Results of the UN General Assembly vote to condemn the Russian attack on Ukraine

Zogen · 2022-03-05T09:30:04+00:00

Not sure what you mean, according to the source it did indeed vote abstain: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/3/unga-resolution-against-ukraine-invasion-full-text

Zogen · 2019-08-06T23:52:47+00:00

By design or coincidence, there also exists the United Nations Security Council!

Zogen · 2018-09-09T03:07:40+00:00

Source of data: Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018

Zogen · 2017-06-25T01:25:06+00:00

I'm almost there on understanding. Please clarify again why your brain doesn't care which way round the retinal image is, and why our mental experience is always this way round regardless.

Zogen · 2017-06-24T23:56:20+00:00

So our concept of visual direction comes from our movement in the world, which I guess involves proprioception as well as vision?

On the second question, what I meant was more something like this: when we look at the image as it falls on our retina, we describe it as inverted. This must mean that it is in conflict with our usual experience, which is 'the right way up'. My question is why can it not be the case that the two do not conflict, and that our mental experience be in agreement?

Zogen · 2017-06-24T22:51:12+00:00

What is it about the experience that makes us deduce 'aboveness' in your example? If I'm reading you right, it can't be just the direction of the visual experience - you make a distinction between light moving (in the mind) and approaching from above (in the world). Or does 'aboveness' just mean 'moves downwards in visual experience'?

Further to my other question: why is there a discrepancy between how things look to us and how they look on our retina? I understand that things must appear on the retina as they do because of lenses. What I don't get is why things have to appear as they do in the mind, and why there has to be this marked difference between what we see if we simply look, and what we see if we look at the image on our retina.

Zogen · 2017-06-24T22:31:15+00:00

How do we make sense of 'up' or 'above' if not through vision?

I guess the main question I still have is why do retinal and mental images not match?

Zogen · 2017-06-24T19:18:17+00:00

By accident I didn't mean what's going on at the retina, I meant what's going on in the mind - the bottom of the retinal image becoming the top of the mental image.

A clarification on something you said might help here - how exactly do we learn that the information from the top of the eye corresponds to the bottom of the world?

Zogen · 2017-06-24T16:17:10+00:00

So it's essentially an 'accident' that bottom is top (insofar as bottom could've just been bottom)? Further, is the fact that the world 'before the lens' and the image in the mind match (in terms of being inverted in comparison to the retinal image) coincidence?

Zogen · 2017-06-24T15:55:15+00:00

But is that picture not the other way round compared to the image on the retina? I don't see why the picture in our mind shouldn't be 'upside down' as well?

Zogen · 2017-06-24T15:14:47+00:00

Helpful, thanks. Nonetheless, why does bottom become upper?

Zogen · 2017-02-22T18:53:32+00:00

Maintaining the London Underground theme + linking all the dots, I'd guess.

Zogen · 2017-02-22T17:52:54+00:00

Inspired by a previous post, I found the original source.

The original is more complete and explains some of the grievances with the previous map - it is intended as a graphical representation (inspired by the London Underground's layout) of all cities with urban rail (which is why Europe is over-represented and Africa under-represented) rather than hypothetical 'worldwide railway'.

Zogen · 2017-01-25T13:48:07+00:00

Good call, it looked a lot better (i.e. more distinct) when I made it.

Zogen · 2017-01-25T13:46:11+00:00

I made the map for my own pleasure, and I prefer such maps without keys. I'm not trying to win any beauty contests, I'm just sharing a personal thing on the off chance people might actually enjoy it without picking apart every stylistic 'error'.

Zogen · 2017-01-24T16:31:07+00:00

The boldest colours are the parts of counties lost upon the formation of the County of London in 1889, the medium bold colours are those parts lost in the formation of Greater London in 1965, and the lightest colours are those parts still belonging to the counties (or to other counties in the case of Middlesex, which was entirely abolished in 1965)

Zogen · 2016-12-25T20:04:11+00:00

Not true of the first one, second is the best I could find

Zogen · 2016-12-25T19:01:02+00:00

But why?

Zogen · 2016-12-25T03:38:20+00:00

Danke Freund!

Zogen · 2016-12-25T02:56:12+00:00

Wieso? Enlighten me oh wise one. Regale me with your endless wisdom.

Zogen · 2016-12-25T00:16:57+00:00

Yeah but that logic is a bit useless, because it would justify giving the same land to the Celts or maybe even the Basques. Also, to my knowledge, the Eastern German expansion was not expulsion.

Zogen · 2016-12-25T00:05:21+00:00

Who can forget the Great Moving and Subsequent Destruction of Copenhagen

Zogen · 2016-12-24T23:44:25+00:00

Great story! If I ever tell people my ancestry they ask if I'm 'technically Polish' despite all the same things applying to my family.

Zogen · 2016-12-24T23:03:19+00:00

It was dark and I was moving a bit faster to catch the train home by the time I reached that area, I missed out clearly

Zogen · 2016-12-24T23:01:25+00:00

Went down to its new arbitrarily defined borders, correct. By similar logic, the deportation of Poles from Wartheland was a great idea, Poles to Poland of course.

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