Aarros
@aarros.bsky.social
Physics MSc., PhD student. I like science, history, and being honest, and seeking and holding to the truth in all things regardless of whether it is convenient. Pro-EU, pro-Ukraine, pro-rationalism. Against evil: Barbarians, fascists, and their supporters.
Like asking during WWII: "Why don't the Jews and Nazis just get along with each other?"
Maybe because the Nazis brutally attacked and inflicted the Holocaust on the Jews, while the Jews were the ones who just wanted to get along?
Vance is an insanely evil and stupid piece of excrement.
Maybe because the Nazis brutally attacked and inflicted the Holocaust on the Jews, while the Jews were the ones who just wanted to get along?
Vance is an insanely evil and stupid piece of excrement.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Like asking during WWII: "Why don't the Jews and Nazis just get along with each other?"
Maybe because the Nazis brutally attacked and inflicted the Holocaust on the Jews, while the Jews were the ones who just wanted to get along?
Vance is an insanely evil and stupid piece of excrement.
Maybe because the Nazis brutally attacked and inflicted the Holocaust on the Jews, while the Jews were the ones who just wanted to get along?
Vance is an insanely evil and stupid piece of excrement.
Someone should tell Trump a simple but true thing that might actually get through to him: Trying to force Ukraine surrender doesn't make USA look strong. It makes USA, and especially Trump and his admin, look EXTREMELY weak. Someone ask him to his face if he wants to be a weak loser who gave up.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Someone should tell Trump a simple but true thing that might actually get through to him: Trying to force Ukraine surrender doesn't make USA look strong. It makes USA, and especially Trump and his admin, look EXTREMELY weak. Someone ask him to his face if he wants to be a weak loser who gave up.
Arlington in USA: "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God"
Also quite moving.
Also quite moving.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Arlington in USA: "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God"
Also quite moving.
Also quite moving.
I have no love for Russians, but incidentally, the quote on their tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow is very good:
"Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal."
"Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal."
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have no love for Russians, but incidentally, the quote on their tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow is very good:
"Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal."
"Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal."
I recently encountered that quote while reading about various monuments to unknown soldiers. That same quote is written on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. (My admittedly incomplete understanding of what it means: Great men's "tomb monument" is their legacy and effect on the whole world.)
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I recently encountered that quote while reading about various monuments to unknown soldiers. That same quote is written on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. (My admittedly incomplete understanding of what it means: Great men's "tomb monument" is their legacy and effect on the whole world.)
I would avoid sharing anything by him, as he is an apologist for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and their genocidal actions against Ukrainian civilians.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I would avoid sharing anything by him, as he is an apologist for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and their genocidal actions against Ukrainian civilians.
Otherwise people will be advocating for policy that only makes sense in a world where for example ICBMs work completely differently from how they actually work. Or nuclear escalation in general.
And that might even cause them to unwittingly advocate actions that make nuclear war more likely.
And that might even cause them to unwittingly advocate actions that make nuclear war more likely.
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Otherwise people will be advocating for policy that only makes sense in a world where for example ICBMs work completely differently from how they actually work. Or nuclear escalation in general.
And that might even cause them to unwittingly advocate actions that make nuclear war more likely.
And that might even cause them to unwittingly advocate actions that make nuclear war more likely.
The message is ofc obvious: Nuclear war is a very bad idea.
But the process by which we might end up in a nuclear war, and how that might be prevented, for that it is pretty crucial to get right details like "Do we have a hotline to Putin", "Can we actually shoot down ICBMs?" etc.
But the process by which we might end up in a nuclear war, and how that might be prevented, for that it is pretty crucial to get right details like "Do we have a hotline to Putin", "Can we actually shoot down ICBMs?" etc.
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The message is ofc obvious: Nuclear war is a very bad idea.
But the process by which we might end up in a nuclear war, and how that might be prevented, for that it is pretty crucial to get right details like "Do we have a hotline to Putin", "Can we actually shoot down ICBMs?" etc.
