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As someone who has worked in the media industry, I can tell you that the problem with unbiased news goes much deeper than simply presenting facts objectively. The very first step mentioned in your breakdown - scraping the latest headlines from publicly available news sites - is inherently biased, because it relies on a small selection of sources to determine what is considered newsworthy. But by whom? In reality, editors play a crucial role in shaping the news by deciding which events to cover and which to ignore, based on their own biases and interests.

From my own experience, I can tell you that the most important news stories are often the ones that go unreported/underreported by most news sites. Unfortunately, there are also many insidious methods used to shape public opinion, such as distraction etc. But it all starts with the decisions made by editors about WHAT YOU, as a reader, should SEE and CARE about. So if we truly want to achieve unbiased news, we need to start by reevaluating the very definition of what is news.

Well, I just tested if quoting the tweet that cannot be retweeted is quotable. The results are in: we can still quote the unquotable! Looks like the 'free speech absolutist' needs to go back to the drawing board. https://twitter.com/aiaaidan/status/1644493999061729280

If you're interested in exploring the beauty of symmetry further, and want to dive deeper into the world of math, I highly recommend checking out the book "LOVE and MATH: The Heart of Hidden Reality" by Edward Frenkel.

Here's a long quote from "LOVE and MATH" that gives a taste of the book:

"The story of Galois is one of the most romantic and fascinating stories about mathematicians ever told. A child prodigy, he made groundbreaking discoveries very young. And then he died in a duel at the age of twenty. There are different views on what was the reason for the duel, which happened on May 31, 1832: some say there was a woman involved, and some say it was because of his political activities. Certainly, Galois was uncompromising in expressing his political views, and he managed to upset many people during his short life.

It was literally on the eve of his death that, writing frantically in a candlelit room in the middle of the night, he completed his manuscript outlining his ideas about symmetries of numbers. It was in essence his love letter to humanity in which he shared with us the dazzling discoveries he had made. Indeed, the symmetry groups Galois discovered, which now carry his name, are the wonders of our world, like the Egyptian pyramids or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The difference is that we don’t have to travel to another continent or through time to find them. They are right at our fingertips, wherever we are. And it’s not just their beauty that is captivating; so is their high potency for real-world applications.

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What Galois had done was bring the idea of symmetry, intuitively familiar to us in geometry, to the forefront of number theory. What’s more, he showed symmetry’s amazing power.

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The general formula for the solutions of the quadratic equations was already known to the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi in the ninth century (the word “algebra” originated from the word “al-jabr,” which appears in the title of his book). Formulas for solutions of the cubic and quartic (degree 4) equations were discovered in the first half of the sixteenth century. Naturally, the next target was a quintic equation (of degree 5). Prior to Galois, many mathematicians had been desperately trying to find a formula for its solutions for almost 300 years, to no avail. But Galois realized that they had been asking the wrong question. Instead, he said, we should focus on the group of symmetries of the number field obtained by adjoining the solutions of this equation to the rational numbers – this is what we now call the Galois group.

The question of describing the Galois group turns out to be much more tractable than the question of writing an explicit formula for the solutions. One can say something meaningful about this group even without knowing what the solutions are. And from this one can then infer important information about the solutions. In fact, Galois was able to show that a formula for solutions in terms of radicals (that is, square roots, cubic roots, and so on) exists if and only if the corresponding Galois group has a particularly simple structure: is what mathematicians now call a solvable group. For quadratic, cubic, and quartic equations, the Galois groups are always solvable. That’s why solutions of these equations may be written in terms of the radicals. But Galois showed that the group of symmetries of a typical quintic equation (or an equation of a higher degree) is not solvable. This immediately implies that there is no formula for solutions of these equations in terms of radicals.

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Galois’ work is a great example of the power of a mathematical insight. Galois did not solve the problem of finding a formula for solutions of polynomial equations in the sense in which it was understood. He hacked the problem! He reformulated it, bent and warped it, looked at it in a totally different light. And his brilliant insight has forever changed the way people think about numbers and equations.

Thank you for pointing out - added 2017 to the title.

There are too many countries in the world with oppressive regimes where people seem willing to accept the status quo without much resistance to be as optimistic as you about people's desire for freedom. Even in countries where extreme suffering and censorship exist, like N.Korea or, less known, Turkmenistan (which, by the way, is the craziest country of the former USSR - the cult of personality in Turkmenistan has been taken to the extent of idiocy, censorship works like in the worst times of Stalin, and people suffer from hunger, poverty, and constant fear) protests and uprisings are rare. I personally know people who demand even more control in some of these countries, and after hearing about their extreme complacency (think mobilization in russia), I'm not as hopeful that people truly want to be free anymore. IMHO the only form of freedom that is attainable is personal "nomadic" freedom, as in Sovereign Citizen book. We need to vote with our feet and wallets, and choose to live in places where our individual freedoms are respected and protected. I'm sorry if this all sounds a bit bleak, it's personal...

ChatControl Explained: https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/w/d64e6e10-0ad0-4b37-88...

Sign The Petition And Tell EU Legislators: Don’t Scan Us: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/sign-petition-and-tell...

Meanwhile, it takes the human brain months to adapt to visual input after blindness: "This research suggests that the brain is able to adapt to getting visual input, even after 10 years of blindness. That said, it takes a little while before this ability to really process the images kicks in. Right after the second surgery, patients are getting input to the brain from their retinas, but their visual memory is still poor. After about a month, though, the brain has found ways to process this visual information, and, a year later, their brains do just about as well as those of people who had sight from birth." Source: https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202210/....

253g comes from USDA official website for 1 can of cooked drained chickpeas

Intranasal administration of just 5 or 50 micrograms of TriSb92 as early as 8 h before but also 4 h after SARS-CoV-2 challenge can protect from infection. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37290-6

Thanks for sharing your positive experience - it's great to hear that the procedure was painless and quick, and has given you and your partner a reliable form of contraception. More important, having a close person in your life whom you can trust is truly a life jackpot! In the current "epidemic of loneliness," it's more important than ever to have strong personal connections.