Okay, but why pretend your noble goal is to “prevent far-right parties taking control” when in fact you are now espousing the very same talking points they are and enthusiastically endorsing them?

Personifying a “country,” presuming it has a monolithic “cultural identity” that might be preserved and is under threat from “outsiders” is an ultranationalist, deeply xenophobic point of view.

Would it be “smart” for the Berlin government to only accept people with “needed skills” from Hamburg? Maybe, in some sense? But that’s not the point. The point is that a government shouldn’t use violence to restrict people’s freedoms unless they pose an immediate and direct threat.

What an oddly defeatist approach to policy. Like herding Jews into ghettos because Nazis would be worse. Shouldn’t policy be judged on its intrinsic merits rather than its supposed value for placating racists?

I guess the IMF missed the ongoing devastating health care crisis, high violent crime rates, poor social mobility (partially due to incomplete desegregation), few vacation days and barely any parental leave, obesity rates, opioid epidemic, etc. etc.

European here. I don’t think I’ve ever met a single person (aside from Americans) who expressed a sentiment similar to the US economy being “the envy of the world.”

A gift-based economy does feature reciprocity, but it is very different from one based on bartering. In a gift economy it is implicit that those that lack the ability to contribute as much are also not expected to reciprocate to the same degree.

The Planck constant [Js] was introduced to find a way around the UV catastrophe. The Planck length [m] is defined as \sqrt{\frac{\hbar G}{c^3}}, where G is the gravitational constant and c the speed of light in vacuum.

The Planck units are a choice of natural units relevant to cosmology. They aren’t the smallest or largest of anything. The Planck mass is roughly the same as that of a fruit fly.

In our current established theoretical framework, there is no reason to presume that either time or space are discrete, nor is there experimental evidence for it.

Well okay, but:

• Almost all of the world’s universal health care systems are found in capitalist systems. (Cuba and maaaaybe China could be considered exceptions.)
• Introducing any of those systems in the US would save money, not cost it. While it’s bad for the economy to have billionaires, that’s not the reason you guys don’t have a proper health care system.

But being competent in your field doesn’t make you a good manager or leader.

Except it kind of does. Surviving in academia requires being able to sell yourself well, and to be able to network and set up collaborations with other groups. Stereotypes and some exceptions notwithstanding, professors usually have good social and management skills.

Well, the hiring process for professors varies by university, but usually other professors and the dean or similar role (typically also someone with an academic background) play important roles.

One of the positive aspects about a career in science is that HR essentially has no role in hiring decisions. The hiring is done mostly by professors, who are usually highly competent in their field.

This article is about some professors (and other supervisors) being toxic. The world of science is extremely cutthroat and competitive (much more so than the world of business), and the kind of people who survive in it long-term tend to be extreme workaholics. I was personally lucky with my supervisors during my time in science, but some of them can put a lot of pressure on grad students and postdocs and expect them to be the no-lifers that they themselves usually also are.

…that was a British colony.

Independent state or not, there certainly was no instance of a “Palestinian” people “govern[ing] themselves” (whatever that may mean - the majority of the world, including Israel/Palestine, has never had anything resembling a democratic government).

The Ottomans themselves were by definition a small dynastic elite that ruled over a multi-ethnic, multilingual empire. They didn’t give a shit about what “Palestinians” thought about the governance of this area except insofar as it suited their own perceived interests.

The Ottomans didn’t officially call this region “Palestine” in its own administrative divisions though that name existed as an unofficial designation for the rough area.

The Sykes-Picot borders were drawn from the rectums of some drunk European aristocrats who barely knew the region. On which sides of those borders people ended up is largely a historical accident.

It’s bullshit that countries should be able to deny entry to people arbitrarily, but your history is also a bit off. There never was a Palestinian nation state; there weren’t even nation states as we know them today hundreds of years ago (when Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire, and before that the Mamluk Sultanate).

Except for the ones in South Africa, with signs like this one.

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European carmakers have dozens of EV models on the market, and they are dominating the EU market though selling poorly outside it.

While rapidly shrinking, the ICE market in the EU still accounts for about three quarters of the market. This is why some EU carmakers (notably Stellantis) have shifted to a Kodak strategy in an attempt to make short-term gains over the coming decade.

Norway exports far more than they use, and petrol prices there are among the highest in the world.

The difference between murder and killing is notable. The Bible has no issue with “justified” killing, and ends up justifying it in a lot of cases, especially if the target is some infidel.

To be honest, I don’t remember. I’m better at remembering the juicy and hilarious stuff, like God casting Greater Bear Summon and a bunch of children immediately pulling aggro.