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@sengatnenas @giveashitnature The panels are running suboptimally. Snow will disable most electrical production for months This cleaning carriage will NOT be cheap. It's new technology on a critical system means extensive testing, which is costly. Scheduling the cleaning carriage is feasible but costly

@Possolution @giveashitnature All it needs is a washing carriage that cleans each panel as it goes past above each panel. Easily automated. Way simpler than having humans walk past with a hose and brush.

Switzerland is turning the unused space between train tracks into solar power plants. A startup called Sun-Ways is piloting removable solar panels that roll out like a carpet between the rails. No new land needed, easy to maintain, and they feed clean energy straight into the grid. If the US scaled something similar across its massive rail network, it could generate enough clean, homegrown electricity to power millions of homes. This is the kind of smart, low-impact idea that gets more clean energy online without paving over more fields or wild spaces. Innovations like this show we can produce the power we need while leaving more room for wildlife and nature. Pretty cool engineering with a big upside if you ask me.

@partydude1719 @RealHellenist Good point, although Georgia is borderline Europe.

@RealHellenist Not true, Mkhedruli; the writing system used by Georgia is commonly believed to have come from Aramaic.

All European writing systems are Greek in origin. The whole continent writes with the Alphabet born from Greeks. Latin = the Cumaean Greek alphabet. Cyrillic = a script created by Greek monks, Saints Cyril and Methodios, directly from the Greek alphabet.

@nicksortor Did the dog smell the gunman before he started his run? Could the agent with the dog not see the gunman?

🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ has released HIGH QUALITY security camera footage of attempted Trump assassin Cole Allen SPRINTING through the security checkpoint at WHCA’s dinner This is NOT AI generated, like much of the footage posted this week Secret Service is adamant their agent was NOT struck by friendly fire, but was shot by Cole Allen with a 12-gauge shotgun.

@its_The_Dr a hippo

Left Brain you see a cat, right Brain you see a dog. Which one do you see?

@visegrad24 it’s a nice‑to‑have recognition, not a heavyweight credential.

The shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner has been identified as 31-y-old Cole Allen from Torrance, California. He works as a teacher and was recently given the award of “Teacher of Month in Los Angeles County”

@marcosagusstinn dream on, it will not happen and I am sure you know it

@xruiztru i would have thought canada and South Africa would be on the list

Where can more than 90% of the population speak English?

@KatyKray73 In the 1820s, Australian kids were speaking a new, hybrid accent with strong London/South‑East roots.

The Australian accent was first noted around 1820. Colonial authorities were puzzled by the distinctive way the children of the settlers were speaking. It had developed as a unique blend of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh dialects that had never been heard together in Britain, formed through daily mixing in the new townships. The Australian accent evolved from: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@nicksortor So the shooter could be released if he raises the $1 million bond. What sort of nonsense is this???

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Newly-released surveillance video shows a high school principal in Oklahoma TACKLING a school shooter before he could open fire on kids What a HERO! Principal Kirk Moore RUSHED the shooter when he aimed at his first would-be victim, wresting the gun away from him. Give this man an award. Absolute legend. The attempted shooter at Pauls Valley High School is now being held on a $1 million bond.

@archeohistories You're saying this is a reconstruction of an ancient Greek woman with pale skin, reddish-ginger hair, blue eyes, and a modern hairstyle????

