:up: I really like that. Gets at the idea of going beyond the self better than I could phrase it too. The is a neat way in which interaction with thin...
If truth is just equivalent to "a complete description of what there is" then it seems to me that science is a search for truth. But under such a defi...
Right, I don't think I had saved my edit yet before you posted. It is, in ways, similar to a desire. But for other desires, we desire what we do becau...
I've found it useful to divide the goals of science into two categories. You have knowledge/understanding of the natural world that we pursue to assua...
Russia is unable to widen the war without jumping up a nuclear option. They're fielding 40, 50, sometimes 60 year old unupdated hardware and rushing u...
It's incredibly frustrating. Tanks and IFVs should have been provided from the outset. The F-16 should already be operating, and significantly more un...
Another major ATACSM taking out a large number of Russian helicopters. Given how these were instrumental in stopping Ukraine's abortive attempt at a "...
And people blaming Islamic Jihad seem off base to me, even if it was their rocket. Whatever you think of the group, munitions malfunctions and friendl...
It would have to be a low yield antipersonnel weapon that is somehow mainly an incidiary. There was a large fireball and most of the damage seems to b...
I always figured Hegel's commitment to the state had to do with the lack of any extra state powers during his era. He is still living in the shadow of...
If it was a Hellfire it would seem to have malfunction or it was some sort of very low yield variant I am unaware of. They do make a fully kinetic, ve...
http://https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fc1wndrip9zub1.jpg The pictures show extremely lack luster damage at the impact zone, almost no crater, and none of th...
I shall expand. Think about it like this. Does a "person" still exist in their body after they are dead? If not, what has changed? Their body is still...
This is related to the reasoning that led Parmenides to deny to reality of change (and for Russell to do something similar millennia later). I think H...
Yes. Although, if we defined "universe," as "everything that is," this would have to seem true in some sort of trivial sense. Maybe? I suppose maybe n...
Maybe if they say of the defensive instead of burning through hundreds of vehicles, tubes, and thousands of soldiers in attacks on entrenched position...
I would base this supposition on the way the natural sciences, particularly physics, have increasingly done away with any concept of fundemental subst...
Not sure exactly what you mean here. It seems to me that people are autonomous, just not completely so. Babies don't raise themselves, we can breath w...
The Russian losses at Avdiivka are grim. And yet another "deadline" has been set to secure the Donbas. I don't see how Russia's ability for offensive ...
Israel seems to be backing off on (much of) a ground incursion. I am not sure if the mobilization was done out of panic, as a political move, or to fo...
It isn't though. It needed an alliance with Haredim parties to eek out a government. You need 61 seats and they have 64 in their alliance. But then th...
Terrorist organizations can and do become responsible governing parties. The Israeli state itself emerged, in part, from terror organizations. You can...
Not that I've heard. And there are also a lot of foreign nationals in Gaza who want to get out as well. Both hostages and foreigners are likely to cro...
No, I was referring to Libya, where Gaddafi was calling for all the Arab countries to expell their Palestinians too, since obviously by accepting nego...
Not ethnically cleansing their Palestinian population as "punishment for the PLO considering a two state peace," would have been nice too. Or not ethn...
Egypt conquered Gaza in 1948. They took control of it, ostensibly to "protect and further the interests," of the people there. Their goal was to annex...
I think you could make that pretty absolute. Terror bombing and area bombing as a means to reduce economic efficiency has not proven very effective. T...
Yes, that's generally the justification. Also the fact that it might deter a war with the Soviet Union, which seemed quite possible at the time. But p...
The "blockade," is sort of layered. There were indeed more restrictions put in place on what could go into Gaza after Hamas was elected, although thes...
Interesting. I've been meaning to read more Deleuze. I'm not super familiar with him. But that makes sense to me. The "lord" isn't constrained by thei...
But why didn't they carry out terrorist resistance? I'd say this owes to: -The absolutely decisive character of the allied victory. - The strong burea...
Same here, and like I said above, the difference can't be what justifies Israel. Although, I do sort of think destroying Hamas might be needed for pro...
Depends on how narrowly you define the conflict and if you consider Palestinian organizations under a single umbrella (arguably unjustifiable in recen...
Exactly. What you do in the war is in part justified by what your enemy has done and what you can expect them to do in the future/if they ever get mor...
Egypt controlled Gaza prior to 1967 via military rule under a military governor. They refused giving Palestinians the right to manage their own affair...
It's control over desire (as a whole) to the extent that a person is deciding as a harmonized unity. Nietzsche isn't wrong to point out the problem of...
But they have been? The media just doesn't focus on them because they are unlikely to mean anything in the current context. The problem is that all th...
This is simply based on false assumptions. People arguing against a ground invasion are doing so specifically because a ground invasion will almost ce...
Either Warsaw uprising is closer to the current situation militarily. I thought the urban bombing campaigns of WWII were more interesting in that the ...
Less than you'd think. Germany almost collapsed into a war ending rout in 1944 but Western logistics just weren't quite good enough to keep the moment...
Yes, generally measured from 1993-1999. And they were fairly obviously aimed at sabotaging the process. Arguably, one of the reasons Arafat rejected a...
Right, but that didn't happen in a bubble either, or without Hamas's very direct involvement. Development used to happen across the boundaries of Gaza...
The key representatives of objective idealism I can think of are Hegel and Plato. Both vary from one another, but both accept that rocks, trees, chair...
Yeah, but the US can't do much about Iron Dome, that's the Tamir. The US co-production with Iron Dome is on Arrow 3, which is for long range missiles....
That's an interesting comparison because the Axis' military situation was about as hopeless as Hamas' well before 1945, before the strategic bombing c...
I think it gets to the crucial reflexive element re "freedom." A "full" freedom requires that we have control over our desires. This is where Frankfur...
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