If The second of this week’s movies-directed-by-a-movie-star is If, from John Krasinski. A million miles removed from his work on the A Quiet Place series, If is a kids’ film about a young girl who starts to see imaginary friends after going through some tough stuff in her real ...
everything will be corrupted by the viewpoint of those in power. And if anything, the hypocrisy of the western media does not influence in no shape or form the atrocities occurring in Ukraine: the war is stillbad. If western oligarchs (notwesterners...
And they will probably remain deeply sore points until the last survivors — which includes children born during WW2 and any who associate the post-WW2 rationing systems they experienced with things they heard their parents say about Germany — have died. “Never let the Germans forget for a mi...
And if wait-and-see doesn’t work in halting the acceleration of inflation, if rates are not restrictive enough to hold inflation down – this likelihood rises with each rate cut – the Fed can hike again. Rate cuts are not permanent. Those scenarios...
That’s cool for two reasons: (1) it’s odd for a (large) mammal to just trot and not use the usual walk-trot-canter-gallop series of gaits; and (2) it wasn’t known (or even asked, much) in scientific literature if hippos did go airborne or not. My favourite sequence, of a...
“She was never going to win by 10.” Still, Pfeiffer understood the uneasiness, saying he’s asked about it everywhere he goes. “The consequences of a loss here are much greater than they’d be in a normal year,” he said. “You’re more nervous if you’re playing Russian roulette...
Second, students learn better if they are taught (or if they learn on their own) using their preferred learning style. Unfortunately, there are many problems with this approach. First and foremost, there has never been strong empirical evidence supporting the above assumptions about learning ...
We don’t need any more political gamesmanship, nor obstructive and punitive taxes if we can help it. Rather, what we need after almost a decade of foot-targeting self-harm and knee-jerk populism is joined-up thinking that encourages for long-term growth. ...
. . . if an Allied repulse on D-Day did not actually lead to some form of victory for Hitler, at best it would have meant another costly year of war, ruinous for Britain, the extinction of the last remaining remnants of European Jewry through completion of the Final Solution, culminating...
Joined:16 Feb 2024 Posted18 March 2024 - 09:31 PM jarrodeu, on 19 Mar 2024 - 12:18 AM, said: If you've got at Leitz Marseptit and it's coated, you're not missing out by not having a WWII 7x50. The Leitz is an excellent binocular, at least as good as any standard WWII 7x5...