Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Our World in Data) Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them?
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.
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(QC RSS) Crowd Pleaser
Go away Chet
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(xkcd.com) Farads
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) These characters aren’t real people, you don’t have to be nice to them
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/22/25 “Would it help to know that after your relationship ended in failure, she still…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Irfan Khawaja
Perfect timing: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html That left some students and faculty members at the law school, considered Florida’s most prestigious, to wonder, and to worry: What merit could th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to al-Maʿarrī. I don’t think of the last part as an “unrelated aside.” It’s very much related, since this is both an imperialist and a civilizational war. The civilization it aims to destroy is the Islamicate world as s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by No War with Iran | Policy of Truth
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by al-Maʿarrī
“In other words, the United States and Israel created the problem to which they now offer a war of aggression and regime change as solution. It’s hard to think of anything more sociopathic than that. Not a surprise when you consider who you’re de…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday praise
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crock, 6/21/25 Not sure if we’re seeing a singular mind at work here or if this is the…
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(Policy of Truth) Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran
PoT’s own John Davenport has a piece in The Defense Post attacking the idea of regime change in Iran. John argues, reasonably enough, that a war with Iran is ill-conceived, partly because it’s based on Israeli deceptions, and partly because it’s likely to lead to terrible, even catastrophic consequences. I agree with the premises of…
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