Excellent metaphor.
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Hmmm. Thatâs pretty cynical. You donât think that one personâs suggestion, or critique, or revelation, can affect another personâs life course? And that that person can go on to do all sorts of good for others that wouldnât have happened otherwise?
I do. Iâve seen it happen.
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Sorry, youâre right. Iâm referring more to physical phenomenon. When it comes to people, one action can cause a cascade of actions driving major change. But I donât think one action alone can cause meaningful change. It still takes the action of many (though sometimes in response to the action of one) to affect real change.
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I think he was referring to the idea that if you went back in time and stepped on a bug, it would fuck up the timeline irreparably.
That idea negates the concept of both fixed events and temporal elasticity.
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The butterfly effect is very real and poorly explained then. The reason a butterflyâs flap can cause a hurricane is that weather is chaotic enough that variations in conditions are amplified over time. The point though isnât that it really changes how the system works; it only applies where hurricanes may or may not happen anyway. Actually changing weather patterns requires sustained intervention like you say.
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Racist murderers criticise the lifeboats for saving lives, people respond by sending money.
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Hopefully, changes like this will spread. Departments that rely on fines to pad their budgets need to find another source of funding that doesnât violate peopleâs rights:
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If it gets people housed in some dignity, Iâm all for it.
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Given the years-long public harassment this woman has had to endure about her own gender, this is a pretty brave public statement.
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Well, if AU2 can win⌠AU goes up against Orlando City tonightâŚ
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Drip, drip, drip.
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