Interesting historical tidbit: The "eye of the needle" was the colloquial term for the low entrance to the city walls, preventing horse or camel mounted troops from storming the city, but allowing people and their goods to pass through. Camels could pass through, but only if their rider dismounted and they managed to crawl on their knees. After learning that, the saying made more sense to me -- it requires divesting one's self of one's burdens and humbling one's self to "enter heaven". I know some rich people who enjoy themselves, but have so many burdens too. It's like they're driven to succeed, but at the cost of everything else, including their relationships, maybe even their dignity or humanity. I have met a handful of wealthy people who seem thoroughly humble, genuine, honest and kind. But they are few and far between. If you want to know a person's character, don't ask their friends, ask their employees.

"Yacht club membership use associated with higher pay, global study finds". While researchers were not able to establish a cause and effect link, scientists said the statistical correlation met rigorous standards for data analysis. In other news, a lack of money is associated with being unable to afford health care or safe housing, according to a new study from researchers in Australia.

I think I get what you're asking; wouldn't being stationed next to a volcano confound the data, as they are known sources of CO2? Fortunately, wind patterns are very predictable and reliable on the Big Island. So this is straightforward to account for. On the windward side of an island in the middle of the pacific, scientists are able to gain insight into global average levels much better than, say, stationed downwind of a major industrialized city or agricultural region. Considerable CO2 output comes from plowing too, so simply getting out of the city doesn't help as much as one might think. All the air mixing that happens between land and the remote, isolated Hawaiian islands makes it perfect for measuring global average levels of atmospheric carbon emissions. The elevation provided by the volcano further prevents confounding factors like boats, trucks, and even decomposition of sea algae.

Report is from The Guardian; https://amp.theguardian.com/en...

From the Vox article:

All systems, including food systems, are weakened when corrupt politicians siphon money and energy from the system at every turn.

Absolutely. It's atrocious how much of the fertilizers used in soil farming wind up flowing into - and harming - rivers and oceans. The next level would be directly sourcing fertilizer from waste treatment plants...

Treating trans people with dignity is important. Quality representation in media is important for marginalized folks. It's being pulled because it's buggy as hell, though, not because of the LGTBQ backlash. This is not a console quality game.

If Ulbricht wasn't white it wouldn't even be a discussion. Going through with this wouldn't be for the sake of prison or justice reform, it's preferential treatment and political pandering.

I saw some pioneering work a few years ago that attempted to describe gravity - mathematically - not as a force, but as a dimension. Using this model, all particles could be seen as photons wrapped around themselves - essentially, adding enough energy to a photon can warp space-time-gravity in on itself in a kind of donut shape (like 5D standing waves). This model gave predictions for all known particles (this was prior to Higgs Boson) that far surpassed string theory, dark matter / dark energy, etc. in terms of predicted masses and predicted observations for known particles physics. Newtonian math & physics gives wonderful, simple approximations in 3D, but falters when dealing with relativistic speeds and cosmic scales. Einsteinian math & physics likewise is wonderful for 4D at those scales, and helps us to unify electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, but it begins to falter at quantum scales and universal timespans, and is insufficient to unify gravity. Dark matter and dark energy don't 'need' to exist - we call them 'dark' exactly because we haven't ever observed them. They are theorized to exist solely to give insufficient maths a 'fudge factor' to match them to observstions. Dark matter & dark energy *literally* only exist in theory - because the maths haven't caught up with observations yet. I'd argue that we are far more likely to discover better maths and a unified field theory than we are to ever observe them.

I think what we're talking about here is a shift in perspective that *often leads to* changed views on politics and religion. The treatment itself doesn't do those things. My understanding is that psilocybin therapy is often effective in cases of treatment-resistant depression and PTSD; that is to say that all other conventional options have been tried and failed. If the old perspective was causing a person depression and anxiety, I'd rather see my neighbor feeling better than continue to suffer. I'm guessing that it helps to shift people out of the binary good/bad thinking that lead to both authoritarianism and depression/anxiety. I've read that in early tests, subjects often reported direct experiences of divinity with psychedelics therapy, so it's no surprise that those treatments might lead to insights into religion and religious expression!

While it might be difficult to understand another culture, in this case, it doesn't cost us anything to respect it.

This is predatory behaviour. It's not a "love interest", it's a potential rape victim being harassed and stalked. If they can't respect simple boundaries like "don't break into my phone and surveil my every thought, message, and online activity" can they be trusted to respect literally any other boundary at all, ever? This isn't love, and calling it a "love interest" downplays the harm done to this particular individual, as well as victims of online surveillance and harassment everywhere.

The EOL (end of life) of an individual electric scooter does not result in it being tossed wholly into the wastebin. Very few of these are likely complete losses - the aluminum frames are made of durable and reusable parts, I imagine the electronics package is wholly reusable as well, save for a worn-out battery... Which out to be good for hundreds of recharge cycles, not just 30. Electric motors are built durable and tough these days. It's likely a badly wrecked frame, damaged wheels, or depleted brakes that takes a scooter out of commission after an avergae of 30 days (likely this is thought of as routine maintenance, not even full "repair") and after a mild rebuild it's returned to service with a new unique ID. Genuinely totalled scooters would still be stripped for parts to be used in future repairs. Or am I missing something?