Thanks to cutting-edge facial reconstruction technology, a woman who lived in Greece more than 3,500 years ago has been digitally brought back to life. Her face, once buried in a Mycenaean royal cemetery, has now been reconstructed in striking detail—and the result is both haunting and unexpectedly modern. As reported by The Guardian, the digital reconstruction is based on a facial mold dating back to the 16th century BCE, from a burial site discovered in the legendary city of Mycenae—once the stronghold of King Agamemnon. The woman was around 30 years old at the time of her burial in what is believed to have been a royal tomb. The site was first uncovered in the 1950s. Dr. Emily Hauser, the historian who commissioned the digital reconstruction, described the result as “breathtaking.” Speaking to The Observer, she remarked, “It took my breath away. For the first time, we can see the face of a woman from a kingdom tied to figures like Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra—she could be imagined as their sister.” The reconstruction was created using a clay mold crafted in the 1980s by researchers from the University of Manchester, and brought to life through digital artistry by Juanjo Ortega G. Dr. Hauser—whose upcoming book “Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It” publishes next week—highlighted how advancements in forensic anthropology, DNA analysis, carbon dating, and 3D printing have transformed our ability to reimagine the ancient world. “For the first time, we can truly look the past in the eye,” she said. What makes the discovery even more significant is what was found alongside the woman’s remains. Among the grave goods were a gold-electrum mask and three swords—initially believed to belong to a man buried beside her, thought to be her husband. But recent DNA analysis revealed that the two individuals were not spouses, but siblings. And the swords? They were likely hers. “The traditional assumption is that when a woman is buried next to a man, she must be his wife,” Hauser explained. “But DNA confirmed they were brother and sister. This woman was in that royal tomb because of who she was—not who she married.” Her presence in such a prestigious burial, combined with the weapons found by her side, signals a radical shift in how historians view women’s roles in the Late Bronze Age. New data shows that in some tombs from this period, “warrior kits” appear more frequently beside women than men, prompting scholars to rethink long-held assumptions about gender and warfare in the ancient world. Analysis of her skeleton also revealed signs of arthritis in her spine and hands—likely from years of intensive textile work. “It’s a reminder of the physical toll on women at the time,” Hauser noted, referencing Helen in The Iliad, who is famously described as weaving. This extraordinary reconstruction does more than reveal a face—it reshapes our understanding of an entire era. Through science and storytelling, the ancient world is speaking once again, and the voice we hear now is, for once, a woman’s. © The Archaeologist #archaeohistories

@MickDMerciless @PeterSweden7 This is silly. The universe had a beginning; in your analogy, you quote a book which almost certainly had a creator, or it is eternal; both solutions have problems for me.

@Possolution @PeterSweden7 The book analogy showed that story logic cannot be applied to the book. That's all. That is the limit of its purpose. If you try to say that means the universe had an author, you might as well say it means the universe is made of paper.

What is your best logical argument for the existence of God? I have two arguments that are very compelling... Argument number 1: The universe must logically have had a beginning. If it had a beginning, then that beginning must have had a cause. That cause must be outside of this universe and outside of time. An eternal, all powerful source. In other words, God. The other option would be that the universe, time and matter was eternal. Which would per definition place it in the category of supernatural, which is absurd. Argument number 2: If good and evil exists, that means God must also exist. Why? Because God is what gives the ultimate compass for what is objectively good and evil. Without God, an higher power that is all knowing and perfect, moral laws become subjective to each one of us. You cannot have moral law without a moral law giver. We can observe and logically understand that objective moral laws do indeed exist. We can clearly see that evil, that which goes against the objective moral law, does exist. Therefore good, that which follows the objectively moral law, must also exist. And if those are true, therefore then, God exists.

@MickDMerciless @PeterSweden7 But the book analogy did not hold up for what it was supposed to show. As far as hypocrisy goes, look at you here changing the goal post.

@Possolution @PeterSweden7 It is in the nature of an analogy to be imperfect. To be relevant in some respects and not others. I mean, we can talk about biblical parables and your hypocrisy - and what the bible has to say about hypocrisy...?

@gibtlik @ihtesham2005 Yeah, my ex did a bread-making course, and it was full of problem solving, which isn't exclusively a military skill, so my belief that my ex couldn't have learned any military skills from it doesn't hold weight.

@Possolution @ihtesham2005 Problem solving isn't exclusively a military skill so your claim that Alexander couldn't learnt it from Aristotle holds no weight.

