Hence likely at some time the US will finally get out of Iraq and likely at some time from Syria too. — ssu
if the IRA had killed 1200, then you would have been totally OK with air strikes — ssu
Darwin didn't say that the term evolution can't be applied to anything else, did he? — Danno
the new ‘law of increasing functional information’ states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity — Gnomon
if the populace acted as one — Janus
Regarding ownership of land, I don't know whether Israel needs to justify its own existence anymore than any other state. It exists and continues to exist. — BitconnectCarlos
I don't think it need justify its existence — Ciceronianus
Dutch politics is pathetic. Ridiculous virtue signaling. — Benkei
Terrorism has always been a reply — Benkei
Israel is reaping what it sowed for years — Benkei
I am talking about drawing a circle that <is> a square thus not a circle. It must be in the same two dimensional plane — PL Olcott
How viable is an independent state in the separated plots of land that basically the PA has? — ssu
Any suggestion that it's clearly one or the other only reveals the bias of the person offering the opinion. — Hanover
What PT says makes sense to me.
The question to ask is, is this mass hysteria or mass schizophrenia, or is is there a cause - by cause I mean a reason, right or wrong - for their actions? — FreeEmotion
systematic analysis shows that this unitary retaliatory approach to terrorism frequently not only fails to deter and discourage it but may in fact only perpetuate endless cycles of retribution
Free Palestine — 180 Proof
I think Hamas is multi-faceted. It has a terrorist wing, at the same time it's the "authority" we have to deal with in Gaza. — Benkei
Documents exclusively obtained by NBC News show that Hamas created detailed plans to target elementary schools and a youth center in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa'ad, to "kill as many people as possible," seize hostages and quickly move them into the Gaza Strip.
That's a great mugshot. I'm going to remember it in case I'm arrested. — T Clark
If Prigozhin is indeed dead, then the cause of death is quite obvious: he thought he made a deal with Putin. — Jabberwock
methane emissions degrade in the atmosphere relatively quickly, after about 12 years, and do not act cumulatively over long periods of time.
I spent a few braincells wondering why the global temperature seemed to mimic the N. hemisphere seasons. Then i realised that the extremes of the seasonal temperature variation take place on land, and most of the land is in the N. — unenlightened
Have a look at how many locations never even get "warm" — Agree to Disagree
"Earth Just Had Its Hottest Month Ever. How Six Cities Are Coping."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/july-2023-hottest-month-record-climate-change-5e5b3097
Interesting seeing that headline in the WSJ. That would have been unthinkable 15 years ago. — RogueAI
Now count the number of states that had their record high temperature BEFORE 1970. For those who don't want to do the counting, the answer is 36.
8 states had their record high temperature between 1911 and 1929.
24 states had their record high temperature in the 1930's. The 1930's were very hot in America.
What do people think that this data means? — Agree to Disagree
I'll answer this. There were so many other things happening during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, it must have slipped right past me. I do remember the oil embargo. Maybe you can pull up some of those articles from those eras, warning of global warming. I'm curious. — jgill
recalls was quite real back then. The fear was that our balmy existence could quickly, say in a decade, revert back to its normal frozen ways except for wide swath of equatorial belt.Scientists raised the issue of a possible pending ice age around about the mid 70's. — Agree to Disagree
Such as the absolute political power and money of the American and French governments and the puppet governments serving them — Jack Rogozhin
if we want to do metaphysics and make a logical argument, Peirce's logic of vagueness takes us a step past the usual "something out of nothing" ontology. — apokrisis
CS Peirce extended with his sketch for a logic of vagueness.
So the "before" of both something and nothing is the third category that is simply a "vagueness" as logically defined. Peirce flipped the principle of noncontradiction to show this.
The PNC says it cannot be true both that "p is the case" and "p is not the case". Peirce says vagueness is the indeterminate state out of which such counterfactual definiteness can arise. Vagueness is that to which the PNC fails to apply in any definite fashion. — apokrisis
Everything is self-cancelling itself towards nothing. The probability of that was so high that it the Big Bang was a story of exponential decay. Almost everything self-cancelled almost immediately. Very little was left in terms of energy density even after the first second. We are now into the asymptotic last flattening of that curve as the average density of the vacuum is a few hydrogen atoms per cubic metre and the temperature is a frigid 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. — apokrisis
we have that which never changed in its entire existence. Completely unperturbed/stable. The most objective phenomenon possible. The most consistent, the most repeatably measured as the exact same [?]regardless of time[?] — Benj96
I just noticed this brilliant post in your archives Thank you! If we could only understand what any of those four words ever mean!change vs stasis is a unity of opposites — apokrisis
Plato referred to that as 'suddenly'. Something in time but outside of time, as a quantum shift. He didn't see how change (for us, as at the smallest scale) can happen any other way.To be the swiftest change is to have the least notion that there was anything other that could have been done except that abrupt something. — apokrisis
to where it was originally going — apokrisis
I only talked about the Rietdijk–Putnam argument itself and how it didn't make much sense to me. — Alkis Piskas
The galaxies you are moving towards would have come into view regardless of your motion, only at a later time as measured by your clock. Similarly, the galaxies you are moving away from will also come into view, but at a later time — Pierre-Normand
However, getting back to the description of four-dimensionalism, there are things that throw me off or, at best, make me wonder:
1) "An object's persistence through time is like its extension through space". — Alkis Piskas
absolute relativism, because it can be consistent with a sort of ontic structural realism where knowledge about the relations that generate observations is possible, at least in theory — Count Timothy von Icarus