Interesting. So adding regenerative breaking to the trains would actually reduce the heat.
AlteredEgo
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Really? Oh so is the USA and Israel a terrorist country too and any organization they support terrorists as well?
Out of curiosity, if you woke up tomorrow in the body of the opposite sex, how do you think you would feel or act on this in the long term? Like through magic, or alien science. Like in those 80s body swap movies, just permanent. Can you imagine that?
Personally I think I would just adapt. I'm a straight male and perfectly comfortable and like being a male, but I think I'd just live as a lesbian women then. It would be challenging and weird and people would see me differently, but it would also be intellectually interesting.
I recently realized that this makes me more gender-fluid than most trans people. Basically they might be more bonded to a concept of a specific gender than even the majority of people. And that is why it's hard to imagine what they are going through, and hard to emphasize. If I imagine I'd have grown up as a girl I'd be perfectly comfortable as that too.
I like science fiction and consider myself a transhumanist, someone who believes that we should gain advanced bodies with full control over them, and e.g. change sex or appearance without needing surgery. Like if you could spend a year as a opposite sex without having to suffer and bleed for it, why wouldn't you do it, even just to gain insight.
I don't think you can make any argument saying that a human is sick just for strongly preferring or needing to be one gender. I don't understand this need either, and think what lengths some people to is weird and some results questionable, but I can't say they are wrong. There is an infinite number of ways a human mind can be. Why do you think it's a mental illness?
Also, if you imagine a future where you could turn "flawlessly" into the opposite sex, and change back too, do you still think it would be a mental illness?
I think it’s a bit far to call them terrorists,
Did you mean "a bit unfair"? Because I don't see how anybody would be terrorized by this. It's clearly illegal but using terrorism here is very problematic, especially since what the military does to people in the middle easy is actual terrorism but not called that.
Afaik the "anti-Semitism in Labour" was basically a made up smear by the Labour Party themselves to prevent Jeremy Corbyn getting elected. Not sure about other instances though.
Sure, but that's not really the point. And I do think it's an important point to understand how trumpism and neofascism works.
"Change views on climate change" sounds almost quaint now.
Propaganda Model's fourth filter is 'flak'.
Hmm, does this make Denmark a legitimate target for Russia as a participant in the war?
I guess it doesn't really matter from Russias perspective, the west is already supplying tons of weapons against them. De-facto they are already at war with Europe and the US. Ukraine would have long fallen otherwise.
Haven't heard about the show but I honestly can't stand shows about "The White House" anymore. Just ignoring the current fascist politics is unforgivable, so is showing the previous US regime as "the good old days", but even any attempt to address it but still make it entertaining is distasteful too. It's just propaganda one way or another.
Tear gas. I guess technically it's a chemical weapon. But it's also used against protesters all around the world, so this makes this sound rather lame.