It seems that most, if not all old stories have a moral that has to do with something unseemly about human nature. Rumplestillskin? Yhea, it is what you think it is (or was anyway).
Hahaha... Oh boy, this is precious! Sorry, I won't elucidate much but here is the short version. There is an excellent book by a modern Russian author called Viktor Pelevin titled "Generation P". It deals mostly with advertising (ha!). The first 3 pages tell us why "P". Because during communism the only western drink that was available in the USSR was.....Pepsi Cola. The author wonders why the apparatchiks decided for Pepsi and not Coke (while mentioning that it had to be only one available because in those days only one Truth and one Way was considered). BTW, in the Amazon version which I bought to give to friends those few pages were omitted. Apparently the US book market can't have fun with Pepsi or Coke. I'm serious, it is censored (there are few jokes as to why in the US coke won, plus some jibes about evolution and red necks..) Man, this news is hilarious. Read the book anyway (in the west the title is Omon Ra).
I see, again, hot discussion about the similarities, or not, between socialism/communism and the nazis.
Here is something to think about.
The first democratically elected president of my country after the fall of the wall was a philosopher and a dissident. Why was he a dissident?
Well, back in the 60-ies he wrote a book. Called “The Fascism”. The communists were very vocal about the fact that we were with the germans during the war and claimed that all those people they killed, tortured and send to camps (all the way until the 80-ies, mind you) were fascist, helping the fascist government. So, I guess at the beginning they liked the subject of the book. However, when the author characterizes the fascist state, listing all those features (economic, social, religious, racial ect.) that we discuss in this tread it turned out that our society, the one we knew so well, the one we lived in every day checks all the boxes that the fascist checked!!! Without saying one direct word against the communist regime, the author exposed them fully, for anyone with more than 2 brain cells to see. It was poetic, truly poetic!
Well, the communists did not miss this. The book was banned and taken away from shops and libraries. Of course, they never stated a reason, just in case they don’t point the obvious to those with less than 2 brain cells. And they did not really prosecute the author; did not kill him or threw him in a Gulag. Just quietly kept him under wraps. After all, that book was elucidating what horrible criminals the fascists were; how inhuman their doctrine was. Oh, the delicious irony!
Look chaps, it does not matter that nominally both ideologies begin from supposedly the opposite ends of the political spectrum. They both end up in the SAME PLACE! And both have been tried all over the globe, so we can’t pin it on a particular person (Stalin was bad, but Brezhnev was good!) or particular culture (all continents participated).
I am still not sure why this is, although when it comes to the communism I think it is the equality of outcome doctrine that fucks up everything. After all, nothing in nature has equal outcome, not even the stupidly named “spectrum” of human sexuality. Every spectrum expresses different frequencies with different intensities. If they are all expressed equally that is called “noise” and it is not very helpful. The other state with equal outcome is the heat dead of the Universe (maximum entropy). In short, if there is no difference, there is no potential. No potential, no driving force. No driving force, no nothingoh, and just to make matters more perverse, the commies encourage us to perform. Yes, they did! I got numerous awards in front of the whole school for excellent marks. However, they used the doctrine to remove inconvenient people. If I became inconvenient, all of a sudden, all my successes would be due to my “privileges”, for instance my “bourgeois family”, which I did not have but that does not really matter, they’d find something to hang me for. Isn’t that funny! Doesn’t it remind you of what is happening every day in our society? Where people, like those techies, who got there by being better than others, working harder than others, competing with other, all of sudden find all kind of “privileges” in others who are successful, forgetting they are also in the 1%. I mean 90% of the conversations between my parents about their work had to do with yet another incompetent ass who rose to prominence due to loyalty to the party line and uses the system to remove the competent, the conscientious and the knowledgeable.
When it comes to the fascist it seems that racial superiority is the alarm word, after which we should stop listening to whoever is advocating italso, since that doctrine does not try mimicking itself behind “universal brotherhood” or any number of seemingly good ideas, it is easier to identify and dismiss.
I hope they keep on working....after all black holes are among the very few mysteries left to figure out and a possible source of development of "new physics". I was rather crushed that the LHC did not find anything new....confirming the Higgs was great but expected....I was hoping for new mysteries that might lead to something Sci-Fi like such as teleportation or FTL travel. Ahhh, reality is a harsh mistress!
