I think we could, theoretically, take very drastic action. Currently there are more than enough resources in the world to accommodate for everyone and also enough brainpower to reorganise the production and distribution of these resources to stop being dependent on climate destroying practices reasonably quickly. After all, we survived quite well before the advent of fossil fuels, and you have to remember that a big share of all the resources produced went to the richest class.
It is just that all our resources and development potential all lead to the richening of the rich, because that’s just what our economic and political system is hard-wired to do. I would argue that that’s pretty analogous to the experience of Greg – sure, he could theoretically stop drinking entirely very quickly and survive (with some withdrawal symptoms), but his brain; his governing system is hard-wired to continue because of his addiction.
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If you have the time, you could write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković). Otherwise, the best you can do is probably to spread the word and remember to vote next year.
I like to compare the EU to an overprotective parent – on the one hand, they want to protect us from all external threats, but at the same time, they want to know all about us and control us.
If you’re not an EU citizen, not much. But if you are a cybersecurity expert, researcher or represent an NGO, you can sign the open letter at eidas-open-letter.org.
Yes, you’re right, we can’t do a lot. But we can write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković), and we can vote in our national elections and the European one coming up next year, so that’s something.
At the same time, the power of the EU is, however indirectly, based on the votes of the people, and if enough people disagree they might just change their minds a little. I guess the best thing you could do, therefore, is to spread the word.
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Do you think a penguin of that size could get anywhere? The process of reconstruction is a very complex one, but basically they look for clues in the remains and speculate what is evolutionarily most likely.
Cwm is a Welsh word describing a kind of circular valley head created through glacial erosion; a fjord is a long, deep and narrow sea inlet (which Norway is famous for); glyphs means symbols; vext is an archaeic spelling of vexed, which means annoyed (here as in past tense) and quiz is used in the sense of an eccentric person.
Thus, the sentence can be rewritten as: the symbols on the inlet’s banks at the valley head annoyed the eccentric person.
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It is straight in reference to the distorted spacetime.
Conventionally, a straight line is defined as the shortest path between two points, but if you take a plane that is not flat, say the surface of a ball, the shortest path between two points will be curved. But from the perspective of the two-dimensional man who lives in surface, the line is straight because it moves perfectly along his world.
Well, kind of. The time dimension is a bit tricky, though – in Minkowsky space, a common way to think about spacetime, it is hyperbolic in relation to the other dimensions. In a nutshell, this means that distance is not the square root of the sum of the squares of the distances in specific dimensions, but rather of the difference. This makes it especially tricky to visualise. (I do recommend you check out this series by minutephysics, he does a great job at making it intuitive)
My analogy, therefore, doesn’t translate directly to spacetime, but it does provide a very simple 2d explanation for why straight things can act curved (even in 4d).
"Symptoms" by Chris Hallbeck (telegra.ph)
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The two faces of the EU (files.catbox.moe)
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Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform (eidas-open-letter.org)
At the time of release it has been signed by 335 scientists and researchers from 32 countries and numerous NGOs
Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform (nce.mpi-sp.org)
At the time of release it has been signed by 335 scientists and researchers from 32 countries and numerous NGOs
Covid pandemic ‘had lasting impact’ on brain health of people aged 50 or over (www.theguardian.com)
Here’s the article they’re reporting on: www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/…/fulltext
When the internet becomes unknowable — Prospect (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
Our children are victims of road violence. We need to talk about the deadly norms of car use (theconversation.com)
Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
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“Cis is a heterosexual slur” Tweets Elon Musk, Who Halved Twitter’s Value — Assigned (www.assignedmedia.org)
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Maybe ghosts are real, but since they're incorporeal they're unaffected by gravity and get left behind in the void of space