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We write/read speak/hear words/sentences. All part of our social practices, like this comment to you (the reader). Such socializing can go via light (...

There are some with concern for their fellow beings, raising pointed issues, being associated with or being called woke, or maybe self-labelling so. W...

Apparently, anti-vaxxers have been making noise about these: Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 mi...

Right, akin to invention rather than discovery, assumption rather than learning.

How so? You might be incorrigible, for example. Either way, once you've (mis)understood words/sentences that you read or heard, then they've already h...

Is it just because God says so, or does God say so because it is just? :)

Because we're neurotic apes and just part-time rational? Evidently, the elasticity/plasticity of our mental/cognitive lives establishes in such a way ...

Seems clear enough that Trump is eroding credibility/trust that will impact Americans in the future. In Latest Attack on Media, Trump Sues Wall Street...

I'm guessing the US is a couple of Trump'ers shorter. Russia is a cannon-fodder richer. American Joins Russian Army For Citizenship, Gets A Big Surpri...

Trying the logic again... Suppose that @"Michael" persuaded you thereof, then what would that show? That words can persuade, sometimes they do, not th...

A farce: BREAKING NEWS: Trump Asked Point Blank If Bondi Told Him His Name Appears In Epstein Files — Forbes Breaking News · Jul 15, 2025 · 1m:29s htt...

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns — Jon Cohen, Jocelyn Kaiser · ScienceInsider, Science/AAAS · Jul 1...

Admittedly, I haven't read it through yet; maybe someone will find it worthwhile: Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers — Michael Prinz...

Odd. That ? comment looked like a (low-quality) hand-wave to me. :wink:

, one must hear/read the words from someone before one can (mis)understand them, yes?

FYI, contours of NATO polls in Ukraine by various sources: /uploads/resized/files/6d/x48i97woa8g787sf.jpg Some related events in rough chronological o...

... because what you ask is illogical. verified an existential claim — there is persuasion etc by words — which you then requested to falsify. In gene...

Three different, short accounts: Two foreigners detained for displaying Nazi symbols in Pechersk, Kyiv, - police. PHOTOS — Olena Gulayeva · Censor.NET...

How to deal with military buildups? The threat of Russia's force in Ukraine — Sava Jankovic, Volker Roeben · Journal on the Use of Force and Internati...

Another one bites the dust. Your mileage may vary on some of the content: Inside the far-left media that, backed by Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran, atta...

, does this stuff work? 1. a person can (often enough) understand words from another person 2. understanding another person's words is an effect 3. wo...

Not really what I wanted to read: The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double — Ross Andersen · The Atlantic · Jul 8, 2025 (Trump's clownery has played a part....

, something's off here. By offering these wordy arguments, are you trying to show that words can't convince?

As far as I can tell, neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis want something like a UN peacekeeping force. :/ Palestinians give reasons like dignity...

:D Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that — Janel Comeau · The Beaverton · Jun 18, 2025

4-legged 1-armed robot trained to play badminton: Watch a robot play badminton against human players — Jenna Ahart · Science/AAAS · May 28, 2025 AIs t...

and Irrespective of the self-and-other distinction (or divide), would you not say that these are all parts of the same world?

General hostilities in the region have come up before: Researchers home in on origins of Russia’s Baltic GPS jamming (— Defense News · Jul 2, 2025) Ch...

:up: I guess we can take "laws of nature" to be abstractions/generalizations of sets of observations. We call them "laws" while they're verified, unle...

There'd be motion of sorts (undecayable photons) and perhaps simmering micro-chaos (quantum mechanics). A question that sometimes comes up, is whether...

Maybe the US / Israel are planning further offenses in the Middle East. Trump administration redirects 20,000 anti-drone missiles meant for Ukraine, Z...

Heat death is a common extrapolation of big bang theories. Here, the distant future is ruled by the lonely photon in deep cold, where (other) particle...

Appearances of Azerbaijan sending the Kremlin a message: A Russian media outlet is raided in Azerbaijan’s capital as tensions rise between Moscow and ...

By now, it's clearly about Trump versus non-loyalists. What does that mean for the voters, though? (I imagine their kids are watching, too.)

Hm Wonder what Trump will say (if anything) ... Russia captures key lithium deposit in Ukraine in move that could impact US mineral deal (— New York P...

Now now, is that a way to treat a bff? China Unleashes Hackers Against Its Friend Russia, Seeking War Secrets — Megha Rajagopalan, Jacob Judah · New Y...

I (still) find this puzzling. We're talking people's health, not their favorite toy store. Some people will listen to or trust the administration rath...

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice — The Editorial Board · The Onion · Jun 20, 2025 :D

The deNazification/demilitarization demands are about Ukraine (minus occupied areas). Dead end aggressor demands. • the Kremlin repeatedly said that K...

Close call :sweat: Royal Navy comes to ‘rescue’ of Swedish submarine during major NATO exercise — Royal Navy · Jun 19, 2025

Factoid of the day: Some frogs freeze over for months, then come back to life.

The "breadbasket" of the old USSR, Europe and beyond: New Report Reveals Russian Campaign to Cripple Ukraine’s Grain Trade and Economy — Global Rights...

Not really what anyone wants to see I imagine, yet more or less a consequence of the Kremlin's actions. Germany is building a big scary army (archived...

I'm not sure if these bits and pieces were posted before, but, anyway ... "As to NATO enlargement, we have no concerns regarding the security of the R...

Another observation: Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades — Crispin M Mutshin...

Isn't it more that the Trumpets (or many of them) want a cultural revolution?

RIP @"Vera Mont" :flower: You'll be missed

, yep could be. I'm guessing they don't want to see the Iranian regime fall, though.

Ir/reversible nature of time ... Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time — Leila Sloman · Quanta · Jun 11, 2025 Way to go g...

Russia warns US against 'military intervention' in Iran-Israel war — France 24, AFP · Jun 19, 2025 Putin condemned Israeli attacks on Iran ... Meanwhi...