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Biden definitely had a better idea about this than Trump. However, I'm still not exactly ecstatic over Biden's handling or Obama's for that matter. Way too many red lines and not embarrassing Putin, slow walking everything, restricting Ukraine on fighting sensibly and restricting them to inside the borders of Ukraine, allowing Russia to just hammer them from outside the borders, etc., etc., etc. Biden even pulled the bit about Zelensky not being grateful enough before Trump did. I mean, not as loudly and dramatically and he quickly and quietly nipped it in the bud, but still. Of course, Trump, even though he wasn't President, managed to use the Republican controlled Congress to sabotage aid to Ukraine during that time, so that was beyond his control, but there was so much more that they could have done earlier that they didn't.

Add "Claim that the end of the war was your doing and all part of your brilliant plan when it does end. Then demand your Nobel Peace Prize and either throw a tantrum when you don't get one or use something that's plainly blackmail to, ugh, actually get one." to the end and I think you'll just about have it.

Technically half of it was by the Soviets, who were technically part of the Allies at that point. Of course, one can also argue that obviously they did win something since they held onto it for close to half a century.

That's a bizarre perspective. The problem with it is the lack of symmetry. The Allies (except for the Soviets) were not invading Germany for conquest, just to stop the country that was invading them for conquest. The Russians are invading Ukraine for conquest... Huh, well I guess there actually is some symmetry there.

Specifically in answer to that, I should point out that Ukraine kept honoring its contract with Russia to transit gas through a pipeline to Europe up until the contract term ended. This, despite the fact that Russia was using the money earned to kill Ukrainians. Of course, Ukraine also received transit fees, but the net was definitely in Russia's favor. Diplomatically though, it would have been difficult for Ukraine to stop because countries in Europe were using the gas and it could have caused diplomatic problems in Europe if they stopped it early (it still caused diplomatic problems when they did stop it, but at least they were in the clear as far as trade lawsuits go. Basically, with Ukraine's reliance on Europe, they could not afford to stop.

I believe I read that, in this particular case, he was complaining to people on the outside that they were going too far and he felt like he was truly being held prisoner. It sounds like, in this case, he really did not feel like his dignity was being considered.

The argument you're making seems to me to echo all of the arguments for doing nothing about hazing. You know, that all the participants want to do it. They signed up for it after all. It may be difficult to see in cases like this, but there's a line to be crossed somewhere, and this one may have crossed the line.

True enough, police have often used this human hack. Goes something like: "Imagine you committed the crime and write down how you would have done it. This will help us in our investigations into who really did. Great, now just sign at the bottom there."

Thinking back, I think this is more or less the human hack that project Veritas used when they were trying to set up people at ACORN.

Sorry about your Dad, but we have treatments for cancers, but it's hard to call them cures. Depending on the nature of the cancer, the overall health of the patient and all sorts of other factors, the treatments simply may not have enough of an effect on the cancer. For some cancers, treatment might be 99% successful, for others 50/50 and in others they're rolling the dice on maybe a 5% shot at success because it's better than not trying at all. They will provide a prognosis, which, yes, is an educated guess. Usually they explain to the patient and family what the approximate odds are, but they're just that, odds. In other words, your Dad died because he had cancer. Chemotherapy weakened him because it's poison, and the surgery was only unnecessary in hindsight. It might have been able to help, but unfortunately, it turned out that it didn't.

I would say trust, but verify. Speaking from my own experience, I would 100% be guaranteed dead at the moment if not for modern medicine and doctors. The human body does not replace major internal organs that have failed all by itself. That said, having spent, for example, about 10% of last year in hospitals, I have seen plenty of problems in the healthcare system too. That includes systemic failure in the healthcare system where it has almost killed me in a way that was not technically the fault of any one healthcare provider or person, but left me at death's door for weeks without a simple, easy treatment to save my life. I believe in modern medicine and doctors, but I take everything with a grain of salt. I don't just automatically disbelieve everything though, I do try to question everything. However, this is not the type of questioning everything that some people do where they just never believe the answers.

Then you don't take those medications. It is a bit of a tricky proposition. Many medications don't involve killing directly (unless you count, for example, killing E. Coli or CHO cells) but FDA approval does require various kinds of testing, generally involving animals. Among those is LD50 testing to determine the average lethal dose. So, if you have those objections, the number of medicines you might be able to take could vary from most of them to none of them depending on how stringent you are. Of course, depending on the illness, there might be no alternative treatment, so the alternative might be death.

Relevance? To anything? I mean, if this were actually a discussion about paleontology, which is a subject I have traditionally gotten quite excited about, it might be interesting to talk about how the conditions at the time enabled some forms of life that you don't see today, such as very large arthropods. However that really has nothing to do with what we're talking about here.

No, it would just be nice if posters were serious and had some basic level of knowledge and intelligence fitting the topics. You (once again, if you're the same AC) literally posted that you were "shitpost[ing]".

Wow. Ok. You know they have pills for that little problem of yours now. The websites you probably get your "news" from them sell them all the time. Just look for the ad with the man with the old face, but improbably young looking and incredibly muscled torso. He will probably have one or two very young and scantily clad women hanging off him. Don't worry, the pills are totally legit and not a scam at all.

By the way, people with a modicum of intelligence or common sense realize that people not agreeing with them and hurting their widdle sensibilities is not a form of censorship. That is actually simply because, you see, the way free speech works is that, horror of horrors, other people get to speak too. You are certainly free to go back to your safe space if you like, of course.

I would say that my understanding of my own intellect is about right. As far as your intelligence... let's just say it makes me kind of sad.

Whatever dark matter actually is, whether it's really matter or some other phenomenon, it interacts through gravity, but not apparently through other forces. So, whether it is actually matter, or just something we do not understand about how gravity works, or some other phenomenon, we can observe the effects it has on other things in the universe, such as refracting light through gravitational lensing.

I did not forget anything. In terms of altering the moon's orbit and slowing the Earth's rotation, the gravitational effect of the near side tidal bulge which travels a little ahead of the moon is the dominant force. As far as telling if the size of the two bulges is different, there is a very, very easy way to account for differences in ocean depth, coastlines, etc. That is that there are approximately 2 high tides per day. One of them is the near-side one, and the other is the far side one. So, that means that most locations on Earth that experience a tide get one tide from the near side bulge and one from the far side bulge. Over 700 times per year. So we have a massive number of data points in a huge number of locations where we can measure both high tides at the exact same spot. So, yeah, we have some very certain knowledge that the far side bulge is smaller than the near side. It's not a huge difference. Only about 5% or so, but it is quite real, well observed and theoretically understood.

Also, I am not sure why this is a sticking point to you. It does not actually have very much directly to do with what is going on with the orbit of the moon. The effect would still happen even if somehow a tidal bulge did not form on the other side of the Earth from the moon.

It does. One certainly could argue that this app might have an order of magnitude larger reach than a private social group. Of course, this story is about that information as well as the private information of the women being distributed much, much more widely. Several orders of magnitude more widely than the app itself. With obviously much, much nastier intent. Oh and, also, if they truly objected to the discussion going on about the men on the platform, it's a bit weird that they then distributed that for all the world to see now. For those men already discussed on the app, apparently now women who look them up can find that information without needing to sign up to a members only community.