Tag: freedom
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Prisons: A paradise?!? (for liberals) [OR: Eating apples.]
Prisons. All are treated equally. Food for everyone. Free medical care. Only police has guns. A liberal paradise! Watch out what you dream for. Because while you are dreaming high walls are rising around you. Enclosing you in happiness. (like… Sweden?) Which will seem more and more like unhappiness. Adam and Eve were not in…
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From democracy to totalitarianism. Gradually… Watch out USA! Don’t be Austria! [OR: Why we do not need child care centers]
“I am a witness to history. “I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay…
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Ayahuasca. Hallucinations. Miracles. Subjectivity. Freedom.
Drink ayahuasca and you may see yourself being eaten by a crocodile. You may find a miraculous resolution to a crippling sadness. Or, more likely, you’ll land somewhere in between. Regardless, you will definitely throw up. Author and ethnobotanist Chris Kilham says all of these things have happened to him after drinking this psychoactive Amazonian…
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Fusion energy, Mickey Mouse, Tokamak…
‘The promise of fusion energy has temporarily bridged the wide gap that separates Democrats and Republicans on the science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. But that meeting of minds wasn’t the only surprise to emerge from an oversight hearing Friday on the status of ITER, an experimental fusion reactor being built in France…
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Internet, Brazil, freedom via oppression…
Brazil’s internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country’s president, Dima Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country’s 100 million internet users. (1) Can freedom be determined by a… law? Can…
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