It really feels like they're gambling the interests of future generations on the selfishness of a few incredibly stubborn old people. — Mr Bee
looks foldable with one punch — besides being ugly — Lionino
I seem to be the only one (here) mentioning/remembering the hostages — tim wood
10/7 was attempted genocide. — BitconnectCarlos
There is no genocide — Moses
but there are modern day brown shirts — Moses
The thugs that have murdered 15 thousand children or university protesters who’ve murdered 0 people? Which thugs are you referring to? — Mikie
So people who go around punching or burning babies aren't necessarily bad people, Israel is much worse after all. — BitconnectCarlos
Maybe it was the thugs flying Hezbollah flags — BitconnectCarlos
Things don't pop up for no reason — Barkon
protesters are calling for violence and repeats of 10/7 — BitconnectCarlos
By prolonging deliberation they are dragging their feet and in effect obstructing justice. — Fooloso4
Your taxes fund an obscure government program that kills millions of wild animals to benefit Big Ag.
Uruguay, a nation of 3.4 million people wedged between Argentina and Brazil, generates nearly all its electricity from renewable sources. In 2008, the government set a goal of transforming the electric grid, which had come to depend on imported oil.
The country had a lot of hydropower, but years of drought in the 1990s and 2000s slashed the dams’ output. Uruguay was forced to import oil instead, at volatile prices, and faced shortages and blackouts. Officials noted the increasing cost competitiveness of renewables, especially wind, and set out to build a local wind industry nearly from scratch.
Between 2013 and 2018, wind generation grew sharply from almost nothing to about a quarter of Uruguay’s electricity mix. By the end of 2022, the most recent year data is available, Uruguay generated more than 90 percent of its power from renewables, with wind and solar growing even as hydropower declined.
Dan Dennett. Sad to see him go.
Fellow resident of my hometown, I remember he signed every book of his that the library had, with a little note saying “To the readers of Andover…”. I always liked that.
Went to a lecture of his when I was a freshman, met him briefly in the hallway. Seemed like a kindly old man.
I liked his take on religion — felt it was a better attitude than the others of the late 2000s, like Dawkins and Hitchens.
This interview (below) with Bill Moyers always stood out to me as fairly reasonable. The rest of his thinking I never found terribly interesting.
In any case— may he rest in peace. A real loss to the philosophy community— if there is one.
Israel is just another country on a long list of countries which have resorted to crimes against humanity in order to try and subdue an occupied population, and used their resistance as an excuse to do it. — Tzeentch
make sure to compare the deaths of maybe 8 or 9000 civilians to the 11 million killed in the holocaust — BitconnectCarlos
Are you concerned about the rise of Islamophobia? — BitconnectCarlos
We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.
