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Sorry, why can this not be a coincidence? I understand that the universe is smooth across large spaces similar to how a fog is smooth on larger spaces, and coarse on smaller ones.

But even then, given a large universe, why would this be mathematically impossible? If galaxies formed evenly everywhere, couldn't this have happened by coincidence? Which theory is violated here?

Sorry my knowledge is a limited "The great courses Cosmology" course from 2009

On the positive side, Gamescom has been on the rise for a while, together with other more local gaming events. It shows how the focus of a live event changed from bringing news, to providing entertainment to hundreds of thousands of cosplayers and fans. With maybe some "news" on the side, which then becomes available on Youtube 5 minutes after.

Fascinating. Maybe a similar mental model applies as in Switzerland. I am a foreigner living in wealthy Switzerland. They also talk about themselves as being very poor a few decades ago. Maybe it is that people really were poor back then, just not as poor as the other europeans, and this for them is hard to imagine.

According to the statistics that I can find, they have been one of the wealthiest european nations for 250 years now, with GDP per capita being 50% higher than the Netherlands consistently for the past 70 years.

Nothing works if that person is your superior and holds absolute power over you.

Examples situations close friends of mine have experienced:

1. You are a PhD student and he (and it usually is a he) is your professor.

2. You are in a profession with limited opportunity (say, HR) and he is your boss.

3. You are an immigrant, and losing your job means leaving the country.

4. All of the above.

I feel articles like these are written by people that have never been in above situations. If you are in a dependency situation, you are fucked. Pro lifetip: Avoid dependency situations whenever you can. And sometimes you can't and just have to hope for the best.

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Omg why was I unaware of this? I bought an HP laserjet last year and am fighting SaaS software crap every time I want to attempt to print or scan. I am tempted to just trash my printer now.

Will take a look thank you!

I worked in WeWorks office for a year (Barcelona) and was awed by the amazing quality and design of their offices. Focusing on my work was easy, interchange with my colleagues natural, and the post-workday beer kept me staying late. Most of their buildings have gone, and now it is back to the dreary and loud staple office space. It makes me sad.

Is anybody else having a similar experience? Is there anything outside the US with a similar level of quality?

Looking for Tomato (recommended you do this)

US: Tomaydo UK: Toma`o AUS: Tomahto

I feel the aussies got this one right.

Very good point. I read Olaf Stapledon's First and Last man, a sci-fi book which describes the next few billion years for mankind and deals with this issue.

In one scenario, human society collapses, spends 80 million years living as hunter/gatherers (with some evolution) and then develops once again to a technological civilization, in part because the minerals and fossil fuels have been replenished.

Fun read that puts a lot of things together that I "sort of knew" but never really knew.

About 15 years ago, in the era of dumbphones, I read an article in the news paper that in Japan's top 10 novels, 7 of them were written on a mobile phone.

It appeared as if writing and text editing (writing a novel is a lot of editing) for mobile phones was solved for Japanese, and it was a matter of time until it would arrive in Latin scripts.

Still waiting for that future. I wonder if things in Japane regressed too?

As a regular reader of The Economist, that switched to the Guardian last year to due circumstance, I can only concur. My god is The Guardian a poor "newspaper". All they do is whine about problems without providing any analysis or solution. So yeah, why even look up the source if the standard of your output is abysmal?

Edit: FYI gave up my subscription after a couple of Months. Now I read the New Scientist. Significantly more optimistic news :).

You are implicitly assuming zero progress on battery and or car technology. This is not entirely unfounded as the combustion engine has stopped progressing much for decades. As for Electric Cars, this is a whole different ballgame. The battery you are going to get in 15-25 years when you replace yours, will be a significant upgrade.

Also, an n=1 story: My girlfriend's parents bought an electric car in the mid 2000's with a range of 120km for short trips. 15ish years later, it still works perfectly.

Finally, Air Pollution is easily one of the most lethal (can it be THE most lethal?) thing in the world depending on how you measure. A significant part of this comes from cars. My guess is that for most of us, the gains in air pollution are personally significantly more important than those in climate change

Would have been nice if this headline started with "As a person living in a big city, I ditched my car (...)". Now it just feels ignorant towards people living in other areas - as everybody is pointing out in the comments.