The horseshoe is absolutely real. Social democracy (like the stuff that candidate proposes) is on the middle, and both sides go out into a corrupt authoritarian government where the elites own everything.

As they say… donate a kidney and you are a hero, donate three and somehow you are a monster.

The hell of one idea that just won’t die. It was created out of thin air by sheer force of racist speculation, and known to be wrong for close to a century. Yet people still keep repeating it.

It was already around the peak of the US empire, yeah. You may be biased.

but whatever chemicals they add to these things makes just 1 small burger feel like you overate.

That’s usually a feature of good food. I agree that it’s odd that a hamburger would be that way, but usually what causes that is fiber.

Israel has been claiming they are “a week away” from having the bomb for 30 years. They have been working on a bomb for 60 years, since the US worked with them to start their nuclear project.

Some 20 years ago they got in a situation where it would actually take a couple of months to make a bomb. They seem to have stopped there on purpose.

Is that the part that was confusing?

it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous!

It takes hundreds of ms for a signal to go from your brain to your foot. Electricity on wires travels several times around the world in that time.

But for most of the distance the signals do travel as electricity. (At least the ones that get to be electricity, our brain has several kinds of signals.) It’s just a particularly slow form of electricity.

Hum, no. They are “dangerously close” to making them for 30 years… Actually “a week away” from making them.

They have actually been working on them for 60 years. IMO, it looks like that some 20 years ago, the Iran leadership decided to solve all of the hard problems and stop there so they can move fast if they need to.

about bees revolting against a corrupt system

Or is it about bees going astray because of a disinformation campaign? Because the bees on the movie really like the work… like bees.

killed by gas

I really don’t remember if the movie explicitly acknowledges that the gas doesn’t kill the bees. But this is absolutely about hyper-judicialization of society and a sleazy lawyer clearly lying to the audience and getting rewarded by that.

The movie doesn’t fully anthropomorphize the bees. If you decide they are something the movie doesn’t make them be, you can take any moral instance you want from it. It just won’t be what’s on the movie.

Just keep in mind that the cat’s policy is precarious and dependent on the continuation of quid pro quo.

It’s chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

Also, that’s a control spell, not a summoning one.

So… Go try that and notice Windows is basically always encrypted at rest nowadays.

You can always decap your TPM and use a STM to read the static charges on its memory… But, good luck doing that.

More comprehensive, yes. But everything will only superficially resemble probability (or worse, statistics), without any idea zeroing on the real thing.

Alternatively, you can ask a crystal-hippie about quantum mechanics. Oh, well… we have LLMs nowadays, you can ask them anything.

Hum… I’d put good odds in they getting some now.

Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren’t a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.

Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It’s what you can do.

In Civilization, if you take a city from some player and offer peace, they almost always agree.

Are you saying international diplomacy isn’t like a 90s video game?

I imagine the flat-earthers wouldn’t accept that shape as “flat”.

Thanks, but I think I’ll pass that one.

My 2-months grocery runs take about 45 minutes, excluding the line, but I imagine it’s a larger run than yours. Outside of that, I never reach 10 minutes looking for things.

My wife used to make lists, but they were never useful.

Being able to know things was good though. I hope scientific articles last a while longer.

I can either go to the groceries after some specific items, when I’ll run erratically through every aisle until I find them all, or to “do groceries”, when I’ll run methodically through every isle browsing each product and deciding if I want it or not.