I refuse to believe that a majority of Americans are fascists.
Things would look very different if they had a democracy.
What they need is a democratic election, without gerrymandering, without voter suppression, done on paper ballots with a pencil, on a holiday, with all ballots counted and checked.
You know the quote: “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”
Same thing applies to politics. They’re doing illegal things that people didn’t vote for. There’s no way this can be fixed by voting when they don’t respect anything anyway.
States need to secede and form a different government.
Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:
Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.
You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.
Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
It could be interesting in a smaller scale or off grid purposes, but you’d still need solar panels as a source.
I doubt it’s worth saving heat from a wood stove. It’d be better to burn less wood to begin with. Some of the modern pellet ovens are very efficient for that.
They use this system to convert excess renewable electricity to heat for storage to be used in the district heating system. There’s probably a lot of loss in comparison to a regular battery, so the point is to utilize excess the electrify. It makes perfect sense in Finland because their electricity is a lot cleaner than their heating.
It’s basically a very large sauna stone.
My parents used one of these to plan the vacations:
Probably true. TEMU is personally also my most downloaded app. I’ve downloaded TEMU 3 time this year. Never opened it. Always uninstalled it immediately.
It installs automatically on some Samsung phones. I think it’s after system updates. The Samsung store will pop up and recommend some apps. It then installs TEMU regardless of what you choose.
having to remember less could make you more focused on the road.
On contrary, in my opinion. Especially in cities, where manual forces me to anticipate the next turn, light or other drivers. Automatic makes me zone out and focus on everything but driving.
Before doing any slowing down and looping I’d make sure that I know the chords for that section. It’s easier to hear if a certain note is in the key (harmony) or not (dissonance), thereby limiting the available choices. Also it might be easier to identify an interval than a single note.
Knowing some theory definitely helps. If you can find a transcription as sheets or tabs that’d be a good idea for reference, even if they’re not always correct.
Having this context, it’s usually enough to slow down the part in the YouTube player. I use New Pipe, no ads and speed/pitch are separate.
For a more detailed analysis, Audacity is great for loops and zooming. It’s quick and easy. However, looping a single note can sometimes be deceiving, so I’d also loop a few of the notes before and after just to get some context.
Getting the clip into a full DAW can also help for very tricky sounds. Running it through a pitch correction effect can show what it detects. This works best if the clip doesn’t have a lot of other things at the same time. Another method if you have a midi keyboard is to play along with a basic tone like an organ or just a sine wave. Program the melody into the midi sequencer and you’ll basically have it transcribed. This is also great for long weird sections where it’s difficult to remember everything. Might as well write it down as midi instead of on a paper.
Tartare is cut from inner muscles, less likely to have any infections etc.
It’s also sold separately from ordinary minced meat.
Yelling is idiotic.
Like all aggression, resorting to yelling is an act of impotence.
When someone is attacked by aggression they will defend themselves. They will counter attack whatever it is you’re yelling about and make up reasoning to justify their own stance. Even if it’s wrong, because in their mind the actual topic is less relevant than fighting your aggression.
Yelling is only useful if you are trying to prevent an accident and you’re unsure if they can hear you.
public shaming is s powerful tool - which could lead to reflection
Have you ever seen this happen? In my experience, the idiot is more likely to double down.
Exactly how big’ve deal is it?
It was also Windows 98.
I don’t think free will can be dismissed just because the framework that it runs on is deterministic.
Let’s say you program a text editor. A computer runs the program, but the computer has no influence on what text the user is going to write.
I think that consciousness is a user like that. It runs on deterministic hardware but it’s not necessarily deterministic due to that. It might be for other reasons, but the laws of physics isn’t it, because physics doesn’t prohibit free will from existing.
Consciousness is wildly complex. It’s a self illusion and we really have no good idea about where decisions even come from.
If it is deterministic, it would have to involve every single atom in the universe that in one way or another have influenced the person. Wings of a butterfly and light from distant stars etc. Attempting to predict it would require a simulation of everything. That leads to other questions. If a simulation is a 1:1 replica of the real thing, which one is then real and what happens if we run it backwards, can we see what caused the big bang, etc.
So, even if this is about free will, the enquiry falls short on trying to figure out what even causes anything to happen at all.
If we are happy with accepting that the universe was caused by something before or outside the universe, then it’s really easy to point in that direction and say that free will also comes from there - somewhere outside the deterministic physics.
Of course the actual universe and the laws of physics are really not separate as data and functions. The data itself contains the instructions. Any system that can contain itself that way is incomplete as proved by Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. Truths do exist that can’t be proven so perhaps the concept of free will is an example of such a thing, or maybe it’s not. The point is that we can’t rule it out, just because it exists in a deterministic system.
Personally I don’t think it matters all that much. Similarly to how we can only ever experience things that exists inside of the universe,or see the light that hits our eye, we can also only ever hope to experience free will on the level of our own consciousness, even if we acknowledge that it is influenced by all kinds of other things from all levels from atoms to the big bang.
I don’t want to.
It can be difficult for coops to play on the capitalist market.
A company with a top-down hierarchy can make decisions much faster than an organization where the decisions are made ground up through internal democratic policies. The democratic process also very likely limits the co-op from doing shady stuff.
It’s possible though, but it requires a really good community backing.
Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.
There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven’t heard a single argument against it.
It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it’s possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.
Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they’ll need to rethink the old “one size fits all” procedures.