Competition of Chinese vs. European industries is not faire, because there are worker rights in Europe. Chinese companies are allowed to underpay and therefore produce much cheaper products. If Europeans want to buy products made by fairly payed workers and support their own companies, they need to disallow unfair competition to enter their market. So yeah, under-regulated capitalism, I agree.
Thank you for making the perfect reasonable and easy to understand points! Creatures with parasitic strategies have so many times been misunderstood due to their reduced bodies and functions. Viruses are the same case.
Yes, I enjoy movies with striking visuals or music much more on the big screen. I also go to the cinema alone from time to time. I'm rather introverted, so I don't mind the solitary experience. I do like to later talk about the movie with someone who saw it too, though.
I know you're not talking to me, but let me seize this unique opportunity to tell you that the amazing Dracula orchids with flowers, which look A LOT like monkey faces to us humans, are actually trying to imitate certain type of mushrooms, which attract their pollinators (flies that lay eggs on the mushrooms)!!! The mushroom part of the flower is what seems to be the monkey's mouth to us.
Please, feel free to search for Dracula orchid pictures to see many more monkey faces.
My own experience leaves me a bit more optimistic, although I do see some cursed bits.
The presence of money in research depends greatly on the field and the ability of the scientists to make their research sound sexy. You can mask a lot of wierd niche basic research topics with sexy applied research talk.
Also, there's still a lot of science research without much money, being sustained by sheer enthusiasm.
Oh, then I guess the only possibility is detabuisation. Those people need to know they will be treated, not persecuted in a super harsh way. Then they won't be afraid to selfreport and we will know, whether we work with a pedo or a predator, and we can addjust the way we work with them accordingly.
I think there are methods to filter them out - that's how we know most child molesters are not actual pedos. Personally, I'm against gassing anyone and I'm for the approach suggested in the article.
Pedophiles although superproblematic, are surprisingly not the group of people that do the most child molesting. In most cases, the offenders are sexual predators attracted mainly to adults that focus on children because they're an easier target, not because they are optimally attractive to them. Very often they are people from the child's family.
Save the local bee species, please, not the commercial ones.