the absurd part is that researchers and peer-reviewers often don’t even get paid for their work.
the privately owned journal sacks all the profit.

in my opinion, the universities and public libraries should take it on them to publish their own journal. this makes sense since it is already part of the university’s job to distribute knowledge (by educating students). and a journal is just that: a way to distribute knowledge.

The US is really just a big social experiment trying to prove a point.

I’m not sure what that point is, but it’s definitely out there.

I also read that cars turned less colorful since 1970s.

And a colleague told me that he read that skirts got longer on average since 1970, but idk about that one.

Also i noticed that most pop music these days are break-up songs.

Really shows you the mood of society.

Cutting heads off is like eating potato chips. You can’t just stop once you’ve started.

I’m worried about the very same thing. I have just yesterday read about the actual French Revolution and the Reign Of Terror that followed short after simply because - guess what - the revolutionaries couldn’t stop killing people, for some reason.

It in fact even went to absurd extents, where they ended up killing other revolutionaries and eventually they themselves got guillotined themselves.

I think the lesson to learn here is to take the oligarch’s wealth, but not kill them. In other words: “Tax the Rich”, not “Eat the Rich”.

crossing it makes sense, yes, but you could also do so by plane, which is much faster

you can add two spaces at the end of a line to cause a new-line

like this:<space><space>
here starts a new line

plenty of water, indeed. it what makes the shit soft.

I think parts of the problems of train in the US is that they have a lot of desert in the western part of the country (rocky mountains and such) where public transport just wouldn’t make sense. You don’t have that in Europe.

based.

also, i guess, because it simplifies trade?

That’s the neat part: they don’t!

I’m just glad that renewable energy will make us independent from middle eastern oil eventually. maybe then the bloodshed can end.

Das ist nicht gut.

It’s really not. I just checked. At least not in the online version.

Lots of social-cultural issues make for great distractions from actual economic measures while also ensuring infighting among the population! so they get nothing done.

I very much see your point! I think something similar, indeed.

Humans (in general) get energized by “meaning” and “purposes” in life, and if there are none, people get depression. That is possibly a variable that will become significant enough to actually cause a population decline.

I think if you can enjoy life in the absence of pressures or necessities, the future might be wonderful for you.

you’d have a hard time adapting, i guess, but after that you’d probably like it.

I think there will be consequences for Israel’s crimes, just not today.

Israel is destroying its reputation and its future with its current actions. Yet no power in the world can stop them today, because they have waay too many weapons.

I have the very funny and absurd notion that our feelings stem from the micro-organisms that are living in our intestines. Very many micro-organisms live there indeed! The numbers must be in the billions; anyways, it’s uncountable amounts.

I hold the irrational but beautiful view that it is the livelihood of these microorganisms that gives us our vivid behaviour; and without these we fall into the feeling of empty-ness, which is also often called depression and makes us feel without life or motivation.

Interestingly enough i hold the view that these microorganisms need a lot of space to develop properly, similar to how the insect needs a vast field, not only a tiny hole-in-the-ground to breed and produce the next generation. It is therefore important that microorganisms are exchanged between humans frequently, because without such they eventually fall stale. However, these microorganisms are exchanged through sexual acts (body contact), and considering how rare physical contact has become among people, especially young people, these days, it shows how depression is so wide-spread among young people today.

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