If a non-aligned country of 5.5 million has deterred a major power for 80 years, the claim that a bloc of ~450 million cannot do the same seems odd. Coordination may need work, but the capability is clearly there.
Walking is really good for you compared to other forms of exercise. And you don't have to do all that much to get most of the benefit. (via @EricTopol)
It seems a lot of people easily fall in to propaganda and start repeating "memes" that are either entirely or partly false. I think education would help.
INCIDENT: We are currently monitoring an unidentified flying sleigh entering NATO airspace. The track originates from the North Pole and is flying an erratic path🎅 No NATO jets have been scrambled.
One big difference between talking to AIs and talking to people on Twitter is that AIs usually admit when they're mistaken and correct the error, whereas people on Twitter will do anything to avoid this.
Words matter. Saying a state is doing "terror" when it's about something else devalues the word and takes away the focus from states doing actual terror. It's similar to using curse words, the message is not enough by itself so you want to amplify it.
Recently I have done some performance work for a customer. It's satisfying to take a large codebase and be able to eliminate thousands of database calls for certain code flows.
Do first graders walk/bike to school by themselves? That's much better measurement of how good quality of life is in a country, than for example how much a software developer earns. Think about it.
What annoys me about a lot of the recent rhetoric is that it's constant hyperbole and rage-bait. There often some parts that maybe are true and a generous amounts of exaggeration and overly inflammative rhetoric added to it. It was not so bad maybe 5 years ago here.