Eric Platon

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Gaza genocide, anyone?

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On "Once again, Russia has shown itself to be an unreliable partner. Alliances with Russia offer no genuine security guarantees", another conclusion is the US is *also* an unreliable partner, resulting from both Europoooor mentality of letting the US police the world (no counter-weight), and (again and again) unilateral decisions to bomb or try to destabilise other countries for whatever made-up reasons that serves its interests.

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Wishing all a good summer, if possible not too scorching.

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There are many examples from computer disk drive performance to social polls to quantum mechanics that show simple metrics/models can give a good idea of what is happening, but they never ever tell the whole story, aka side effects. And I do wish it'd be simple, and I try to find simple solutions too.

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Bioengineering options multiply, but they all sound so simplistic, mono-metric against very complex systems. Missing something? https://heatmap.news/carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity-carbon-credit

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Perhaps issues with producing the paint itself. There can be quite strong chemicals, usually involving PFAS that can be environmentally unfriendly to make and/or use.

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Wondering if there is any downside. It looks pretty straight idea and in tune with hot regions like North Africa, or Greece, where buildings tend to be bright colours.

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A roof painting with thermal properties to cool down buildings. That looks like a good, simple idea. https://www.coolroof-france.com/en/homepage/

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czdvlyjezrdo same thing happened in nyc a few days ago. Beautiful sunny day and out of nowhere a 20 minutes storm that pulled up trees, and after that the same calm weather. Crazy.

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tehran went through its worst night of the war in these 12 days, it was terrifying, the whole city was under fire and smoke, the windows of our parking garage shattered what part of the truth is hidden behind this so called ceasefire?!

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I hear you... And by the way, looking at the absence of condemnation from any country I am "involved" with gives little hope anything's gonna change. Most of the West supports the bully.

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Thanks @anurajenp , now I want this one too... https://www.soldr.pro

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Some education styles also show that focusing on cooperation instead of competition, avoiding easy success metrics, and implement "real" democratic environments lead to cohesive and stable individuals. Some of these styles exist for more than a century (e.g. Summerhill) and was very popular in the US in the 60s.

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Some bacterias "commit suicide" for the sake of their colony (I just remember work with measurements on biofilms with baffling results leading to such an interpretation).

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There it is. The U.S. bombed Iran.

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He is anti-war alright? He’s not anti-strength (aka brute force).

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And of course, there is still need now to find a way for Iran to *not* get nuclear armament. Now probably delayed, but what of their will? Isn’t it American to claim that if you want you can?

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I’ll be asking my government to condemn and act. And I have little hope these gutless marginally elected representatives do more than “call for desescalation”.

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As an observer of a foreign country’s politics, I now have a confirmed, fact-checked opinion: The US administration lies on the Iranian conflict (cutting short of qualifying them as simply liars, but there is plenty data to that bias). The lie is about the refusal to negotiate on the Iranian side. There are multiple open doors to negotiate, under condition of ceasefire. The US and Israeli government are the ones who refused negotiating. Israel-Iran war live: Trump says US has attacked nuclear sites in Iran including Fordow https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/22/israel-iran-war-live-trump-says-us-has-attacked-nuclear-sites-in-iran-including-fordow

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I have no idea about military stuff, but evolution looks pretty slow. Basically still throwing big exploding stuff at each other. The promise of "domes" to prevent the big stuff to reach its target looks like a fantasy, as shown by the scary videos shared this past week. Domes seem pitched as valid protection, but they at best reduce casualties. Actual diplomacy and real "give and take" attitude looks like the only way to have zero casualty. A dome of reason.

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