Like before/after, earlier/later, past/now/future, ...? :brow: You could have ordering (-1 < 0 < 1), but not temporal without time. Unless I misunders...
Here's a bit of spam... Rocks and bodies are spatial/object-like: left to right, top to bottom, front to back, movable, locatable, breakable (under co...
Morals have to do with concern for each other. I don't think morals can be reduced like that. Even given such a law, in any given situation, you'd sti...
Words like Pegasus prompt us to differentiate fictional/imaginary and real. The winged horse does exist (in stories) but just isn't real. Seems to me ...
The US president and an Ukrainian anarchist have something in common: they both see Putin's Russia against Ukraine as totalitarianism/autocracy agains...
Yep, the numbers alone matter and Russia has them. Similarly, Russia has an additional degree of freedom, being the attacker; the Ukrainians are alrea...
How to propagate phobia ... The Texas shooting is another vile opportunity for far-right trolls to 'monster' trans people It’s not the first time we’v...
You might be a bit generous. Meanwhile, life goes on in Ukraine (for some at least), just a bit differently. Bakhmut family with no gas or power cook ...
Mass Shootings Can Be Contagious, Research Shows (Aug 6, 2019) After Uvalde, mass shootings continue over the weekend across the U.S. (May 29, 2022) :...
Russia slashes rates in effort to cool rouble’s rapid ascent (May 26, 2022) Doesn't seem to be a sign of a booming economy. Demanding trade in rubles ...
It was fairly straightforward. I thought your response to , missed a bit, so I added it. (I guess some may knowingly walk into a minefield and expect ...
Hm ... wondering ... In what cases can "supernatural magic" not be replaced with "unknown" without incurring informative loss? In what cases have "sup...
As far as I can tell, it's not about "taking our guns away" (common slogan), but about regulation. Especially for weapons that are for killing humans....
The Russians (and their Nazi compadres) can head home, the Ukrainians are already home. The Russians (and their Nazi compadres) have homes, the Ukrain...
Incidentally just scrolled by ... In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve Into a Tiny Ecosystem (May 5, 2022) Just to nit-pick, I think says that physical...
Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. Will we ever overtake it? (May 23, 2022) /uploads/resized/files/7r/oymz74pyybscri4l.jpg Voyager 1 crossed the hel...
If I remember right, it does. Something to do with recombination, that's fairly specific. Or, I guess it could just be shown that the universe isn't e...
For intelligent design to become a scientific model, there would have to be falsification criteria, the more the better. For intelligent design to bec...
Yep. :up: Gensler's treatment is fair enough. On the other hand, I'm thinking there's a kind of futility in devising such rules — not as rules-of-thum...
I gather they're saying that Ukraine sort of happens to have been caught between • democracies versus autocracies (e.g. Biden) • "old world order" ver...
Don't think that can make sense. What about, say, Nettles' and Applewhite's fantasies...? There are such things as fiction, fantasies, imaginations, h...
, well, if you think such claims are applicable to everyone/everything... Slap Trump in a dream, check if he has a bruise the next day, don't forget t...
The methodology of Carlos René Romero described at "Did Jesus Really Visit the Americas?" (Jul 2008) Argument from inconsistent revelations (Aug 2018)...
... Correction, it's attributed to Wittgenstein, not sourced, here's my paraphrase: Why finish right at that time, and not some other time, any other ...
(Ignoring for a moment that this sentence is a bit non-sensical ...) It's a futile pursuit. Hilbert's Hotel is counter-intuitive but does not derive a...
I think meant it the other way around, sort of. Purely deductive arguments are non-ampliative. So, if a purely deductive argument is put forth to prov...
What Turkey Wants From Sweden and Finland in NATO Expansion Spat (Bloomberg; May 17, 2022) • No Kurds • No restrictions on Turkey's arms trading Mainl...
Some of Ukraine's success repelling Russian forces is apparently due to some training sessions with UK military personnel. Efforts that came about aft...
With the kinds of raving and ranting here (and roughly everyone, including in history, being evil), maybe one shouldn't have high hopes for peace (in ...
, diplomacy :up: The more the better I don't think anyone is simply declaring that Ukraine is winning, will win, militarily. Yet, note that Russians l...
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. The New York Times May 2, 2022 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14 Institute f...
Are there any indications that Putin wants to see Russia (sustainably) surpassing the Chinese neighbor? (in the usual ways, power in particular, econo...
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