Please be careful however not to include too many countries or they may arrange for their own and live well.
I do not know if the Russian perspective is complete BS or BS mixed with some elements of reason because I have never seen it. The bottom line however is this: if any country X tries to introduce good Y into a country Z and the result is that the country's material wealth is destroyed, millions have to flee and hundresd of thousands die then I'd say whatever good that was that was being introduced it is not so good. Now X=roughly West/NATO, Y=Democracy and civil rights, Z= Syria or same X&Y with Z being Libya or Kosovo etc - this is ok. even if it is not. If however X=Russia (or Serbia), Y is protection of certain ethnic population (same in the Serbia/Kosovo conflict) and Z is Ukraine (Kosovo) it is somehow bad, even evil possibly hitler level evil. The only thing I know is this: media are lyig and politicians in the west as well as in the east just do whatever they think is right. Very often this right is just wrong, often enough on both sides. I do not have to justify what Putin does. I think his actions are not rational but then again - I am pretty sure Ukrainians are not heroes of democracy and human rights - they and the Baltic states do discriminate against Russians although they do not have to. Ukraine is also full to the brim with our weapons. I wonder if that matters for a guy like Putin who does not care about how things look like but act on basis of facts (this is my speculation) - maybe indeed he wants to prevent these two tiny enclaves from being overran? Ukraine is in any case in much better position than Georgians were more than 10y ago and i would have good chance to cleanse the tiny enclaves in the east Krajina style (Krajina is a place in Croatia). Bottom line we have blood on our hands for no good reason, if we did no mess around Ukraine this may still have happened but at least it would not be our fault.
BTW: I actually do not mind killing Saddam. This was one rare occasion we did something good and considering that he was killing his people with gas (for this we do have evidence not like in many cases in Syria for instance) the price may have been worth it. We still messed it up at the end. But I guess this was a good try. Still based on a lie and I guess the goodness of it was an accident.
Additional complexity in our current situation is the absolute infantile and idiotic behaviour of our media and politicians that use that to gauge public opinion. The way it goes if NATO invokes article 5 now (I am pretty sure DDoS attacks on many Russian sites were done from the Western countries - how about that?) it may actually provoke escalation. This is what the West did at least since Joe became a potus - talk BS and escalate. I am old and I do not give a shit. But there are lots of people that do because they dislike the nuclear war for some reason. Another thing - Putin actually killed pandemic - I have not seen any covid BS in media for like 3 days in a row! He is my hero even if he goes down (which I find likely).
You may argue that the measles vax was reasonable. The measles virus and the vaccine had quite good characteristics for use, that is the virus was spreading fast and killed a lot of (especially young) peoplem had a lot of side effects and long term effects, while the vaccine was and is very effective, well tested and has minimum side effects. The same with majority of other vaccines. It is however hardly true for covid vaccine. The jabbed and boosted get sick and pass on the virus just as the unjabbed do - assuming the same behaviour. Here in Germany the fact is that unjabbed have to test to be able to live and the jabbed do not - this on its own may explain why the mortality rates are higher in German states that have higher vaccination rates. But maybe these are side effects. Who knows? The government seems to be hellbent on not verifying the status of the sick and on not providing this data to the public. Evil people (and even some gov. officials) say that this is to not give the anti-vaxxers arguments. One may consider this a joke but it is not.
I might have agreed with vaccination if anybody actually bothered to provide the reliable data about the illness, about the vaccine and on the benefits and costs of the measures. By reliable I mean that people do not get sacked for expressing 'false' ideas and that there is no censorship. The way I see it the MSM (new and old especially likes of YT and FB which censor all that is possible to be censored) and the politicians with their draconian but not based on research policies fucked it up for me and quite a few people who would otherwise consider a jab. Now I am very serious in protesting till I get what I want which is my freedoms back. I understand that I may get arrested or shot in the head in a process by the overreaching police state. So was it back then when I lived under commies. Interesting in this context is why FDA needs 70y to release the papers it used to license the use of vaccines? Another joke?
As for censorship by private companies - a subject quite interesting in itself. I think the people hunting other people from public square for wrong-think are censors, whatever their status is. You own the square and you remove views - you are a censor. Something that should be very obvious especially ever since the right to assembly and to demonstrate has been suspended in many places (I violate the ban on assembly now just by walking in front a town hall with a friend - I do it regularly anyway to make a point that inalienable rights are inalienable). But I am flexible - I can agree on calling it cancel culture. Just as evil as censorship of the past.
But I guess there will be plenty of people that want to tell me now how I murdered their mother. The kids that committed the suicide during 2y of measures or just missed quite some school time do not count there anyway I suppose. That the measures are causing increasing poverty in the world for the first time in few decades is a fact as is also that poverty causing decrease in life expectancy. The fact that the treatment options seems to be limited by ideology is probably affecting outcomes too. How many people died because of that?
Just watching the language used to 'convince' people to take a jab reminds me strongly of a communist propaganda from a country I came from. Just as it does remind me about the propaganda from a country I live in now, just 90ya. That the West dares even criticize others for human rights violations now is another major joke.
The Chinese astronomers didn't have telescopes. So beyond seeing a bright spot in the sky with mark one eyeballs they didn't make the sort of detailed useful observations that have been made in this instance.
The formulation of 'real time' is silly in both cases anyway. The event happened long time ago. The real interesting part is this: if you consider the 'real time' thing in relation to when the light came to us then the actual observation by Chinese 1000ya were done in real time as they observed the light coming in as it passed the earth. What they did in Hawaii is difficult to say as the article in question does not provide such details. but chances are they were making photos and analyzing these with computers - something that is not real time by nature of the process. So if you really care about 'real time' than the comment that Chinese were first is valid while we still do not know if Hawaiian astronomers were doing it real time either.
What the article wanted to say of course is that the astronomers observed something that made them focus on particular object in the sky thus providing much more data than having just general observation of the whole sky and analyzing photos afterwards w/o option to focus specific instruments on it while the light from the actual explosion passed our planet.
The way I see it then is: both views are right but the title is just a confusing mess. Just as the article is. For instance (from the article):
When that happens, the iron collapses and causes the supernova.
is really wrong. it is not iron that collapses but the star does as soon as there is enough of iron in the core and the pressure ceases causing implosion. But I am not an expert so maybe that is iron that collapses. Who knows. Maybe we have just observed (in real time) a new famous astronomer publishing his first great theory?
And who are you to tell me if my truck is oversized?
Are you also complaining that condoms sold in Africa are oversized? I mean more material is going into them - think of the CO2 put into atmosphere while making them!!!!
That more people died that needed to is speculative at best. In my country of 83m commies the excess mortality does not seem to exist if you look at the data.
People still die of course and hospitals get crowded too - as they always do in winter. You will not get much of it in MSM but the data from official government sites or fed with government sites (EUROMOMO) do not show any. We shall see how that looks like in string when warm weather helps vaccine to combat disease.
OMB did prevent the vaccine being produced? With his own hands? He is also personally responsible for the disaster that happened mostly in democratically governed states in regard to cov-response?
What you write as a response neither discusses arguments made nor avoids throwing verbal abuse. A perfect sign of a troll.
I guess we must accept the way slightly fraudulently produced majority behaves, or? Or is there anything we can do for you to change your ways?
Another issue that bothers me a bit. There seems to be in this world of pain a lot of people that consider others inhumane enough to make lists of them so that the following purge goes smoothly. You seem to me belonging firmly to that crowd.
To be fair - the ideology behind looks like religion to me. In both cases.
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle