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    NATO Leader Lauds Trump as ‘Man of Strength’, ‘Man of Peace’

    No president was. The US was providing help to Ukraine well before the Russian invasion. Mostly in the form of intelligence, training and weapons.
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    NATO Leader Lauds Trump as ‘Man of Strength’, ‘Man of Peace’

    Andrew Jackson? A slave trader who ordered a genocide against the Native Americans. Opposed abolition and caused what you can argue is statistically the worst financial crisis in US history. Supplied arms to Texan separatists. Andrew Johnson? Dithered (in some interpretations, outright...
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    Icons of Evolution

    Conserved sequences aren't just compared with chimpanzees and other primates, we see them in comparisons throughout the rest of life. Here's a paper comparing the genomes of humans and pufferfish, which found "nearly 1,400 highly conserved non-coding sequences"...
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    Trump is releasing all the tariff letters to the public on Truth social

    That letter. :doh: The grammar. :doh:The structure. :doh:The content. :doh:The thinking behind it. :doh::sigh: Decades ago, I worked as a teaching assistant and tutor for first year undergraduate history students. If a student presented work of this calibre, the procedure was to leave it...
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    The will to live - Who is it from?

    Because Natural Selection operates on vastly more levels than just 'will to live'. It only "cares" (for lack of a better term) about reproductive success and 'will to live' is just one of any number of strategies to achieve that end. Evolution operates on the population level, not the...
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    The will to live - Who is it from?

    Natural selection. That's the reason for the 'will to live'. Natural selection favours survival. Organisms that don't have the 'will to live' will have lower survival rates. As a result, the population will have lower success in replicating/having descendants. That means that their genetic...
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    If someone comes up with a better naturalistic explanation of the available evidence and it has better predictive power, then the Theory of Evolution could be overturned. I don't think it will, but it's still a possibility. After all, the structure of evolutionary theory has gone through several...
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    Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app

    There were VOCAL and VOLUABLE complaints from progressive and immigration reform advocates who were "left wingers" during the Obama administration. Not to mention waves of infighting within the Democrat party over the administration's approach- particularly its very high deportation count in the...
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    Fewer international tourists are visiting the U.S. — economic losses could be ‘staggering,’ researchers estimate

    Update on US tourism for year to May-2025. Air traffic was: US citizen outbound/return travel of 60.088 million, up 2.010 million passengers Foreign citizen inbound/return travel of 47.319 million, down 1.007 million passengers (about -2.1%). Forecasts are now that foreign visits to the US...
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    Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app

    That's just not true. During the Bush II and Obama administrations, ICE conducted SUBSTANTIAL numbers of sweeps, raids, arrests and deportations. For instance, during the Obama administration there were about 3.1 million 'removals' - that is, people who were arrested and involuntarily removed...
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    Noah's Ark

    Nah, there's plenty of corroboration of dragon and sun god accounts. Otherwise, why would there be fossils of giant creatures buried in the ground? Or historical stories of people battling giant reptiles? Or Christian saints who famously slew them? Not to mention the hundreds of sun deities...
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    Noah's Ark

    Ancient dragon myths found worldwide - from Mesopotamia to the Americas- serve to corroborate Beowulf as a real event, not just a myth. Ancient tiny people myths found worldwide - from Australia to Ireland - server to corroborate Gulliver's Travels as a real event, not just a story. Ancient...
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    Homo erectus in Java: 140,000-year-old fossils found in submerged river valley

    They keep turning up all over the place, and in more and more variations. I think there have been three new Homo species discovered in just the last decade (juluensis, bodoenesis and nadeli) and another couple of earlier discoveries that have been formally type classified as Homo. That would...
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    UN Peacekeeping in Ukraine

    Huh? It's just a series of non-sequiturs with you. Does anything actually sink in, or are you just a particularly dim LLM? Lviv is not Russian. It's not governed by Russia, or in any way controlled by it. That means Russia has zero say about what it does or doesn't do (including what currency...
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    UN Peacekeeping in Ukraine

    Yes. If Russia could meet the requirements to be eligible for a seat on the EU Parliament, that would help. The Copenhagen Criteria are fair and reasonable. All Russia would need to do is: Have a working, transparent democracy with regular, open, free and fair elections which are monitored by...
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