Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...

As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now have single-use plastic ultra-fast fashion, plastic stuff that'll break in the short term, brittle plywood furniture, cheap ultra-processed food, etc.

Classic software development always felt like a tailor-made job to me and of course it's slow and expensive but if it's done by professionals it can give excellent results. Now if you can get crappy but cheap and good enough results of course it'll be the preferred option for mass production.

That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where hastily judged and executed and he himself ended up executed 4 months after that speech. [1]

[1] https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discours_lors_de_la_s%C3%A9an... (French version)

The oldest account I found is in a religious book from 1832 [1]: "We must have nothing to hide, nothing to fear", but, and this is the important bit, this is in the context of your relationship with Christ.

Later accounts are mostly from judicial documents like "well tell us what happened, if you have nothing to hide, you'll have nothing to fear".

And later on we start to see the current form of the argument related to privacy, except now this argument is never directly used to erode it. It will always be in some form of "ok now we have to do this collective thing because of criminals, because of terrorism, because of protect the children, etc.". If you search "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" 100% of the results are about how it is a logical fallacy, nobody at all seems to defend the argument and yet, here we are!

Food for thought:

- this argument may well be stuck in the collective unconscious of lots of people (albeit in the religious context)

- many governments, organizations and in any case the people in position of power and authority can develop a god complex (power corrupts etc.)

So unless I end up dealing with an all-loving and all-forgiving entity I could fully trust, I'd like to keep my right to privacy, thank you very much!

[1] https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Sermons_on_the_Spiritual...

While digital files are obviously very practical and efficient for our pictures/audio/video I can't help but see how different our relationship to them is when a physical object embodies the data.

It is about control and purpose, "my OS watches my communications" is true but weird to say because there's an expectation, unless compromised, that the OS is under my control so no problem. A third-party controlling the local scan of all my data specifically to report whatever it wants is a huge problem.

Too often are some specific issues left insufficiently addressed for too long and it seems like the answer ends up like, ok we give up, here's some collective punishment, that should do the trick.

From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]:

  ARTICLE 8
  Right to respect for private and family life
  
  1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family
  life, his home and his correspondence.
  
  2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the
  exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the
  law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of
  national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the
  country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection
  of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms
  of others.
  

My layman understanding of the usual process is like, we want surveillance over those people and if it seems reasonable a judge might say ok but for a limited time. Watching everyone's communications also seems at odds with the principle of proportionality[2].

[1]https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG

[2]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12...

For me it is because of red- and blueshifting[1]. Far away galaxies appear both older and redder the further away they are, so red is the past. And if you go really fast, the forward view will be bluer, so in the sense that it is where you go, blue is the future. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Blueshift

"The staff threw away 30 to 40% of it and ate the rest later."

I do that too, like the moon is lit from the right, slightly from above so yes obviously the sun is over there, up, aaaand... nope, it's sunset. Something's not right, is the light curved?

Anyway, that's the day I learned about the lunar terminator illusion[1]. Honestly, even knowing about the phenomenon, it still feels quite mind-bending to think about it.

[1] https://chrisjones.id.au/MoonIllusion/

Could be the DarkSky approved products: https://darksky.org/what-we-do/darksky-approved/

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/japan-super-solar-panel/12474/

> Scientists in Japan have been discussing the possibility of using a material called perovskite for solar panels

> The perovskite tandem cell has a theoretical efficiency limit of 43 per cent, while the silicon-based cell has a theoretical efficiency limit of 29 percent. It is speculated that these solar panels will be able to produce 20 gigawatts of electricity by 2040

> Under Section 0 of Japan’s revised energy plan, the Ministry of Industry prioritises the use of perovskite solar cells over the less efficient silicon-based solar cells of yore.

> Japanese company, Sekisui Chemical Co., with the help of the Japanese government, is now working towards developing advanced perovskite solar cells for circulation in the global market in the 2030s.

> still dwelling on something that happened thirty years ago.

Exactly that: clinging causes suffering.

Buddhism also goes a step farther, they have a whole doctrine about emptiness and no-self: there's no permanent or unchanging self to be found.

On this point, 20+ years ago I had a chat with my uncle who managed a factory of rubber thingies for the car industry. I asked him what he thought of climate change: "Oh well, if it's ever an issue we'll just invent something to fix it, like carbon-sucking machines or whatever!".

I take issue with this mindset where innovation is the cure-all silver bullet. Not because it says that technological progress can help (it can!), but because it also implies that there's nothing really wrong with everything else we do and that we shouldn't have to think if we had a hand in the endless crises we see.

Don't tell me about a future where Earth is such a dystopian wasteland that going to Mars looks like the right choice. I don't want to build penthouses for the few billionaires that actually enjoy the place. The best place on Mars is still worse than the worst place on Earth.

Tell me about the future where Earth is seen as a wonderful spaceship, where we learned to live in peace and where we have a good thing going on such that going elsewhere to see what's possible is appealing!

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I don't remember the article and anyway there wasn't much more detail but I always found this idea quite interesting. Could be that looking for words, sentences or grammar in a whale's song is a misguided and anthropocentric approach to the problem. They may instead have a visual language that just so happen to be transmitted by sound.

Like, do you see what I mean? But, literally.

Ok, good for you :) I suppose if you're lucky enough to already have a good life, psychedelics may not appear so relevant or appealing to you...

I've also known people claiming they don't want to use psychedelics, sometimes the reason is that part of them is actually afraid of what they may reveal or do to them, which is also a perfectly valid reason not to use them.

In my case, too many wrenches were thrown into my life, psychedelics made sense to me and indeed were a tremendous help for both my physical and mental health.

Another reason not mentioned here is that they're usually illegal, which is a whole other debate. My point of view is that it should be a personal choice but that you should be somewhat educated about what you're getting yourself into.