Alexander the Great conquered the known world by age 32. He did it by asking one question that no general before him had ever thought to ask. Not "how do I match their strength?" But "where is the gap?" Aristotle taught him the difference. It is called first principles thinking, and it is the reason Alexander never lost a single battle in his entire life. At Gaugamela, Alexander faced a Persian force that outnumbered his by a ratio of five to one. Some historians put it higher. Every military commander on the field was running the same template: more soldiers means more force, more force means you spread your line wide, defend against encirclement, engage across the full front. This was not a tactical opinion. It was the accumulated logic of every battle anyone had ever studied. Alexander looked at the same situation and asked a different question. Not how do I survive this, but what is actually true here at the most fundamental level. He studied Darius's formation until he found it. A gap. Small, temporary, the kind that only exists for a moment in the chaos of a shifting line. He reorganized his entire cavalry around that single point. Then he rode directly at it himself, at full speed, with everything he had. Darius fled the field. The Persian Empire ended that afternoon. Here is what Aristotle actually taught him. There are two ways to think about any problem. The first is reasoning by analogy. You look at what is in front of you, search for the closest thing you have already seen, and apply that template forward. This is not a failure. It is extraordinarily efficient. It is how you learned your profession, how you function at speed, how civilization scales without having to rediscover fire every generation. Without analogical reasoning you would spend your entire life solving problems that were solved a thousand years ago. The second is reasoning from first principles. You ignore the template entirely. You ask what is actually true at the most fundamental level, strip away every assumption that is only true because someone decided it was, and rebuild your understanding from that ground up. You arrive at conclusions the template would never have generated. The insight is not that one mode is better. It is that they fail in opposite situations. Analogical reasoning works perfectly inside a stable system where the template still matches reality. It fails catastrophically at the frontier, because the frontier is exactly where the existing templates are wrong. When you apply a map to a territory it was not designed to describe, the map does not warn you. It just leads you somewhere incorrect with complete confidence. This is why every major disruption follows the same pattern. The people who get disrupted are not stupid. They are the most sophisticated analogical reasoners in the field, applying the best available templates with perfect internal logic. And those templates, built entirely from the history of the existing system, are structurally blind to what a genuinely new thing actually is. Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and shelved it. Every framework they had said it would destroy their film business. They were correct about the analogy and completely wrong about the conclusion, because the analogy assumed photography was a film business rather than a memory business. The template was so embedded they could not see past it while holding the invention that would replace them. Elon Musk wanted to buy a rocket in 2002. The cheapest price he found was $65 million. So he asked a different question. Not what do rockets cost, but what are rockets made of. Aluminum. Titanium. Carbon fiber. Copper. He priced the raw materials. They came to roughly 2% of the market price. The gap between 2% and 100% was not engineering. It was assumption. Decades of convention and unchallenged procurement logic, passed forward so many times it had started to feel like physics. SpaceX was born in that gap. The reason almost nobody actually uses first principles thinking is not that it is hard to understand. Aristotle wrote it down clearly in the fourth century BC. It has been available to anyone who wanted it ever since. The reason is what it costs. It is slow. It requires you to put down the confidence that comes from convention and sit with genuine uncertainty long enough to reach something real. The brain resists this completely, because the analogical template is faster, cheaper, and almost always good enough. The pull toward the familiar pattern is not laziness. It is the most efficient cognitive system ever built doing exactly what it was designed to do. First principles thinking only becomes worth the cost at the moments where the template has quietly stopped matching reality. Where everyone in the room is agreeing on something that feels like an established fact but is actually just an unchallenged assumption that has been passed forward long enough to seem permanent. Alexander did not beat armies that were five times his size by being braver than every general who came before him. He beat them by asking the question nobody else had thought to ask. The most dangerous thing in any room is not the problem everyone is arguing about. It is the assumption nobody noticed they were all making.

@dunkontop @PeterSweden7 A loud noise shakes a rock, causing it to fall. As it drops, it speeds up and makes more noise than the initial shake.

@Possolution @PeterSweden7 That is literally Cause and Effect. No effect can be greater than its cause.

@MickDMerciless @PeterSweden7 Your book analogy is your idea, as it's your own story-logic: a book has a purpose, it did not come out of nothing, and the key point here is that it has causality. I doubt it's a good analogy for our discussion.

@Possolution @PeterSweden7 The first is just a limitation of the analogy. The point is that story-logic does not apply outside the story. The second is precisely what I said: you cannot use the logic of causality (story-logic) to assert the universe came into existence.

@MickDMerciless @PeterSweden7 Harry Potter does not prove magic exists, but the book still points beyond the story to an author. Likewise, explaining events within the universe is not the same as explaining why the universe exists at all.

@Possolution @PeterSweden7 Yeah, that's where everyone goes with that analogy. But 'causality' as we know it only applies to events within the story. You cannot apply story-logic to the existence of the book, any more than I could use Harry Potter to claim that magic exists IRL.

@AMH_Andrew @PeterSweden7 For a quantum fluctuation to occur, there had to be already a quantum framework, laws, or vacuum state in place. That means this is not creation from nothing, but creation from something.

@PeterSweden7 Physicists argue that everything was created from nothing in the Big Bang due to a quantum fluctuation. But who or what created the laws of quantum physics allowing that? You can't have nothing - and simultaneously have laws of the universe already in existence.

@dunkontop @PeterSweden7 Why would a Cause have to be greater than the effect?

@PeterSweden7 If the Universe is eternal, everything that can possibly happen will have happened an eternity ago If the Universe had a beginning, Cause and Effect requires the cause to be greater than the effect The Universe must have been created by something greater than the Universe.