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  • The programmers of that simulation could be cheating a bit. For example, they could approximate the movement of particles by using wave fields, and only if the particles are observed, would it actually simulate individual particles.

    It would cause some weird effects that shouldn’t be there. For example a light spot in the middle of circular shadows. But most players don’t want 100% perfection. They want to be able to run the game on their device.











  • The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

    Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

    But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

    Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

    If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

    In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

    • Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
    • Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
    • Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

    And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.


  • They aren’t going to manufacture there. Chip manufacturing happens almost exclusively in Taiwan. That new building is just an office to design those chips.

    A lot of maths goes into designing computer chips. You need an army of highly trained mathematicians and engineers for that.

    And Israel is a really rich country that gets a lot of gifts and “investments” from people who want to show they aren’t antisemitic. They invest a lot of that money into the education of their citizens.

    Israel’s universities are some of the best in the world. While US universities are on a steep downhill.







  • No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

    However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

    • Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
    • Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
    • Universal free preschool
    • Free school lunch
    • Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

    Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

    • Tighter control on monopolies
    • Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
    • Minimum vacation days
    • Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
    • Maximum weekly work hours
    • Banning false self-employment
    • Union protections
    • Parental leave
    • Free college admission

    The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

    What’s your opinion on those questions?