Honestly the best bit is just not feeling the need to take my hand off the keyboard and use the mouse. I don’t think I can quantify the time saved, but I can tell you I really notice when I’m using software that makes me have to switch.

Or alternatively get walled off in their own part of the internet where they can only harm themselves.

Yeah, you are right.

I think it’s the Ge’ez script used in Ethiopian.

But what are they filtering for?

There comes an issue when a private citizen seeks to use the engines of state to punish those whose speech offends them.

It’s one thing to withdraw society and business from someone who offends you, quite another to demand that the state crush them for you. Of course, most states will do that to a greater or lesser degree. No state extends an absolute freedom of speech.

I stand corrected.

I suspect they will graciously provide the necessities in return for your labour and any remaining rights you have.

Take a look at how company stores and scrip worked. As the song goes: Saint Peter don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go/Sold my soul to the company store.

You can get paired vibrating bracelets, press the button on one and the other vibrates, I think they are supposed to be for long distance couples as a ‘thinking of you’ type thing but they would probably work here.

“Hydrogen powered” generally means burning hydrogen in oxygen to make water: 2(HH) + OO -> 2(HHO). To run a car on water as you say is a lot like trying to make a fire out of ash, rather than wood. You can’t burn the ash because it has already been burned.

I found https://www.hackingchinese.com/ to be quite useful.

I have also found learning about the radicals and general construction of characters to be useful as well, being able to look at them as a collection of things rather than just a jumble of lines. A good student’s dictionary is helpful here. It’s a big chunk of change but once you have it you have it.

Duolingo is OK, but you need to be disciplined with it, and it doesn’t help much with pronunciation or production.

That wrist angle looks uncomfortable as all hell.

So you are at about an A1 and want to get up to around a B1? I don’t like saying impossible but a month is not long at all. If you can already read it you might do better, just focus on the reading and writing skills, get some sample papers if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages?wprov=sfla1

You are probably going to want a tutor that offers an intensive class, that can be done in a month, but you are still going to be looking at 50+ hours.

Do you know what level the exam is expecting?

Yeah, totally the same thing. Utterly comparable, you clearly fully understand what it is capable of and the risks it poses.

I also respect your knowledge of nuclear weapons and the reasons why every billionaire doesn’t have a home defence warhead.

Only the government and a few permitted parties

So a government and anyone who can pay a government’s fee. This isn’t really fixing the problem, just putting an extra barrier in the way of any smaller org that wants to get involved.

Never mind the issue that there isn’t a government that can be trusted. Do you think the world is going to be improved by making perception manipulating tech the private weapon of whatever bunch of psychopaths happen to rule at the time?

We don’t, fundamentally. All we can do is construct models and see if they match our observations. How do we know the world exists beyond our sensation of it? That could be an illusion too.

The base assumption that we work on is that the universe is the same here as it is there. Same rules, same interactions. We work out what we should be able to see and then go looking for it, so far that has worked.

As an example, we can look at some hydrogen in a lab and see what kinds of light it absorbs, we can then look at the sun and see if it is absorbing the same light, we can then look at another star and see that it two is absorbing the same light. So we can be confident that the hydrogen in our lab is like the hydrogen in the sun, and that the distant star is made of the same stuff as our sun. We can do wlthis with each element. We can look at the motion of planets around the sun, and we can look at the motion of stars around the center of the galaxy and see that they follow the same patterns.

It’s like trying to work out what is going on in the next room by listening, you can get a good idea, but it could be an empty room with a radio.

Smarter Every Day is the big one for me.

For explosives there Ordnance Lab, they have the paperwork for all kinds of stuff the Mythbusters couldn’t get their hands on.

Modern History TV for medieval life. Tod’s Workshop for pre modern weapons. Grand Thumb for firearms. Townsends for colonial/revolutionary american food and lifestyle. Primative Technology. Miniminuteman, archaeology.

Chemistry YouTube: Explosions and Fire, for an Australian synthesizing explosives in a shed. Nilered for interesting chemistry in an actual lab. Various others.

How to Cook That debunking cooking myths and tiktocs.

Donut Media, car stuff.

Visual effects and debunking: Captain Disillusion Corridor Crew

Law: Legal Eagle Steve Lehto

Special mentions: Lindybeige Sabine Hossenfelder

Start looking into this and you get loads more in your recommended. For all the low effort R-ddit and meme channels there are loads of people working on high quality content. Learning YouTube is vast once you get into it. Nebula is pretty good too.

Are there any good ones? Am I allowed to launch a coup?

Good on you for checking in with all those people, it must have taken a while.

Lifting the whole world off of fossil fuels is going to be hard, especially if we want to do it quickly. This isn’t however a problem the capitalist and nation-state models are well equipped to solve. It should not be a question of can a given people afford the technology or if someone can turn a profit on it.

We need to do this as a species, for the species. It should be given not as charity, not because wealthy countries owe it to poor ones, but because it is right that everyone should benefit from this.

The difficulty is how to convince the politicians and their masters of this, and I don’t think throwing paint on things is going to be sufficient.