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Someone's PayPall account was cancelled? Well, that should tell them... :gasp: In Russia they'd just pump a bullet in the journalist's head.

Russia is Europe's backyard.

Required by whom, I wonder, in the absence of a world policeman. As for the stolen art in the Louvre, most if it comes from Italy.

I suppose the Chinese will do so, ultimately. They need space.

I propose to decolonize Australia, free Aboriginal people and send those Westerners back to the UK where they come from.

A multipolar world, where each "pole" minds its own business to a degree (hopefully). Less globalisation, more localisation. The world is tired of us,...

In the real world, India and China are bitter rivals, locked in an arm race and occasionally fighting each other at the border. You cannot build an al...

I must say, it's a big number, a massive crank up as compared to what's already been sent (which is already a lot). According to the BBC, as of 21 Apr...

But you care very much for them, don't you?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU

Protect yourself.

Twitter is a pile of crap, getting crappier. https://asset.lemde.fr/prd-blogs/2022/04/e41db8dc-elon-musk-tras-twitter.jpg Darío (Mexico)

That's about average in this part of the world I reckon... :-) In an ex-USSR country, I once shared a frugal meal with a team of wheat harvesters, in ...

Ukrainian farmers are regularly filmed using their tractors to capture Russian military equipment all over the country. In the new game Ukrainian fArm...

It is a dream because so far it has never ever happened. The USSR had nukes, and could have nuked Afghanistan to dust (or to more dust than habitual)....

My point is that, if there was no referent to the word 'gold', the word would not be used very often. Words are symbolic, they code for something else...

From the current situation, where Russians forces have no easy way out, and are set to get pummeled for weeks on end. You are dreaming of a possible w...

There is an element called 'gold'. Otherwise, the word would be useless.

Not all bishops are made of wood, though. Argentinian bishop sentenced to prison for sexual abuse despite pope’s defense Fri 4 Mar 2022 A court in Arg...

I get that. There needs to be an agreement about our intentions, for them to be considered 'common'.

Yes, but we could agree to visit the Taj Mahal together, in which case it seems that my intention and yours have coalesced into a collective intention...

Interesting thread and posts, thanks. Does Searle develop arguments for this point above? It seems debatable. For instance, if one of the teams doesn'...

Fear doesn't reduce danger. Whether we worry about it or not will not change anything, and certainly not the odds of it happening. Which are very low,...

Good point.

And yet, nuclear powers have lost wars against seemingly weaker enemies before -- e.g. the US in Korea and Vietnam, the USSR in Afghanistan -- without...

I don't know, seems to me it's not the way the world works. For one, 'the world' doesn't act as one, in a coordinated manner. For two, the world is ad...

A North Korea with vast oil reserves, though. It makes an important difference. It's also a much larger country than NK, and can't be isolated the sam...

I agree. The Russians are looking for an escape from the mess they created, and this talk of WW3 is a form of 'nuclear escapism'.

We shall see... IMO, all these talks about nukes are just more blah blah, designed to scare opponents and placate supporters. The latter are growing n...

Evidence some Ukrainian women raped before being killed, say doctors Forensic specialists carrying out autopsies north of Kyiv say they ‘still have hu...

In other news: Ukrainian Astronomers Discover ‘Exocomets’ around Another Star By Briley Lewis on April 14, 2022 Astronomers from the Main Astronomical...

There is no precedent for it, that is true. But there is also no precedent to use tactical nukes. If Russia uses them, it will create a precedent, whi...

Ukraine is being destroyed? In which version of reality is that happening? The Vladimir Chronicles?

Determinism is not at all necessary, nor even desirable.

They would support retaliation, I think, if it comes to that. And the US is not the only player. Europe cannot tolerate a nuclear terrorist state at i...

Six months ago, it was a fantasy that Ukraine would ever get Javelins. Now they have thousands. And one month ago, it was a fantasy that Ukraine would...

The rationale would be to get rid of a nuclear terrorist state. And NATO does not even need to launch. All it needs to do is donate a few missiles to ...

There's something rotten in Putinistan... On 25 February, the day after the Russian invasion, the deputy director of Gazprom, Alexander Tyulyakov, was...

Moscow and Saint Petersburg would get nuked in return. You don't want that.

Bear-sucking clowns: "In between two lies, I so want to ask ridiculous questions forever, even though Google could easily answer them."

Ta garde, Emmanuel, ta garde! Attention à l'uppercut... https://www.liberation.fr/resizer/ro9pbvOc9_2iCcC8NTBJ9JMtmN4=/1600x0/filters:format(jpg):qual...

Thanks for the detailed and informative answer.

This place is a social media, so anything you read here, is by definition straight off social media...

Something tells me we're not the only ones.

Way to go, Antonio. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will travel to Russia on Tuesday for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin since February 24...

When do you estimate these could be operational? From what I read they would effectively tip the balance in favor of Ukraine.

That made me chuckle. You're a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Lao Tzu has said: Compare not what is not comparable, lest you mix the sweet apple with the sour orange to make a sweet-and-sour sauce.

But we are larger than atoms. We can look down on them. Ho ho ho you atoms are so small, so inconsequential... (says he while nuclear Armageddon looms...

It would be a barrier if one wanted to go to Pluto. The motivations for such a trip are unclear to me. I would rather be an eagle, or Superman, or Spi...