All we needed to do was accept Ukraine to NATO. Or provide actual military help back in 2014.

Instead we paid more, got hundreds of thousands of people dead, undermined our security guarantees, and all because of short term idiocy/cowardice.

The only reasonable consequence is EU countries getting nukes and getting closer to China.

And we're digging our grave further by Trump undermining NATO guarantees.

They could keep a few hundred no problem.

That's what you get for abandoning Ukraine after Budapest memorandum.

They gave up their nukes to be betrayed. There will be A LOT of new countries with nukes soon because of that.

It's useful to have a word for cumulonimbus and models based on that even if you know it's just a particular configuration of the wave function.

Whether personality is entirely based on laws of physics or not - is a separate question.

Yes. That's the point? Your personality might change and you're still you.

From an evolutionary viewpoint this makes perfect sense.

You better always feel like you otherwise you may not help this non-you survive, hence the non-you's went extinct quickly.

I think of it this way:

    Person me = new Person {
      body: { ... },
      personality/soul: { ... },
      emotionalState: { ... },
      memories: { ... }
    }

The "me" is very small - it's just the structure that holds the pointers to everything else.

Replacement will be 80% worse, that's fine. As long as it's 90% cheaper.

See Duolingo :)

This is like reading somebody's linkedin vs working with them for a month.

BTW the value gained from travel is dropping with every new country. The single biggest lesson is just noticing everything you assumed is obvious and natural that is actually just accidental and specific to your country. Especially Americans would benefit from it.

Mosquitos and flies are much more harmful than spiders.

Use glass and a paper sheet, much easier and less harsh on the "bugs".

I don't find that any easier, and generally don't care about insect welfare.