opines: DeSantis Is Changing Florida Schools’ Curricula Again (Jul 2, 2022) Seems like Goldwater's prophecy is materializing?

Right. The word can mean different things. And some are self-professed witches, others kill who they deem witches. Killing is up there among the most ...

Not quite, which was the point of linking that other thread; that stuff goes back to John Watkins, Karl Popper, those people. We might ask: what exact...

Just to clarify, I'm not suggesting that "Guilty" should mean war. Isn't sentencing a separate thing anyway? Come to think on it, maybe some sort of i...

, maybe "unjust executions" works? Sample cases and efforts listed (check) some history with outcomes (check) precedence (check) international respons...

, hmm I thought it was reasonably clear. Here's some background, context, precedence: • Witch trials in the early modern period • Modern witch-hunts •...