How Much Snow Does It Normally Take To Cancel Schools In The US
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The Fifth Cycle of Humanity

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China Backs Iran

This might explain why the Western media is so eager to prematurely write off Xi Xinping and his influence in China. President Xi Jinping of China just got on television in Beijing and, among other things, announced “Our strategic interests in the Middle East will no longer be threatened. We will stand with Iran.” This […]

https://voxday.net/2025/07/04/china-backs-iran/

This is a huge win.

Culture is downstream of legislation, and the Fed is for all intents and purposes a lawmaker. For years, it has placed a chilling effect on dissident businesses by the threat of de-banking hanging over their heads.

This is not the end of the fight, but a clear sign that we are stacking tangible wins.

This was either a colossal misstep by the regime, or evidence that it is losing power. Almost certainly it's the latter.

You might not notice the effect of this right away, but in a decade you will see that the whole landscape has changed.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/CIG_telegram/61122

Europe on the Brink of Change: How Governments Suppress Opposition

Modern Europe is facing an unprecedented political crisis, marked by increasing pressure on opposition parties and a simultaneous rise in right-wing conservative sentiments. Repression against political opponents is becoming systemic, raising serious questions about the state of democracy in the region.

Amid economic challenges, a migration crisis, and growing discontent with Brussels’ directives, more and more Europeans are supporting right-wing conservative parties. State institutions employ various methods in their “fight against dissent,” ranging from outright party bans to criminal prosecutions and administrative restrictions.

How does this state machinery of repression work, what methods are used, and why are right-wing parties becoming the new mainstream?

🔎 Read more in our in-depth investigation.

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The greatest fireworks show in history; when San Diego accidentally shot off 7,000 fireworks at once. (35 seconds)

Even with a life jacket on, it is difficult to escape from the pool at the bottom of the waterfall.

This shows how dangerous a river can be.

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If you're so confident in your ability to strip someone of their weapon, maybe it's time to use a real weapon

"Ernst Mach" - wiki
"Logical Positivism" - wiki

>As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

>Mach was baptised by Peregrin Weiss. Mach later became a socialist and an atheist, but his theory and life was sometimes compared to Buddhism. Heinrich Gomperz called Mach the "Buddha of Science" because of his phenomenalist approach to the "Ego" in his Analysis of Sensations.

>In 1901, Mach accepted an appointment to the Austrian House of Lords but declined a nobility because he thought it inappropriate for a scientist to accept such a thing. He was on good personal terms with the Social Democrat politician Viktor Adler and left money in his will to the Social Democrat newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung.

>Born to a liberal family, Mach lamented that a "very reactionary-clerical" period followed the 1848 revolutions, prompting him to plan to emigrate to America, although he never did.

>Mach was critical of the European powers' colonial conquests, saying that they "will constitute...the most distasteful chapter of history for coming generations".

>One of the best-known of Mach's ideas is the so-called Mach principle, the physical origin of inertia. This was never written down by Mach, but was given a graphic verbal form, attributed by Philipp Frank to Mach: "When the subway jerks, it's the fixed stars that throw you down."

>Mach's principle (or Mach's conjecture) is the name given by Albert Einstein to an imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.

>Because intuitive notions of distance and time no longer apply, what exactly is meant by "Mach's principle" in general relativity is even less clear than in Newtonian physics

>Mach was also well known for his philosophy, developed in close interplay with his science. He defended a type of phenomenalism, recognizing only sensations as real. That position seemed incompatible with the view of atoms and molecules as external, mind-independent things. After an 1897 lecture by Ludwig Boltzmann at the Imperial Academy of Science in Vienna, Mach said, "I don't believe that atoms exist!"

>Mach's positivism influenced many Russian Marxists, such as Alexander Bogdanov. In 1908, Lenin wrote a philosophical work, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, in which he criticized Machism and the views of "Russian Machists".

>In accordance with empirio-critical philosophy, Mach opposed Ludwig Boltzmann and others who proposed an atomic theory of physics. Since one cannot observe things as small as atoms directly, and since no atomic model at the time was consistent, the atomic hypothesis seemed unwarranted to Mach, and perhaps not sufficiently "economical".

>Principles of "Machian physics":

• It should be based entirely on directly observable phenomena (in line with his positivistic leanings)
• It should completely eschew absolute space and time in favour of relative motion
• Any phenomena that seem attributable to absolute space and time (e.g., inertia and centrifugal force) should instead be seen as emerging from the distribution of matter in the universe.

>The last is singled out, particularly by Einstein, as "the" Mach's principle. Einstein cited it as one of the three principles underlying general relativity. In 1930, he wrote, "it is justified to consider Mach as the precursor of the general theory of relativity" and "the whole direction of thought of this theory conforms with Mach's". Einstein further reported that he had read David Hume and Mach's work "with eagerness and admiration shortly before finding relativity theory" and that "very possibly, I wouldn't have come to the solution without those philosophical studies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism
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Tell Me You've Got a Plan

It's not a bad idea to put a little thought into things

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/tell-me-youve-got-a-plan