Our presence in this universe appears to be the result of a long series of lucky circumstances. These include: The fortuitous value of the fine structure constant, which, if it were a little differen… (View Post)

It's hard to say how much that strategy would have helped. At least some lost production is due to people actually being ill with Covid rather than being due to the measures taken to mitigate the spr… (View Post)

I doubt it very much re Ukraine. It is in the obvious interest of the West to supply Ukraine with sufficient weapons to fight Russia to a standstill and maintain a grinding war of attrition, but not … (View Post)

I had to laugh at one of Bart's posts the other day, in which he was making some general point about the UK and other democracies with similar interests. His list of similar democracies was the USA, … (View Post)

Gerhard Schroeder is a few screws short of a full set and probably the closest to a German Trump. I was living in Germany during the 2005 election, and I remember how he insisted on claiming victory … (View Post)