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Comment Re:Who Benefits from a Belligerent Iran ??? (Score 1) 48

Former President Obama said that the Biden/Harris Administration was "continuing and building on" the Obama Administration

There was a deal between the US and Iran that was negotiated during Obama's presidency. You might argue that it wasn't the best of deals, but it did lower tensions, and constrained what Iran could do.

Trump didn't attempt to improve the deal, he just withdrew from it in 2018, which removed the constraints on Iran enriching uranium. He has done nothing to fix this in either of his terms in office.

But this war began with the war in Gaza, which started October 7, 2023 - during the Biden/Harris Administration.

Ah, so it took place during Biden's presidecy, therefore it was purely down to Biden, no other factors whatsoever.

Iran is a vile, authoritarian theocracy. So what success has Trump had reducing or eliminating the authoritarianism of the regime? How goes the negotiations to end the war and reopen shipping in the Middle East?

Comment Re:Prove it. (Score 1) 48

"Dark" Energy/Marketing

You have a theory, in this case General Relativity, that has been confirmed by testing for many decades. Experimental data shows anomalies that the theory cannot explain. So either:

- The theory is wrong (or incomplete)
- Our ontology is wrong
- Or both of the above

So, what do you do? Do you abandon the theory, in spite of the huge amount of evidential backing, or do you change the ontology while you investigate further?

rather large hole is getting known in the taxpayer community for gold digging.

Yeah, it's a well known fact that all astrophysicists are coining it, they are all as rich as Zuckerberg, if not Musk.

Oh and "Prove it"? As anyone who knows anything about science is aware, you don't prove things in science. Our theories are the best, current explanation for phenomena, but they are both tentative and provisional. Proof is for mathematics, logic and whisky, for science we have evidence.

Comment A "historically accurate" version. (Score 1) 66

Just wait until you try to download the bootleg video and end up with a copy of Musk's AI-generated "historically accurate" version instead. D'oh! :)

So, it's going to include all the Greek gods, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cyclops, Circe, Calypso, Sirens, man-eating giants etc. This should ensure it is "historically accurate". Oh, and all the actors will of course be white, not olive skinned.

Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 195

More socialism? Nah, pass.

After the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, Britain (under Thatcher) decided to use the money raised to fund taxes for the well off, and essentially gut UK manufacturing.

The Norwegians decided that the best thing to do was to put the money that they raised into a sovereign wealth fund.

You might care to look at which country seems to be doing better...

Comment Re:"Palestine" is a fictitious ethnicity (Score 1) 184

For starters, there is no real entity called the "Palestinian" people.

Way to go in avoiding the question I put to you. There are people living in Gaza and the West Bank, who the majority of the world refer to as "Palestinians".

I'll ask again, after the bombing of Gaza and Jewish settler attacks on those on the West Bank, what do you expect these people to do?

Comment Re:Netanyahu is trying to drag America (Score 2) 184

The day there is a restoration of democracy in Iran, those 2 will have normal relations again.

It will also require a restoration of secular democracy in Israel.

Israel will have a forever war w/ the "Palestinians" - a fraudulent entity invented by the Soviets and Nasserite Egyptians in 1964.

So what would you suggest for Palestinian people? Where should they go, and what should be done with the land that they have vacated?

Comment Digital Sovereignty (Score 1) 10

Is this just a euronationalism thing?

I am keeping a list of articles that show a number of European countries (not just EU ones) moving to increase their digital sovereignty. Given the behaviour of the American administration and the behaviour of American tech companies, this is hardly surprising.

Comment Argument from Ignorance (Score 1) 65

How does the concept of God not feel right? Scientists have been working since the Miller-Urey experiment of 1952 to figure out a spontaneous way in which life can develop and they have come up with absolutely nothing.

Just because they have (so far) come up with nothing, does not mean to say that you can infer that it was a god what dunnit, and particularly the god of an obscure tribe from one planet in a galaxy which probably contains billions of planets, in a universe that contains billions of galaxies.

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