You don’t have to cut a tree down to count the rings. A small, cylindrical core sample can be taken, similar to what we do for ice.

Or just taking a small core sample to do the same thing.

Slight correction based on my experience and because even without a PhD, people regularly put in the time to become subject matter experts:

Someone with a PhD isn’t inherently more intelligent than other humans. They are able to put up with the institution abuse and bullshit required to be given a title that designates them as a subject matter expert in a field.

No shade to PhDs, I feel your pain.

Are you saying we should be tolerant of judgements placed upon large groups of people divided along arbitrary lines? Does the accuracy and universality of those judgements about each group hold up to the test of scrutiny and are they even based upon concrete evidence? If those judgements are accurate and universally true across those groups, should we be passing judgement upon each group for their differences? Is this a universal application of empathy?

Should we be tolerant of intolerance? I think not.

This is fake. I read he used a giant spoon. Stop spreading pRoPaGaNdA.

Democracy doesn’t work for you.

Please go engage with a leftist organization in real life. You’ll quickly see how wrong this is. Arguing on the Internet is rarely productive and it’s obvious you haven’t engaged with leftist literature. If you want to make these sweeping accusations, do yourself a favor and go see the reality of the situation.

Most of the people you are arguing against have been involved in both liberal and socialist organizations. They aren’t pulling their information from nowhere.

You might be getting closer with that, but this still doesn’t account for the deaths caused by the fallout of decisions under feudal or capitalist systems before switching to communism that took years to repair or deaths caused by imperialist meddling (sanctions, wars, coups).

I don’t even want promotions. Make it opt in rather than opt out. I buy things with the expectation that they will just quietly do their job.

Who needs a computer in their fridge anyway? Is the utility worth the materials and add complexity besides to advertisers?

Lets just add laws where if advertisers want something, we always do the opposite.

*If it is older than 2023

It means it’s time to take that copier to pasture.

Can confirm, but if it wasn’t him, they’d go out of their way to find someone just as bad.

They do, but they are vestigial organs that aren’t used any longer. Contemporary tigers use LIDAR to detect movement.

Many post their articles on Researchgate. I find requesting the article there has a higher success rate and it’s just a click of a button.

Except that they used the chemicals that do find their way into everyone’s blood to make nylon. So it tangentially fits the meme.

In my experience, the liberals will now say your source is incorrect/misleading/seeseepee propaganda for some unfalsifiable reason (their opinion) or they will immediately jump to racism and call the Chinese robots who cannot think for themselves.

The first is typical online, the second offline, where there is no paper trail.

Unless whatever group is in power has expressed that they wish to destroy those artifacts, I would prefer to work with whatever government there is to not only transfer the artifacts back, but help them setup whatever infrastructure is required to maintain them, including training of staff in their care.

Your bias is exactly the same on that led to those artifacts being stolen. It can be summed up as “these are savages, how can we trust them with their own things?” The West stole these artifacts and in many cases destroyed other artifacts or defaced historical sites to take them in the first place. It’s chauvinistic to continue this cycle. Give them back, try to make things right, and if things get destroyed, that’s just how it goes. It wasn’t the West’s to take in the first place. More progress is made by working with people than pearl-clutching. This is accepting the world as it is and trying to make it better all at once.

Much like the theft of historical artifacts by the UK et al, ISIS was the result of decades of imperialist meddling by the US. Maybe just leave things be and let the locals work out what they want to do with their land, their people, and the artifacts on it. Offering assistance without strings attached is good, interventions are bad.

It’s like offering to help your neighbor with their yard: it’s acceptable to offer to lend them your mower, but it’s not acceptable to dig up everything on their property, replace it with grass sod, and spray it regularly with herbicides because you didn’t like the look of their local fauna and are afraid the dandelions and clover would spread to your lawn after your first intervention.

In my experience, there’s always a way around parental controls on these devices and if there isn’t, there’s always a way that your child will subvert them in other ways.

Half the time it’s a well-intentioned and ignorant adult providing them the means.

arXiv, not QrXiv.

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