The past has vanished.
The present is infinitely small.
The future is infinitely variable.
…for every point in the infinite universe.
#Time #Science #Brexit #Equality #Humanity
Let’s give our heads a shake, regularly. Sweep out the cobwebs of ideology, cultivate #CriticalThinking.
None of us is 100% right, nor 100% wrong. Each of us is a grain of sand in a world of knowledge.
(Similar handle on other SNs)
@thanksforallthefish @birdwing
The EU are planning the “digital euro” as an alternative to the US stranglehold on international finance, but this will take YEARS to build, if ever!!
And there is so much more they need to protect, inc the entire EU-based web.
In any case, The World needs a secure, independent alternative to ICANN, before it goes rogue.
@TheBrideWoreCrimson @CountVlad47
They’re all cults. Trump, Reform/Farage, Le Pen, etc.
The flimsiest of any rational reason to vote for them, doesn’t matter, it’s the hate & the blame, particularly of groups that can’t answer back or defend themselves. That infuses a deep, intoxicating & irresistible feeling of power & invincibility.
@melsaskca @supersquirrel
It hasn’t though.
Zionists DO NOT REPRESENT THE JEWS that were victims of the Holocaust!
Reparations were supposed to be for the victims of the Holocaust, not for Zionist Israel!
According to Jewish historian Zachary Foster, Zionists only allowed wealthy, healthy, able-bodied Jews into Palestine/Israel, NOT weak, starving survivors of the camps.
None of the Israeli cabinet is descended from Holocaust death-camp victims or survivors.
https://dingo.news/voice/zionists-no-friends-of-jews-zachary-foster/
@lokalhorst
(Shrunk to 50%, Firefox/Waterfox)
@copacetic
All I see is a mostly white page with some scattered text, graphs with no legends, a map with no cues, a very large EU flag & a photo of windmills.
@pleksi @Pip
It does #Trickledown but the model is upside-down. The millions of tiny (low-income) streams are at the top & they trickle down, giving life to people, crops, animals & the economy on the way, to the few big (1%) oceans.
@Halcyon @Quittenbrot
What would you suggest? (Apart from cats & dogs, that aren’t wild.)
(I would opt strongly for the essential honeybee.)
@Archangel1313
I don’t agree with you at all. :ablobsmile: The MIC is a virus in the ecosystem. There is nothing to prevent investment in downstream & related industries anyway, without the MIC. Referring to them being productive as an excuse to justify the MIC is ignoring the massive overall LOSS to all military-driven & -affected economies.
That said, we as yet do not have a viable response to the literally (& *growing*) *capitalist* reflex for more war machines & more wars.🤷
@Archangel1313 @plyth
The problem with the arms industry generally is that while it contributes to an apparent “GDP” growth & makes billionaires of its shareholders, in terms of overall ROI for the people of the countries it “serves”, it is zero-sum. There is NO ROI. Because arms’ singular purpose is to destroy, not build.
The arms race (to the bottom) is ultimately the total failure of diplomacy: the wrong people are in charge. Everywhere.
@avidamoeba @Beep
And yet their overall hourly productivity is higher than a lot of countries with longer hours & less vacation.
@No_Eponym @avidamoeba
You think people take less than is available & volunteer to work for free for the rest?
@bitteroldcoot @Beep
Immigrants as a rule already commit fewer serious crimes than indigenes.
@realitaetsverlust @CyberEgg
“My top priority in this situation is to keep the rest of the population safe from you.”
And prison is the worst possible place to do this, as others have said, as they will be worse when they get out. I understand it (and would once have agreed), but in the bigger picture it’s a simplistic, shortsighted, knee-jerk revenge reflex with worse outcomes.
@GrumpyOldFart
Sure but they do at least have that one fine & admirable characteristic in common – that neither of those two leaders were actually elected directly by the people they represent. (Although it is debatable whether EU citizens as a whole are even the entity that VdL actually *represents*.)
@geissi
(I was curious about the sausage rolls. 😉 )
@MastKalandar
Nothing. They are traditionally non-aligned (for ~1000 years) & reckon that that has worked well for them to date. the working relationship suits them & the EU.
A bit like what holds Monaco back from joining France?🤷
@CyberEgg @crandlecan
What they have learned from Orbán is to prevent any one country going rogue or acting as a 5th column to the detriment of the whole. The principle of unanimity is fine as long as everyone is on the same wavelength. This was always going to be a weak link in the EU project, and it won’t be the last.
Their biggest flaw is that they have their heads turned far too easily. Specifically by unidentified “lobbyists” with no commitment whatever to the European ideal. #DigitalID
@atro_city
Why wait till 2040?!! No-one has any idea what the world will look like in 2040!!