So, a new Copenhagen interpretation? 🤔

Just today I have again started to listen the book “Ageless” by Andrew Steele, which mentioned this tortoise at the very beginning. BTW, a great book about the real science how we can practically stop aging and dying from it.

EU invites you to provide evidence about role of open source software as a strategic asset. So we will be able to break free from even more things that fund this clown.

Contribute before 3rd February 2026.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-opens-call-evidence-open-source-digital-ecosystems

I had big problems with languages all the way up to university, but get Esperanto pretty quickly. Good luck 🤞

Ah, OK. Because someone was posting about Esperanto in a different writing system.

By chance, is it you who is posting this on Mastodon?

If you are website enjoyer, https://lernu.net/ is a solid, free of charge web course in many languages, with big community.

I have also heard good reviews on the Zagreb Method - https://esperanto12.net/

If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.

Of you are a book person, I have read that “Complete Esperanto” by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also “Esperanto per rekta metodo” (“Esperanto by direct method”, so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.

Some very basic stuff, mostly list of common phases for traveling, it’s available at Wikivoyage, in several languages 👇 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143#sitelinks-wikivoyage

Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use…

If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).

Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!

Freedom of free software.

English, as an national language, is great for national communication.

But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.

There are at least 2 important factors:

1. neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.

2. ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It’s grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manĝi, manĝeti, manĝegi, manĝo, manĝaĵo, manĝejo, manĝiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It’s just much not efficient.

Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.

Anti-vaxxers when they get know that significant majority of new confirmed polio cases are caused by vaccines: 😎

I even work on spreading Esperanto, as a neutral language for Europe and humankind 🫡

Once polio was nearly everywhere, now it is near extinction 😎

If that money would go to create a next gen agriculture, it could be a great investment. I mean things like cellular agriculture, cultured meat, precision fermentation, generally more non-animal foods.

Hopefully it would have better logistics than Martian probe…

Modern engineer would built an aquaduct in kilometers, not miles 😅

You automatically are 😎 That’s the magic of federating.

You can search and follow users from other PixelFed (even Mastodon!) servers in same / similar way as users on gram.social. I am on gram.social too and I hardly know whether some user is even on PixelFed 😂

Should be in [[Category:Political history]].

Are you from USA, France or else?

I wouldn’t say that I am fully prepared, but to significant extent prepared that my physical body will die eventually. As a spiritually based person I believe that the real self is timeless and spaceless, so eternal, never entered the flow of time in the first place, so can’t die in the usual meaning. But to some extent, I am more terrified by such eternal existence than the prospect of entirety nonexisting…

But I prefer to die extremely old. I am not speaking about around one hundred. I mean at least several hundreds, preferably at least several thousands of years old. Really old! Medicine is not on such level yet, but progressing. The field of longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal / anti-aging is still criminally underfunded, what slows progress down, but it is going.

If also you want to make sure that most of humans can live to such world, where aging related diseases are gone, request your government to fund aging-reversal research and sign the https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/

Deja vu 🤔