camarada rafa @rafachka@qoto.org

"It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold. A mysterious event that did not seem at first to be connected with Pauli's presence once occurred in Professor J. Franck's laboratory in Göttingen. Early one afternoon, without apparent cause, a complicated apparatus for the study of atomic phenomena collapsed. Franck wrote humorously about this to Pauli at his Zürich address and, after some delay, received an answer in an envelope with a Danish stamp. Pauli wrote that he had gone to visit Bohr and at the time of the mishap in Franck's laboratory his train was stopped for a few minutes at the Göttingen railroad station"

"I am a consciousness, a singular being who resides nowhere and can make itself present everywhere through intention. Everything that exists, exists as either thing or as consciousness, and there is no in between. The thing is in a place, but perception is nowhere, for if it were situated it could not make other things exist for itself." - Maurice Merleau-Ponty in PoP

“We feel free because we lack the language to articulate our unfreedom.” — Slavoj Žižek

if you describe yourself as polymath there's a 99% chance you're bougie \[ and \] liberal

Returning to Venezuela, the French journalist opined that the “overt coup attempt” — “which follows the pattern of hijacking social unrest for regime change policy is doomed to failure” — as it was “very poorly planned”.First, Russia, China as well as Turkey and Iran have signalled their support for the legitimately elected president of Venezuela — Nicolas Maduro, he stressed. Second,

“not only the Venezuelan army is loyal to Maduro, but the former labour union leader also has the support of Chavez’s Red Shirts, an informal but numerous militia organisation”, he added.

At the same time, according to the journalist, “a military attack from NATO or using Colombia and Brazil for a proxy war with Venezuela seems out of the question”.

“It is rather obvious that the US empire has lost his knack for coups”, Mercier said. “Take Chile in the early 1970s, when Henry Kissinger and the CIA decided to get rid of the ‘dangerous lefty’ Salvador Allende to curtail the so called ‘communist domino effect’, they handpicked General Augusto Pinochet to head a military junta to topple and murder Allende. One can say that imperialism, evil as it is, requires a minimum of skills and ‘savoir faire’ which seems to have vanished in recent US administrations, including the current one”.

As for Maduro, this situation could actually give him “an opportunity to improve on his country’s management which has been quite problematic”, the French journalist believes.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/oil-neocons-monroe-doctrine-trumps-venezuela-plan/5667406?fbclid=IwAR1VXi6UC9yovaVIq16wBMij7-rIcv9peJND6u4vz-_YrW7WpxMQ8HZcXZY

currently using Amaroq for mastodon on my phone, very cool

i want a portable pizza pouch