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I used to busk in the early 70s too.I got arrested for it and was lucky not to get assaulted when my pretense of not speaking the language became transparent. The people who made good money were those who were genuinely good artists but also those passers by who had the initiative to offer to enthusiastically pass the hat around for the musicians.

Here is a link that gives am over view of the product (mostly Yamaha products aparently) https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/ac_guitars/ta_series/index.html https://www.hyvibeguitar.com/ I am curious to know how the actuators (two small speakers fitted to the inside of the back of the guitar) affect the way the sounding board resonates. Is there some kind of constructive interference involved? Is there also physical amplification? Would most of the power in the vibrations of the sounding board come from the battery feeding the actuators or from the movements of the strings? You can buy these guitars with this system prefitted or you can (perhaps illadvisedly )get it fitted to any acoustic guitar you have a mind to

Whilst true imo (though some would dispute and point out that Hitler's goose was cooked when he attacked USA) is there any reason to suppose that the liberation of Europe(not much of a liberation for Easter Europe btw) was not just a by product of Russia's success in defending itself? What is ikely undeniable is that Russia suffered as much as any other country at the hands of the Nazis even if it may have inflicted a comparable level of suffering on its own and other peoples after the war.

I had in mind the moral high ground it had as a defender of the principle of free and fair elections.(and acceptance of the result) Critically wounded by the obeisance of the Republican party to the Big Lie and its tolerance of the thuggish politics of the last so called President .

If Trump succeeds in intimidating his way back into power (Jan 6 type of events outside courtrooms?) we may end up seeing the US as the bully in the years to come. Even if he does not ,measures to prevent this may achieve a similar result.

I am waiting (ie hoping)for a reply from Markus in the first instance I really only gave that reply out of courtesy to dimreepr who wanted to know " why do you ask?" I am sure Markus (and joigus) would have more educated ideas on the subject than myself (if they have any)

That is common behaviour in the animal kingdom.Here we call it brinkmanship. It is a rational behaviour and can reap dividends but it is risky for sure. I suppose Putin may feel he is taking the lesser risk as he is in his back yard and the other Europeans depend for their security largely on the US which has vacated the moral high ground and also faces an existential threat at home these days.

I was discussing entropy on another forum and I mentioned to another poster there that Markus had addressed this point recently. I quoted Markus' post there in that other forum (Markus used to be admin there once upon a time) and noticed that he had left his own question hanging. 3 weeks have passed and perhaps more could be said on the relationship between living processes and the behaviour of entropy I think @joigus also said he might reflect on it

Had any more thoughts along those lines? Or anyone else?

So you are a pacifist ? (So is Putin.He believes in pacifying entire populations,including his own if necessary)

Striking whilst the irons of propaganda are hot? (Maybe appealing to America's MAGA constituency ?) Sadly the rules of imperialism say if you can't defend it you don't own it.

Nuff said.

The exchange you referenced above suggests that 7 spots seems too few to do adaptive optics I wonder how they got around that or are they saying that it only seemed too few but was adequate in reality? Are those mirrors super flexible (and strong) so that the local distortions are spread evenly through the material?

How much of the cat can be dead and the cat can still be said to be alive? (Wouldn't it be interesting if deadness and aliveness could actually be modeled as an on/off quantum state ?-if that makes sense)

Does the cat (any system) also interact with itself ? So you would have to seal off (compartmentalise) every part of itself with every other part of itself before you could even consider isolating it from its external environment. Is any system not already its own environment?

Heard them saying on CNN that Germany is now the weakest link but that it would probably do the right thing if push came to shove.

Can it do that effectively? Last I heard was that Germany imported 40% of it's natural gas from Putinistan. Can it overcome this dependency? Can the USA be of any use? This problem has been in the pipeline for years now .Is there a plan B?

That is very encouraging. Actually I notice this tendency on myself where I look for authoritative sources to confirm my existing wishes. I cannot verify all my beliefs/stances personally and so I sketch out a path forward and look for abler minds to confirm me in my path So I don't go down the social media rabbit hole where voices are indistinguishable either side or another of any argument but make my own way along hoping not to fall into potholes along the way. I know from experience that apparently mentally sane people can have farcical beliefs.A good friend of the family who used to visit us confided in us (aged 5 and 10) that she was the Q of England (she was off her medication). And another ,my neighbour in the flat persuaded me to post a letter for her to the Justice Minister because she was "being tracked by foreign spies." The police duly turned up a few weeks later to seriously investigate her very well written story(she ,meanwhile had been taken by her family back to the mental institution) There are more stories I am sure most of us could tell a few.

Today I worked out how individual birds flying in a flock can appear to the eye as a unified organism. It has always seemed mysterious to me even as it was explained that each individual was just interacting with its nearest neighbour. The explanation I have decided on is that they all share this same movement algorithm and so they all share in the dynamic group structure Mystery solved for me.

Have just finished Delia Owens" Where the Crawdads Sing" Found the dialogue very stilted but the setting (the Carolina marshland in the 50s and 60s) was quite absorbing and the subject matter very worthwhile. The author is a scientist.(zoology)

I was kicked out of Canada (at the US border)for admitting I had taken cannabis in the past . Think there was a form ,but this was a very long time in the past.... Actually this happened quite a few times in different countries for different reasons and I always felt no real grievance as I didn't feel entitled to enter(mind you I was very surprised with the Canada incident as I am a UK citizen but learned a lesson then that it was not a partly owned subsidiary of Blighty)

What might those provocations look like?Might there be "friendly" casualties?

Are false flag operations the same as agent provocateur actions? Are they ,if these reports are correct trying to escalate tensions whilst maintaining deniabiity?

Can you find that thread? I searched your quote (in quotes) and just came up with an earlier reminiscence of yours of AJB's contribution. Does "Geometry is the field" apply because in GR all geometry is entirely local? And spacetime is the set of all local geometries?

When I said my takeaway (from various earlier discussions) was that it was wrong to think that a field was a physical object I was only saying that that interpretation seemed most persuasive to me I didn't mean to suggest that I had weighed the evidence personally as that would be well beyond my competence.