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But the people actually making these decisions and driving these behaviors are hardly themselves suffering for lack of a sandwich. No... They're instead eating caviar off the backs of strippers and wagyu beef whenever they choose, so this "leverage" you suggest has almost zero likelihood of moving the situation to a better space (despite Archimedes fun quote about the lever just needing to be longer).

https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Why-does-the-ChooseMyPlate-gov-website-include-tomatoes-and-avocados-in-the-Vegetable-Group-instead

Yeah. When missiles hit countries unexpectedly, details are the LAST thing anyone considers, requests, or responds to. Oh, wait… https://www.thecipherbrief.com/the-impact-of-a-single-missile But hey… if this is suddenly a fictional site and you get to pretend Zelenskiy did it, why not go with hobbits… or orcs!! 🙄

Trolling 101

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/horrible horrible adjective US /ˈhɔːr.ə.bəl/ UK /ˈhɒr.ə.bəl/ very unpleasant or bad very shocking and frightening very bad, unpleasant, or disgusting

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I read a book of his almost 20 years ago called The End of Time about time slices and their similarity to stacked photographs. IIRC the premise was we experience them similar to watching a film where individual photo frames play back to back such that we merely perceive movement… and how our experience of time is similar. Interesting ideas, but hard to judge the veracity.

I disagree, but that’s off-topic

What’s the one where they killed the AI?

I could give many. None will come via PM.

Yes, certainly. TBD

Stop being horrible to each other. Stop being horrible to the planet and atmosphere. Massive investment in desalination and effective clean water transportation. Massive investment in drought and heat hearty crops. Mass migration strategies and programs. Not necessarily in that order.

That implies memory problems. Maybe write yourself a note next time to walk around it once you get there.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. I can’t wait to see what fun the next 21 pages of repeated thread will bring.

It’s currently just hearsay, though almost certainly true IMO and far from surprising. It will also almost certainly not lead to any changes or improvements, just a bit of red cheeked embarrassment for the Chief Justice who is already presiding over the least trusted and respected court in many decades.

Agreed, and this causes me to wonder if a normally rational calculating Putin will become more likely to take more extreme steps... much like a wild animal backed into a corner. Time will tell.

Here's where I'd focus my primary challenge of your point. Just because we're not sending in tanks, troops, and missiles doesn't equate to us mandating appeasement or that Russia get anything they want. I'm also not advocating that enough is currently being done, but steps are being taken to choke them economically and make it painful for them to continue on this path. It's just that they're also being propped up by counter measures and funds from the Saudies, Iranians, and related others which blunt the pushes being made from the West.

I’ve had some less intelligent girlfriends through the years, but this one’s a real horses ass!

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/society-benefits-investing-particle-physics ‘The economists concluded that, purely in financial terms, every Swiss franc invested in the HL-LHC upgrade would pay back approximately 1.8 Swiss francs in societal benefits.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040162516000731 “In this paper we take the stakeholder view, describing and enumerating the value metric, while not considering the detailed processes required to optimise these. Some work was done to analyse the societal impact of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade of the LHC (Florio et al., 2016; Bastianin and Florio, 2018), predicting a larger than 90% chance of positive net economic benefit to society.” “We conservatively estimate that there is around a 90% probability that benefits exceed costs, with an expected net present value of about 2.9 billion euro, not considering the unpredictable applications of scientific discovery.”

Who?

That’s right. Nobody said zero value can be found inside a trash heap. In violent agreement.

You're a regular Leviathan here sometimes, sir. lol. Well played