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After the experience I was more open to interacting to people. The difference between avoiding eye contact and just saying hi to someone can be huge. Instead of just passing by someone I'd stop and talk to them--sometimes for hours. At first I was still pretty awkward but after time and just talking to people I'm one of the most sociable people in my circle. And it is a wide circle.

So in short my first reaction to meeting someone wasn't avoidance but instead to interact with them.

Try a mental trick I often use: everyone else is self conscious about how they appear and what other people think of them. Once that sinks in don't be afraid to be yourself even if that means being awkward.

Psychedelics did it for me, I was looking for fun but as an unintended consequence I became much more extrovert.

Of course, don't actually do hard drugs without medical supervision. You are more likely to end up worse off. A counter anecdote, a friend of mine who was really extroverted is now pretty shy and nervous in social interactions after suffering a few psychotic episodes during one of our drug binges.

That is correct. Ideally we will move to lab grown meat or just lab grown edibles/drinkables that contain all the nutrients you need and you get to choose the ratio of nutrients for each meal.

> not needs, you can thrive on a vegetarian diet

Not true for everyone. I have a specific health issue and to ingest the necessary daily intake of proteins solely through non-meat source would mean ingesting a lot more carbs that I can handle for a day.

Also explain how would CRISPR increase the suffering of animals?

> due to their advances in weapons

Not quite, the weapons the west had "developed" were developed far earlier in the middle east and east Asia. Trebuchets, cannons, guns, gunpowder, crossbows, etc.. The west just adopted them.

> and their brutal tactics, which many indigenous people decried as "too furious".

The colonial tactics were brutal but I doubt they were more brutal than what the indigenous people did. The Mayans and the Incas ritually sacrificed their enemies in public, genocided enemy tribes, and other pretty brutal behaviour. The colonial forces just had more powerful weapons.

I never made a case for legality == morality. Also beware that morality isn't equally defined, what you find moral others will find amoral.

As for the pipe and helmet example. The laws and ways of upholding them are the metaphorical helmet that we put on to protect ourselves against pipe wielders.

The perpetrator will do what it wants to do, we can protect ourselves with laws, law enforcement, education or physical armour. Or do you expect the pipe wielder to stop because they were told what they are doing is bad or amoral?

In a world where there are people that will hit you with a steel pipe and will not be stopped by the legality of the matter then it is your fault for not putting on the helmet.

But that isn't a good comparison for this case as what he did was not illegal. Unlike hitting people with steel pipes.

If morals and human right are an issue, buying oil from Venezuela would a major upgrade, in that regard, opposed to buying oil from gulf states.

Michael Kofman, an expert in Russian mil., claims that one of the reasons for this is that Russia's military doctrine accounts for cases where air supremacy or superiority cannot be achieved.

Shelling a city with Grad and artillery is far cheaper.

When crashing at a speed over 100 km/h, car insurance would be one of the last things that should worry you.

That too, if it lost contact with the command post it would probably just go until it ran out of fuel.

I don't trust either Ukraine nor Russia in this matter. I can see Ukraine using it for surveillance and the drone going haywire. I also can see Russia using it as SAM bait but the drone flying off all up to Croatia.

I am confused how it managed to go through two NATO countries skies for over 600 KM in a state of heightened alert.

In the worst case, we're left with air-frying as a healthy way of cooking.

Nothing really. Piracy is widespread in my country and a lot of software being pirated isn't translated.

End result? People learned English.

There are 10's of millions of primary Russian speakers living outside of Russia. Much more than some Asian, African, and European languages that are regularly translated.

Seems to me like better UX as the users are being informed why they can't make pull requests. Of course this could be done differently but I don't have an issue with it.

It is that type of situation, and it would much better if only people could take it stoically. But that won't happen, economic hardship hurts a lot and people in democratic systems will just vote away any ecological provisions that are causing them pain.

I think James Ker-Lindsay did a good analysis on the subject: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IteoUSEqU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsUW-GZSPbA

In short, Russia and the current Republika Srpska leadership has incentives to keep the situation simmering but they don't have the means to heat the situation to the point of boiling.

The OHR can at any time remove from power any politician who would try that. NATO and EUFOR forces stationed in the country could easily quell any conflict. Even without relying Bosnia's internal security forces and neighbours that also have an interest in peace in B&H.

You think it is a smarter move to let the gas price get higher?

Highly unlikely that they can stir up anything that far away. Another fact working against this theory is that B&H has EUFOR and NATO bases and is surrounded by mostly NATO members.

I think the recent situation around Ukraine actually diminishes the possibility of turmoil in B&H because Western powers are now more eager to use the Office of the High Representative to remove from power anyone who works against peace in B&H.

Inflicting unnecessary pain during testing would be counter-productive to the testing goal.

True, but if a newspaper is open for bots to help promote it through SEO, I won't have many qualms about bypassing the flimsy paywall.

The hackers grew up and now they are what they once hated.

Seems to happen to every generation.

Most homeless people in America are people who has some form of mental illness or have suffered from some traumatic event. In any case just giving them a home won't help much, those homes would quickly become drug dens.

A better solution is to provide them with shelter, community, mental help, education, and generally good care. This is actually even harder to do than just throwing houses at them.

But there is also merit to giving housing to people who are homeless but not mentally ill. Many European countries do this.

Ukraine doesn't really have the firepower to hit back. All territories it loses are really hard to recover. Russia is also sprinting to take the Dniepr river which would make any counter-attack nearly impossible.

They are also going for encirclement of areas they can't capture east of the river, breaking out of a modern siege is also really hard.

Russian strategy would be to encircle the cities and Ukrainian forces, demand surrender or shell otherwise.

I wouldn't bet on it, out 4k+ that Russia has in their arsenal, only dozens are needed to trigger a MAD scenario.

Also they have been investing in the nuclear program as well, creating devices like Poseidon[0] which could theoretically make an entire US coast unliveable.

The only winning move in nuclear brinksmanship is not to play.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...

I don't think that it is waste. Learning to be test ninja means that you have to learn to concentrate and spend effort at a single task for a period of time over a period of time.

That skill you can later use to do any of the mentioned activities far more efficiently.

At least that is how is see. I thought myself to be a test ninja during high school and I still follow the same basic pattern when doing work related stuff or for hobbies.

>Serbians and Bosnians

I think you might be mistaken with this, even lower class people from these nationalities (the least educated ones) have no problem working with each other. Especially untrue for those with higher education (high school and above).

Not a bad idea, but needs to be done under the guidance of a medical professional and he would need to get on some exercise regiment to get the full benefits of the supplementation.