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by JimC
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:00 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Palestine v Israel.
Replies: 684
Views: 75849

Re: Palestine v Israel.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-26/un-vote-israel-gaza-us-biden-netanyahu/103633132 Washington's decision to allow a vote at the United Nations Security Council that Israel did not want indicates a new low between the United States and Israel. It further isolates Israel. The US, its strongest su...
by JimC
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:19 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Russia invades Ukraine again?
Replies: 914
Views: 98330

Re: Russia invades Ukraine again?

The various "stans" must be a fertile recruiting ground for Islamic terrorists...
by JimC
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:39 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Replies: 1312
Views: 375604

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

I'm reading a fantasy series by a Melbourne author, Keri Arthur - The Relic Hunters...
by JimC
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:22 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Russia invades Ukraine again?
Replies: 914
Views: 98330

Re: Russia invades Ukraine again?

aufbahrung wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:06 am
They be locals acting under the name ISIS most likely. Russians tret the Chechens real bad...good chance they are Chechens protecting relatives with the ISIS moniker.
That actually makes sense! :shock:

:hairfire:
by JimC
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Russia invades Ukraine again?
Replies: 914
Views: 98330

Re: Russia invades Ukraine again?

I'm wondering what the Islamic State motivation is for such an attack in Russia. Perhaps connected to Chechnya? Perhaps just a hatred of the West? (though including Russia in the "West" is stretching it...)
by JimC
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Science, Technology & Environment
Topic: Global Climate Change Science News
Replies: 3402
Views: 844181

Re: Global Climate Change Science News

"You cannot do just one thing..."
by JimC
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Science, Technology & Environment
Topic: The rise of the machine
Replies: 198
Views: 65557

Re: The rise of the machine

Implants to combat paralysis (or at least allow the ability to control external machinery) certainly make sense, but I gather that Musk and others see them as a technological adjunct for healthy people. Not so sure about that...
by JimC
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: Science, Technology & Environment
Topic: The rise of the machine
Replies: 198
Views: 65557

Re: The rise of the machine

I for one welcome our new brain implant overlords...
by JimC
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:43 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Meanwhile, in Florida...
Replies: 1028
Views: 199779

Re: Meanwhile, in Florida...

You can take the man out of Florida, but...
by JimC
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: The US Supreme Court
Replies: 663
Views: 125474

Re: The US Supreme Court

Duelling courts...
by JimC
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: All Things Trump: the story continues...
Replies: 3465
Views: 297715

Re: All Things Trump: the story continues...

You are definitely seeing the glass half full, Tero...
by JimC
Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:31 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: All Things Trump: the story continues...
Replies: 3465
Views: 297715

Re: All Things Trump: the story continues...

Apres moi le deluge...
by JimC
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:39 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: All Things Trump: the story continues...
Replies: 3465
Views: 297715

Re: All Things Trump: the story continues...

After he's won the election, federal agents will arrest all the relevant lawyers and politicians in New York, and send them to the interment camps...
by JimC
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: American Politics from 2019 on
Replies: 1289
Views: 162443

Re: American Politics from 2019 on

I wonder which is more dangerous; insisting that an opinion is a fact, or insisting that a fact is only an opinion?
by JimC
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Republicans: continued
Replies: 6489
Views: 859565

Re: Republicans: continued

The right hates government interference in business, unless it's them doing the interfering...