dimensional deepening
Flight attendant who police say secretly recorded girls in airplane bathroom sentenced to 18.5 years
On 25 May 2003, a Boeing 727-223 airliner was stolen at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda, Angola […] prompting a worldwide search by law enforcement intelligence agencies in the United States. No trace of the aircraft has ever been found.
The Fermi paradox — the apparent absence of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations despite vast cosmic opportunities — may arise from a fundamental misunderstanding of advanced technological development. Building on Smart’s transcension hypothesis (2012) and extending it through the Quantum-Patterned Cosmos (QPC) framework, we propose that civilizations undergo “dimensional deepening” rather than spatial expansion upon reaching a critical coherence threshold. Previously: From these two facts it follows that the evolutionary path to life-forms capable of space colonization leads through a “Great Filter”
Kleptocracy is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population. Kleptocracy is different from plutocracy (rule by the richest) and oligarchy (rule by a small elite). In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates.
“You go on Instagram and everyone is somehow living their best lives,” […] Approximately 60 per cent of Coachella tickets this year were purchased using BNPL (buy now, pay later)
