Tag: politics
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Biking in (snowy) winter
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Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Fitting for Global Warming (and likely plenty of other weird stuff humans got accustomed to), but apparently the story is about death.
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![The Big [CENSORED] Theory](https://static.yeri.be/2022/08/TBBT.jpg)
The Big [CENSORED] Theory
Really, really good analysis by The Pudding. When these shows resurfaced, they were full of these weird jumps, signaling that scenes were removed during censorship because someone somewhere thought it would be inappropriate or illegal to stream such content. […] 77 of the first 100 episodes had at least one edit, amounting to 206 removed…
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Suburbian cities: a ponzi scheme?
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Hong Kong’s Facebook pages disappear following arrests
[…] Those pages are now gone, along with thousands of anonymous posts sharing gossip, seeking advice, and protesting against government policies. In August, police in Hong Kong arrested two administrators of the Facebook page Civil Servant Secrets on suspicion of sedition, without specifying what content they found problematic. Shortly after the arrests, many other popular…
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Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?
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Bakfiets
Wish this was an option in Singapore — sadly, driving a bike here is needlessly dangerous. But likely a viable mode of transportation when we move back to Europe.
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome
“Due to short life-spans and faulty memories, humans have a poor conception of how much of the natural world has been degraded by our actions, because our ‘baseline’ shifts with every generation, and sometimes even in an individual. In essence, what we see as pristine nature would be seen by our ancestors as hopelessly degraded,…
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Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss
– A new Chatham House report highlights that the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. – Biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate, unless we change the way we produce food. Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations. – The new report calls for an urgent reform of food systems, suggesting three interdependent…