So that's why the 4th crusade conquered Constantinople...to punish those pesky muslims...oh wait!
Do you know that the Catholics apologised for this on numerous occasions?
Do you know that this vile act is considered the chief reason for the fall of the whole Empire to the Ottomans? Which removed my country from the map for 482 years!!
If only emperor Kaloyan had destroyed the fucking crusaders BEFORE they destroyed the riches city in the world....raping nuns on the altars....but alas he did not see the bigger danger and how could he, it took many years before it became apparent.
Not like khan Tervel who in the 7th century helped Constantinople against the islamic hordes who had a plan to close on Europe from Spain and Byzantium. They succeeded in the west but not in the east.
So, thank you crusaders for saying thank you to Byzantium and Bulgaria for saving all your Christian asses by pillaging, raping, burning and killing of your brothers and sisters by faith. The historians traveling with the crusaders admit that Orthodox Christians were treated worse than the Saracens.
BTW, I'm not excusing the Ottomans for any of their inhuman atrocities committed against us (ask the Armenians too). Google Januarius McGahan and read.... BTW the NZ motherfucker had inscriptions in Cyrillic on the gun and cartridges mentioning the struggle of all if us East Europeans against the turks. Fuck him! Erdogan is a piece of shit but I refuse to hate an entire nation or religion because of some wrongdoing in the past. But I won't forget it either...
I live in NL, in the so-called "Randstad" area, which is several of their biggest cities situated so close to each other that they form almost uninterrupted metropolitan area along the west coast. I have never owned a car, even my license expired few years ago (and I would not dare use ti without refreshment course anyway). Commuting with bicycles and trains. 300 000 km in the train, about 40 000 km on a bicycle in 17 years.
Such efficient, fast, clean train system is expensive. Really expensive. I work 65 km from home. If I purchase monthly train subscription for this trajectory only it comes to 300 Euro per month (if you subscribe for a full year; month by month it is 350). I use "always free" subscription (travel everywhere at all hours) that costs 342/400 Euros per month. So far every company I worked for covered those expenses in full. If I'd use a car they'd give me 80 Euro per month and that's that.
So, you see that a combination of living and working in the busiest metropolitan areas (I guess substantial portion of the population is concentrated there) plus the generous companies (who do this because they get some tax kick-backs to encourage people to switch to public transport) allows me to use this option. So I can work or read or just doze off during my commute which is great. Also, the women are nice to look at (major users of that transport are the middle and worker classes plus all students at all levels). Do they have plenty of issues with the system? Sure! But the cars also get stuck in jams regularly. Did I mention I have no children? That's a big one even though helicopter parenting is not as wide spread here as in the USA.
However, once you are out in the countryside it becomes a bit difficult. Transport is available but you have to wait quite a bit. And suddenly traveling with a car is twice as fast as public transport, whereas in the metro area the trains do 140 km/hr (or 160km/hr on one specific and very busy trajectory Amsterdam-Schiphol-Rotterdam) and are as frequent as 4-6 times per hour. And thus, contrary to what some might imagine it is the rural inhabitants and those is small towns that do not use trains and buses so much but make do with cars and motorcycles.
I am not an expert but in my opinion a train system with such efficiency cannot be supported to connect everyone, everywhere for an affordable price. At least for now. But many smart hybrid-like solutions are probably available if we care to implement them. For example, I would love to have properly automated car. Very small, cheap, electric. If I can go in and say "bring me to work" and then read my books....bring it on! No traffic jams, much more efficient use of the roads, improved safety...what's not to like?
In USA I think the cities can do so much more to improve the transport and reduce the car usage. I guess you can build some high speed lines to connect the really big cities....but will it be convenient enough and affordable enough? I don't know but I have the feeling that you can win bigly there;) And yes, I agree that the car lobby has had too much influence. Still, public transport as it is is not the answer to everything...
I guess the whole point of my ramblings is "It is complicated. Don't be hasty! Think rationally instead of ideologically"
Clearing the viewing history really helps. With or without being subscribed. Freshly deleted YouTube non-subscribed only gives me viral and trending videos as well as the most popular videos in my region. So there's geo-location at work but that is all...
