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Robert Kowalenko Apr 27, 2023

Helen Czerski Apr 26, 2023

In the late 1800s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

Robert Kowalenko Apr 26, 2023

Recently watched Žižek's "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology", and I grudgingly have to admit I found it worthwhile & entertaining. Žižek certainly is razor-sharp, talented, & interesting, and I often thought "now that's potentially quite a deep insight!"...
Then I realised he never cites evidence or even reasons for his assertions, it's all just a plausible narrative. That he could just as well say the exact opposite, and I'd find it interesting, too.
That's how it is with all critical theory.

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Robert Kowalenko Apr 14, 2023

@rbreich it does. What is happening is a reductio ad absurdum of the American legal and political system. The near-impossibility of changing or amending the constitution was bound to lead to a situation where an article or amendment that has outlived its usefulness or rationale would cause havoc.

Robert Kowalenko Apr 14, 2023

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Laura Apr 8, 2023

From Douglas Adams:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Robert Kowalenko Jan 19, 2023

this 👉
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2023-01-19-hilton-trollip-mantashe-like-mbeki-uses-science-denialism-for-political-machinations/

HILTON TROLLIP: Mantashe, like Mbeki, uses science denialism for political machinations

In our technological world it is crucial to know what is scientific and what is not

Business Day

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Robert Kowalenko Jan 18, 2023

@andrewsbowie This is what people voted for I suppose. There is little use in outrage over Tory policies... when the outrage should be over the fact that people have and continue to vote for them. For the elites, the prospect of lower taxes trumps all. For the working class, I suppose it is keeping the brown people out and returning Britain to its glory, or some such jingoistic nonsense. School funding pales in importance.

Robert Kowalenko Jan 18, 2023

Robert Reich Jan 18, 2023

RT @[email protected]

Do I have this right: Republicans added ~$7 trillion to the national debt under Trump, but now they want to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare before raising the debt ceiling?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1614820819753992192

Robert Reich on Twitter

“Do I have this right: Republicans added ~$7 trillion to the national debt under Trump, but now they want to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare before raising the debt ceiling?”

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Robert Kowalenko Jan 18, 2023

Citation analysis…. Not sure if it’s right for philosophy. Almost nobody cited Frege until he was dead. His own university didn’t even know it had the greatest logician after Aristotle in its ranks (he never rose to the top of his own profession).
Outlier? Perhaps

Robert Kowalenko Dec 17, 2022

@EU_Commission
Given how absolutely terrible, despotic, unspeakably clerotic, economically damaging, and let’s say it again despotic, anti-democratic, and just plain old horrible the EU is …
it’s pretty surprising how many people keep wanting to join it. ☺️

Robert Kowalenko Dec 17, 2022

Where does the whole theory of 'bodies that carry inscriptions,' etc. originate from?