Posts by Mooseman

"Selensky, not for his religion or other heritage but for his corruptness, killing his own citizens and prolonging a useless war"

Oh, so he should roll over and accept that Russia has the right to invade Ukraine, and meekly accept his show trial and execution that would follow such a capitulation?

You claim the AfD are not proto nazis? Hmm. Up to about 2017 you might have been right, but their current policies and statements are very much of the nazi style.

Re: Elon has a thin skin

" a country known for harboring Nazi war criminals"

That was Argentina. Aided by the Catholic church if you want to get right into it.

Re: Russian diplomacy:

"Modern Ukraine, incorporating parts of what was Poland and Hungary as well as territory occupied by the Tatars was only really staked out after WW2."

Ukraine was set up as an independent state in the 18th century, until the Russians did their thing and absorbed it, banning the Ukrainian language etc etc. It was once again an independent country in 1918, until the soviets (Russians) did their thing and sent in the army to conquer it in 1921. Post WW2 it was divided between the soviet union and Poland. Following the collapse of the communist USSR it is once again an independent country, until...oh yes, the Russians did their thing - again.

By your logic most of Eastern Europe and Germany aren't real countries either, and if you extend the thinking far enough neither are the UK, France, Spain, Italy, USA......

Re: "illegal under international law"

"closed minded and indoctrinated by the MSM."

Ooh! Bonus points on the conspira-meter for mention the MSM! It's really depressing that people who I assumed were at least somewhat intelligent from the job they do are as daft as the average flat earther

Re: "illegal under international law"

"The Democrats are currently in the process of trying to make sure an ex-President and Presidential candidate either dies in prison, or is bankrupted."

Ohhhhhh - you're a TRump simp. Click.

Re: Violent Elizabeth Putin

"Cf gender dysphoria, Climate Change, Critical Race Theory, or justification for Russian aggression."

I'm confused - are you claiming that none of those things are real? Or that they are and people are denying them?

Re: Game Theoretic Analysis

"Once upon a time a country lost it's shit over the Cuban Missile Crisis when Russia tried to place nukes in Cuba. That's further from the US's borders than Ukraine is, yet people seem suprised that Russia raises the same objections to NATO expansion"

Er, Cuba is right next door to the USA. Ukraine is quite a long way away. I suspect you meant to say Ukraine is closer to Russia, but that's really irrelevant in terms of nuclear missile launch speeds.

The biggest problem with your (and let's be honest here, Putin's) claims about NATO expansion into Ukraine is that....it simply wasn't true. Ukraine applied to join NATO in 2022 following Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian provinces. The application was not allowed. There are no US nuclear missiles in most European countries, they are held in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Netherlands.

There are no missiles in the Baltic states, so that excuse won't wash.

Re: Game Theoretic Analysis

And the winners write the history books."

I remember reading somewhere: "isn't it incredible that throughout history, the Good Guys have always won."

This is the current rallying cry for people who like to pretend that they are somehow more enlightened than their peers. Unless you can support that statement you need to rethink it - can you define "good guys" in say, the conflict between France and Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries? How about the Crimean war? The American war of independence? Etc Etc

That kind of glib nonsense is usually a way of pretending that somehow nazi germany was a victim.

Re: Star wars?

"The Royal Navy is considering introducing compulsory climate change courses for all sailors, The Telegraph can reveal."

You're using the torygraph as a reliable source? Seriously?

Re: Norway

" the sea between Estonia and Finland freezes over"

My mother used to tell us about winter holidays to the Baltic in the early 1930s when the sea regularly froze over.

Re: Norway

"Not sure how many times Oslo has seen -30 C"

Not that often, apparently. The lowest temperatures recorded in Oslo is -26C (in 1941) until this year when it hit -30C in January.

What is more interesting is that summer temperatures are also relatively low now.

Re: Norway

"The panic is based on a long held belief of the British, other Europeans, Americans and, indeed, much of the world's population that the northward heat transport by the Gulf Stream is the reason why western Europe enjoys a mild climate, much milder than, say, that of eastern North America."

And yet....

"The Gulf Stream carries the warm, poleward return flow of the wind-driven North Atlantic subtropical gyre and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This northward flow drives a significant meridional heat transport. Various lines of evidence suggest that Gulf Stream heat transport profoundly influences the climate of the entire Northern Hemisphere and, thus, Europe's climate on timescales of decades and longer." (https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-marine-010814-015656) This is from 2015.

What you are missing is that no part of the climate acts entirely independently from any other part. The paper quoted above concludes with this summary :

"However, there are situations in which the Gulf Stream's influence on Europe's climate may not live up to expectations. First, on timescales shorter than roughly a decade, variability in the atmosphere seems to swamp any oceanic signal in setting basin-scale climate patterns. Second, Europe's warmth relative to the zonal mean cannot be attributed simply to westerly winds extracting heat from the warm current. Stationary waves in the atmospheric midlatitude jet contribute to zonal anomalies of both signs, with the Rocky Mountains playing an important role in establishing the southwesterly winds that bring warm air masses to Europe. Thus, when the ocean heat transport is eliminated in model simulations, Europe's zonal temperature anomaly is not entirely erased, though it is diminished (Seager et al. 2002). In a fun twist, recent research has implicated the Gulf Stream even in setting up these stationary waves and contributing to the frigid winters on North America's east coast (Kaspi & Schneider 2011), against which Europe's warmth is often contrasted."

So no, it's not entirely the airflow over the Rockies, although that plays a part in the global climate. To dismiss everything else as a "panic" (and thus inconsequential) is foolish.

Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

"The 25+ million people who died of it in 1918"

A good example of a usually non-serious virus mutating into something far worse. Rather backs up the concern for covid mutations.

Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

"several hundred thousand people die globally from influenza"

Dont forget the government figures for flu deaths were actually wildly inaccurate, and were widely seen as a reason not to worry about covid by the conspiracists and deniers.

Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

"Ivermectin has been highly successful in treating humans in the application it was intended for."

Yes, as a dewormer. Not an antivirus.

Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

"And I have never known anyone dying from covid-19. Not even being hospitalised. Not.one.single.person. Not even relatives of relatives,"

Then you're very fortunate. I assume you're one of the flurry of downvoters on my post about covid not being flu. I knew 2 people that died, one was elderly the other was my age. I know someone who lost all four limbs. I know people who lost kidney function, had heart attacks.

But I'm sure its just a conspiracy designed to mildly inconvenience you. Idiot.

Re: Why did everyone get vaccinated?

"They said it was safe, effective & would stop you catching or spreading Covid."

No, you were told it was safe (it is) and would reduce your chances of getting covid, and would reduce the chances of getting a severe infection.

Re: It is only Covid if you take a test

"Well Boris was ill enough with it to require intensive care "

Allegedly

"same respect as someone who wears healing crystals or a talisman, or takes homeopathic remedies. I'm not going to directly mock you for it, but I'll secretly think you are a bit hard of thinking."

Tell me you dont know what masks are for without saying you dont know what masks are for....

Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

"It is here to stay and it is as danegerous as flu."

I have never known anyone to die of flu. Or lose limbs. Or get heart attacks. Post viral symptoms are known, and relatively rare, but there is growing evidence that "long covid" can create severe long term post viral conditions.

It's like flu *at the moment*.

Re: Alaska Air

https://www.alaskaair.com/

Re: Loctite

"Congress are guilty of treason"

Erm, aren't you getting a little carried away?

Re: A repeating pattern of ones and zeroes

"I have, for decades, had this uncomfortable feeling about Reality."

I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.....

Re: Science History

"Alien spaceship rocks up and announces to Planet Earth that it has been found guilty of interstellar littering"

What do you mean, you've never been to Alpha Centari?

Re: Tshekists

"HITLER copied his ideas from Mr Ford... "

No he didn't. Ford was a rabid antisemite but in no way did Hitler copy from him. The nazis seized on the American-led idea of eugenics and took it to whole new depths, but antiseitism was alive and kicking in Europs long before Ford was conceived.

Re: Whos free speech was campaigned against precisely?

"What the Twitter Files proved more than anything else"

was that the right wing hysteria was as usual completely made up

Re: Balneum tempus

"He is running operations that are easily 10000x more complex. Real Rocket Science"

By that logic the head of Ford is personally building cars. Or the head of IBM is designing and building computers. You do know that Musk has actual scientists and engineers who do the work, dont you?

Re: Whos free speech was campaigned against precisely?

"Media Matters are getting sued for using fraud to defame Twitter. They lied"

Er, Mediamatters don't seem terribly concerned about this -

"Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate. Musk admitted the ads at issue ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified. If he does sue us, we will win." (One of the companies who withdrew advertising from X, IBM, did so after the MM reports was published. You would imagine that they would have checked rather than simply believe a report, surely?

You're accusing MM of antisemitism? Hmm, now let me think - oh yes “Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” said X/twitter user @breakingbaht. Sounds a bit, er, antisemitic doesnt it? How did your hero respond? “You have said the actual truth.”

You might want to take a few minutes to browse the kind of user accounts and content that twitter/x is not only allowing to crawl back out from under their rocks but actively promoting.

Re: Playing Inside Minefield

"Free Speech is very important and critical to the proper function of ANY democratic republic"

Oh, you mean freedom to say whatever you like, no matter the consequences for others? That's not free speech, neither is it protected under law in any democracy I can think of. What Musk and his fanbois fail to grasp is that free speech also means accepting the consequences of that speech, which is why there were so many unpleasant (usually always right wing) users blocked from Twitter - they broke clearly signposted rules. Now Musk has given them all carte blanche to return and continue spewing hatred and lies, which I assume you support and agree with, given your drivel about vaccines...

Re: The witch hunt of the leftist mob

"one of the few members of the elite carrying the torch of freedom in the West"

Are you actually serious? I assume from your drivel about Soros and "stalinists" that you consider racist and far right hate speech to be "freedom"? How about antisemitic lies? Because that's what Musky is pushing on X.

"Maybe he did proof read it and he's just a brummie."

Bostin!

Re: ....despite worn joints, vision issues

Centurion: You know the penalty laid down by Roman law for harboring a known [offender]?

Matthias: No.

Centurion: Crucifixion!

Matthias: Oh.

Centurion: Nasty, eh?

Matthias: Could be worse.

Centurion: What you mean "Could be worse"?

Matthias: Well, you could be stabbed.

Centurion: Stabbed? Takes a second. Crucifixion lasts hours. It's a slow, horrible [end].

Matthias: Well, at least it gets you out in the open air.

Centurion: You're weird!

or

My legs are old and bent, my ears are grizzled,. My nose is knackered.

"If only we had a conservative party to rail against this."

You do - you just have a conservative party that's adopting more and more far right populist policies in order to desperately cling to power. In the past they'd have trashed the country then bunged the proles a 1p income tax cut to keep themselves in power but they have finally realised this isn't going to save them this time, so now they are trying to pretend that the readership of the Mail is enough to keep them elected.