You have all these opinions that seem to be completely hollow…I’m all ears for different perspectives but you’ve given me nothing but cynicism and dismissal
How is Ukraine fascist? Do you think Russia is fascist? Do you think Russia is communist?
Still waiting for a description of US involvement from someone
So your argument is “Ha!”?
You still haven’t said anything about how the US was involved in Euromaidan
Russia is far right lol
I’m concerned you think Russia is still communist based on your post history…
Let me guess, you think Russia’s doing a great thing in Ukraine
The choice Yanukovich made was in direct contradiction with what the democratically-elected Ukrainian Parliament had been “overwhelmingly” working toward. You think Yanukovich unilaterally scrapping that work, ignoring the will of the Ukrainian people, and reorienting toward Russia was beneficial, so how was it beneficial?
Fox News is pretty pro-Russia and often anti-US foreign policy these days, you’re pretty far off base
What coup? Yanukovich was removed by the democratically-elected Ukrainian Parliament in a floor vote after he fled the country. Ukrainians are the ones who did all of this. What do you think the US did? I know what Russia did, starting here:
The protests were sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Ukraine’s parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU, but Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it.
John V. Walsh seems to have a boner for everything China and Russia, and a hate boner for the US. Apparently the US is even responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A heat index of 130°F (54°C) is considered unsurvivable for more than a short time outdoors, and some very populated places are disturbingly close
I’m so excited…I’m so…scared…
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor’s dog?
DENTAL PLAN…Lisa needs braces…
I could keep going
I, too, have turned 40
I have to disagree here, because the US can easily afford everything listed here in addition to the fighter jet. The fighter jet isn’t responsible for a lack of spending in all these programs, it’s the Republican Party, which doesn’t want to see one cent of tax money go toward helping a poor person
“Ran NATO”…right
Manfred Wörner is the only German to have ever been NATO Secretary General, and he was 10 when WW2 ended
There’s a great Radiolab about this, highly recommend a listen.
MAY 21, 2012
Why Isn’t the Sky Blue?
What is the color of honey, and “faces pale with fear”? If you’re Homer–one of the most influential poets in human history–that color is green. And the sea is “wine-dark,” just like oxen…though sheep are violet. Which all sounds…well, really off. Producer Tim Howard introduces us to linguist Guy Deutscher, and the story of William Gladstone (a British Prime Minister back in the 1800s, and a huge Homer-ophile). Gladstone conducted an exhaustive study of every color reference in The Odyssey and The Iliad. And he found something startling: No blue! Tim pays a visit to the New York Public Library, where a book of German philosophy from the late 19th Century helps reveal a pattern: across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last. Jules Davidoff, professor of neuropsychology at the University of London, helps us make sense of the way different people see different colors in the same place. Then Guy Deutscher tells us how he experimented on his daughter Alma when she was just starting to learn the colors of the world around, and above, her.
Bonus: The Colors episode
Ok, but the question was whether or not they feel pain. We can definitively say they display escape behaviors when presented with an aversive stimulus, so I’d say it’s likely they do feel some sort of pain, even if their perception of it is nothing like that displayed by animals with central nervous systems.
The morality of shredding them alive by the thousands is a different conversation, but I would say yes, nature is cruel, and yes, it’s possible for humans to mimic nature and kill animals in similar ways, but humans also have a knack for taking things too far, eg chickens bred to be so big they can’t even walk or jellyfish-murdering robots
No Brain? For Jellyfish, No Problem
“I think sometimes people use its lack of a brain to treat a jellyfish in ways we wouldn’t treat another animal,” Helm says. “There are robots in South Korea that drag around the bay and suck in jellyfish and shred them alive. I’m a biologist and sometimes sacrifice animals, but I try to be humane about it. We don’t know what they are feeling, but they certainly have aversion to things that cause them harm; try to snip a tentacle and they will swim away very vigorously. Sure, they don’t have brains, but I don’t think that is an excuse to put them through a blender.”
I don’t think anyone with a scientifically informed perspective pretends they know the big bang was finite in nature. We’re just inferring based on our understanding of physics and our observations of the universe that what we perceive as the universe seems to have grown from an ultradense, unfathomably energetic smaller point. We have no idea what, if anything, came before, or whether there are other universes besides our own
Russia isn’t even remotely a Marxist state, and here you are on a Marxist instance defending the state capitalist Russia and telling me I’m the one who doesn’t belong here. And using a “do your own research” copout after you’re the one who engaged me in conversation