BTW, I have yet to see one, even one loony video recommended to me....according to the crazies in the mainstream media I should have, since I follow "gateway to alt-right" personalities...
This is non-story....unless you are peddling towards total authoritarian control.
I once read an interesting commentary from a historian. He was discussing the futile attempts of several (rather) competent kings of my country and how every time the state got rich and prosperous they would start some new wars, usually with their eyes fixed on the throne in Constantinople and then ruin the country trying to conquer it...
The scholar then spends a whole chapter of his book on the phenomenon of the court jester and how incredibly useful for a king it was that there is at least one person in the kingdom who can tell the truth to power! Remarking that the only Slavic king to ever have a jester was Peter the Great, who was of course heavily influenced by ideas from Western Europe. The jester survived for two months, after that he was sent to Siberia to tell jokes to the polar bears and the king (tsar actually) never got another one. I noted that not only Slavic tsars but no other ruler apart from the Western kings had a jester....though I think there was something like that in ancient Rome (standup philosopher, hey! Ohh, a professional bulshitter! Did you bulshit anyone last week? Did you TRY bulshitting anyone?)
Anyhow, I always assumed that under democracy, particularly with the aid of the net all of us can be the court jester. And that politicians would be wise enough (dream on!) to realize the usefulness of it...how else would they know (just like kings of old) what are the real concerns and troubles of the people.
Alas, not only everyone outside the West doesn't support telling truth to power; now it is questioned and slowly eroded here as well. From both sides of the political spectrum. Sad!
If only I could publish a picture of my mom at 67 growing the so-called "bull's heart" tomatoes; 600-800 grams each, only flesh, so MUCH taste....
You know, one of the very few unintentional benefits of the so-called "communism" is that until the wall collapsed we got farmer's food in the supermarkets. You know, food that today costs as fortune and is called "bio"...we called it "food". Sour milk in glass jars that had to be consumed within 72 hrs after purchase, glass re-used, meat and vegetables directly from the field. No one was running green houses or anything like that; we pickled stuff for the winter to get vitamin C (there was meager import from S. America of citrus fruits so you could get lemons in the winter but it was a scarce commodity).
After many years of search I found (in NL) a proper source of sour milk (known as yogurt to most of the world); farmers who come once per week to A'dam. When I brought it to work most people did not like it because it was......sour?!?!? Yes, because in the supermarket a:) the bacteria is dead in order to stop the further acidification and increase shelf life; b) it is often not produced according to the best recipe anyway and c:) is chock full of additives (sugar mostly. but also agar-agar and a slew of other shit that has no business being there). When I see parents eagerly buying yogurt with sugars, syrups, fruits right next to the ad saying "Pick the healthy choice for your children" I just want to scream "Don't, you idiots, talk to your grandparents, do some research".ahhhggh! BTW, the only country in the world where sour milk is produced en masse only according to the best Bulgarian recipe with imported bacterial cultures is...Japan!
Back to my young years. The parents of my father were classical farmers. Two elderly people with very little in the way of mechanization (they'd hire machines with operators from the farmer's cooperative a couple of times per year) produced enough to feed 3 families and make all their money (they made more than both brothers and their families; all of us city dwellers; all grand-children (5) with MSc chemistry and engineering).
Everything that they produced was beyond belief tasty and good. EVERYTHING! Granddad made between 500 and 1000 liters of wine per year alone (the front yard of the house was a vineyard, and below in the shadows all kinds of cultures that thrive; naturally they utilized every square centimeter of soil and they had another vineyard on a sunny, dry hill). What to say about the bread, the milk products, the vegetables (they lived close to the Danube river; extremely fertile soil) which grew to unbelievable sizes, the meat....grandad had one of the few clay ovens in the village that could take a whole lamb (takes 24hrs, 6 with the fire on, and the rest slow cooling down)....you have no idea how that tasted!!. They never used any other fertilizer than manure, never had anything to do with accelerated growth and shit like that.
