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by Udik 7y ago
Used to happen to me, somewhat frequently as a child, less and less with age (I probably haven't had it in the past ten years). As I was falling asleep I started to hear some soft rhythmic noise repeating over and over, slowly at the b
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I think the GP asked which actions by Israel show that it is an ally of the US, so the first point seems absolutely irrelevant. Btw, the Soviet Union had an equal role fighting Germany in WW2, liberated Auschwitz and was the first country t
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Why would have Israel retaliated if the US was already doing the job for them?
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Curiously it became a poem that doesn't have to be taken literally after it was proven to be completely wrong.
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by Udik 7y ago
Nobody wants climate change, it's true. But do you really believe that the scientists who have become public advocates for climate change mitigation, that have contributed building the international climate research organism that was a
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> There is a very strong incentive to create plausible scientific models that show climate change is not a problem if that is in fact the case. I guess that proving the absence of something is harder, and less rewarding in terms of recog
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And arbitrary armed violence is "world police". And militias we decide to back are "rebels", the ones we don't are "terrorists". And governments we don't like are "regimes". And acts of terr
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by Udik 7y ago
> you can't be world police Off topic, but the whole concept of "world police" is just spin. A police force is one that enforces equally laws established by others. You cannot be at the same time the one who establishes th
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> If Nato had stepped in after Syria used chemical weapons we may not have had a global refugee crisis. Let me give my point of view: if NATO countries had avoided supporting, training, financing and arming the "rebels", the wa
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by Udik 7y ago
Italy has blocked flights to and from China pretty early. It seems that this prevented tracing and monitoring people coming from China, because they just flew in through a different country.
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True, that would have been more correct. However, keep in mind that these people who are found ill now in Italy probably have contracted the virus weeks ago, before it started spreading substantially to other countries. Or before we knew it
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I think they're referring to him as "patient one". Patient zero (i.e. someone who is or was ill and has recently come back from China) hasn't been found yet.
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This seems to be just a parody of revisionist arguments and conspiracy theories.
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> They are not in the business of selling software. But they are probably in the business of selling themselves as a software/ tech company. People value tech companies, so you'd better be one, even if you do taxi services, pro
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I wonder if anybody is actually a flat earther. It almost seems a myth kept alive by the sheer absurdity of it.
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> I would hope we can all agree that not having to rely on oil any more is a good enough economic incentive for everyone. It is an economic incentive, but whether it's "good enough" depends on the costs of the transition-
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Sweet idea. The government could provide a tax relief for the rich who do so.
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Now that I'm not the downvoted one, I can say this: I'd want to force every downvote to have an explanatory comment (or at least, an upvote on one). If you can't explain why you downvote something, then you probably shouldn&#
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This is not "travelling" any more. This is sending spores hoping they will take root somewhere, but they will be forever disconnected from us, in space and, more importantly, in time . What's this mania you have of dissemina
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The government of China gave them forty years of peace and breakneck economic growth. To the point that Americans have gone all nationalistic because China is surpassing the US in various fields of technology. Besides that, while I understa
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Should we wait until we get a warp drive engine? Because thinking of reaching anything further than our solar system with our current physics (not technology- that we can improve by building stuff) is more silly than trying to cross the Pac
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I think the idea of colonizing Mars only makes sense in the head of a teenager who read to much bad sf. Our whole idea of spaceships crossing empty space and founding colonies on other planets is just a projection on the past successes of t
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> We could already communicate with anywhere instantly back with the transatlantic telephone. The rest is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Totally disagree. You could as well say that the transatlantic telephone is only evolutionary with
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Maybe with a social credit system the US wouldn't have elected Trump. /s
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Sure we do. These are our small-scale desires. Then you might think that on a larger scale this is not really what you want- but try to deny the right of people to desire ordering food from home, or buying online, or going where they want
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A policeman without a mandate from a government is nothing but a thug with a gun.
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It's like charging US drone pilots with murder?
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Acquired, not Auto.
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You're assuming that the enmity caused by an event of almost seventy years ago would still be intact in the absence of other factors. It is possible, but it's a stretch. Justifying the reciprocal hatred with the formulas "the

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