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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18300 on: 13/03/2021 18:33:28 »
We can also let each one choose their own definition of motion, relative something, galaxy, the moon, whatever. That are what frames are about.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18301 on: 13/03/2021 18:36:57 »
Frames of reference is still one of the most confusing things I know of.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18302 on: 13/03/2021 18:38:09 »
That and 'motions', accelerating or relative.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18303 on: 13/03/2021 20:38:18 »
Let's get serious

https://animekisa.tv/binbougami-ga!-episode-1

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18304 on: 14/03/2021 09:17:37 »
This one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/friendly-fire-review-israeli-warrior-ami-ayalon-peace

From the dream of Palestinians and Israelis working together, failing, to the idea of a two nation state, also failing.

" But he refuses to place all the blame for Israel’s mistaken path on the ultra-religious settlers who now occupy so much of the West Bank Israel captured 55 years ago in the six-day war. If Israel becomes that dystopia, it won’t be because of “a handful of armed theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there, motivated by fear and propelled by silence.” "

Yeah.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18305 on: 14/03/2021 09:19:08 »
About hypocrisy.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/13/mathias-cormann-cant-wait-to-start-oecd-job-and-singles-out-climate-as-key-challenge

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18306 on: 14/03/2021 09:24:08 »
About making global warming 'profitable'

"Commodification, putting a good up for sale, can corrode the value of what is being priced. As the political philosopher Michael Sandel argues, “When we decide that certain goods and services can be bought and sold, we decide, at least implicitly, that it is appropriate to treat them as commodities, as instruments of profit and use.”"

He calls it a 'moral issue'. I call it survival. He thinks the game can change but still keep itself intact.
I don't think that's right. I want to get rid of this caste society we created.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/13/crisis-in-values-exclusive-extract-mark-carneys-book
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18307 on: 14/03/2021 09:32:58 »
This is my view but I think they give those seals human attributes here.

" “We need to keep in mind that seals always return to the place where they were born. So, if we skip a year, like now, nothing changes genetically for the seals.

But if it goes on for three or four years in a row, during which the seals don’t give birth to their pups here, then they won’t come back because they will have changed their migration route. "

My guess would be that they didn't as much 'choose' a new migration route as they died out at that specific location. That some find something else is more of a accident than intelligent planning.  Then again, the same could be said about us.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/13/canada-ice-scarcity-quebec-harp-seal-tourism-chill-aoe


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« Reply #18308 on: 14/03/2021 09:37:48 »
And from the BBC ... .... ....
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« Reply #18309 on: 14/03/2021 09:55:25 »
Remarkably this seem to be news for many of our industries. " As we have noted repeatedly, ultimately it is the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that determines the warming the planet will experience. "

You could say the same about pollution, plastics, artificial fertilizers and pesticides. I'm sure it will be 'news' for them too.

https://carbontracker.org/shell-and-eni-revise-emissions-plans-into-the-weeds-or-into-the-forest/
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« Reply #18310 on: 14/03/2021 09:57:01 »
Forgot to mention your governments. Should be news for them too, right?
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« Reply #18311 on: 14/03/2021 10:02:02 »
You should think about this one. " It should also mean that you would have to expend more energy pushing yourself away, accelerating in the 'motion of earth', than you would have to accelerating against this motion, if I'm thinking right here. "

It may sound naive, but try to think of how the physics would need to be if we found this to be true.
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« Reply #18312 on: 14/03/2021 10:03:45 »
Preconceptions, sometimes it's just enough with acceptance of the facts that exist. And you go out from them without asking yourself why.
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« Reply #18313 on: 14/03/2021 10:15:22 »
Your game needs to change, from the foundations. It's like global warming and your innate inability to accept it. So you find excuses, you deny, you become a skeptic, then comes acceptance, and then it's too late. The same story with your game. That's why I call you failed. And if I can see it so can you.
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« Reply #18314 on: 14/03/2021 10:24:01 »
What you're doing to yourself makes no sense to me.
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« Reply #18315 on: 14/03/2021 10:47:27 »
You're at the limits of your game today. From hereon it will shrink at the same time as you will see a much fiercer competition. For those first losing their ability to survive it will mean terrorism, directed at what they find to be the culprits. That's you, and for you it will mean internal repressions, blame games and wars. At the same time as this earth constantly lose its sustainability.
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« Reply #18316 on: 14/03/2021 10:48:42 »
And you're doing it to yourself.
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« Reply #18317 on: 14/03/2021 10:54:29 »
Everything you do to mitigate it inside this game is built on the game continuing. Real politik, game theory, what you call democracy, inequality. The examples of it becomes more or less infinite. You build it on distrust and profits and think that global warming will become profitable. It won't, it will cost us and in the end it probably will lead to a extinction of everything we know.
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« Reply #18318 on: 14/03/2021 10:56:09 »
I don't know how stupid you are. I don't know why you never will become a individual. I know one thing though. It has to do with you.
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« Reply #18319 on: 14/03/2021 11:29:57 »
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons.

"  Energy investments are not about "advancing an environmental agenda," he said. "They're about improving our combat capability, improving our mission effectiveness, and reducing our vulnerabilities to foreign sources of fossil fuel."

"It's about returning more of our brave sailors and Marines back home to their families safely." "

You have to laugh sometimes.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-military-forges-ahead-with-plans-to-combat-climate-change/
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