Recent content by Rainer

Don't despair over the Orwellian distortions of reality. The world has not gone mad. Only the US. Here are some choice words from The Economist's most recent leader on page 9:

Quite the nonsensical statement from Musk (not that it surprises anyone), because everybody hates him, and especially the many Trump voters whose lives are destroyed by Musk's chaotic government interference.

Every once in a while I drop by to see whether any of the resident quislings begin to recognize the failures of their POTUS. Maybe with a tinge of shame or regret. Obviously, no such luck. OTOH, it doesn't really matter. The onslaught on democracy and civility would continue, regardless of...

Thank you for posting this. It's really heartbreaking just how far the US has sunk. And shameful.

Obviously not. But then again, it's possible that he wasn't really elected:

Just to put the current confirmation circus into the proper context, consider reading this article from Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University. It reminds us of past candidates for Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence, and Attorney General, all of whom were...

Nonetheless, it would be a big mistake to believe that Trump doesn't understand what a tariff is. Trump knows exactly what he does. If anything, it seems that Democrats don't know how tariffs work. How do they work? US chief executives will come to Trump begging for their companies to be...

No they haven't, and your likely source doesn't claim that either. Most of these funds have merely been appropriated (govspeak for "earmarked") and not yet spent, while most of the remainder has been donated in the form of weapons: meaning that the money went to the US defense industry and not...

Did you, by any chance, watch the movies "Matrix" and also "Avengers: Infinity War"? For an assessment of the chances that a supercomputer could recreate our current world with all its relations between cause and effect, I would recommend Daniel Dennett's seminal paper "Cognitive Wheels: The...

And what exactly might these different requirements be? I also understand you're saying that the United States would gladly be adopting the same policies as Norway, if only they could, yes? And you're simultaneously saying that the United States would never adopt the same policies as Norway...

At least it won't be organized crime.

I used those supplied by the radiologist. Better call beforehand, as I'm not sure whether every radiologist offers them.

Why do you think that the smaller population makes it hard to compare Norway to the US with respect to the policies I mentioned? Nah. I believe it's more likely that he simply forgot the word "Caucasians" but remembered that he shouldn't say "Aryans." I doubt that he'd have any such inhibitions...

I didn't have any spike or other unwanted outcomes from an MRI after using both Moldex SparkPlugs and earmuffs in combination. Do you have any reason to believe that this won't work for you?

If that were the case, Russia would have an even higher living standard. Norway has one of the highest standards of living in the world because it has a functioning community, and the wealth is shared among the citizens. Their income inequality is the lowest in the whole world. They have free...