davefernig.bsky.social
Biochemist, views entirely unconsidered and my own.
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Likely much worse than even that.
People need to read up on the disaster that was the Cultural Revolution to begin to grasp what is happening.
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The smart thing will be to bring them onside...
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There is a feedback loop - if this continues there will be breakdown, food likely first.
Given the strength of propaganda, the oligarchs will likely instruct some burning of libraries to placate the Gods and the breakdown will continue.
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For which they will be rewarded - I can only think of an instance where there has been justice in the absence of external force, South Africa, and South Africans are way ahead of US citizens in their understanding of each other and the world.
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it is often a minority who loudly object for their own personal reasons. Politicians retreat and nothing changes.
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That minority usually has the support of most of the 4th Estate, who with their owners are pushing an agenda, and hiding behind a facade of free speech, which they intend to kill.
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Quite a bit less, actually.
a) The Bill of Rights 1689 heavily restricted the rights of the King (and pretty much set up the modern framework of the UK as a parliamentary monarchy)
b) Parliament was making a lot of the decisions unpopular in the Colonies, *not* the King (including re taxation)
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Standard issue on the Tour de France for years.
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You do. Face reality.
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He won't. Welcome to dictatorship.
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Given classic modern terrorist tactics of driving a vehicle into a crowd being used by the state, we can take it that in the US the rule of law is now the rule of the executive, ICE being solely an agent of the executive .
I believe George III had less power...
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Used to be called 'exercise induced asthma', sucking in fumes on cycling commute eventually gets you. Been on inhalers for a dozen years, gave up cycling and walk (takes quite a bit longer...); you can smell the difference between kerbside and roadside.,..
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Standard terrorist attack, but will not be reported as such.
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2/ This ie exemplified by polls in economic downturns where the majority agree that (A) unemployment is a BIG problem. Further down, after a few other Qs, they also agree that the (B) unemployed are lazy and could easily get a job.
A and B cannot both be true....
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1/ Indeed, yesterday when governments in rich countries propose to do something such as low emission zones, 15 min city restructuring, those same people complain so vociferously that nothing happens. As I noted an issue with human 'intelligence'.
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3/ I remain pessimistically optimistic, but do consider that a major meltdown of our systems is likely. This will hit countries/societies with poor infrastructure and high Gini indices harder, as they are least cohesive.
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2/ In part this reflects the power of propaganda (look how long it took to make seat belts mandatory, ban smoking in planes and then public places) and in part a key aspect of human 'intelligence', which is by all means fix this, but I cannot possibly be part of the problem.
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1/I am sure many in Ottawa have got the message long ago. This is true in many countries.
However, asking the citizens to do anything will lead to electoral death.
1. Give up car?
2. Invest and use public transport?
etc.
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It is very deeply ingrained, perhaps with roots put down before abolition, with one pillar being engineered fear of the 'other', which is now all outside the bubble of home, car commute, work. Downtown of many cities after rush hour are empty, not a soul on the streets & people fear walking.
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You will need a lot more than lawsuits to get out of this.
Until this is understood, the grip of totalitarianism will get strong and stronger and the cost of reversal in human life will increase proportionally.
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Covered here... bsky.app/profile/mrhe...
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Indeed. You may be interested in this reserach www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-ki...
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Anyone who actually uses these tools sees one more reason why @nature.com is a tabloid, low on evidence, high on clickbait.
Has been for years.
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Die in Kyiv von Russen - bei der Beseitigung der Folgen ihrer Angriffe - getöteten drei Feuerwehrleute heissen
🕯Pavlo Ezgor…
🕯Danylo Skadin…
🕯Andriy Remenny…
Ewige Erinnerung und herzliches Beileid an die Angehörigen der Kameraden 😔
Ein Ex-Feuerwehrmann
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Tax on size.