This shift is long overdue. The EU has an economy 10 times larger than Russia's, and yet somehow is dependent on the U.S. to fund its military and its efforts to counter Russia in Ukraine.
No. Sites shouldn't have to ID everyone that uses them. The internet shouldn't be turned into a nursery for children just because parents don't want to do their job and supervise their children while they're on the internet. If you want a curated internet that is child-appropriate, then you create your own private internet. You don't force the rest of the world to censor itself.
Decoding any part of his memories would be the greatest archeological coup in history, by a massive margin.
By some estimates, the cerebral cortex can store hundreds of terabytes of information. Recovering even 0.1% of that would amount to possibly hundreds of GB of information about life in a major Roman urban center.
I thought a lot of this stuff was basically below conscious thought. You can interrupt it but otherwise the urge to breathe and the corresponding breathing proceeds apace. I've been told that in ventilator-dependent patients if the ventilator has too low a breath rate they still have the urge to breathe and feel it quite painfully until the ventilator takes a breath for them.
If you pass out under water because you run out of oxygen you will immediately resume breathing and drown.
Well, comparing the pictures of solarpunk with my perceived reality I sadly have to disagree.
(solarpunk is about a bit more than having 30% of energy with solar and wind)
I'm pretty sure no NATO countries actually consider the US a dependable ally at the moment. So US spending is kind of irrelevant really. And if the US were to actively work against its NATO allies (seems pretty likely at this point), US NATO spending would be considered more of a negative rather than a positive.
As a layman, I think this opinion is wrong. I think it's clear that the EU position vis-a-vis Russia would have been greatly compromised had it not been for the magnitude of U.S. military spending.
My cattle dog will be begging for food and giving me all the looks that she's hungry, but if I put a bowl of food down and then grabbed a ball she wouldn't give the bowl a second glance. I can't even give her a treat for bringing the ball back and dropping it, she's too focused on the ball. As soon as I put the ball away, she'll do anything I want for the treat. I think she considers the ball her job and it overrides anything else.
Correct, habitat loss from human settlements and agriculture is a far greater threat to the natural environment than CO2 emissions. CO2 emissions have actually resulted in massive greening around the world:
There is no libertarian bent in the argument. I suspect a lot of the drive to censor comes out of extrapolations like this, where people are reading into factual statements agendas that are not there.
In 2020, I had this chart showing the IFR for COVID (it's gone down since then due to widespread immunity from vaccination and natural infection) taken down by Facebook's "fact-checkers" because apparently providing the chart without context was "misleading":
Age Group | Low | Mean | High
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0-19 | 0.007% | 0.01% | 0.02%
20-29 | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.03%
30-39 | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.06%
40-49 | 0.08% | 0.1% | 0.1%
50-59 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.4%
60-69 | 0.7% | 0.9% | 1.1%
70-79 | 1.8% | 2.4% | 2.9%
80+ | 3.4% | 4.4% | 5.5%
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Total | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.6%
Same "I don't like the agenda I suspect this is intended to push" rationale behind the censorship.
Counterargument: characterizing a comment literally asking a question of the commenter as a (ahem) "drive to censor" is even more of a "political extrapolation".
I wasn't suggesting that the commenter was pushing to censor. Just that the same kinds of extrapolations are the motivation and given-justification for a lot of censorship. I do concede that it was an off tangent point.
The comment very much did not just ask a question. It specifically mentioned trying to find out what the argument is, and mentioned inferring a libertarian bent where none existed.
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