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Bob marsden's avatar

"... partners in space": Chinese?

Putin exults in detail and continually checks his understandings with his experts. He challenges his ignorance. Amazing.

Titov: "we have to analyze trends in the development of modern technologies, determine, build forecasts, and calculate the probability of using certain means. And already on the basis of these data, conduct your own analytical and experimental research, develop equipment, test it, and apply it."

A lucid epitome of ACTION RESEARCH as opposed to teleological dead reckoning, deterministic mental ballistics, setting a target and going straight at it with no intermediate feedback and course correction. In social and political development this performative distinction is essential, and is why the Chinese and Russians can build a mutualist/socialist polity to ensure the comprehensive individual, familial and communal wellbeing of all their people as the universal norm. And why the Western religiously neoliberal autocracies can't. In these publicly austere, privately bountiful, suffocating systems everybody has to pay their owners for their lives, whereas in mutualist societies people's lives are free to live, communally guaranteed.

On mentoring: competing with your colleagues or trying to control them is absurd and flies in the face of a fundamental principle of mutualism: 'Help each other out, don't do each other down.' Mentoring is core helping out.

Karl: [Russia] "an outstanding system of education that has as its goal of ensuring every Russian is employable in the field of a person's choice and merit." Socio-educational mutualism.

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Don Firineach's avatar

Bit off thread but suspect that much Russian research on the changing Arctic. Brief summary:

An Arctic 'beyond recognition' by 2100

What's coming for the fastest-warming region of Earth?

Based on the current pledges of countries for limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases, global temperatures are projected to reach 2.7 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels by the end of this century. A new review paper highlights how this would dramatically reshape the Arctic, the fastest-warming region of Earth.

... "The Arctic is warming at four times the rate of the rest of the planet," said Stroeve. "At 2.7 degrees Celsius of global warming, we will see more extreme and cascading impacts in this region than elsewhere, including sea-ice-free Arctic summers, accelerated melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, widespread permafrost loss, and more extreme air temperatures. These changes will devastate infrastructure, ecosystems, vulnerable communities, and wildlife."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250207152721.htm

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