I’m American in Europe. I don’t share the below opinions of Europe, just informing what I’ve seen

A lot of the American exceptionism is because we are only taught WW1/2 and Soviet occupation after. We are taught that Americans basically won WW2, which I’ve heard is inaccurate, but haven’t cared to research. We are taught that the founding fathers wanted isolation from European wars. We are effectively taught that Europe is/has been endlessly in war and conflict.

Americans think Europeans are effectively Soviet occupied or extremely corrupt on the east. Western Europe is viewed as a vacation spot, and nothing more. If you put yourself in this mindset, you can see why Americans (on both sides) view NATO as a financial drain.

The reality is that most Americans (both sides) really just don’t think or care about Europe at all, except for holiday. Europe is basically nice food and an archeology site to most Americans

If so, that would effect the statistics and shift the effect higher. For my understanding, could you estimate the effect of the grants and the extent of the drain?

Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114.

So 114 applications for one? It would be important to see the raw numbers because even 10x of 114 is miniscule.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d24/tables/dt24_315.20.asp

840k full-time professors at US universities. And Europe would probably get the lower tiers because why would a tenured US professor give up their tenure to move to Europe.

So article cites 114 for one grant. Let’s assume 100x that, so 11,400 professors coming over. That’s a little over 1% of professors

Yeah, that’s why I suggested it. The guy I housed softened, left the military and now just works in a hospital. Had we not befriended him, he’d probably be ICE now.

Also I wouldn’t call it humoring. Just actually being his friend. He’s human too and it’s not his fault he was raised in a shitty environment. He was never show any alternative way to live

This is generally why I don’t like this social isolation of conservatives. It leads then to extremes. You don’t need to date them, but you can be friends with them.

A lot of them were raised in cults (I was). After I got out, I housed this guy who was hard right, but talked with him, cleaned his guns with him and now he’s doing better. He was just traumatized from a hard childhood.

And honestly, shooting guns, riding 4 wheelers and other conservative things are fun.

A couple related ones

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/issues/3

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/issues/237

Just a syncing. Feels weird that despite fediverse being “connected”, videos from my Mastodon don’t show in loops and vice versa

I actually found it here. I’m still going through it

https://docs.joinloops.org/

I asked chatgpt to put my CPU into heat consuming mode and it then suggested I mine BTC to equal out the thermodynamics. I’m still trying to figure out where the BTC is, but it’s nice to go green

Also, the trolley going in a loop the speed of light would be immediately deformed and destroyed. If inner points of the trolley go c, then outer points would be going faster, so the tram would forcefully deform. Same with the people inside

Even still, a number of companies will still remain public. Mineral, metal, plastics, aviation, space, tech, etc.

If the arms companies were nationalized, their suppliers and subcontractors wouldn’t be.

Nationalization of the final layer of the arms wouldn’t be enough to stop corruption in the industry.

I agree. I think hobbies are a good middle ground and neutral.

It would be nice if men wrote more books like that. The only men who would listen to a women tell them how to change are probably not the target audience.

On the flip side, I think men could use more men’s groups because male loneliness is problematic. Women don’t want to feel responsible for men’s loneliness (rightly so), so the natural solution is men need to do better at making friends with men. The problem is doing it in a healthy way

That said, I would suggest the solution is hobby groups without gender exclusion. Like carpentry, basketball, knitting, dance, ballet. Hobbies seem to self select.

Most of my hobbies are female dominated in my conservative area.

Would it be identical to mastodon API? I’m mainly wondering how to get an access token

Also, I can open my Mastodon profile from loops the normal way, but my videos in mastodon posts don’t show in loops

XR is extinction rebellion?

This from Wikipedia kind of gets at my point.

Extinction Rebellion has been criticised as alienating potential supporters.[28][29] Extinction Rebellion’s 2019 protests cost the Metropolitan Police an extra £7.5 million. Activists identifying with the movement have also defended causing property damage, such as smashing windows.[30][31] Extinction Rebellion has said such tactics are sometimes necessary and that they are careful not to put anyone at risk.[32] In a YouGov poll of 3,482 British adults conducted on 15 October 2019, 54% “strongly opposed” or “somewhat opposed” Extinction Rebellion’s actions of disrupting roads and public transport to “shut down London” in order to bring attention to their cause, while 36% “strongly supported” or “somewhat supported” these actions.

Could creative state laws leverage this to redirect funding to the state without harming people’s taxes?

Does that matter when you radicalize conservatives by arresting people and publicly shaming them? And there are other “serious journals” discussing the same

https://apnews.com/article/britain-students-free-speech-guidelines-9df46d8ed3d621f9e83c93f4346e1cb8

When conservatives get in power, they will do the same to you. I’m not anti woke. It’s just important to realize that things need to calm down. There are other ways to get what you want. “Violence [arresting] is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/german-town-pulls-one-over-on-neo-nazis

Man that’s so nice. I would love to have that

Oddly I saw this and thought it was a pro union ad because that’s pretty cheap

This is a good point. I think we just need to make it clear that if the government wants enforce these age rules, they are responsible for the API.

I don’t want to give my data to a data broker, but the government could definitely provide such an API.