Yes, it’s possible he was even more trash than usual.

By the standards of whatever Siberian village, the compensation and various bonuses (including after they die) these guys pull is insane. That how they’re convincing people to sign up for a war that’s both unpopular and nearly guaranteed to kill you. They could try massive conscription, but they’d need loyal people to enforce it or a guarantee it wouldn’t lead to regime change, and they have neither.

The Russian government is basically drawing down all the funds and infrastructure in the country to sponsor this war, and at some point here they’ll run out. I think I have 11 months left on my prediction of by when.

There’s pretty clearly 2 pyrotechnic events here. if you’re viewing it on a good enough screen.

Given camera movement, I suppose the “plane” could just be a cloud of smoke as well, that’s true. Like, maybe it started a rocket stage? Aren’t Shaheds slow and dumb, though? I don’t know why it’d need that.

Add sodium lauryl sulphate.

Ah neat! So it’s a drone firing a drone to intercept a drone.

Edit: No, that’s a Russian craft.

Neat explanation. I’m going to add “energy is conserved” to this; we expect people to know that and make the connection to calories, but better safe than sorry.

Good for you! How long ago was that, and did you gain it back? That’s usually the really hard part.

Just allowing it. Previously, Ukraine was one of the countries that required citizens to surrender all other citizenships, or at least didn’t recognise them.

Kind of annoying they don’t say in the article.

So is that a plane at the beginning?

He didn’t drop dead immediately either. Poor guy, should have stayed home.

I mean, that is what you’d expect if were hormone-based.

Tribalism is ancient for sure. As is cultural bigotry. Hating people primarily do to skin colour and related features is a thing that specifically developed 1500-1700, as the trans-Atlantic slave trade got going (and needed to be rationalised).

When the Romans or Mesopotamians hated on their neighbors, it was over food preferences, language and customs. If they ascribed anything biological to it, the prevailing theory was more about response to the local climate than heredity. Then, once monotheism got going deviation from religious orthodoxy became the most popular way to hate. It’s not a coincidence that “Slav” and “slave” sound similar, because pagan Slavic people were a major source of slave labour in medieval Europe. It drove the crusades, and it had a role in the early stages of expansion into the new world.

The first slave ship came to English North America in 1619, but the passengers were treated as normal indentures, and at least some became free later on. They kept coming, though, and by 1700 or so black people had to be slaves and that was pretty much it. (Colonial Spain had their own, somewhat divergent system a bit earlier)

The Romans had emperors drawn from Africa and the Middle East, and had conflict with Germanic and Celtic people that could easily have been Latin by appearance. The first sub-Saharan African in Japan was made a Samurai, and now there’s a videogame about it. That’s not to say the difference in appearance wasn’t noticed or remarked upon (they tried to wash the dark off of Yasuke, and Heterodotus makes special note of the woolly hair and stature of the distant Africans) but in every pre-modern story I can think of it was gotten over quickly compared to other, behavioral things.

Anyway, I guess the point is just that there’s been steps backwards as well. There would have to be, otherwise ignorance would have gone extinct over the millennia, right? Maybe it still will; we live in a totally transformed world now, but it’s going to require continuous effort. Hate is always shifting and changing and evolving from things that might even have started off as harmless or positive (Jesus is less controversial than later Christians).

What do you mean? Almost everyone wants more, and will gladly take it if they have an opportunity. That’s why lotteries exist, right?

Big history is full of open questions, but there’s counterexamples. Short-lived republics are a dime a dozen, while Egypt lasted for thousands of years. There are known cases where inequality actually increases with the end of an empire, like how Roman Britain with it’s public bathhouses directly gives way to dark ages Britain with feudal lords and manors. In some cases, a disenfranchised group getting a bit of power is destabilising.

I’ll admit, I only have a fuzzy understanding of even the basics of Hamiltonian mechanics. I understand quantum computing, though, and that evolution of a circuit is a unitary (linear) operator/matrix. So, wouldn’t continuous evolution be a one-parameter Lie subgroup of the unitary operators over your Hilbert space? Any eigenvalue would have to be a root of unity, with the exact one corresponding to rate of change in phase, because otherwise you end up with probabilities not summing to 1.

I think it would be analogous to the normal modes for a classical standing wave, which are also used as examples of an eigenfunction.

Maybe the more relevant question is if nonequilibrium, dynamical quantum systems can also be said to be quantised in the same way. Can they?

If the problem is easier to think about with a time-dependent Hamiltonian, you can use the Heisenberg formulation of quantum mechanics, which makes the wavefunctions static and lets the operators evolve in time. This can be helpful in a number of situations—typically involving light.

That sounds wild!

Community, status and not being economically punished are way bigger motivators than being abstractly correct, right? Nobody really goes looking for inconvenient truths. Unless those naturally nice, understanding conservatives start meeting a lot of very different people, like if they move, the worldview will probably stay put.

To be a little more doomer than you, I’d actually say there’s lots of people that go the other way as well, and go looking for a cult to join as an outlet for whatever nastiness is inside of them. Consider that in the grand scheme of things, monotheism and racism are both new.

Because of the Safe Third Country agreement, it would be complicated at the very least.

I doubt the government would even be interested right now, when the whole nation hangs in the balance and it’s just one dude.

Interesting! Thank you.

They do exist in places where it’s just the default politics. One has to suspect that if they seriously learned and thought about things, they’d move left.

Do you prefer visual porn, or written erotica/smutty novels?

I don’t ask this both because of the obvious privateness, and because I don’t want to put anyone on the spot if their choice doesn’t align with what’s typical for their gender identity, but I do wonder.

What did they teach about the Trump stuff? A lot of things are happening, or not happening but widely believed to be happening, that aren’t supposed to. Did they discuss the possibility that traditional system of government might not survive?