Recent content by Blue (Mars)

I think it would be quite difficult for a random family to convincingly fake a death.

>China Sound about par for the course. Young women are in extremely high demand, so it makes sense she thought she could get away with this.

Here's the thing about science: It's not a bible, it's a continuously evolving understanding based on data and, importantly, the general understanding people have. This 'general understanding' can often be patently insane. You mention the Kung Flu; We - and by we I mean people who can think - have known that Covid was made in the Wuhan Virology Institute since like February of 2020 when the genome was published and there were obvious telltales of artificiality. The fact that this was dismissed as a conspiracy theory for well over a year despite all evidence being strongly against the animal market hypothesis is, sadly, par for the course. The data was dismissed and scientists' general understanding - much of which was based on statements by the largely Beijing-controlled WHO - triumphed. Nevertheless, science is the final arbiter of what we know to be true and not. It can be questioned, but never dismissed. So here's how you address this: If you don't like a particular study...

This is now a convo thread. What do people think about "Policy Institute" for a section name? We're all a bit too sophisticated to be discussing geopolitics in something so pedestrian as a cafe. :becel

We're living in the end times. Whether we're to be raptured or damned by the gods we're about to birth is still up in the air, but I'm glad to be here.

I think most news is eventually political; even if it affects everyone equally, stupid fucking humans quickly end up blaming it (or the poor response to it) on their opponents.

An actual attempt by China to invade Taiwan would be extremely ill-advised. Every possibility that it turns into a disaster with tens of thousands of dead troops belly up in the straight, and that's if the US DOESN'T intervene. If the US does - and the Biden Administration has been uncharacteristically not shitty about supporting Taiwan - then it's simply a massacre.