The oligarchs are arriving 😎

Aah nice! Thanks for sharing.

I went to stay a couple of months in the US and of course I brought my reusable bag to the übermarket. The cashier didn't want to fill it. She insisted to use single-use bags :|

I'm not very familiar with UK politics, but are the Liberal Democrats far-left? It doesn't look like it, at least by European standards.

Entschuldigung, ich lehre Deutsch. Was bedeudet "Bogen nutzen"?

I'm confused. These people want nothing to do with government because they didn't consent to being born under its authority, right? And they want to tap into money that daddy government allegedly set aside for them?

On the other hand, I'm wondering if maybe all of this might be out of desperation in the broken debt system of the us? Or maybe they just want to cheat a system that they don't respect...

It's actually better than what OP said. We have a T cell for every antigen. Period. Even the ones that nobody has ever encountered. That's because T cell receptors are proteins, that is, combinations of amino acids. Random combinations of T cell receptors are produced by the immune system (if it does not harm the host).

The caveat is that it takes a while for the T cell of an unknown antigen to be activated, enough time for the sickness to appear and even become critical.

Ah yes, the cursed Germanic loop:

who (EN) translates to wie (NL)

wie (NL) sounds like wie (DE)

wie (DE) translates to hoe (NL)

hoe (NL) sounds like who (EN)

I'd actually be down for huitante, in order to keep the latin root like other numbers instead of the greek one

Because the man's seed carries life while the women's womb is literally dirt. /s

Bedankt!

Very interesting read, thanks for sharing. I particularly liked the part about the origin of the energy we use and wheter that energy would have heated the planet anyway. Carbon trapped in fossil fuel comes from the sun and would have heated the planet during the Carboniferous. By burning it, we "import" heat from this era. Nuclear fission is "importing" heat from the supernovae that seeded the solar system. However, is geothermal "importing" remnant heat of the solar system's creation, as material collapsed in the Earth's gravity well? The heat from the center of the planet would have traveled to the surface eventually, but it would have taken much longer. Maybe we are "importing" heat from the future instead of the past in this case.

There are two things he didn't mention that seem relevant to me. Firstly, that entropy can go down locally. Of course it always rises in a closed system, but the Earth surface is not a closed system. Life, an incredibly organized machine risen from just photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, is an exceptional example of entropy locally decreasing because of external influx of energy from the Sun and the center of the Earth.

Secondly, he justly warned about gathering energy from outer space and importing in on Earth, something that I had never considered. But what if we used this energy in outer space as well? This seems like a good motivation for space colonization. That's a (probably foolish) dream that could be compatible with exponential growth beyond what is available on Earth.