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Support for Scottish independence reportedly hits a record level of 58%.

How to turn that into action when the biggest of the pro-independence parties is losing electoral ground? There are popular majorities for many things that will likely never see the light of day.

@tsh2 Have you considered upgrading to an electric cargo bicycle? It would surely be less hassle all round.

"Since I'm Santa Claus, you're probably wondering about the presents. But I am a special-regime Santa Claus, so only those who have behaved very badly get presents."

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67

@tsh2 Given that it's a Tesla, I'd be more worried about spontaneous rapid disassembly.

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The human brain is the most complex organ that we know of in the entire universe, and as far as we can tell is unique in the history of life on Earth in its extraordinary ability to ignore reality in favour of comforting, self-serving falsehoods.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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Ever seen the northern lights? You have a magnetic layer in Earth’s atmosphere to thank for those beautiful displays. But the magnetosphere does a lot more than create auroras.

theconversation.com/earths-mag

#physics #science

@unnameduser True, but it's also about pushing us to buy things that very many of us may not actually need. And that is the focus of the article - the intellectual fallacy of capitalism.

"We can't save the world with electric cars"

...and...

"We’ve known for a long time that our GDP addiction and capitalist economic model are incompatible with life on Earth."

Gosh. Huge if true.

euronews.com/next/2023/12/26/w

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That the landing ship completely vanished is not strange given this explosion

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Scottish scientist Mary Somerville was born #OTD in 1780.

During her long life, she occupied an important place in the physical sciences. Her books brought readers up to date with subjects ranging from astronomy & anthropology to microscopy & geology. She introduced the English-speaking world to Laplace’s celestial mechanics, wrote an outstanding survey of physical geography, & elucidated the common bonds between the sciences @ a time when they were being carved up into distinct disciplines. 1/

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And you thought T. Sweezy's only talents were singing and playing guitar.

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Today we celebrate the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. Without his invention of calculus we would have no way to stop people who are bad at math from becoming engineers.

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Special Christmas wishes to any #trans folks at the family celebration catching a glimpse of themselves in the mirror and thinking, "Damn, I look good."

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