At the very minimum, there are beliefs that are validated by reality and ones that are not. We have to believe that someone, in certain areas, tells the truth -and build up on that.īut reducing the matter to just “I believe A, you believe B, why is your belief better than mine?” misses a very big point. Since then, all of us have to please our trust somewhere. Look, let’s be honest here: the last man described as “universalist”, an all-knowing polymath, was Henri Poincaré, and he died more than 100 years ago. You have virologists that present solid, peer reviewed evidence on COVID-19, and others that rely on unscientific gobbledygook, even flat-out schoolboy math errors, just so they can advance that “COVID is mostly harmless” or “it’s no worse than the flu” (which it bloody isn’t). You see distinguished members of the US Republican Party distance themselves or even denounce Donald Trump. I’ve since tried to follow this a bit more closely, and by now it’s clear to me.
For them, the opposing party will always be wrong. Whether the actions of the government were right or wrong, it simply didn’t matter. The “others” were bashing the actions of the government… because they were followers of a different political party. Why? Both of us were defending government policies that, no matter how much you liked or hated the current Greek government, were based on the medical research that was available at the time. At the same time, the doctor kept disagreeing with people that belonged to the same party -or at least were clearly left-leaning. I’ve first come to this realization some months ago, when I noted that, during discussions in a social network, I kept agreeing with a left-leaning doctor while being more of a free-market person myself (though I’m nowhere near to being an Ayn Rand fan). There are still people that believe that “workers should own the means of production” (a Marxist thesis) or that “a man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress” (an Ayn Rand thesis).īut everyone that takes even a casual look at talk shows, or the social networks, actually any medium that hosts public discourse will note that the lines are increasingly being drawn in a different way: those that base their opinions on reason -or at least try- and those that advance or fall prey to conspiracy theories and other instances of unfounded beliefs. It’s not that these differences do not exist, or have been ironed out. People have not only hotly debated the differences between different forms of government, they have literally given their lives for it. So clearly both the economic and the societal dimensions of politics are important. On one hand you have progressive, permissive societies, like Denmark or the Netherlands, and on the other conservative, authoritarian ones like China or Russia. The social behaviours that are or are not allowed are at least as important, if not more. the political compass, you would note that there’s more to politics than the way the state handles people’s money. In addition to the above, if you follow a more holistic school of thought like e.g. above or below the equator) and west or east of the prime meridian (i.e. You need to specify if you’re on the northern or southern hemisphere (i.e. Note that the these coordinates need an addition. After I find a suitable place I click on it and copy the coordinates. In the case of the photo above “somewhere in Larnaca” is good enough -that’s where we went for our customary end-of-highschool 5-day trip. Again, I don’t need it to be 100% correct. Then I go to Google Maps and find the place they were taken in. For old photos, this takes some guesswork but that’s ok -it doesn’t have to be 100% accurate. Next step is that, every time I have a new batch of scanned photos, I have to decide when and where they were taken.
AVAST CONNECTION NOT ESTABLISHED INSTALL
I googled around and found the solution using exiftool and touch (on linux) or powershell (on windows). “Cyprus” (where the photo above was taken, a looong time ago) and it won’t get shown when I create a map of where I’ve been.įirst world problems, I know, but still. I also cannot find it by searching for e.g. My cloud photo app doesn’t display it on the right “On this day” day. But then I have another problem: the date of the photos is not correct, and there’s no GPS location info (the so-called metadata). So what I do is scan them and upload them to the cloud.