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America, can't you do better than Trump and Biden?

If you don't, China and India are going to turn you into a third world country. Jai Hind!

RIP.

The Band were a bit before my time, but one song stood out so much the first time I watched Easy Rider, I had to look it up.

This is an amazing version featuring Robbie and musicians from all over the world.

https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ

I think she was a complicated soul who tried to console herself in religion, but was ultimately destroyed by it

The suicide of her son was probably the biggest factor in the end.

I met her at a traditional music festival in Ireland once. She was there with Enya - probably researching her Sean-Nós Nua album at the time.

I only spoke a few words with her, but she seemed very quiet and humble - not the firebrand she was often portrayed as.

Russian bots are out in force today.

And then what? Life on Earth will dramatically change for better? No! Global warming will stop? NO! Poverty will be eradicated? NO! So what is the point? Concentrate on problems that effect life on Earth!!!!!! Stop wasting money!!!!!

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

It is really only a problem in countries where certain sections of the populace politicized mask wearing. I guarantee if governments had banned mask wearing for sone reason, there would be people running around wearing masks and squealing about their fweedum to wear them.

The immaturity of some people in non-Asian countries other has been embarrassing to watch.

The Butthurt of China is never ending.

So all the people against same-sex marriage, if this was the Japanese government banning marriages between foreign and Japanese nationals, you would be on board with that? Because all it boils down to is equal representation under the law for everyone.

Fact check :

There is no 'earthquake season.'

Human activity such as mining and fracking can influence earthquakes, but the war in Ukraine or North Korea do not induce large quakes at plate boundaries. Nature does that fine on its own.

I thought Brexit was supposed to bring freedoms?

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another bill was made. In the land of Westminster, in the fires of Mount Tory, the Dark Lord Sunak forged in secret a master bill, to control all others.

There’s no such thing as AI.

Intelligence is defined as 'the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.'

AI systems perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. The systems aquire knowledge and skills through training. Humans make and train the systems, so they are artificial.

Hence artificial intelligence.

Hooray!

People are talking about angles, but the deciding factor was the ball was still in when the player kicked it. This year's ball is the first ever to have a sensor inside. It can detect exactly when the player made contact with the ball. It wasn't over the line when the Japanese player made contact.

Japan just got several million new supporters from England

Anyway, they deserve it. The Japanese fans and team have showed the rest of the world up with their attitude towards the game. Picking up rubbish and leaving the dressing room spotless unlike the spoilt primadonnas of other nations.

Keks down

Legs Akimbo

Aircon up the jocks

Sorted

@Sven Asai

Any concerns? Just pull the plug and AI is again completely stupid and non-existent.

Yes, but it would be an end of the world scenario. If we have AI then why not make it smart enough to help us out with our problems.

 Science pretends to provide answers to questions which are beyond our comprehension. 

As I said before, if science explained everything we wouldn't need science.

Electricity was beyond our comprehension. Fire was beyond our comprehension.

Strawman arguments about the most extreme questions in science don't invalidate all the achievements in science so far. It is the same level of debate that pseudoscience nuts use.

Religions explain nothing because they are just pure fiction.

Thing is, if God does exist and was involved in the origin of things,

Which God? Ra? Osiris? Horus? Odin? Loki? Frigg? Zeus? Hades? Pluto? Kali? Shiva? Amaterasu? Inari? Izanagi? Danu? Lugh? Gitche Manitou? Quetzalcoatl? Huitzilopochtli? Svarog? Allah? Yahweh?

Nobody in science ever thought they had all the answers. That's religion. If we had all the answers, we wouldn't need science.

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None of which still excuses the Russian invasion.

Arnold, are you also supporting Palestinians?, or the abandoned Afghans, many more by uncle Sam

You could feed several herds of cattle with all that straw, man.

Perhaps herd immunity as SJ mentioned. But many experts are also pointing to a recommendation made the Tokyo Medical Association chairman in August.

The many experts that talk in your head? Ivermectin doesn't work.

But you do realize it is made by Big Pharma all the same

The broken record brigade really loves quoting South African doctors recently.

And what are we as society to gain from this technological feat?

'Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?'

Fewer cars means less carbon dioxide emissions.

Maybe not. I bought a new Yaris Cross last month. I could have got the petrol version straight away, but I have to wait until March for the hybrid.

no point of stocking up on food or supplies in my opinion because most people don’t know the Fuji is a super volcano

There is every point of stocking up on food.

And Fuji isn't a super volcano.

Hakone is a bigger threat to the Kanto area if it popped. Calderas are nasty.

If you look at the data, there is no major increase in quakes over in recent years.

That spot near Fuji has had quakes of the same size for at least the past 10 years.

Saying that, in Japan a large quake could happen at any time. The only thing you can do is be prepared.

So if 80 % of the population is fully vaccinated and 80% of new infections are among the fully vaccinated, what does that suggest to you?

It suggests that there are more people vaccinated, so of course there will be more infections in the vaccinated group. It's basic mathematics. Vaccines don't give 100% cover from infection. Nobody ever said they did.

The fact that most deaths and serious cases are in the unvaccinated population, what does that suggest to you?

Nobody on here is pro-vaccine.

We are anti-misinformation.

If the vaccines didn't work I would be the first to reject them, but the majority of studies already show that they do.

If you are majoring in psychology, I suggest you look up the typical traits of people who fall for conspiracy theories and the like. There have been several done.

The usual suspects on this site display them every day. Watching that is a much more interesting psychological pastime.

According to the Japanese news. the infected person is Namibian diplomat.

I sold a few stock photos as NFTs for silly prices, but I stopped because the environmental impact of these things is very high.