Bernardo de La Paz
Bernardo de La Paz's JournalRussian demographics
Top heavy with females -- gender is not the problem, but imbalance is a big problem.
Top heavy with aging people.
Smiths request of SCotUS is as much to prod the Appeals Court even faster, as anything else
Appeals Court wants tRump lawyers to respond tomorrow.
Supreme Court wants tRump lawyers to respond by the 20th.
It is more about locations of the people he called
tRump was in the White House that day.
I get a sense, from reading the details regarding the three expert witnesses, that they have geo-fencing data from inside the perimeter of the Capitol grounds. I'm thinking that he called some Oaf Keepers or some such to do a little coordination.
Individual facts may be hard to check, but trends add up
If Republicans tell voters that the US economy is "in ruins" or that Jan 6 was a tourist walk, there are enough facts that add up to it being nonsense.
When groups or sources repeatedly spout nonsense, they are not trustworthy.
Finally, some things hang together forming coherent wholes and others don't. For example, biology only makes sense with evolution. Creationism requires contortions and offers no explanations of biology. When we see red states with higher death rates and lower vax rates plus blue states with lower death rates and higher vax rates, then we can know that the Republicon narrative about masks, ivermectin, and just-the-flu-bro don't form a reasonable policy.
Only to the extent that one looks at things quantitavely and not binarily.
Justice delayed is justice denied ...... only proportionately to the delay (and not strictly proportionately to time, affected by related factors).
If justice is delayed by a single day, that does not mean that there is no justice at all. Likewise for a month or a year.
On the flip side, there are some rare situations where justice is actually and completely denied by a delay of a single day. Likewise for a month or a year (each kind of total denial actuality less rare but still not common).
I agree with many points in your post: "option", "abuse", "buy" "coddle", possibly four years, "if he's ever jailed". But slogans like "justice delayed is justice denied", though it is pithy and cogent, must always be considered in the light of reality which is continuously quantified by real numbers, rarely hitting a binary wall.
Wise beyond his years. Each point is fleshed out with passion and balance and good humour
It's great!
1. You don't have to have a dream.
2. Don't seek happiness.
3. Remember, it's all luck. Empathy is intuitive but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
4. Exercise.
5. Be hard on your opinions.
6. Be a teacher. Even if you are not a teacher be a teacher.
7. Define yourself by what you love.
8. Respect people with less power than you.
9. Don't rush.
(Adding this post to my journal)
(My screen name is a teacher's name)
Electric is pretty much on/off or set at a voltage or current
A switch is on/off.
Voltage and current are primarily controlled by resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Resistors reduce current and can be used to control direct current voltage. Capacitors store electricity statically (electrons) and inductors magnetically. Their storage can be momentary so that they can be used to filter alternating current according to frequencies.
A knob can control a variable resistor or a variable capacitor or a variable inductor.
That's all electric. Simple things like electric light, transformers, and electric motors. AC/DC.
In electronics, there become ways to use electrical activity to control other electrical activity. This requires vacuum tubes or semiconductors.
Diodes (semiconductor or tube) allow current to flow in one direction or not flow at all.
Triodes (transistor or tube) can switch or modulate current. An input brings a current in on one wire and out on another, there is third wire for control. As a gate, it can switch the through-current on or off. Alternatively it can be use to pass or decrease the current according to the voltage on the control wire. There are variations that can increase the current according to the control wire, and there we get amplifiers.
Radios are electronic. The antenna is pre-tuned for the band (broadly). The tuning section uses variable capacitors generally (old days) to pass the selected station frequency. Then that signal is amplified.
Hope that helps.
More mundanely, Russia faces a demographic crisis
Top heavy with females -- gender is not the problem, but imbalance is a big problem.
Top heavy with aging people.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Purists are enemies of pragmatists
I think reality is so complex it requires pragmatism to deal with it. By reality, I include dealing with people. That means controlling as needed and able and negotiating when reasonable and avoiding losing interactions if possible.
Purism is 2016 voting for Jill Stein (and hence tRump) because no Democrat is perfect enough.
Pragmatism is getting things done and not fighting battles until they can be won. Sometimes battles are forced on us, and then we fight.
Internal purism leads to Maoist Cultural Revolutions. A lot of good that did China. Not.
Internal purism leads to Wahabi fighting Shia fighting Sunni fighting Sufi.
Internal purism is the Republican Party become a rump party by demanding loyalty to Hair Fuhrer.
Pragmatism is a successful strategy that gets many needed things done.
Purism gets little done. The GQP is constantly primarying itself for purity. Part of the reason the Red Wave became a pinkish slush puddle, 15 votes for Speaker, two Speakers in one year, Continuing Resolutions, etc.
Christian nationalism is purism.
Banning books is purism.
White nationalism is purism.
Don't be a Puritan or a purist.
Folks in other countries are allowed to have un-American ways of speaking.
Relax, it is a respectable figure of speech. Best not to make mountains out of molehills. Not everyone has to speak like Americans. Why should Canadians and Irish have to write "color" when they have always written "colour"? Can't people in the UK talk about the bonnet of the car meaning the hood? Is US cultural imperialism so important that people here have to step all over a well-meaning harmless statement because it doesn't meet their strict definition of (American) English?
Churchill famously said "Two countries separated by a common language", referring to the UK and USA.
"Lost" is a common respectable way of meaning things like death or disappearance.
"Lost at sea" means drowned. It does not necessarily mean never found.
"We lost my mother to cancer". It is a loss.
"He was taken hostage by sadistic thugs. He might never come back. He is lost, at least until something big changes."
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