Hypothetically, if you happened to have a perfect fly-on-the-wall recording of those discussions, I strongly suspect you would hear all of those factors discussed.
What I suspect you would not hear would be "They're First Nations people, so let's not search for their remains".
I've always believed in being truthful, open, honest and transparent with you all. Having a guide dog is not always fun and games, it does come with challenges too. #sick#unwell#blind#dog#reality
For me, this is truly helpful, giving me a way to think about our current #global#realities and consider ways to ameliorate public complacence and our ever-quickening descent into an #apocalyptic#hellscape.
I'm sure others have stated much the same, or better, but this came up in a #YouTube#video I'm watching and I needed this, now.
What do you depend upon which did not exist when you were born?
How about your ancestors? Parents, Grandparents, Greatgrandparents etc as far back as there were people?
Which things do you depend upon to live a normal life that no-one had any concept of for all the hundreds of thousands of years that they successfully or otherwise lived out their normal lives.
Houses, villages, towns, cities, electricity, computers, Internet, World Wide Web, some communication platform or another?
By the 21st #century, it became clear that the human race is not only not smart enough, but also #selfish enough not to take advantage of the opportunities provided by #science and #destroy the planet Earth. Humans wrote this down in science fiction #books a long time ago. It all become a #reality now...
Reality is a big bubble
made of all this different
little bubbles
that occasionally touch eachother.
Reality is an illusion made of
millions illusions
that come together at some point
creating a feeling of connection,
the sensation of the same reality.
Realism, empiricism, idealism,
rationalism, egoism, materialism ...
so many -isms we created
but non that would truly capture
the complexity of human perception
of reality.
We tend to simplify things,
box and label everything.
Is it out of fear
of not being on top,
and understanding
how everything works,
or is it pure vanity so one
can have its name next
to the label?
Acceptance of not knowing
is the hardest thing
for it creates fear.
To fill the void,
and take away the fear
we came up with so many things,
so many truths and realities
that number of stars in the sky
looks like a very small thing.
Will we ever really know,
or are we bound to choose
between the truths,
given as such,
so we don't lose
our mind?
Meteorologist who did his job, told the truth about climate change, resigns, citing PTSD from threats over coverage (can you freaking believe this?) #facts#reality#FreeSpeech#FreePress (he’s basically a broadcast #journalist) #FirstAmendment (guess it’s not only the woke mob/the censorious left that shuts down people, eh?)
One reason why I stopped writing #fiction was that I had to realize how #reality always dwarfs fantasy.
Who could invent that:
A submarine(!) with a few(!) rich(!) people sinks(!) close to the Titanic(!) in the overheated(!) North Atlantic. Coastguard(!) and other state institutions provide help.
Just a few days after hundreds(!) of mostly Pakistani(!) refugees(!) drowned(!) in the sea off Greece, watched(!) by coastgurad(!) that did nothing(!).
#NYT 📆 June 17, 2023 Estimated to be worth about $460 billion 💰, #SpaceBusinesses sometimes operate in legal black holes 🕳️
• In #theory, #space belongs to #everyone
• That perspective is about to collide with #reality
• #SpaceDebris 🗑️ : Since nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose #responsibility it is to clean it up
• The #US 🇺🇸 government has #deliberately left some holes
• Business leaders caution against creating so much regulation 👨⚖️ that it pushes #innovation#offshore while recognizing that we need rules
I think we are talking at cross-purposes. I began by explaining that the 2035 goal/policy of the federal government does not take into account the geography and environment of the prairies. I'm describing the impact of the policy on the world (well, this part of it) as it exists today.
Responders to this thread have generally been describing the world as they wish it was, or that it might become at some point in the future.
Any assault, sexual or otherwise, on any person, makes that officer unsuited to the job. They need to be charged, tried, and fired.
They are trying to "deal with it". All organizational change is slow. The larger the organization, the slower it changes.
There are no easy answers here. "Defund the police" is not a plan of action; it's a rallying call. That's fine, but it doesn't make any progress whatsoever to fixing the problems.
UAPs (formerly UFOs) are in the news again today.
Here's some helpful guidance from astrophysicist David Spergel, discussing his NASA panel's initial analysis of UAPs: "The lesson of my career is, you want to address important questions with high-quality data and well-calibrated instruments." https://qz.com/emails/space-business/1850491255/space-business-nasa-vs-uap#UAP#aliens#NASA
Case in point about UAPs.
An analysis of this much-discussed "GOFAST" UAP, which seemingly moved at impossible speeds, revealed it's an illusion; the object was moving about 40 miles per hour. Even seasoned observers often misunderstand what they are seeing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Go_Fast_Official_USG_Footage_of_UAP_for_Public_Release.webm#perception#reality#astronomy