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Look at the volume of quotations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) by medieval philosophers as a counterpoint.

you could more accurately relate it to the Greek war with the Persians. That's where many of the tropes about Western freedoms vs Eastern tyranny originate. Long before the Latin c…

That's more of a statement of the 'Plato to NATO' Western civilization meme than anything real.

Newgrange has nothing to do with the Celts: it predates their arrival by several thousand years.

humans are not designed

In Ireland at least local calls were a fixed price, no matter how long the call was. Long-distance calls were billed by the minute.

is that you. Adrian Zenz?

> "The future has lost it's appeal to me" culture is stuck in endless remakes of optimistic 70s futurism it's an important point: we don't have a future, a telos, that doesn't fill…

Untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews There are between 300 and 350 thousand Jews living in Iran. I presume the other numbers are similarly nonsensical.

The Irish spoken in the North West of Ireland (Tir Conaill) is pretty much indistinguishable from Scots Gaedhlig. The real division is between Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) and Bryth…

"properly working lambda expressions were available only in lisp until recently."

Chesterton described Aquinas as looking quite like Chesterton. Judging by the name at least half a millenium separates Myron Shibley from Aquinas. Can't it just be a myth, as it se…

you have the truth - it was cooked up by US Naval Intelligence - why would you think it was safe?

safe as it ever was

The NSA is about insecurity, not security. They're a SIGINT shop

Thanks for that Germany. Won't you take her back and make her Minister for Castles or something,

These are simply US talking points, and not very good ones.

The Russians were, as they made clear on multiple occasions, threatened by NATO moving into Ukraine and potentially placing missiles close to the Russian heartland.

Whatever he arrived with, it changed the plans of the Ukrainian government. I don't see how it removes any agency from Ukraine, or why that would even be a meaningful statement.

Sure, Russians are uniquely evil orcs. This is just propaganda for the rubes.

Don't be ridiculous. There are interviews with both sources that are available online.

he would say that, wouldn't he?

"Clarified" -- yes he walked it back under intense pressure. His words were in a long podcast you can listen to.

It's about Russian security, not Putin's vanity. Please try to raise the level of discourse beyond the boogyman propaganda so beloved of Hollywood. This is serious, deadly serious,…

Naftali Bennett (former Israeli premier): https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/russi... Watch the interview if you don't like the source. Ukrainian negotiator Dav…