#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pragmatism, aggregated by home.social.
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Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics
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Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics
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Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics
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Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics
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Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85383…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #convenience #excuse #expediency #justification #opportunism #pragmatism #rationale #selfinterest #selfjustification #virtue
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Follow the Money Toward WWIII — Russia’s $300 billion of confiscated assets make peace close to impossible
It has been said that all wars are “bankers wars,” however, against the modern era of inverted fascism where corporations tell the govt what policies take priority, the more accurate truism ‘is all wars being controlled by money’, not necessarily banks.
The European Commission has constructed a very special kind of proactive financing for Ukraine that doesn’t require them to give their own €uros to the historically corrupt country. Partly because the EU doesn’t have their own money, and partly because everything the EU does in the sphere of finance is always a false construct, what the EU put together was a financial system based on sanctioned, confiscated (ie stolen) Russian sovereign wealth funds {citation}.
As part of the sanction regime, the EU and western NATO alliance seized roughly €250 billion, $300 billion USD, in Russian sovereign wealth assets. As long as the USA was financing the Ukraine government and war effort, those funds sat on the sidelines undiscussed. However, once the USA stopped writing checks to Ukraine an alternate finance system was needed.
What the EU (Ursula von der Leyen) put together was a finance package using the confiscated $300 billion in the Russian sovereign wealth fund as collateral for loans to Ukraine. The EU would send the money to Ukraine as a loan that did not have a payback mechanism. Instead, the thinking goes that when the negotiations for a ceasefire take place, Russia would be forced to give up the confiscated $300 billion as part of a reparations package to Ukraine.
Ukraine doesn’t have to pay back the loans because Russia will be forced to give up their sovereign wealth fund, and those funds will repay the loans. That’s the way the EU financing of Ukraine is set up. {SOURCE} The EU isn’t giving Ukraine EU money; the EU is giving Ukraine the Russian wealth fund money.
Now, immediately you can see a few problems.
♦ PROBLEM 1 – What happens if Russia demands the return of their $300 billion as one of their baseline terms for a peace deal? If the confiscated money is given back to Russia, the EU and Ukraine are on the hook for the $300 billion they would have spent.
♦ PROBLEM 2 – With #1 in mind, there is now an incentive to never reach a peace agreement or ceasefire; at least never reach a solution that would consider the return of the $300 billion. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has previously said the stolen money belongs to the Russian people and must be returned; he will never accept the theft.
There is more than just this very important factor. It strongly appears that the Iran War is spreading and merging with the Ukraine War, which indicates top Western elites are not giving up on destroying Russia, and probably Europe as well. Chaos always favors the strongest players, who may overestimate their positions. Only time will tell. I dislike predictions but do like seeing the signs of things that may come to be and assessing them based on what seems probable. WW3 is a constantly increasing possibility and has been on a front burner since Gaza, and now Iran. If USA agrees to marry Israel’s IDF, that will mean WW3 will follow with much greater probability. Notice the many ties between China and Israel, as both deeply infiltrate USA and Europe with many similar aims. I can imagine an Israeli-Chinese plot to goad Europe and USA into war with Russia, while China and Israel wait on the sidelines to reap the spoils. China will gain territory from and power over a war-torn Russia, while Israel will increase its control over USA and Europe, and probably take full control of Ukraine, if not more. ABN
#abn #economics #gameTheory #geopolitics #globopinko #incompetence #infiltration #KOBK #pragmatism #strategy #usurpation #war -
🚀 Behold the "Best Simple System for Now," where complex buzzwords go to die! Dan North graces us with the revelation that #perfectionism and #pragmatism are not mutually exclusive—who knew? 🙄 In just 26 minutes, this masterpiece of redundancy assures us that we can have our cake and eat it too, if only we follow the sacred tenets of #XML streaming and #JSON library worship. 🍰💻
https://dannorth.net/blog/best-simple-system-for-now/ #BestSimpleSystem #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York AmericanMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #compensation #diplomacy #disagreeability #friction #imperfection #offense #politeness #pragmatism #prudence #saint #sincerity #tact #virtue
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My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social
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https://theconversation.com/politicians-now-talk-of-climate-pragmatism-to-delay-action-new-study-264317; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-025-03987-4 (open access). For #climate #pragmatism, read climate #denialism, @GeraldKutney. #Badenoch & the #Tories are serving the interests of the #fossilfuel industry, not those of the #people or the #planet.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed of them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (1852-07-14)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #thoreau #aging #ambition #aspirations #dreams #gettingold #grandiosity #growingold #maturity #meme #middleage #practicality #pragmatism #youth
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A simple yet overlooked practical & experimental conclusion to be drawn from Jane #Addams' philosophy is that if we wish to introduce new information into any social transaction then, to control the effects of this, we should do so in as noiseless (i.e. neutral) a way as possible.
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Deep into Jane #Addams' writings and works at the moment. Can't shake the feeling that the most fruitful reconstruction we could work on #pragmatism studies would involve raising her work to its rightful level of attention alongside the three classical "founders" of pragmatism, i.e. #Peirce, #James, #Dewey. The sheer depth of influence on Dewey from Addams' insights, resulting from her own hands-on cooperative work at Hull House, is as staggering as it is inspiring.
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⬆️ Discover more about Jane #Addams and Alice #Hamilton in this recent documentary about the truly extraordinary work they and other women at Hull-House accomplished:
https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/jane-addams/video?v=full-ep -
Take a little tour of the Center for Dewey Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSuB1Eju5I
#CenterForDeweyStudies #JohnDewey #Philosophy #Education #AmericanPhilosophy #Pragmatism #SIU #SIUC
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Take a little tour of the Center for Dewey Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSuB1Eju5I
#CenterForDeweyStudies #JohnDewey #Philosophy #Education #AmericanPhilosophy #Pragmatism #SIU #SIUC