Inertial systems are all equal in a certain relevant here sense, if there is no need for account for your movement relative to Sun, Galaxy, CMB, or anything else. Yes, in this sense, Sun also rotates around Earth.

Only a very limited turn though.

Interesting, maybe it shows that welbeing is not sufficient for a good life. People strive for struggle and progress. Even in hardship, in war, they may feel uninited, fulfilled, and motivated. It just would be better if this drive was not expressed in physical violence.

This is a remarkably specific and disturbing fact. Thank you for sharing.

It does make you wonder what caused spinal injury in these mice. I do not suppose there is a sufficient natural supply of these kinds of injured mice.

But, if not animal testing, how do you propose to develop the treatment?

They certainly do. They undermine HTTP too. And would have done much more harm if the Web was not founded with a different governance model.

EU actions like that in the title post stress this original, less centralized, model. It was naive to assume that free internet will remain free if left alone.

Paradoxically, preserving freedom relies on constraints and regulations.

It was just the peak of the US, in some aspects anyway. With all my appreciation to all the good things that the US still does.

You still, presumably, use HTTP for your internet needs, even though facebook totally works over it.

What’s the problem with a protocol for chat?

there is not almost any attempt to organize public participation. Except maybe admin posts with discussions in comments. Also users can vote with their feet.

I agree that the admin instinct is mostly honest and democratic and they should be regarded for their work. But the instance governance is mostly autocratic. And this kind of structure usually devolves in despotism, since power corrupts.

Would be nice to see an institution-based instance, with a constitution, elections, balance of power. Would be a great social experiment!

This is really interesting, also in comparison to governance of “traditional” social networks.

I would not be surprised if someone did scientific research about it.

An interesting difference is no need to fight for land and resources, anyone can go and create another microstate.

Still, there is some benefit of larger states, they can resist spam better. But as much as they implement spam filters in the code, smaller instances can them. Political benefits of open source are real.

Analogs of Colloseum in MMA and video games exist, but they are not “real” enough for some people. In fact, the Colloseum is not big enough for some people, they want a bigger fight and glory. Like a war.

So while the article raises interesting points it’s really proposing only half measures.

Of course, big conventional war is destructive, self-defeating, and cruel so it’s no good.

So what I propose is to direct the drive for adventure into facing the “real” of learning and creating the way technology and science does it. I wish I learned how to communicate the heroic nature of this quest .

It’s just going to be other bots fighting the little flying ones. Little air defence, or other flying bots. This technology is another next step in warfare for sure, but it is not unstoppable like the video shows.

Drones and AI is the new shape of the arms race.

Big states will be ahead like with other tech. US Senate will be safe.

Another way is to restrict and regulate the technology. Luckily the chip manufacturing is not something which a small group can do in their backyard. Right now the chips can make their way anywhere despite sanctions but sanction implementation is being improved.

I guess they broke their engine! /s

smaller pieces which fell off are hard to track while their effect on the trajectory might still be substantial. Small change to the orbit early on makes a big difference after a while.

He was, yes. He speaks perfectly now.

It is just a very unequal brotherly relation. And big brother just cannot accept he is not welcome.

Yeah, most of my formerly russian-speaking friends are like that. Tl

They are saying that they only destroy westernised deviations, liberating true pure Great Russia. Some Russians really believe that. Turns out this “deviation” is the entire Ukrainian nation, tens of millions of humans.

Plenty of ukrainians speak russian at least sometimes. Even now. Freely. It is possible to speak russian in Ukraine more freely than to speak russian in totalitarian Russia.

Some ukrainians liked russia, most of them stopped. Some might still do, but out of hundreds I know, from east and west, north and south, not a single one does.