Comments on: Israel’s stalemate continues

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:04:22 +0000

Actually, a Mikveh Tank isn’t a half-bad idea….

May even be brilliant.

A few issues to iron out first, of course, but if you make a half-decent pitch to 770, then the sky’s the limit; in fact, you may find yourself right up there with the Immortals snorting pickled herring and slurping vishniac. (At the very least they’ll likely put your tetragrammaton—well, in Hebrew, at least—on the side of each vehicle.)

As for the military uses of Mitzva tanks, um, it can only be said that discretion is the better part of squalor…

(There was, to be sure, a pretty decent run with “TNT” but that was mostly due to the likes of Saddam Hussein…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tehillim_neged_Tilim.jpg

By: om

om — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:36:48 +0000

Art Deco:

I know you aren’t an authority in argumentation, except in your own mind. Self own, or own goal to Art. 🙂

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:54:16 +0000

Well it is settled, Art Deco has said that Zaphod doesn’t know what he is talking about. Argument from “authority.

The term ‘argument from authority’ doesn’t mean what you fancy it means. He made a wildly false statement and has been corrected with data scrounged by two separate participants. You can see his response to that.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:28:31 +0000

The key grafs to the Chang article:
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The Chinese take great pride in being part of the world’s most populous state. Beijing reported China’s population in 2019 hit 1.4 billion in 2019, up from 1.39 billion the previous year.

Chinese authorities will undoubtedly report an increase for last year as well. They are on record as believing the country’s population will continue to grow for more than a half decade.

Some are skeptical of China’s total population figures, however. Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told The National Interest that China in 2020 likely had a population of 1.26 billion. The noted demographer does not believe the number could have exceeded 1.28 billion.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/coming-demographic-collapse-china-180960
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So the article hinges on Yi Fuxian’s estimates. Which sound plausible. Like AesopFan, I don’t trust the CCP’s numbers on anything might reflect poorly. However, the matter is outside my range.

I don’t understand how the China elephant keeps dancing, but so far it manages. Of course I wonder about the American and EU elephants as well.

Sometimes it seems to me the whole world has already gone over the cliff and the only question is who hits bottom last.

By: om

om — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:20:03 +0000

Opinions are like that. Sometimes incorrect, that is other people’s opinions.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:58:57 +0000

“How many non-religious Israelis do you know”

My guess is zero. Not the first time spouting off with no knowledge.

By: om

om — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:39:01 +0000

Well it is settled, Art Deco has said that Zaphod doesn’t know what he is talking about. Argument from “authority.” 🙂

Art Deco’s opinions are 101% correct 110% of the time. Trust him, he has the stats.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:16:42 +0000

The Khoisan Peoples were having a perfectly wonderful life in Southern Africa until the Bantu and Dutch showed up and swamped them. But doubtless they don’t mind eking out a marginal existence in the Kalahari Desert these days. I’m sure they’d be interested in any figures you can provide from your bookshelf of almanacs to prove to them that they’ve never had it so good 🙂

Demographics is Destiny.

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:58:18 +0000

Go tell it to the Hottentots.

Why?

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:43:34 +0000

@Art+Deco:

Go tell it to the Hottentots.

If you tell me what wavelength you transmit on, I’ll trim my chaff to half that. Full service shytepoasting here.