The big, nay enormous lie we are told is that the world would starve if we do not grow industrial food (that is the proper labeling for today, drop the bio and called it food and industrial food). Sure, all kind of advances in agriculture are useful and good; no problem using them, but we went too far to the "cheap" side of things. Cheap is in "" because I always wonder how expensive to society is obesity, diabetes, colon cancer and all the great conditions we get by eating the shit that passes for food these days.
The industry lies constantly. The greens have gone mad, focusing on meat alone instead of farming practices (how many times we have discussed here that beef is bad for the environment when it is produced as it is today, not intrinsically where it utilizes soil that is not good for farming or it can be made decent by enormous investment in irrigation and fertilizers instead of just graze the bloody cows!). If I sit in Hollywood importing vegan food from every part of the globe (and tapping myself on the shoulder in front of the mir
For something to exist, it has to be observed. For something to exist, it has to have a position in time and space. And this explains why nine-tenths of the mass of the universe is unaccounted for. Nine-tenths of the universe is the knowledge of the position and direction of everything in the other tenth. Every atom has its biography, every star its file, every chemical exchange its equivalent of the inspector with a clipboard. It is unaccounted for because it is doing the accounting for the rest of it, and you cannot see the back of your own head. Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is paperwork.
Did you hear about the particle physics conference dedicated to gender equality (what?!?) where one of the attendants showed clearly by bibliometric data that women in physics are taken into positions with half the credentials of the male candidates. So not only there is no glass roof, but women are promoted unfairly against more competent males.
Few days later 1600 cunts, most of them men, singed a petition called "Particles for justice"(LOL!) where they condemned "the dehumanization of women" apparently exhibited by that guy. Yes, in fact this is dehumanization as you look at the SCIENTIFIC credentials of the candidates, both male and female. Perefecly fine for males, unacceptable and dehumanizing for females....So what's the alternative? Look at their horoscope?
BTW, there is nothing worse than a woman who is a dick and man who is a cunt! To"quote the great philosopher Sir Bronn of the Blackwater, "There is no cure for being a cunt".
The industry told Gene R. that ST would be banned by conservative states and they'd be buried in hate mail because Uhura. Never happened.
Seems like the people are better than what marketing departments believe.
Such things have happened more than once. Fight club is another example.
Yet another - David Goggins was told by the first publishing house he approached that "there are only so many blacks in USA, who will buy a book about abused, insecure, fat black kid who became the toughest man in the world. David has more than 400 000 followers and very few are black. Again, the marketeers ascribed racism where there was none...
He is against government compelled speech. The topic is irrelevant. He always uses the pronoun that the person likes to identify with. But not when the powers that be force to do it.... Of course, the lefties choose to "misunderstand" and declare him transfovbic or something....
It's already been described in Dune. Women breeders chained forever (like the latest Mad Max movie)... and they also made the most popular meat in the Empire. Crosbreed between slugs and swines if memory serves. Oh, and facedancers...
Spot on. The industry is switching to gas. All heavy transport, particularly ships and trucks. Still, I managed to provoke embarrassed silence on the last conference by noting that the incomplete burning will emit methane ( so-called methane slip which however small when scaled to all heavy transport.... ) and how about all those terrible cows farting..... Ooops!
Why the hell every post suggesting genocide is upvoted?
Don't you know that we have passed 'peak child' ?
Yes, 40 yrs ago things looked desperate since we did not know that family size shrinks within 2 generations after child mortality drops...but now we see it in every society.
But on RT, I use the negative critics (not the public's) as a recommendation. See Orvile versus Ghostbusters 2016 for an example. The world has turned upside down.....
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It seems that most, if not all old stories have a moral that has to do with something unseemly about human nature.
Rumplestillskin? Yhea, it is what you think it is (or was anyway).
Hahaha...
Oh boy, this is precious! Sorry, I won't elucidate much but here is the short version.
There is an excellent book by a modern Russian author called Viktor Pelevin titled "Generation P". It deals mostly with advertising (ha!). The first 3 pages tell us why "P". Because during communism the only western drink that was available in the USSR was.....Pepsi Cola.
The author wonders why the apparatchiks decided for Pepsi and not Coke (while mentioning that it had to be only one available because in those days only one Truth and one Way was considered).
