Tar_Alcaran

The alternative is living in Russia and fighting for Gazprom

This has strong “look what you made me do” abuser energy.

Russia is attacking because they’re in an imperialist war against ukraine, not because of Zelensky

The US hasn’t sent a single cent worth of aid to Ukraine since January 2025. Trump can’t drop Ukraine any further.

Europe stepped up for a bit, but then let the aid sent drop to a much lower level again. We’re still helping, but not nearly enough.

The examples you’re naming are all carefully controlled, very narrow-aspect groups that are generally protected from their surroundings.

I can sketch you a big problem with turning, say, a university anarchist. Yes, in theory, you can get a greater range of ideas, but in practice the stressors will tear it apart due to human nature. There is always a limited amount of funding, so how do people work out who gets what? Unlike with food or shelter, it’s ALWAYS useful to have more funding. Why should I get more than you? Well, obviously because my history department is much more important to literally everything than your maths department.

So now what happens? Do we only cooperate with those who wish to cooperate? Sure, lets split up. Of course, from the remaining funding, my area of medieval history is much more relevant than that guys’ area of ancient history, and if we can’t cooperate we shouldn’t…

You can, of course, run a department, or a specific niche in an anarchist way. A specific research group, or a knowledge-sharing system would benefit, but that’s because those specific groups don’t really experience any pressures.

So she devises a world where the anarchists invent a new language to correct and remove “egoist” ideas.

And here’s the problem with anarchism: It requires fundamentally changing the human species.

think of how wikipedia editors work

Wikipedia is not an anarchy though. There is specifically a hierarchy in types of accounts.

At the core, anarchists seek to minimize the degree to which another group can oppress them by concentrating decision making among the small groups of people who will actually be effected by those decisions.

Right, but small groups of people are severely limited in the level of civilization they can maintain. You can’t develop antibiotics without massively investing value into specific people and groups, who will then (shock) be more valuable. That will create a natural stratification unless those people are all saints.

Anarchism falls apart when faced with outside stressors like scarcity or competition. It only works if quite literally every single person buys into it fully.

Yeah, turns out most of our CO2 emissions comes from fossil fuels which power most of our heating, manufacturing and transport, as well as form the foundational material for most products.

Who could have guessed that the things we do the most are the things that consume the most energy.

I love that list of examples, because they’re either not anarchist, or are very limited communes that function because of (and under the laws of) the larger democratic governments around them. Or they don’t exist anymore

Yeah, the holes are pretty damned obvious. Anarchism really only exists in the complete absence of stressors.

Anarchism generally holds that nobody is superior to another. Society then functions because everyone recognises good ideas and will just cooperate to do them, and because everyone will be thusly motivated, nobody will want anything they can’t receive.

Adrenaline is released from the adrenal glands near the kidneys. From there, it first has to flow back to the heart, through the lungs, then back to the heart, and only then to the brain and the rest of the body. One full loop of your circulation takes about a minute at rest, and half a minute when your heart is really pumping, so lets take at least 20 seconds.

unless you define electrons as objects.

Well, only sometimes.

How many bullwhips are cracking your general area on an average day?

I learned a thing today!

Maybe “splotchy blue”

Grey, white, green, red, stripey, ringy, lightblue and darkblue

EDIT: I was misinformed about uranus and neptune. Instead I suggest re-renaming them to “Blue” and “splotchy Blue”

Dutch PhDs are paid positions at universities, as an external foreign masters student without pre-existing funding, your chances of doing the PhD of your own choosing is basically nonexistent. But there are usually a lot of PhD positions available at each university.

That said, mine was quite long ago, and I don’t know of any platform that covers them all, but you can have a look at the universities listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_the_Netherlands and check out their PhD positions, usually under “research” or “work for [name]”

The Russian Kilo-class submarine, which was hit by a Ukrainian underwater drone in December 2025, has not moved for over a month, despite Russian claims that it was not damaged

To their credit, that might be true. It might be a complete trash heap like most of the Russian Navy, and thus incapable of moving long before the strike.

Even edge has that nowadays.

I’m hoping it’s not RAW sewage

A truly Impressive warmachine that knows no equal, could best anything else in the world and has but a single tiny weakness.

Unfortunately that weakness is that it doesn’t exist. An issue found in several other amazing pieces Russian military equipment.