SmoothOperator @ SmoothOperator @lemmy.world

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Completely fair - do you have a counterargument? I'd be interested in hearing the other side.

People don't have a "natural frequency" is the real answer.

It would be naïve to fully rely on the old way of diplomacy, but it would mean certain defeat to do business on the terms of authoritarians. Trump wants unilateral, flashy diplomacy, because that's where he wins. Small countries like Denmark need to work to bolster multilateral large-alliance rules based diplomacy, because that's where they win.

By not rising to the bait, but instead presenting a calm, unified European response that there is no way Trump can buy Greenland, but that they're happy to help him achieve whatever policy he's using to justify this invasion talk, they at least have a chance of staving him off long enough that the whole thing fizzles out.

This approach also makes it a lot harder for Trump to actually make good on his threats. He'll have to start a conflict with the whole EU, and he'll end up looking like a guy who pisses on a cooperative ally rather than the strong man who beats down uppity foreigners.

And yes, that's probably also fine by him, but it at least doesn't play into his hand.

No-one is ignoring him. The Danish diplomacy corps is on high alert, and tons of effort is going into both securing support from Europe and trying to talk the US down.

They just don't do diplomacy through Twitter. Public mud-throwing is Trump's game, no need to fight him on his terms.

As a socialist citizen of a Nordic state, the Nordic model is a wonderful example of socialism in practice. The US, even with full DEI implementation, would be nowhere near as socialist as the Nordic countries.

Will being hated make what someone says more true?

I won an Xbox 360 a long time ago from a Coca Cola competition. You had to use codes from the bottle caps and then quickly answer some quiz questions correctly. But you had unlimited tries. So I just kept clicking random answers quickly until I got all questions right at a ridiculously low time.

Good times. Borrowed Guitar Hero, LA Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum and Red Dead Redemption at the library, had a blast.

Threatening to invade a close NATO ally is some actual harmful shit.

It's wild that threatening a close military ally with invasion is less divisive.

Plenty of physics sub-fields are still led by experiments, such as condensed matter physics. I don't know if your statement applies to anything other than particle physics?

Or: We're using math to summarise what the experiments have said so far. And then using that to extrapolate what might happen in the next experiment.

I would argue that physics is based more on experiments than math.

Tunic has an incredible mystery element, with many layers and a very satisfying conclusion. The combat is juicy enough but still pretty forgiving, and the meta-narrative of playing that's "already been played" is very interesting and nostalgic. Highly recommended!

Was the same with the first Hitman

I have no idea about the numbering, but I know of at least

• Ferromagnetism (like a fridge magnet)
• Antiferromagnetism (opposite of ferromagnetism at an atomic level)
• Diamagnetism (makes superconductors float)
• Paramagnetism (like that spinny frog)

These all indicate how a material reacts to a magnetic field. This article discusses "altermagnetism", which is somewhere between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.

Good point, though I find the part of the commentary relevant:

Although we were initially skeptical that mirror bacteria could pose major risks, we have become deeply concerned. We were uncertain about the feasibility of synthesizing mirror bacteria but have concluded that technological progress will likely make this possible. We were uncertain about the consequences of mirror bacterial infection in humans and animals, but a close examination of existing studies led us to conclude that infections could be severe. Unlike previous discussions of mirror life, we also realized that generalist heterotroph mirror bacteria might find a range of nutrients in animal hosts and the environment and thus would not be intrinsically biocontained

Not all brutality is defeated, but if you consider children dying a brutal thing, we have significantly lessened the brutality, and at a scale much greater than the tragedies of the Palestinians and other persecuted peoples.

Some of civilization is built with compassion, understanding and collaboration. Possibly even most. We can celebrate and emulate those victories without belittling the suffering still happening.

As mentioned elsewhere, global child and infant mortality has gone from around 50% to around 5%. That counts as an example of something getting a lot better in my book.

But fair if that's not what you mean. What would better look like for you?

I'm not saying the "evils" won't get worse in the future, just saying that for a long time they've actually been lessened dramatically.

We can acknowledge that things have been getting better for a long time, and work to keep that going for the future, without diminishing or downplaying the serious issues we face today.

And yet it is through compassion and the progress of civilization that we have defeated the brutality of the past.

Even today, most deaths globally are due to diseases that we are working hard to cure, with only around 1% dying due to violence.