But the process by which we might end up in a nuclear war, and how that might be prevented, for that it is pretty crucial to get right details like "Do we have a hotline to Putin", "Can we actually shoot down ICBMs?" etc.
No one cares about The Martian getting things some things inaccurate. It doesn't have many real-world consequences.
Nuclear war is a very real issue and it genuinely affects people's political views. Nuclear war in a text that is not explicitly fiction deserves to be torn to pieces by pedantry.
Nuclear war is a very real issue and it genuinely affects people's political views. Nuclear war in a text that is not explicitly fiction deserves to be torn to pieces by pedantry.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
No one cares about The Martian getting things some things inaccurate. It doesn't have many real-world consequences.
Nuclear war is a very real issue and it genuinely affects people's political views. Nuclear war in a text that is not explicitly fiction deserves to be torn to pieces by pedantry.
Nuclear war is a very real issue and it genuinely affects people's political views. Nuclear war in a text that is not explicitly fiction deserves to be torn to pieces by pedantry.
The thing is, it is very unsophisticated. That is the sad and astoninshing thing. It turns out that people are extremely easy to manipulate if you control enough of the media. Have you seen Fox News? It is frankly very poor quality. But its watchers do not care, they are addicted to the propaganda.
October 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The thing is, it is very unsophisticated. That is the sad and astoninshing thing. It turns out that people are extremely easy to manipulate if you control enough of the media. Have you seen Fox News? It is frankly very poor quality. But its watchers do not care, they are addicted to the propaganda.
You're no doubt aware of Peter Thiel who is basically the puppetmaster behind Vance. He is one of the people who will take (even more) control behind the scenes once Trump's lifetime of burgers finally catches up to him.
October 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You're no doubt aware of Peter Thiel who is basically the puppetmaster behind Vance. He is one of the people who will take (even more) control behind the scenes once Trump's lifetime of burgers finally catches up to him.
They can get Trump (and others) to do it for them. Or have you not noticed who benefits from Trump, who gets tax breaks, who own most of the main media that constantly promotes and sanewashes Trump and smears his opponents? Even NYT now cannot go a day without bothsides issues in his favor.
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
They can get Trump (and others) to do it for them. Or have you not noticed who benefits from Trump, who gets tax breaks, who own most of the main media that constantly promotes and sanewashes Trump and smears his opponents? Even NYT now cannot go a day without bothsides issues in his favor.
I did not inherit millions of dollars from my father nor grow up with major business connections or political connections.
I am also not an insanely evil person who wants to ruthlessly manipulate other people for my own gain.
I am also not an insanely evil person who wants to ruthlessly manipulate other people for my own gain.
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I did not inherit millions of dollars from my father nor grow up with major business connections or political connections.
I am also not an insanely evil person who wants to ruthlessly manipulate other people for my own gain.
I am also not an insanely evil person who wants to ruthlessly manipulate other people for my own gain.
I suppose the real question is that how it is that Trump is the one who figured this out, and not someone else. Or did Trump just get lucky and use this at the exact moment when it actually became viable? Would Trump-style rhetoric have worked in, say, the 1990s?
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I suppose the real question is that how it is that Trump is the one who figured this out, and not someone else. Or did Trump just get lucky and use this at the exact moment when it actually became viable? Would Trump-style rhetoric have worked in, say, the 1990s?
Well, it turns out that American voters were much easier to manipulate than anyone ever thought. All you really had to do was lie to their faces and never back down on those lies, and they ate it up. It is one of the most astonishing things I have ever seen, honestly. Turns out they are even dumber.
October 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Well, it turns out that American voters were much easier to manipulate than anyone ever thought. All you really had to do was lie to their faces and never back down on those lies, and they ate it up. It is one of the most astonishing things I have ever seen, honestly. Turns out they are even dumber.
This is especially esasy in USA where the legal system is insanely easy towards rich people. They get away with basically anything. If you fraud non-rich people, they cannot afford the lawyers to beat your expensive lawyers. And you can even buy politicians (99% of R, some D) to look the other way.
October 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is especially esasy in USA where the legal system is insanely easy towards rich people. They get away with basically anything. If you fraud non-rich people, they cannot afford the lawyers to beat your expensive lawyers. And you can even buy politicians (99% of R, some D) to look the other way.
Usually such people end up as common conmen, pyramid scheme frausters or something like that, but if they start with enough money and connections (both of which Musk and Trump inherited from their parents), they can fraud on a scale that basically makes them immune to consequences.
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Usually such people end up as common conmen, pyramid scheme frausters or something like that, but if they start with enough money and connections (both of which Musk and Trump inherited from their parents), they can fraud on a scale that basically makes them immune to consequences.
It isn't that they are smart in any way. It is that they are insanely evil and ruthless and shameless narcissists who do not hesitate to manipulate and screw over everyone they meet without a second thought.
October 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It isn't that they are smart in any way. It is that they are insanely evil and ruthless and shameless narcissists who do not hesitate to manipulate and screw over everyone they meet without a second thought.
Hopefully Stubb is just knowingly lying to try to flatter Trump, because anyone with even the tiniest bit of sense can see that Trump is doing exactly the opposite.
October 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hopefully Stubb is just knowingly lying to try to flatter Trump, because anyone with even the tiniest bit of sense can see that Trump is doing exactly the opposite.
Well, this aged well with Trump now saying that Putin should get to keep what he occupies.
October 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Well, this aged well with Trump now saying that Putin should get to keep what he occupies.
Has he really shifted his position? He hasn't done much as far as I can see. At best, he has stopped being on the way as much as before. He hasn't really given more aid, just allowed Europe to buy Ukraine weapons from USA.
October 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Has he really shifted his position? He hasn't done much as far as I can see. At best, he has stopped being on the way as much as before. He hasn't really given more aid, just allowed Europe to buy Ukraine weapons from USA.
Staccato, as in shortened notes.
Because a lot of Estonian words are missing what would be there in their Finnish equivalent, like suffixes and letters at the end words. Gives me a feeling like missing the last step in stairs.
E.g. "isamaa on minu arm", "isämaani on minun armas".
Because a lot of Estonian words are missing what would be there in their Finnish equivalent, like suffixes and letters at the end words. Gives me a feeling like missing the last step in stairs.
E.g. "isamaa on minu arm", "isämaani on minun armas".
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Staccato, as in shortened notes.
Because a lot of Estonian words are missing what would be there in their Finnish equivalent, like suffixes and letters at the end words. Gives me a feeling like missing the last step in stairs.
E.g. "isamaa on minu arm", "isämaani on minun armas".
Because a lot of Estonian words are missing what would be there in their Finnish equivalent, like suffixes and letters at the end words. Gives me a feeling like missing the last step in stairs.
E.g. "isamaa on minu arm", "isämaani on minun armas".
Estonian is Staccato-Finnish.
As as somewhat related note, it is interesting how Hungarian has some of the same... energy as Finnish. Not surprising given they are all in the same language family, but it is surprising how powerfully I feel it even though I understand only a few words of Hungarian.
As as somewhat related note, it is interesting how Hungarian has some of the same... energy as Finnish. Not surprising given they are all in the same language family, but it is surprising how powerfully I feel it even though I understand only a few words of Hungarian.
October 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Estonian is Staccato-Finnish.
As as somewhat related note, it is interesting how Hungarian has some of the same... energy as Finnish. Not surprising given they are all in the same language family, but it is surprising how powerfully I feel it even though I understand only a few words of Hungarian.
As as somewhat related note, it is interesting how Hungarian has some of the same... energy as Finnish. Not surprising given they are all in the same language family, but it is surprising how powerfully I feel it even though I understand only a few words of Hungarian.