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New comment by mjfl in "Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa"

mjfl — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:11:36 +0000

Wasn’t the water level lower back then? How much smaller was the Mediterranean?

New comment by mjfl in "DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia"

mjfl — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:14:20 +0000

It is my understanding that they've always been understood to be descendants of the Siberians.

New comment by mjfl in "40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months"

mjfl — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:42:47 +0000

put the porno book down.

New comment by mjfl in "40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months"

mjfl — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:26:17 +0000

They should also quantify how many of the books that people are reading are trash fiction and self-help books. Not many people that read are actually reading substantive, educational works.

New comment by mjfl in "Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks"

mjfl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:05:52 +0000

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New comment by mjfl in "Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks"

mjfl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 06:27:54 +0000

The crackdown on Trump supporters after his 2016 election.

https://archive.ph/uJR8h

New comment by mjfl in "Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks"

mjfl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:20:34 +0000

It's pretty disgusting to demand a domestic crackdown on your political opponents because of the 'threat' posed by an extremist group that you are covertly funding, training, and controlling, which is what happened with Azov.

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:17:09 +0000

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New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:27:42 +0000

This is insanity. You have lost your mind. Europe is covered by a nuclear umbrella and is thus in no danger from Russian invasion.

And you still haven't answered the question, which indicates that you don't see any Ukrainian path to victory - rather your intention is to throw all of Ukraine into the meat grinder in order to make yourself slightly safer from a completely hypothetical Russian invasion, which is profoundly unethical.

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:23:24 +0000

Ukraine needs to rebuild its army too, and would benefit more relative to Russia from a ceasefire, even if Russia reinvaded. You people are so wildly irrational.

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:07:49 +0000

That is a false premise. No one is negotiating complete surrender.

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:34:05 +0000

What is Ukraine’s path to victory??

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:17:27 +0000

what is Ukraine's path to victory and why do you think war is better than peace or even a ceasefire?

New comment by mjfl in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

mjfl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:32:12 +0000

This place has become a real echo chamber lately. I'm seeing radically unexamined opinions stream past like a firehose and can't respond to all of them. But to the anti-peace "pro-Ukranian" people here:

1. Do you see a path to victory? If so, how many Ukranians have will have to die before Crimea is retaken? Conditioned on your answer - do you really care about Ukrainians?

2. Do you really believe that the West stands for the 'rules based international order' while it unconditionally supports the ethnostate of Israel holocausting it's indigenous population inside of a concentration camp?

3. Do you really consider Ukraine to be a democracy given that Zelensky has suspended elections and has repressed his political opposition?

New comment by mjfl in "[dead]"

mjfl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:33:57 +0000

"John Bolton, former national security adviser"

Are we so naive that we're listening to this guy now? The forever war guy that wants to bathe the world in blood?

New comment by mjfl in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

mjfl — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:34:06 +0000

not my best comment, but I can't delete it now.

New comment by mjfl in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

mjfl — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:05:13 +0000

for decades they have been a mouthpiece for the CIA and the deep state. Bezos is clearing house.

New comment by mjfl in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

mjfl — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:59:45 +0000

People who oppose these moves like "I don't like when visible billionaires own our news services, I much prefer the invisible ones" bewilder me.

New comment by mjfl in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

mjfl — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:44:54 +0000

Wait- do you think the grants have gone away? Do you even know what overhead is?

New comment by mjfl in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

mjfl — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:43:52 +0000

I didn’t say it’s a good thing. I think it’s dishonest and manipulative.