However, it's pointing out that the general principle has been established: "People whose opinion I don't like can be banned from society." At first, it's only removing individuals from public discourse (cancel culture), then it's removing people physically (deportation).

This is always the endgame of eroding core liberal values. This has been pointed out to the illiberal left time and time again, to no avail.

> Anna's mother's sister's dog's house

> Das Haus des Hundes der Schwester der Mutter von Anna.

It's difficult to parse though. We only get to know about Anna at the end of the sentence. Consequently, we avoid such sentences or use workarounds.

> Von Annas Mutters Schwester dem Hund sein Haus.

If you ever use such a construction German speakers will correct your bad language but they will perfectly understand the sentence's meaning.

A quick search brought me to this presentation: https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/staff/amyp/downloads/...

The take-away seems to be: "German does not work like English" (slide 8) so be careful when comparing PreGen in German and English.

Unfortunately, that only works if the speaker has interesting ideas to share. Often, obtuse language hides the lack of interesting ideas. Sometimes, there are no ideas at all.

Saying "most of our ideas were pretty bad" only works if an interesting idea comes afterwards. But such every interesting idea requires a lot of work; work that many speakers have not performed.

    add(Music(), Meter(4, 4), Line(...), Line(...), Articulation(">", 1))

[1] https://github.com/flujoo/gm/blob/69d639be86b0cef80d815a73a6...

[2] https://go.dev/tour/methods/1

This is very interesting. It could also be an effect of Grammarly, which suggests these replacements for the generic "important." Perhaps it's a combination of several effects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem

In any case, WW2 submarines were torpedo boats only diving when necessary. The battery capacity of a German Type VII or an American Balao class was measured in hours, not days. Before snorkels reached operational status, boats had to completely surface for recharging; that is not the case anymore.

I think life on a Type VII was much nastier than on a modern Type 214. The engine was extremely loud, exhaust fumes were regularly in the air, and it was cold and incredibly cramped. Living conditions are much better on modern subs, even if space is still at a premium, especially on smaller boats.

What surely remains is the sense of camaraderie because of a shared fate; each sailor's life depends on the boat functioning as a unit. In that sense, nothing has changed.

I got into emotionally charged arguments for even asking, "Will Germany produce enough electrical power after shutting down nuclear power stations?" People told me base load was an outdated way of looking at the energy market and a conservative talking point to justify cutbacks in subsidies for renewables. An often repeated argument was that Germany has been a net exporter of electrical power for many years, so reducing capacity should not be a problem.

Personally, I feel that neither side engaged in an honest public debate. I remember very well a leading Green politician, Jürgen Trittin, declaring that the transition towards renewables would cost each German citizen as much as an ice cream cone. Yes, politics must create positive momentum, but being off by orders of magnitude signals fundamental incompetence. The usual counter is, "Had everything gone according to plan, it totally would have worked out." That is childish and not a way to do serious politics.

I used the video's original title; I hope it is not link bait.

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On the one hand, I found Zeihan to be hilariously wrong about details I am familiar with, such as calling all flat-top helicopter carriers "jump carriers." This video examining Zeihan's central claims regarding China found that most of them need some serious qualification (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XupM5_zHDbM). Here's a Reddit thread discussing many more instances of factual errors (https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/hv46xb/what_ar...).

On the other hand, who cares whether the USS America has a ski jump? It still can launch the F-35. Do we miss the forest for the trees with such details? Before listening to Zeihan, I had no idea about how serious China's demographic time bomb was. It help's that he's super entertaining; a gifted story teller.

Do small factual errors add up to being wrong about the big picture? Or is a disregard for details a great means to filter the signal from the noise?

Reddit's verdict: "You know those early paleontologists who took actual dinosaur bones and made dinosaur skeletons that were sometimes accurate and sometimes batshit? He's like that but with geopolitics."

> So much of science is built on trust and faith in the ethics and integrity of our colleagues.

This is where things went wrong. We need a culture of "show me," not "trust me," the core of critical rationalism: Establishing the convention that checking each other's work is the only way to advance our understanding of the world.

Figuring new things out is an error-prone process. Sometimes, these errors are not known to a researcher; sometimes, they are known but deemed non-critical; sometimes, a person has ulterior goals that would be endangered by acknowledging and correcting the error. I don't judge. We've all been there.

However, things have been swept under the rug for far too long. If large-scale attempts can only replicate 50% of the studies investigated, published results from psychology cannot and should not be trusted without further checks (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245918810225). The problem may be less acute in other fields, but perhaps only due to a lack of scrutiny (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...).

Absent an established process to verify a publication's central claims, substitute measures are used, such as "sounds like ChatGPT to me." This is an effect, not a cause, of a culture that values "trust me" over "show me."

Edit. Btw, you can use Git with Word's docx-format out of the box. Docx is a zip folder with XML inside; git-diff will show text changes. Further, there's git-merge-driver for merging various file formats (https://github.com/Praqma/git-merge-driver).

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