I dont necessarily disagree with you, but there is the safety concerns that need to be addressed for the nuclear energy option to become more acceptable. A nuclear powerplant must be able to explode and not kill a lot of people and render a large piece of the earth uninhabitable. If you solve that for me, then I will wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said.
If you compare it to transportation it is a bit like flying: its the safest way and it has many other upsides, but when it goes wrong it's usually catastrophic. With nuclear power even more so. When a nuclear accident happens a large area can be rendered uninhabitable for a period longer than the written history of the world. And it is a question of "when", not one of "if". Mistakes, boeing-like profit-maximizing strategies, terrorism, war. A heavy explosive on a nuclear power plant effectively creates a dirty bomb.
I think these arguments shouldn't be wiped under the rug.
This. The claim that ancient lives were brutish and short, is just a hobbesian concept. That he used to strut his shakey theory.
A significant amount of people reached old age even in the middle ages.
This is not true. You can query the Grondbuch and it will give you all the necessary information of the owner.
Edit: sorry, havent been living in Germany for long. Thought it was the same as the Dutch kadaster. Turns out, it's not and my dealings with it have been unusually easy until now.
The reason why expropriation isn't used a lot is because it costs a lot of resources.
If data is not representative it's just a metric. Its worse than anecdotes because an anecdote has a lot of information and nuance that can be obtained from it.
This is if you are looking in an naive way and are only interested in for THE BEST solution. However, there are many constraints and we are looking for a better solution not the best one.
These kind of things aren't really summarizable into a quick bite is my experience. It's because of the subtle nuances, the way an experienced person approaches a problem.
This. And also, the problem is people want to have too much control. You should build your society in such a way that if you lose control (a bit), its no problem.
That is the real problem with tracking of parents and -for that matter- the security agencies.
You should raise your children to be resilient. If they get lost, teach them how to get unlost. They should recognize danger by the stories we tell them and the experiences they had. Sometimes this goes wrong, and that is super sad, but things go wrong in life. There is no real way of preventing things to go wrong.
We are now making sad human beings by putting our kids into a safe bubble.
Its a myth that alcohol does not induce psychosis. Just like using weed everyday, using alcohol everyday can induce a psychosis. Even when in moderate amounts.
That being said. I think cannabis does something to motivation of people that alcohol does not.
Its the one thing that really needs to be true. I've met many entrepreneurs and although chaos is usually something that impedes a company it's not always true. I know people with decades old multi million dollar profit companies and you see behind the curtain and its literally a mess. I know companies that do zero advertisement and are doing year over year growth. I see companies that are extremely unfriendly to their customers but deliver a product that they cant get somewhere else... The only real thing that connects all these companies is that they are selling something people want.
There are many variants played by scouts all over the world.
The different versions:
1) all players get a wool thread around their arm. If the thread is pulled loose from the arm, you are "dead" and need to go back to a "spawn point". This is quite a physical version with some nice wrestling and wolfpack elements. I prefer this version because its visceral.
2) A version where every member gets a certain "rank" from a spawn point. When a player tags another, the ranks must be revealed. This can be a rock paper scissors system or with some wildcards like "mines" that arent allowed to tag, but are deadly for all players except the sapper. You need a card system for this. Many card systems work.
3) a version with paintballs or laser tag. Also fun but you need a lot of gear to do it with a lot of people.
Overall these games are best on long stretches of terrain. There is an optimal terrain width for a nice game. It is biased towards a narrow and long playing field with a lot of good cover interspaced with larger open areas that dont expose the whole width of the field.
Chokepoints can be nice but can also make the game a bit boring. So there is definitely a strong dropoff on the narrower fields.
Yeah. I cringe that this mentality is also exported from the US to other countries. I firmly believe that breaking a leg, getting lost in the woods for an hour, being able to play somewhere without any adult supervision, really made me a stronger, more capable, stress-resistant adult.
I dont think conspiracy theories are for dumb people. I think its mostly for people that dont feel understood.
They see the world is telling them a narrative but despite this narrative, they have no great job, no great life partner or no great status in their community, they feel there must be something that is preventing them from getting these things.
They go in search of an explanation and find it. They get hooked on the simplicity of these narratives and find them so satisfying.
I think the free will debate is not about this. Its more about the question if the mind is part of a deterministic universe, thus being deterministic itself.
I dont believe this myself. The universe is quasi deterministic. I would say it's emergent. So there are constantly "random" things that are building on top of the n-1 condition. This random things can be an electron that moves left instead of right. Or it allows a person to make a slight nudge into a direction. Be it consciously or unconsciously. That is my theory. It fits my experience of the world and it doesnt violate any natural laws to my knowledge.
I think it depends on where in the world you are based.
I think the reason people have a problem with it, is because they think that this knowledge will crush people's motivation to do the work that is necessary to succeed. If your hypothesis turns out to be true, then only people that have innate drive, skill and resources will be able to do the work to succeed. Accepting that theory as true implies that there are also people without the drive, skill and resources and what is to make of them? Are we not all created equal? Should we not have equal opportunities? Should these lower-people be helped? Do they deserve it? Do they "earn" to not earn a lot of money because they are born from the wrong mother? In the past this problem was solved with religion...
Exactly! The magic to lay waste to invading armies is packaged into a large flask and magical metal birds are flown to above the army. There the flask is released from the birds bellies and gently glides down. When the flask is at optimum height it releases the power of the sun and all that are beneath it get vaporized. A newer version of this magic is attached to a gigantic fireworks rocket that can fly over whole mountain ranges and seas.
This is not true. Here in Holland developers of high rises are forced to make 40% of it social housing. This works quite well. The social housing system is broken, but thats mostly because they havent built enough housing in the last 50 years.
"consumer" is sometimes used as codespeak left leaning circles meaning: someone who implicitly agrees with capitalism and uses it without much real criticism.
So an "investor" of your type is just someone who is more of a consumer. As they consume not only food or housing for example, but they also consume investment opportunities.