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I'd never heard of this. For those who are time-pressed it's "Cultural materialism as a literary critical practice—this article will not address its anthropological namesake—is a Marxis…

Link?

For those wondering as I did: HOA is 'home owners association'.

If actions speak louder than words then the UK government is not massively anti-immigration. I would say that devolution of power in Britain has ensured that governments are not actually that powerful…

All models surely write 'its performance'.

>It's already cheaper than anything else and getting even more cheaper. Cheap but a lot of folk don't follow through. China accounted for some 50% of the coal capacity under construction …

Try that with the billions of folk in what we still call the developing world. 'Rewarding them' sounds a bit patronizing.

You are downvoted but it will be interesting to see which calamity (or maybe not) befalls humanity first. I say humanity because the survival of America as a successful trading nation is of immense im…

True but if it was also adapted to try to meet the promise of the current title then that would be really nice.

Estimates of lynx in the Romanian Carpathians seems to be also around 1500-2000. Seems there are probably around 7,000+ in Europe altogether. As far as I can gather they don't seem to be threat…

Nothing particularly glorious about sapience trapped in a permanent bag of flesh especially one with a rather fixed view about the world about it. Never mind dictators; how about: 'The Presiden…

In thinking about this perennial problem it's worth bearing in mind that human beings pick up and process an immense amount of data on a continuous basis, that is currently unavailable to any LLM…

You mean you can't summarize it in a sentence of two?

> there should be global evidence of this happening already There is. https://www.nasa.gov/technology/carbon-dioxide-fertilization... for instance. "From a quarter to hal…

Much appreciated

I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine) “Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and t…

Yes but how about answering the question because lives depend on it. What should Israel do? Live with Hamas and the 80% of Palestinians who support them? Give up and move ten million people (including…

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/ha... Really, objectively, I am wondering what on Earth any country X would do faced with a statement fro…

Less and less thank goodness. And there's always SciHub and others.

I don't know the cost of the measures that have been put in place to date to reduce CO2 emissions globally but undoubtedly it's a massive sum. On looking at this graph, it seems that whateve…

No, we don't yet know what's happening in that area: as the DARPA 2022 report puts it in a press release entitled 'Solid State verification of nuclear particles in electrochemical cells…

Doesn't a crusade, which I think it was, imply a set of strong beliefs not a dispassionate analysis of what might be the case? David Berlinski's 'The Devil's Delusion - The atheism…

You make a very reasonable point but I'm sure you would have been rather more accommodating if you'd known (via an acknowledgement) that the original author wrote exactly these words in 1910…

Just a reminder that this text was written in 1910 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvanus_P._Thompson …

And I thought this was a piece of irony such that it didn't even need quotes. Silly me.