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  • Commented on WTF
    People are far more willing to follow an already failed idea than a new one!...
  • Commented on WTF
    Brain fog: I know all to much about this being nearly 5 years into M.E! As Bill says, M.E seems to be a good guide. The M.E society is a good place to check out, this is a more specific...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    I thought this sounded unlikely so I googled it. Bronze turnbuckles came straight up: https://www.stalok.com/product-category/marine/bronze-turnbuckles/...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    I didn't make it clear in my previous post that I meant small armed drones on the cargo ship, only activated in case of attack. OGH's post gave me the idea....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    An idea for armed cargo ships is using armed drones remotely operated by their home countries military maybe?...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    That's good, as I said I couldn't get all the way through. The issue with memory is exactly why I think it is not proven. You do not need consciousness to have memory, even a quite sophisticated one....
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Very interesting paper, thanks. My ME wouldn't let me read it all, but I have downloaded it to finish later. It seemed to me to be anthropocentric, no mention of the rest of the animal kingdom. Are they suggesting consciousness...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Symbiosis theory This makes sense, especially when you include endogenous retroviruses. It also mirrors some thinking in physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_quantum_mechanics The "I" is a known problem is philosophy, it will take this in it's stride....
  • Commented on I can't even
    Indeed, but they do mean it. What they mean by this is there will more cuts in public spending, and then when services no longer work they can be done away with or sold off. This is part of their...
  • Commented on I can't even
    It doesn't seem workable for restarting coal mining, that doesn't mean it isn't the plan though. Drax has received £6 billion in "green" subsidies. This seems excessive. Mind you, it could just be corruption and/or incompetence! As for alternative fuels,...
  • Commented on I can't even
    I meant a proper emergency just in case, as in we need to start mining again. I don't know how easy this would actually be to do , but I think it is the plan....
  • Commented on I can't even
    I'm pretty sure the only reason Drax is kept running is as a "just in case" facility to burn domestic coal if that should become necessary....
  • Commented on I can't even
    On the subject of Truss pissing off of the American president, I would say that there is another way to look at that. The president is only part of the state, the ideology that lead to current events and most...
  • Commented on I can't even
    What I would expect Truss to do to get this through, is threaten to call an election if it is not backed. With present polling the MPs will probably think their chances could be better in some indeterminate future, as...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    I don't know, I think from looking at his bio he is a capitalist apologist of some sort. It seems he will go to great lengths to avoid mentioning the main drivers of this. As you say he must know,...
  • Commented on I can't even
    The connection is money, coming from both Russia and America: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/the-american-dark-money-behind-europes-far-right/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/russia-ukraine-war-putin-europe-far-right-funding-conservatives/...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    I find the Umair Haque articles lacking in context. He treats recent events as if they have come out of nowhere, or only as far back as brexit. People have been working towards this for decades. Secondly, the last article...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    I've seen a few of these in the UK, though only from the outside. They run pipes on the outside to connect to the sub units, presumably either on the outside wall or run the piping through the floor/ceiling or...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    Also Foxessa is a serious historian, she has nothing to prove....
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    There are lots of similar projects under the heading artificial photosynthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_photosynthesis Pigeon, it also covers creating liquid fuels....
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    Once again I am not connecting Maslow and hierarchical society. From my post at 861: "No, I didn't conflate the two things. I stated that relying on Maslow's hierarchy was not a good idea and then went on to discuss...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    The thing about the psychological inoculation study is that it only had a 5% improvement, it stuck in my mind as it seemed a bit useless....
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    "I think you may have conflated Maslow's heirarchy of needs with a heirarchy social levels. They may both be abstractions, but conceptually are very different things." No, I didn't conflate the two things. I stated that relying on Maslow's hierarchy...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    I think Maslow's hierarchy of needs is not the best way to frame this discussion. It's old and unproven. Hierarchical society is itself harmful: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(19)30248-8/fulltext This is just the one of the first things to come up on Google, there...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    The Great Orme is dry where it is above the water table( obviously), the copper deposits started at the surface and they worked down. Copper mining started in the bronze age, it also finished in the bronze age and didn't...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    "They basically had all the precursors to industrialization about 700 years before the British, and yet it never came together..." Assuming this to be true, it makes happenstance more unlikely doesn't it? That is a lot of time for happenstance...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    "If this works as promised, you could dig a deep hole anywhere* and get geothermal energy at a fraction of cost of nuclear. * best location would be near existing coal plants, so you can reuse the steam turbine." That's...
  • Commented on The gathering crisis
    An interesting new form of energy storage, designed for the European winter: https://newatlas.com/energy/reveal-aluminum-energy-storage/...
  • Commented on The ends of education
    I thought quipus were not a language, though they are a way to record information. Aren't they a kind of proto "written" language, the same kind of thing as the origins of linear a and cuneiform as state record keeping...
  • Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
    "The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (i.e., an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of natural numbers. For any such consistent formal...
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