“So the ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,”

I still think we should destroy it. We basically have to options here:

1. The universe decays and turns into huge, cold void that can’t support any life an last forever
2. We destroy it and hope that new universe will be created out of nothing again

Option 1 is certain death. With option 2 there’s at least some hope for a new beginning.

Of course we don’t have a way to destroy the universe yet but we have 10^78 years to figure it out. Once we have the means to start some chain reaction that rips space time itself and destroys the entire universe we should do it.

El Burgo has population of ~1700. Nice town, beautifully located. Great cycling route.

It’s not like the CEO will have to pay for this…

I remember reading that. It was 30 years ago so I may be remembering it wrong… We had this as a assigned reading in school but only the first chapter or something. It was in our textbook kind of as a short story. So we read only the part about the kid dying without knowing the story continues. I later found the entire book somewhere and kept reading and hey, the brothers met again in the magic world. I don’t remember them dying at the end or anything else for that matter. It was one of the least traumatizing books they assigned us. In most Polish books and novels some kid dies, or some animal dies, or there’s war, or concentration camps or some other torture.

Title?

Everyone get your mortgages while they are still cheap. If you’re planning on buying pretty much anything buy it now. Get a new EV, new computer, new boat and do that renovation in your summer house you’ve been postponing all this time. Everything is about to become way more expensive.

I remember watching Talking Funny with him, Louie C.K., Seinfeld and Chris Rock. It was really interesting and funny. Neither of those guys is watchable anymore. Incredible.

I didn’t say NO physical activity. Just don’t make it more important than actual school. No idea where you took “no culture” from. You think you can’t research information on culture? Just again, don’t make drama clubs more important than school. Memorization should definitely be present, I didn’t say school should be filled with it.

What I was trying to describe is similar to project-based learning used in Finland. If you haven’t heard about it it’s worth researching.

I didn’t know that one. I use vi all the time but my brain can’t handle it in the command line. Two different muscle memories clash.

Here’s a real shell trick for you:

Remove the arrow keys from you keyboard for a month or two.

Seriously, do it. Do you know how to jump to the beginning of the line? The end? Move one word back? One character back? After a month without arrow keys you will know, trust me.

Everyone? Nothing. People have different tastes. Everyone should read the books they like.

So what is the probability of life emerging? How can you estimate it when we don’t know how, where or when it emerged? We have some theories, sure, but there’s still huge gaps in them. Did it emerge in primordial soup (itself just a hypothesis) or in the hydrothermal vents? We don’t even know if it originated on Earth at all. What specific conditions are needed for it to emerge? We don’t know. How common those conditions are? We don’t know. What’s the probability self-replicating molecules forming? We don’t know. And so on and so on. We know one part of the equation, that the universe is big so even if the chances are tiny it should have happened multiple times but we don’t know just how tiny they are. So yes, we’re just guessing.

Someone asked me if some entity told me that it doesn’t first. Did you miss that part? What I’m saying is that everyone is just guessing here. Both claims are equally valid or equally “induces by substances”.

I said that I don’t think other life in the universe exists. What did you think I said?

What would I do?

I would focus on teaching how to learn. Instead of filling the school with silly playtime like high-school football, drama clubs and show and tells just teach kids how to find and verify information, some logic so they can evaluate different arguments and train their memory by making them memorize stuff. What exactly they learn is not that important. Most will forget the dates and formulas anyway. The skills will stay with them.

The article about vibes is based on vibes, yes.

Because worrying if you’re manly enough is the the most manly thing a man can do.

I think they only froze some of the founds. No idea what impact did it have on the polls. Poland got its funds frozen as well and it definitely wasn’t the main reason why opposition won. 2 years after the parliamentary elections PiS won presidential elections again and is back to blocking EU funding now. I think this is what most people don’t realize here. Even if Orban loses his party will not disappear. His supporters will not disappear. Prosecuting those people is very difficult. Undoing the damage they have done is very difficult. The opposition party will have their own corruption scandals. Orban can be back in power after another election cycle with most of the mess he left still untouched. Hoping that one electoral loss will fix the entire country is very naive yet it looks like that’s EU’s only hope here. EU needs deep reforms that will shield it from bad actors like Hungary, not just hope that little pressure will fix them.

Don’t worry, if he wins the next elections EU will start thinking about maybe doing something about it. If he loses nothing will ever be done about it.

YT;DW