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Sorry. I was agreeing.
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They aren't a different species.
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Greenhouse gases aren't the only problem of climate change
StringJunky replied to StringJunky's topic in Science News
Yeah. I read a couple of English-language Russian news sites and local environmental news often shows up. in them. It's a big thing there because the current regime is basically in denial. The melting of the Arctic is an 'opportunity' for commercial, geopolitical exploitation, not a potential catastrophe. Short-termism; it looks good in elections -
Thanks. Context matters.
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If a homosexual man has a child, it doesn't suddenly make him straight.
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Invariance is when one calculates, say a transformation, and the observed parameter (constant) remains unchanged. Is that correct?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region) They hadn't been dominant population-wise since the 4th century! 1890 the Zionists, which numbered up to 43000, conspired to displace 10x their number of Palestinians from their desired area, which hadn't been ruled by them for 1700 years.
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It doesn't mean they aren't being thought of. The problem you seem to be having is viewing and judging Hamas's recent actions in a vacuum. This is exactly what Bibi et al wants. My purview of the situation takes the last 120-odd years into account when the Zionists started cooking up how to realize the 'Israel' idea.
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Artificial Consciousness Is Impossible
StringJunky replied to AIkonoklazt's topic in General Philosophy
The behaviour of matter in biological systems has a large element of determinism. If a potassium ion collides with a water molecule, the end product is deterministic.. The incidence of collisions may be random, but after that the outcome is deterministic. The concept of 'design' is applicable because the outcomes of these are pre-determined by their predictable behaviour and we can see where it's going. In a purely stochastic process we can only guess. This is where the idea of evolution being a blind watchmaker came from. The problem is dichotomizing the subject to force a choice. -
Now that Biden has vocally taken sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it's going to be a shit-fest all the way now. Even my opinion of him has altered. His chances of getting re-elected look worse everyday.
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10000 Gazans killed so far and 4104 were children. Given that 50% are children, it looks like the Israelis are just blanket bombing where they think Hamas are, and, statistically, the odds are that half will be killed. The numbers are just about bearing this out. Avoiding collateral damage appears to be nowhere in their strategy.
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What are you listening to right now?
StringJunky replied to heathenwilliamduke's topic in The Lounge
Landscape of Earth under the sea as if it were drained. -
Not I. Look how different the area is now from what was conceived by the UN. You can see with my annotations that Israel chopped gaza conveniently to separate Islamic Jordan and Egypt by shrinking most of Gaza up to the line. All they have now is two Israeli controlled checkpoints into Egypt.: Looks like systemic suppression to me. I take it for granted now Netanyahu's MO in all this is 'burying bad personal news'.