I’d say symbols are a constant negotiation between meanings. The swastika is lost, but other symbols like Nordic runes are only fully lost if we surrender them. We must fight to insist on the meaning of the symbols not yet lost to evil.

“From the river to the sea; Palestine will be free.” This is the slogan I hear. I hear no violence in these words, only a call for freedom for all Palestinians in what used to be Palestine. I can’t help but think that the misunderstanding of this slogan is willful.

If this slogan is surrendered to evil, how long before the accusations start against the next slogan? Is waving a Palestinian flag the same as condoning terrorism? Is saying the word “genocide” an act of aggression against Israel? Shouldn’t we defend that when we call for freedom, we mean that and just that? And refuse those who would make such a simple call for freedom illegal and associated with evil?

We can be part of controlling the meaning of these things, not only evil can do that.

Why does Hamas get to decide what the slogan means? Psychos in the US are using the punisher logo, does that mean that Marvel is promoting what they do?

Part of freedom is to not relent when you are being told to shut up, to change your message, to obey. If you are fighting for the freedom of oppressed people and the cessation of violence against innocents, and the people hearing you say “stop saying that, say something else”, you don’t obey, you say it harder until they listen to what you’re actually, clearly stating: all people deserve freedom and a life without violence.

Interesting perspective. When you say any town, do you include places like Aarhus and Odense? If yes, what are the symptoms of the country dying there?

What small towns are you talking about specifically? There are definitely struggling places out there, in curious if we’re thinking of the same places.

Also what’s the issue with the prime minister drinking?

What was cool about Denmark 40 years ago?

Didn’t all the mink farms close?

But if the macroscopic world is a consequence of the microscopic behaviour, how would you know how to simulate the macroscopic without simulating the microscopic?

With the microscopic being unsimulated, would there not be macroscopic effects without any causes? Wouldn’t be be able to detect this discrepancy on further investigation?

If you had to retroactively simulate a cause for all effects that get investigated, wouldn’t it be simpler to just simulate the microscopic in the first place?

The game is The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

All together now: there are no paradoxes in quantum mechanics

Oh, the Germanity

The units don’t really matter as long as you’re okay with your number of kids coming out with units of square root time over length(?)

Sometimes you think you say the right thing, but you didn’t, and you’ll have to live with the consequences. This is a major part of the Witcher games, that your actions have possibly unforeseen consequences that you’ll have to live with.

Accept that Triss has made her choice. If you don’t want to be with Yen, then don’t be with anyone, that’s completely fine.

AI

TBF imaginary time is a math trick and not something that actually progresses. It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.

What kind of game is it?

For a while my go-to move after leaving a restaurant with a date was to say something to make us both laugh, and then put an arm around them and squeeze a bit in a friendly way.

If they lean into it, keep the arm there, physical contact makes it much easier to flirt.

If they don’t lean into it, just let go and drop it for now. It’s easy enough to brush off as a friendly gesture.

I also found that it’s generally very sexy to actively make it easy for the other to say no. The easier they feel it is to just shut things down, the easier it is for them to keep exploring where things might go.

Interestingly, the value of the Danish krone is pegged to the value of the euro, meaning the job of the national bank is to ensure a more or less constant exchange rate of 1€ = 7.45DKK.

So when the euro performs well, the krone performs well.

Good arguments often need to be carefully crafted to survive a morass of bad faith rhetoric.

Civil War and Dredd. You decide which one is political and which one is apolitical.

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The Quantum journal is doing a pretty good job.

It’s not a journal though. No editor or peer review process.