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Comment Re:1955 - 3.5 billion (Score 1) 119

I think you left out a major one, we need to accept death as a part of life. People are getting older and older rapidly, and if diseases like cancer become chronical instead of life-ending, we will be in for a ride. Not even China will dare touching that subject

Comment Re:Also, energy doesn't have to be conserved. (Score 3, Informative) 80

" when antimatter and matter collide, pure energy is released during the annihilation, and that upsets conservation of energy."

This is absolutely not true, energy is conserved in these collisions. There are no challenges for the conservation law in the Standard Model. Look at dark energy, that is a concept where energy gets 'created' (negative pressure)

Antique Geekmeister said it right

Comment Re:My experience (Score 1) 288

The things you describe sound very familiar, though I do not get these with LSD but by simple exercise of thought, some good parties, music, being in nature. The brain enters a stage of flow, yada yada. For everyone the way to reach this state of mind is different, harder for some then for others. Meditation, drugs, having a great partner, a good conversation or even just a good night of sleep, many roads are leading to Rome. Personally I cherish my ability to fairly easily achieve such a state enough to want to risk my delicate chemical balance with drugs, although easily available here.

The hard problem of consciousness seems like an even more intractable issue than the fundamental problems of physics. How something like consciousness can emerge from matter.

Consciousness seems to be an emergent feature of matter, similar to temperature and actually time itself. It explains why you are more prone to simple diseases when feeling unhappy, your consciousness just being a representation of the state of your brain. A few simple rules in a larger environment seem to commonly lead to emergent features. Quantitzation of energy packets leads to the Sun being able to exist for 9 billion years, it leads to rainbows and the rates of radioactivity as they are. Consciousness seems to be just one more of these emergent features that in itself are nothign special. Quite frankly if you dive far enough into elementary physics with an open mind I don't think you would make the same statement ever again. The Universe is fascinating and its fundamentals also really, really weird.

Comment Re:Expats? (Score 1) 289

While the problems you mention do exist, Wilders barely presents any form of solutions. Abolishing passports sounds nice but doesn't do a whole lot, a strong cultural identity is not changed by taking away some paperwork.

You need to realize that most Turks in the Netherlands live their happy life without causing any form of trouble and without being nationalistic supporters of Erdogan. Erdogans main voting base is mostly rural Turkey, not varying degrees of westernized Turks in Europe. This whole (completely planned) thing got started by Erdogan because he is

Most Dutch Turks do not serve in the Turkish military at all as it can be bought off for roughly 7500 EUR.
There are no third degrees Dutch Turks that do not speak Dutch. They may speak Turkish most of the time, but they can speak Dutch generally very well.

Integration can work, hell it does even work pretty decently. We've had many more cultures integrate, usually with some frictions. It only works though with enough time and lack of hate. This is where Wilders is simply dangerous, he fuels hate, he rarely debates, doesn't compromize. He wants to assimilate anyone that doesn't fit his exact narrative. The ironic thing is that Wilders is almost as far from a traditional tolerant, well thought, compromizing Dutch as these rioting group of Turks.

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