yeah noether’s theorem isn’t perfect because it only discusses continuous symmetries. nevertheless, it still applies here.

the symmetries that are associated with the genome are rather broad, actually. for example, if a living organism moves both in time and in space, the genome stays the same, while the proteins in the body might change due to different gene expression (Regulation of gene expression). and therefore the metabolites produced change as well.

we need

• links from fediverse instances to other fediverse instances
• maybe tools like https://fediversemap.com/ to find fediverse instances that are physically close to you, to connect to people irl and organize irl events
• prefer to post content on already existing instances so you get better exposure

yeah it’s convergent behavior. like they all independently arrive at the same behavior which causes the illusion of coherence where there is none.

mass emigration

to where?

You’re talking as if the billionaires are a group of organized people who know what they’re doing and act accordingly in a coordinated way.

I think the billionaires are a group of individuals, each trying to maximize their wealth, and they will absolutely take what they can get, because if they don’t, some other billionaire will take it.

And i see no evidence that they would stop short of causing mass poverty that will lead to riots.

money represents power and whoever has power will have the money.

i think you’re looking at this from a very “everyday” perspective - you think of money as something that is passed around and goes from A to B. the system at large does not work that way. just like the earth is flat if you look at any small patch of it but is round when you look at it globally, the economy works very differently whether you look at it at an everyday scale or at a global scale.

on a global scale, things are determined by geopolitical considerations, not by whatever companies or buyers/sellers do. like, that china exports so-and-so many tons of steel and imports so-and-so many tons of pork meat has very little to do with companies working hard to produce these products. it’s mostly some globalist philosophy to determine what happens on a global scale. for example, tariffs might completely change the game, if only there is the political will for that. as do free-trade agreements.

again, the same is true for any big country. “money” on a country-level is a fiction. it was invented by banks for complex reasons (mostly to simplify trade) and can be modified as long as it’s meaningful to the state’s politics. like, the state can just print more money through the federal reserve bank. in fact, it does that all the time. that cannot be explained by simple “trade transactions” as you’re imagining them rn. there’s abstract and complex and completely non-trivial maths involved in this game. “what happens when the billionaires own everything” only makes sense as a question when you consider that the concept of “owning” stuff is fundamental - which it is not. “Ownership” is a legal construct because the state deems it useful. with a different philosophy, the very concept of “ownership” might lose traction and become meaningless. The question therefore is: What is the political will at a state level?

i think search engines are … tricky

i always prefer lists and indexes over search engines because search engines feels a bit like voodoo magic to me, it has unpredictable outcomes. for example, sometimes you need just the right keyword for search engines to give you meaningful results, and otherwise it will just not return anything. and that is a lot like chatgpt … you ask it something and it might give you a meaningful response. or it might completely miss the point. when there’s an actual list of communities that is small and complete, then i can go through it manually to check where it might be.

everything is an echo chamber

can you name a single thing that’s not an echo chamber of some sorts?

the side bars for each community can effectively be a webring. i’m talking about these things here:

(example is the sidebar of the /c/[email protected] community)

nice, not too bot-infested, privacy-respecting, free, distributed and federated platform

nice, mediocrely bot-infested, publicly readable, donation-funded, distributed and federated platform

ftfy

I think making your articles on the fediverse is better than building your blog website from scratch.

Instead of https://thisismywebsite.com/blog/
instead do https://mylemmyinstance.com/c/myblog

This way, it better integrates with fediverse mechanics such as follow, like, comment. Also people can discover your stuff through the “all” feed, even though unlikely, maybe one day we’ll get more interesting recommendation algorithms for the fediverse.

biological chemistry

fun fact: I have had a years-long interest into biochemistry since i was 12, and i want to study biology because of it, but i can’t; because i don’t have the time/money, because i need to get a job now to earn money, instead of spending another 6 years in school.

I also believe in free education, which includes research facilities.

eh i don’t have the energy to explain it rn in full detail but let’s say at the least i think that literature (of all sorts) should be a non-profit thing, not written for profit. and monasteries were the closest to a non-profit thing that you could get in the medieval ages.

It is my belief that every society benefits from free healthcare.

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How did bookwriting monasteries sustain themselves in the medieval ages?

I think that newspapers should be surprisingly similar to that.

like no. i never cared but also i’m not a normal person

people have different tastes. it’s routine that i find the women most attractive that others find most unattractive, and vice versa.

autistic girls exist, you know?

Spaceflight creates jobs.