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Will this give Trump an opening for him to return? Any other predictions/motives regarding Musk doing this?

Was there a more useful way to do it?

@Genady It is curious.

Inspired by another thread, I thought it might be good to have a place to put funny or otherwise notable ambiguities, and any comments about them in general Here's some that have been posted already elsewhere by TheVat: Kids make nutritious snacks Miners refuse to work after death Panda mating fails, veterinarian takes over Old school pillars are replaced by alumni One I've found: A woman in the UK gives birth every 48 seconds

Understood now.

I know what you mean. Ron De Santis, MTG, Gaetz et al, they are almost caricatures. From a middle-of-the-road non-partisan uk position, the moderate US politics very much leans to the right, so the people I mentioned come across as quite rabid to me. MTG is just one scary mother...

I don't see it, but I don't doubt you because English is my native language and intuitively understanding the author's intent likely makes me blind to it.

What ambiguity is that?

The list is endless. What is right or wrong depends on the subjective positions of the observer, which are honed by our experiences.

Abortion, LGBT, social welfare, nationalization, unfettered immigration..... that's if you lean far enough Right. If you can't see that from that perspective then you can't see the wood for the trees. When we are having a humanitarian discussion, we shouldn't be waving flags of undying loyalty to a cause. We might as well go to a football/soccer match.

Are you going all Japanese on us? In all seriousness, mask wearing as a form of social manners when infected with anything respiratory in nature could well become a common sight, like a lot of Japanese citizens seem to do, With increasing human density, more migration and diminishing habitat, the rate of pandemics can only increase

A laser weapon capable of shooting down flying drones has been deployed for the very first time by the US Navy, though only for demonstration purposes. Until now, many questions had lingered over whether laser-based weaponry would ever become an effective tool in modern warfare, some of which have now been answered by official footage of the event. Installed aboard the USS Portland, the 150-kilowatt-class Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) was used to successfully disable an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on May 16, 2020, in what was the first use of a high-energy class solid-state laser weapon. "By conducting advanced at-sea tests against UAVs and small crafts, we will gain valuable information on the capabilities of the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator against potential threats," said US Navy Captain Karrey Sanders in a statement. "With this new advanced capability, we are redefining war at sea for the Navy." https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-navy-released-footage-laser-weapon-shooting-down-drone-first-time/

It's interesting, isn't it.

Antibiotics are indiscriminate killers of anything that is sensitive to them. Target nutrients or the good guys and they'll reduce the habitat possibilities for the bad ones

And the conscience is subjective with many flavours. The trouble is too many think there's only one worth considering: their own.

Those same people one opposes may be applying the same qualities, in their minds, to their argument as oneself. There is no almighty referee to decide who is the most morally superior. Winning arguments doesn't change your opponent, but meeting in the middle might.`There are people who find ones beliefs genuinely repugnant, and that may well be positions we hold dear. Politics, ethics, morality are not based on a level of objective facts that we can all agree on much of the , like in science. In the light of that, getting on ones high horse and never dismounting will only ever foster continued dischordance. It's funny really, being in science forum. All these intelligent people trained in or desire to follow the scientific method and who have an inherent appreciation of uncertainly, leave it behind when they enter the humanity forums.

Affirmative appears to be polarising amongst African-American scholars as well: It appears that they have the same problems as we do discussing this.

Don't be a fossil, and seek to endeavour to understand what's changing. This has happened since the beginning of civilisation, and it is we, as aging people, that are stuck in a culture and manners that is passing by to become history... and so it will be for those who are making the waves now.

I would imagine they prefer 'American-Asian'. I don't know, but maybe 'Oriental' has negative Colonial-era connotations for them .

It is not fair to call people that are born in a culture, and identify as part of that culture, something which they are not. For instance a person with Oriental heritage, born in the US, is not 'Oriental'... they are American. Unlike an indigenous Oriental person, who I think, don't regard it as offensive, creates a sense of discrimination from their fellow Americans. You are not what your skin tells people, but the way you behave culturally to which you identify. If you called an Inuit an 'Eskimo', when they aren't, you will annoy them because even though an Eskimo is an Inuit, they are not Eskimos. In the UK, in the past, anybody from up that part of the world was described as an Eskimo. This change in cultural sensitivity has come to the fore because of the increased exposure via the internet. These mistakes are being replicated many more times than pre-internet, so it's become a more prominent issue. It has forced us to see more shades of grey than we did before... much less black and white.... in ethnic terms and figuratively.

WALOB, Phil. First thing I do is check out the authors... fresh out of the Republican echo chamber. WTH do economists know about epidemiology? I can't parse how you think these authors are worthy of your attention, as a microbiologist yourself. A critique: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/02/06/did-so-called-johns-hopkins-study-really-show-lockdowns-were-ineffective-against-covid-19/

His consolation prize will be Mariupol, probably. The other thing is, does his nuclear chain of command even work? Might there not be more logical generals around him or commanders in the chain to thwart such ideas? The same thing happened with Trump... there was no way he was going to execute such a command towards the end of his presidency, if he had wanted to.

When one is going around in circles, it's best to stop.

@ Because 'most' don't agree, doesn't necessarily mean the majority are in the right. There is no objective sense of what is right/wrong, only that which aligns with our respective personal agendas. In this case, there are more posters with similarly aligned personal agendas.

This AP piece on how China might be viewing the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and what it might be learning from it seems pertinent to the topic at this point: