geordief

Does China hold a lot of American debt?How much?

Are the main holders private financial institutions?

Well the Vietnam War (amongst others?) took place in the Cold War. Edit: X-posted

It would be very hard of course but the economic relationship with China has only been important in recent years . If we have the choice between having civilised or distanced relations between a regime that is actively propping up an assailant on its borders I am not sure whether there is much real choice. Putin will not stop at Ukraine(but of course he will stop at the borders of Nato)

I heard that it would not make that much (strategic) difference. Don't know the reasoning behind that. Can China afford to take the side of Russia against Europe?

C'est possible Pour les morosophies en Physique, nous avons alternativement la Loi de Pascal Boyer, qui utilise le terme "cracquepotterie" (Crackpottery). la craquepotterie s'occupe (secoue) des fondations de la physique les craquepots ou craquepotteurs sont des ingénieurs😀 les craquepots sont mâles les craquepots 'entre eux' ne sont pas mutuellement aux courant de leurs travaux. En fait, ils considèrent les autres craquepots comme les autres physiciens, la science traditionnelle. la théorie craquepote est intuïtive et plus simple que la théorie établie la craquepoterie est mathématiquement plus simple et dépasse rarement le niveau de l'école ou la première année d'études la craquepoterie est basée sur des livres d'école, et jamais sur des publications récentes. Le craquepot n'est pas au courant. Il existe un index de craquepoterie par John Baez (en anglais) qui permet d'évaluer numériquement une nouvelle théorie Jess Kiddun "https://desencyclopedie.org/wiki/Morosophie

Skip outside or you may divide half the crockery into pieces. I often use the leftovers and incorporate them into tomorrow's meal but broken bits of china would probably send me to the dentist's chair and reduce my bank balance.

I was wondering whether the direction of the resultant wave differs from the other 2 waves and if that might cause a slow down. And what about the interactions with particles .Do they slow down the wave ? Is what I though,too but the waves from the electron are not moving in the same direction as the light wave ,are they?

Ah yes ,but the distinction btw the quantum and the classical model is far from second nature to me. But thanks for the reminder.

So interactions with particles don't "hold up" the passage of the light? It is the presence of electrons which create their own wave which interferes with the light wave,producing a resultant wave to move at a speed lower than c?

As I heard it light moves either at c or at zero with no other speed in between.Everything between interactions is the vacuum where the speed of light is c and I confess to knowing very little of the processes that actually go on during interactions with the medium,or how long 1 such interaction might take (which slows down the overall speed of light in any particular medium)

Shiny bright objects are not always what they seem to be. "A shape-shifting robot that looks like a cross between a Lego figure and the T-1000 from Terminator 2 has been filmed melting itself to escape through the bars of a miniature jail cell." https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-64668021

Our enemies have honied voices 😀

That seems to me a de facto belief that there are more important matters to occupy one's time. (It is only when these seemingly quaint belief systems infringe upon one's political freedoms that mindset becomes a kind of head in the sand)

So the title of the thread should be changed to."Anti-theism ,nature or nurture" Rather confusing otherwise. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheism "I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful." Christopher Hitchens

Hey ,I am starting to find this thread a bit distasteful(and how do we define "tossed"?) 😀

A bit off course.

Will Nikki Haley be in John Bolton's best books seeing that he will be 75 in November and so will have to pass her proposed Senior's mental competence test if he wants to be President?

That is how I feel about people who do things differently from me.They are wrong. I live in an egocentric world that I have to reason myself out of on a continuous basis 😀

We would have to ask a similar question of "heterophobia" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heterophobia I don't think (m)any would claim that such behaviour had a "nature" component. It is all very murky .. maybe just a "self uber alles" part of human nature?

I saw Bolton on CNN about an hour ago attacking the administration for allowing it to pass over US territory on the basis that it may have had a nuclear bomb in its payload. Seems a bit of a fanciful argument.Was he scraping the dregs of his powers of argumentation?

Another time ,another planet.

Didn't realise the Deep State was that deep

Sammy Davis Jr Mr Bojangles

Living in the past seems to be a near guarantee of failure in warfare .(there must be exceptions but I can't think of anything obvious)