Capable of evil like any other country, and somewhat merciless to its poor and overly egocentric, but not nearly as evil as any dictatorship.
Has the huge advantage of being one large country which speaks English.
Countries of the world have only two choices as of 2019: either rally behind the US and support democracy, or rally behind China and support dictatorship. The choice is up to you, voters. The more you deal with China, the more you lose your democracy and freedom. All dictatorships have no doubt that they must stick together.
And Americans, please stop that America Number 1 bullshit. Obviously everyone has to strive to be the best, so when you say it like that, it sounds like "even if at the expense of everyone else". The motto has to be "democracy number 1" or else you will scare off all allies. If all other countries sell out to China, you are fucked.
It hasn't achieved anything beyond the Schengen zone.
Related:
- having more than one natural language is bad for the world
- Video "The Euro Has Never Been More Problematic by Yanis Varoufakis (2018)" youtu.be/cCA68U3P_Z8?t=433 mentions a quote attributed to Gandhi, although Quote Investigator does not think that the attribution evidence is strong:to which Ghandi answers:
What do you think of Western civilization?
How to run a MicroPython script from a file on the Raspberry Pi Pico W from the command line? by 
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-26
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-26The first/only way Ciro could find was with ampy: stackoverflow.com/questions/74150782/how-to-run-a-micropython-host-script-file-on-the-raspbery-pi-pico-from-the-host/74150783#74150783 That just worked and it worked perfectly!
pipx install adafruit-ampy
ampy --port /dev/ttyACM0 run blink.pyAn upstream repo at: github.com/raspberrypi/pico-micropython-examples
Some generic Micropython examples most of which work on this board can be found at: Section "MicroPython example".
The examples can be run as described at Program Raspberry Pi Pico W with MicroPython.
- rpi-pico-w/upython/led_on.py: turn on-board LED on and leave it on forever. Useful to quickly check that you are still able to update the firmware.
- rpi-pico-w/upython/led_off.py: turn on-board LED off and leave it off forever
- rpi-pico-w/upython/pwm.py: pulse width modulation. Using the same circuit as the rpi-pico-w/upython/blink_gpio.py, you will now see the external LED go from dark to bright continuously and then back
How to use an Oxford Nanopore MinION to extract DNA from river water and determine which bacteria live in it Qiagen DNeasy PowerWater Kit by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16www.qiagen.com/gb/products/discovery-and-translational-research/dna-rna-purification/dna-purification/microbial-dna/dneasy-powerwater-kit (archive) Here is its documentation: www.qiagen.com/gb/resources/download.aspx?id=bb731482-874b-4241-8cf4-c15054e3a4bf&lang=en (archive).
How to use an Oxford Nanopore MinION to extract DNA from river water and determine which bacteria live in it Why Oxford Nanopore was used instead of Illumina for the sequencing by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16At the time of the experiment, Illumina equipment was cheaper per base pair and dominates the human genome sequencing market, but it required a much higher initial investment for the equipment (TODO how much).
The reusable Nanopore device costs just about 500 dollars, and about 500 dollars (50 unit volume) for the single usage flow cell which can decode up to 30 billion base pairs, which is about 10 human genomes 1x! Note that 1x is basically useless for one of the most important of all applications of sequencing: detection of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, since the error rate would be too high to base clinical decisions on.
Compare that to Illumina which is currently doing about an 1000 dollar human genome at 30x, and a bit less errors per base pair (TODO how much).
Other advantages of the MinION over Illumina which didn't really matter to this particular experiment are:
- portability for e.g. to do analysis on the field near infections outbreaks. Compare that to the smallest Illumina sequencer currently available in 2019, the iSeq 100: Figure 1. "Illumina iSeq 100 DNA sequencer".
- long reads which can be necessary for long repetitive regions, see also: Section "Sequence alignment"
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