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> Religion is often used to segregate humans into opposing tribes

You can say that about absolutely any belief, whether religious or not

> This is will force a political crisis

no it won't

> as the government is complaining it has no money to build houses

no it isn't

That's an overly simplistic approach.

The paper addresses this briefly, and suggests additional mechanisms to do with UV effects on different skin layers (e.g. NO mediated vasodilatation) may be involved.

> Seizing the plant and rigging it to explode as a quid pro quo demand for Russia to leave the Zaporizhia NPP

I honestly don't see that happening. There's a diplomatic game being played around Russia's nuclear threats, I don't see Ukraine being so dumb as to undermine that.

For what it's worth:

https://x.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1821274958879977633

https://x.com/Tendar/status/1821222650191982674

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1821219526668898710

https://x.com/Danspiun/status/1821218979811119558

Yes I agree, this has to be a limited Ukrainian operation, but the short term impact is still considerable. What the long term goal is, who knows.

> Ukrainians always insisted what they are fighting to protect the homeland.

Just what do you think they're doing if not that?

It's quite a bit more than that. I've seen reports of 40-50 surrendering in just one location alone - smaller numbers in multiple reports from other locations.

The Kimberly rock drawings are some of the oldest in Australia, and an intrinsic part of Aboriginal culture in the region which they are found. Assigning their origin to a non-aboriginal source was considered disrespectful by some.

The Nature article is here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07447-4

Somebody (I don't remember who) suggested that Australian Boabab trees were potential evidence of the direct population of Australia from Africa by a pre-Aboriginal people, based on the idea that the fruit of the Boabab tree would be an excellent food source for a long cross-ocean crossing, as well as supposed "African" characteristics in the Kimberley petrographs found in the same area as the trees. The theory is fringe-science at best (and I believe slightly offensive to Aboriginals) but I've been curious about the origin of the trees since coming across the theory. I skimmed through the paper but didn't see any estimate for a date for the genetic diversion of the Australian Boababs.

I'd highly recommend the book "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot" by Robert Macfarlane in which the writer describes walking the Ridgeway and other walks in the UK and other places. His description of walking the Broomway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broomway) is particularly enthralling.

> But I do believe they got the syntax wrong - should have been "from fs import { readFile }" so that auto-complete works.

Personally, I prefer the "import x from y" format because it makes it easier to visually scan where an import is coming from; fair point about auto-complete though.

In a similar vein, I recently came across Peter Laurie's Beneath the City Streets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_City_Streets) in a second hand bookshop. Despite belonging to a very different time, it's still a very interesting read.

Assembly theory might eventually provide some useful tools in this area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory

It already has with the BSE crisis, and I'm not sure if we 100% understand how close to a much greater crises we came. I remember there was period in the UK back in the nineties where there was the grim prospect of hundreds of thousands of cases - thankfully it never came close to that. And there are European countries where I still can't donate blood, because I lived in the UK during the outbreak.

I think you're confusing intelligence with consciousness

Earlier post about this with link to the university's press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960728

A link to the actual post: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/181241a/amazon_sol...

> people who still don't believe that decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments

Imagine if the network was working but at 7 global transactions per second and each purchase took 10 mins for the payment to clear.

Fact of the matter is that even with yesterday's outage, the Spanish payment card network still delivers excellent reliability and performance.

In Ireland's case, both apply - there's an inability to build and there's defacto rent caps. Plus until very recently, an eviction ban.

Here's an RTE News article on the tragedy. You can see from the photo that yes, it was pretty rough still: https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0820/1400656-cork-ironman/

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> "the past is never finished"

Very well said.

European commissioners aren't elected in any sense of the word, they're appointed by national governments. Even if the US president is elected via an electoral college, the outcome of that vote is very much driven by the popular vote - it's in absolutely no way comparable to the way commissioners are put in office.