Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.

They just recognized that selling solar pannels and stuff to othercountries is very profitable.

If it was very profitable, countries and companies would be falling over each other to do it.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Upton Sinclair

Ah, my eyes!

because it historically has never done so

This is an extreme position. Yes, the cards are stacked, and yes, the thieves will fight tooth and nail to preserve their privileges, but there have definitely been examples of a certain election result making things better. My country got independence[1], and the British people got public healthcare, because they voted Labour in 1945. We kicked out a strongwoman in 1977, and reined in a strongman last year. These are just examples from my country.

[1] I’m aware that there were other causes as well, but Churchill would probably have tried to hold on even after the British position became logistically and economically unviable.

No no, we need Velociraptors riding alligators and armed with laser cannons.

But those labour, machinery and materials could be used for more productive uses. I agree that you need some nukes to protect your country, but both Russia and the US already have enough nukes to send humanity back to the stone age. Why build even more?

you cannot prove a system using the system.

Doesn’t that only apply for sufficiently complicated systems? Very simple systems could be provably self-consistent.

1. If you build infrastructure people will come

2. A 15-hour journey sounds perfect for an overnight service.

Why is there no connection between Niigata and Yonezawa?

Can’t you just switch off Play Protect entirely?

Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.

As far as we know we have not found the colonialism gene, and there is no evidence that Europeans are somehow genetically different at this locus. So we can, at least for now, ignore the possibility that Europeans are inherently evil, or predisposed towards colonialism. Rather, the actions of any people must be understood as a consequence of their circumstances and culture.

due to all that’s happened in history, white people today are, while not intrinsically or genetically evil, tainted by the colonialism that has already happened and are therefore more likely to be the exploiters than the exploited due to their historical advantage.

White people are not only the beneficiaries of the colonialism that has already happened, they are often also the beneficiaries of colonialism that is currently happening. The CIA didn’t coup random Central American countries because they were bored. The IMF and World Bank don’t give loans to African countries for humanitarian reasons.

But human societies are not species and human-human interactions are not strictly ecological. For one, human societies have overarching coordination and collective will that species don’t have, and human societies as a whole often show more characteristics akin to a single organism than a species (though even that is apples to oranges)

I feel that the same principles that govern other animals should apply, more or less, to humans too. Although it might be more appropriate to compare human societies to populations of social animals (such as ant colonies or beehives) than to different species.

Does that imply that Imperial China was less evil than Imperial Europe? Or are they just as evil but in a different way (land-based conquest instead of sea based)? Or did they just not have the resources to do what Europe did but absolutely would have if they did? I don’t know hence why I’m asking.

I think the difference is that historically China had excellent agricultural land, a relatively modern and stable economy, and was surrounded by poorer and less advanced countries. So people had all the resources they wanted, and had little incentive to go far away. In contrast, Europe was fragmented, with Scotland, the Netherlands and Portugal actually having poor / too little land, and so there was a push for both raw materials and markets.

Money.

Also Bangladesh is green.

Many insects get infected by bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, which modify their behaviour to make them go towards their predators. The Wolbachia complete their life-cycle in the guts of the predator.

Nature being nature, some insects have also evolved symbiotic relationships with Wolbachia.

Of course it isn’t, have you seen the crap they write about Gaza?

Sad to see how they’ve fallen. They were considered the gold standard of journalism.

India has one of the most liberal fair use laws in the world, and the copying of educational material for personal use is legal. So this is very disappointing.

“I’m not dead yet.”

Always has been.

As far as I know, no one was forced to change their religion (Uyghurs aren’t even the biggest Muslim group in China, that’s the Hui) and there was no mass murder. I believe some innocent people who were wrongly suspected of being terrorists were strip-searched, particularly in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.