Stupid, ungrateful, and aggressive about it :D Maybe it just goes to show how easy it is to manipulate some people with us-versus-them aggression? htt...
Zhurong findings suggest there may have been regular water on Mars 700m years ago rather than 3b. If so, then it's a marked adjustment to current esti...
, and it's ruined an impressive amount of Ukraine. Don't have the figure handy; some engineering firm made some estimates a while back. I doubt the de...
One cannot declare peace if another declares war. One can engage either way. Peace is gone with one assailant. The (logical) structure is akin to war ...
What can be learnt from this thread: Countries are evil. Organizations are abominable (well, military ones at least). People are fassholes. Or just st...
Street rumors say this is a bit sketchy: The mass-energy-information equivalence principle (Melvin M Vopson; AIP Advances; Sep 2019) Experimental prot...
A bit peripheral here... Two of my colleagues are Venezuelan; they fled with some of their family members. Apparently, the situation there is catastro...
Here's one hypothetical scenario: Putin's Russia would roll over Ukraine at some point (after much destruction); install puppets (Kremlin); bring merc...
A hypothetical thought experiment: Suppose NATO was to close up, hand the keys over to the realtors, and the (now former) members were to replace Ukra...
Caught On Camera: Russian Ambassador Attacked With Red Paint At Victory Day Event In Poland (May 9, 2022) , Sweden/Finland joining NATO might even hav...
Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza detained in Russia (MSNBC; May 5, 2022) At least Chomsky hasn't been stuffed into a jail cell (or poisoned) only to...
Some numbers ... /uploads/resized/files/4w/jlkzww42ggooachp.png The Majority of American Muslims Believe Abortion Should be Legal in All or Most Cases...
... collaborative monopolization for mutual benefit? So, this is where capitalist enterprises can overcome competition that's advantageous to consumer...
, you continue to describe Putin's regime like an ("immune"/"untouchable") automaton bombing-machine, and, in that context, Ukrainians as meek humans ...
Sucks to be bombed. Inside Zelensky's World (Apr 28, 2022) (article cached by google, in case you hit a paywall) , I don't think you quite caught my m...
Try peace-mongering Putin. :smile: (it's a "truth or dare") Takes two to tango. *cough* And the Ukrainians aren't bending over. And are willing to use...
Looks like Finn is lying, or misrepresenting at best. There aren't any baby killings. I thought there was something about "not bearing false witness" ...
How many people are we talking here? (I guess Michael Poole's make-shift sheds on the West coast, and the A-Zone in Winnipeg, have some folk, sometime...
, , why not have males carry some responsibility here, instead of males just legislating females' bodies? Pregnancy "takes two", right? Suppose the fe...
Males that don't express they want children, yet are interested in sex, get a reversible vasectomy (or something to that effect). Legislation and medi...
Maybe it's a longer-term plan of Putin's after all to connect the Donbas and Transnistria, enrolling them in Russia. (At least I imagine it's on his w...
"Dmitry Kiselyov about nukes and Britain" Erasure of the UK + Ireland (× 2) is a couple of buttons away... (Leveling Kyiv surely would be a trivial ma...
Not much to it, in general it means "leave it be", "don't do anything on the matter", tending towards anarchism in political contexts, "none of your b...
Do you think that's realistic, though? (on a large scale, or globally) I'm kind of thinking that chipping away at all the wretched exploitation is doa...
Some events in Putin's Russia's ? thing ... Feb 03: Russian missile systems arrived in Belarus, allegedly for exercises Feb 18: Russia (publically) an...
Then impeach or replace — or at least pressure or talk to — your leader. Not just de-Nazification of the Donbas, but world war 3 (de-humanification of...
My impression was that Putin somehow managed to sell "safety and freedom for Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk" to Jinping, something like that, but I m...
If Putin nukes Ukraine, then Russia will get eyes-on (of the world), and send whoever NATO's way. It would further legitimize blasting Russia's milita...
Suppose that some organized team runs a campaign in our neighborhood, anti-semitism, Holocaust-denial, standing on a soap-box, perhaps going door-to-d...
The Ukrainian NATO membership threat again...? It's already been conceded both by NATO and Ukraine. Zelenskyy calls again for meeting with Putin ‘to e...
VICE News reports: These 'Sovereign Citizens' Don't Believe They're Part of the US (Mar 3, 2021; 5m:22s) :D Do we have any of them on the forums? They...
That simple eh, , black'n'white rule-setting, so unlike ethics? Examples to the contrary have been given, though. Reduction to a trivial rule doesn't ...
My emphasis: Too simplistic, there's more to the story, but it's not that free speech/expression ought to be ditched of course. (Once upon a time I'd ...
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