Correct time was 40 years ago when renewable were worse. Instead we built coal and gas generally. Now the worst people want nuclear, except they don't actually want it, they just use it as a cudgel to not build any green infrastructure
The slower ship would never be in a position to get caught without making a mistake, but it's turning advantage rapidly reduces with with distance, so it would never be able to get away in the long run.
Confounding factors:
Ship lengths. As the ships get longer relatively their turning circle, the easier the slow ship becomes to catch. The length of the ship makes it harder to dodge.
Conditions of capture and escape. Are we talking about being side by side, close enough to through grappling hooks, or just a point touching? Or cannon range? Is escaping getting out of line of sight? RADAR range?
Islands. This favours the more manoeuvrable ship as the fast ship cannot take a straight line course. It also increases the fast ships cost for falling for bluffs.
Acceleration and speed cost to turn. Overall, introducing these makes the engagement longer. That said, it would also affect the fast ship more if islands are introduced.
Outside objectives. Ships can't be at sea forever, and likely both ships have places to be. Is a vital shipment of vaccines on the slow ship? Does the fast ship know this? Etc
It only gets corrupted by state department interests if it gets popular, so we must work to make it less popular! (edit: I hope its obvious this is a joke)
Nothing suggesting the primacy of metaphysical stuff, but in the same way its fine to talk about the soul of a nation, it's fine to talk about my soul. I don't think its magic, I just think there's a connection with the rest of the universe and other conscious people that is healthy to cultivate, and the effects I have on those relationships will continue after I die (likewise, other people's relationships have affected my life even after they've died). I don't think there's any reward of doing so outside of the health of those relationships. I do think certain behaviours and beliefs are poisonous to this "soul", but we can also talk about mental health and how we should be emphasising community etc.
But it's all just physical stuff in the end, and if a meteor hit Earth tomorrow and scattered our material there isn't anything left over like a bunch of angry ghosts floating around. Not even anyone to mourn what could have been.
Worth a read and taking evidence from, but yeah, this isn't going to convince any NATO guy on your facebook or whatever (curiously, mine are mostly women)
Yeah, I find that I get squished between increases in responsibility without corresponding increase in power to achieve those responsibilities. :/ at work, anyway.
I guess I could learn lots of things by dividing learning tasks up
I thought about this and sometimes I really appreciate having someone to offload executive function to (like a personal trainer). Maybe we could take turns.
It would have to be a lot to change the local society, since one of me struggles in this job market and more of me will increase costs without increasing income (unless they all get a welfare cheque). More of my projects would finish (money notwithstanding), and I guess we could do heists. I'm not too fussed about who is the alpha, I think I could die tomorrow and have lived a kinda sad life and be OK with it.
Genetically, yes, if I was born into a settler society, was accepted, and was given carte blanch to merk kids etc etc. but fortunately by existing I wound up with a bunch of critiques of nationalism. Orders are easier to follow if it's not just your commanding officer but also your entire society telling you to shoot the kid. Your friends in the unit and in wider society will call you a hero and buy you drinks and will laugh at your jokes about it. It simply isn't the same as your CO telling you to shoot and you having a 60% chance of pulling the trigger, let alone eagerly do it. (on this point, Milgram talks about the appearance of "legitimacy" of authority, for the experiments to work you have to believe in the legitimacy of the "Scientist" actor, which requires that you have beliefs about scientists in the first place)
While I think there is some validity to Milgram's experiments, they were typically run on a particular sort of person brought up in our modern hierarchical society, who believe in the moral character of those hierarchies etc. They are also not a total explanation for why say... it is Israeli snipers are doing this routinely. It also doesn't explain where those orders come from and why. Also, you don't know if they're being given orders or if they're just shooting at opportunity targets of their own volition.
That's not to say I'm immune to propaganda or whatever. I am, however, probably immune to Israeli propaganda at this point (at least the sort that would lead to shooting 5 year old Palestinians in the head). I have a hard time even thinking of how I would justify killing a 5 year old even if they were a die hard reactionary, let alone lazily headshot one in the street because I felt like it. The IDF tiktoks and telegram videos are pretty gleeful and snipers are rarely considered the most compassionate soldiers. That's not to say I couldn't ever have been, in the right environment and the right military giving orders, but at this point I don't think I could be.
(Also, I hate that Milgram and the Stanford prison experiment get lumped together, the Milgram experiment had controls and structure and was repeated a bunch of times with different groups and victims, whereas the stanford experiment had no control, structure, and had a lot of active involvement from Zimbardo who somehow had a career after it. Obviously they're both cases of experiments that would not pass a modern ethics committee.
There is some more writing on this outside of Milgram. Teddy Adorno did some writing on "The Authoritarian Personality" which talks about hierarchical thinking, including following orders (but also about giving orders and how legitimate you view orders). He does some of his own science, but I thought it was pretty shoddy tbh, but he does a literature review as well and offers a passable critique and conversation. There's also discussion (in other books) about the Einsatzgruppen, which suggested even in pretty Nazi operations, only about 20% of people eagerly followed the direct order to execute partisans, 60% of people were pretty grumpy about it and were psychologically negatively affected, and 20% would kick up a fuss and you'd likely remove them from execution squad. One of the reasons for the mechanisation of the final solution was the psychological harm firing squads were doing to German soldiers.
This is all from memory, sorry, I used to be more interested in this subject directly)
I will say, if you put Reagan, Bush Senior, and Clinton into a blender and spat the result into a pre-Obama movie that features a POTUS, Biden would be pretty close. Jack.
Correct time was 40 years ago when renewable were worse. Instead we built coal and gas generally. Now the worst people want nuclear, except they don't actually want it, they just use it as a cudgel to not build any green infrastructure