Also be the Hip Hop Pop, which imo is more important.

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All three have historical examples. Almost too many times to count groups that invaded China assimilated to the Han culture. When’s the slavs moved into the baltics their culture remained mostly unaffected. Then there are all the fun cultural mixing examples that provide definitely the best cuisines and music in my opinion. The Americas are ripe with them.

I don’t think you can definitely say mixing would be the dominant outcome, but it’s the one I would hope for.

Culture is such an ethereal thing. It seems like there are three cultural scenarios: immigrants assimilate, cultures mix, and immigrant culture takes over. This is obviously a spectrum and not rigidly defined categories, but I wonder what the major factors are determining how cultures interact. You have to assume the population proportion is a main contributor. I assume language must be also.

If you make completely porous borders does that encourage new cultures to grow through mixing, or does it allow a single culture to dominate?

Just some musings barely related to the topic.

Is chemical energy more readily available from plastics than from wood? You’d have to imagine it is if evolution is adapting these timescales.

Oh yeah, location sharing will have almost no effect those risks. Totally agree.

Just disagreeing that low probability of occurrence automatically means the risk assessment should be low.

Risk assessment is probability and severity. The probability can be vanishingly low, but if the severity is astoundingly high then acting like a high risk situation could be appropriate.

Take asteroids. The last planet killer to hit us was 94million years ago. A rudimentary estimate could put the probably as 1:94mil. The severity of an asteroid impact of that magnitude is off the charts, so it is reasonable to consider it a risk and act accordingly to spend resources to search for and track asteroid trajectories.

The severity of abduction, murder, and rape is probably pretty high for most people, so considering it a risk even with a very small probability is not unreasonable.

I’m not really sure what you’re asking or getting at. Could you be more explicit?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_recycling

Aluminium recycling is the process in which secondary commercial aluminium is created from scrap or other forms of end-of-life or otherwise unusable aluminium.[1] It involves re-melting the metal, which is cheaper and more energy-efficient than the production of virgin aluminium by electrolysis of alumina (Al2O3) refined from raw bauxite by use of the Bayer and Hall–Héroult processes.

Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore.[2]

Cans and glass are infinitely recyclable. Recycling aluminum saves 96% of the energy of producing new.

Paper is semi recyclable, but it degrades, so it can only go through the process a certain number of times.

Plastic is marginally recyclable. Only about 10% of plastic that goes into a recycling bin gets recycled. It was a hoax by petro-chem to make plastic seem more sustainable than it is.

My old boss used to say “Hope is not a strategy.” I think that’s a pretty good philosophy.

They probably hit that number in Gaza today before breakfast.

I really love this cover of virtual insanity.

https://youtu.be/ZTDcdRTziMM

I know it’s almost unrelated to the discussion because you’re talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?

My brain forgets how to read when someone is watching. It can be a meme with 5 words… if they’re watching me while I look at it, it might as well be in Sanskrit.

Is that the artists name?

I’d argue the checks and balances worked, the electorate failed. Trump tried to overturn and election and the checks and balances held. That should have been political suicide. He should have not even won a school board seat after that, but the electorate failed and reinstated him. You cannot build enough checks and balances into representative government to save the electorate from repeated mistakes. The checks are there to ensure someone must show their true intents to the electorate before they make a choice.

Damn. My b.

They’re all fried tubers. I’ll let it slide. The real travesty is no fried yuca on the list.

It’s an old saying. The Empire had colonies all over the world so at any point in time it was day for at least one colony. Therefore the sun never set on The Empire as a whole.

The joke is making fun of that old saying, pretending it means there is no night for the British isles and all the sun is causing the temperature of the isles to increase.

I hope that’s enough explanation to remove any humor from the joke.

Also in dreams.