That’s why i make a paper boat before peeing into rivers

Would you call yourself a pencil pusher

Why? World doesn’t bend to perceptions, it simply is, but processes, those we observe, and there positive feedback loops would be our friendo not containing contradictions for this silly game.

This side of black hole formation (and even there, for outside observer, the limits are in the possible metric deformation and resulting black hole is a resolution, hiding singularity from us forever (maybe, pending evaporation), big bang and universe evolution, and maybe some quantum effect im missing, we don’t have those, be it due to conservation of energy or whatever. Might just be they exist, then we’ll have to construct them, or they are outside of perceptions, making their existence trivial from science perspective (you can make a lot of predictions of things which cannot ever be observed, wouldn’t be science tho).

Laws and equations don’t describe the underlying thing, they describe a model which sufficiently matches observations and makes predictions, which, core leap in philosophy of science we assume, are better matched to reality. You can always say reality is completely unknowable, but then - why science works, what changes with better model? Some outside creature making fun of us?

As there are no positive feedback loop systems, everything is dialectical (acting agent or process with a negative feedback loop is synthesized into describing system as a whole, both the actor and the limit, providing new holistic view)

But no, dialectics is about processes, not facts, and thus in science a sane way for dialectics is theory developments among community (purely socially idealistic theory of science, if we take hegelian) or searching for limits of something (where “antithesis” starts to play a role), even in thought experiments, to find the counteracting forces or logic. Particle moving in empty space is not, per se, a process, in its own frame it’s stationary and without any reference you can’t even determine if it’s moving. not everything is useful to be thought about as a system or process, sometimes models do just fine job of describing stuff

Like say a light reflection, without thinking too much about how it works you can perfectly well construct a shitty telescope, just knowing that angle of incidence and angle of reflection are equal. But then you can start thinking about process of reflection, would it work with 1 atom thin mirror (no), would it work with very thin stripes of metal (oops, got a rainbow), would it work with non metal (yes, but weird stuff with polarization), would it work with light intensity bigger than heat dissipation (also no), the process of reflection contains within it the limits of what you can do, but most of the time you don’t care about them, and simple law gives you enough info (but doesn’t describe those limits, and thus you construct a new law or model when you run into them, meanwhile underlying process was always the same)

just as well you can construct materialistic social dialectics of science, for example you can't make a looking glass without material advances in glass making and polishing stuff by some nerds in venice. you can invent most beautiful theories of light imaginable in ancient egypt, won't bring you any closer to making lasers. science and applied engineering/materials exist in very tight (dialectical) relationships, you invent new stuff to investigate something, than new stuff is used somewhere else to discover something else, they coexist and push each other and limit each other

Argies going beast mode

Hezbollah managed it without oil, so what’s up with that.

There are myriads of ways they could have played it differently, but unfortunately they decided to just bankroll social state via oil.

I have some small amount of hope until they shatter communes that they are biding their time, but not looking good so far, with letting in evangelicals, putting opposing party members in judiciary or selling all resources

Not to mention if the kidnapping attempt gone wrongly (say, three helicopters shot down) things would look differently. Same for putting manpads on tankers, if you are a dead man walking at least try to hurt your killer

Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez called the resumption of ties with the IMF as "a great diplomatic achievement" and lamented that the IMF, under its Article IV, had not conducted checks on the Vzlan economy (under Chávez and Maduro) since 2004

https://nitter.net/venanalysis/status/2045022785106215207

well, yes, because china are porky-heaven, but there are ways to induce porkies to do what needs to be done. and iran is rather wonderful for porkies, highly educated population, low salaries, mini post-ussr aside from threat of war.

unfortunately, mr. iran doesn't have some marxist cadre which is hell bent on self-sufficiency to buy means of production themselves at any cost available (where china would be helpful), 90 million is enough to make everything aside from advanced electronics

i think china vulnerability is whatever, but they would be naive not to commit to investments in iran (so 80% chance they won't do it)

funnily enough in the digital world porkies produce unlimited goods, yet they don't provide free money to buy them, why is that?

the whole of europe was involved in nazi army, they just now coming out for the next general plan ost support.

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