StringJunky

All science is wrong in the end. What matters is that scientists can do useful things with the theories they have until something else supersedes it. That's the way science rolls. A fact is only correct in a contemporary sense... it answers the questions of the day. What we have today is what we have to work with.

If you are concerned about it stick to the BB date. That's what it's been tested to. Storage conditions matter, so it's a 'How long is a piece of string' sort of question.

@geordief Are you aware there's a vaccine now for it and existing sufferers can take it to deal with future eruptions? Over 70 it's free in the UK.

I've linked 2 American, a UK, and one from the European Medines Agency. Fill yer boots. Assessing the benefit:risk ratio of a drug - randomized and naturalistic evidence - NIH Enhancing Benefit-Risk Assessment in Regulatory Decision-Making - FDA Risk:benefit analysis of drugs in practice - BMJ https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/what-we-do/regulatory-science-research/benefit-risk-methodology#:~:text=The benefit-risk methodology project,benefits and risks of medicines. - EMA

A year is a century in politics and 2024 is too far away to call.. Too much can happen, especially at this juncture in human history. I'm much less optimistic for the Dems, since Biden hugged up with Netanyahu.

Those that added the abortion question had strong support from the pro-groups, apparently. I read today that 1 in 4 women have had one in the US. If it's that many, I can't see the antis prevailing over the long-term.

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You clear out a negative past by creating new positive memories.

He's not just a side-show fanatic though, is he? He's actually pulling on the the levers of power there and writing policy.

I had an impish desire to re-post him with a notoriously-iconic mustache. He could sew this on his kippa and wear his heart on his head.

A topical comment someone made: If they’re black it’s a gang. If they’re Italian its a mob. If they’re Jewish it’s just a coincidence and you can’t talk about it. Whoever gave you a minus, clearly isn't aware of him.

Sorry. I was agreeing.

They aren't a different species.

Victors write the history books and point the moral compass in their own favour.

The purpose of importing the diaspora was to alter the electoral balance against the Arabs. This was a deliberate policy aspiration.

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

This is the UN version of the events between 1917-1947:

Thanks. Context matters.

If a homosexual man has a child, it doesn't suddenly make him straight.

Invariance is when one calculates, say a transformation, and the observed parameter (constant) remains unchanged. Is that correct?

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.

But the relevant starting point is when the Zionists decided to re-engineer the course of Late-19th century Palestine.

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.