BTW, in the Amazon version which I bought to give to friends those few pages were omitted. Apparently the US book market can't have fun with Pepsi or Coke. I'm serious, it is censored (there are few jokes as to why in the US coke won, plus some jibes about evolution and red necks..)
Man, this news is hilarious. Read the book anyway (in the west the title is Omon Ra).
Oh yhea, fuck Pepsi and that Russian agency!
I see, again, hot discussion about the similarities, or not, between socialism/communism and the nazis.
Here is something to think about.
The first democratically elected president of my country after the fall of the wall was a philosopher and a dissident. Why was he a dissident?
Well, back in the 60-ies he wrote a book. Called “The Fascism”. The communists were very vocal about the fact that we were with the germans during the war and claimed that all those people they killed, tortured and send to camps (all the way until the 80-ies, mind you) were fascist, helping the fascist government. So, I guess at the beginning they liked the subject of the book.
However, when the author characterizes the fascist state, listing all those features (economic, social, religious, racial ect.) that we discuss in this tread it turned out that our society, the one we knew so well, the one we lived in every day checks all the boxes that the fascist checked!!! Without saying one direct word against the communist regime, the author exposed them fully, for anyone with more than 2 brain cells to see. It was poetic, truly poetic!
Well, the communists did not miss this. The book was banned and taken away from shops and libraries. Of course, they never stated a reason, just in case they don’t point the obvious to those with less than 2 brain cells. And they did not really prosecute the author; did not kill him or threw him in a Gulag. Just quietly kept him under wraps. After all, that book was elucidating what horrible criminals the fascists were; how inhuman their doctrine was. Oh, the delicious irony!
Look chaps, it does not matter that nominally both ideologies begin from supposedly the opposite ends of the political spectrum. They both end up in the SAME PLACE! And both have been tried all over the globe, so we can’t pin it on a particular person (Stalin was bad, but Brezhnev was good!) or particular culture (all continents participated).
I am still not sure why this is, although when it comes to the communism I think it is the equality of outcome doctrine that fucks up everything. After all, nothing in nature has equal outcome, not even the stupidly named “spectrum” of human sexuality. Every spectrum expresses different frequencies with different intensities. If they are all expressed equally that is called “noise” and it is not very helpful. The other state with equal outcome is the heat dead of the Universe (maximum entropy). In short, if there is no difference, there is no potential. No potential, no driving force. No driving force, no nothingoh, and just to make matters more perverse, the commies encourage us to perform. Yes, they did! I got numerous awards in front of the whole school for excellent marks. However, they used the doctrine to remove inconvenient people. If I became inconvenient, all of a sudden, all my successes would be due to my “privileges”, for instance my “bourgeois family”, which I did not have but that does not really matter, they’d find something to hang me for. Isn’t that funny! Doesn’t it remind you of what is happening every day in our society? Where people, like those techies, who got there by being better than others, working harder than others, competing with other, all of sudden find all kind of “privileges” in others who are successful, forgetting they are also in the 1%. I mean 90% of the conversations between my parents about their work had to do with yet another incompetent ass who rose to prominence due to loyalty to the party line and uses the system to remove the competent, the conscientious and the knowledgeable.
When it comes to the fascist it seems that racial superiority is the alarm word, after which we should stop listening to whoever is advocating italso, since that doctrine does not try mimicking itself behind “universal brotherhood” or any number of seemingly good ideas, it is easier to identify and dismiss.
Just my 20 cents (wrote a bit too much for 2)
I hope they keep on working....after all black holes are among the very few mysteries left to figure out and a possible source of development of "new physics". I was rather crushed that the LHC did not find anything new....confirming the Higgs was great but expected....I was hoping for new mysteries that might lead to something Sci-Fi like such as teleportation or FTL travel. Ahhh, reality is a harsh mistress!
Oh yeah!
So that's why the 4th crusade conquered Constantinople...to punish those pesky muslims...oh wait!
Do you know that the Catholics apologised for this on numerous occasions?
Do you know that this vile act is considered the chief reason for the fall of the whole Empire to the Ottomans? Which removed my country from the map for 482 years!!
If only emperor Kaloyan had destroyed the fucking crusaders BEFORE they destroyed the riches city in the world....raping nuns on the altars....but alas he did not see the bigger danger and how could he, it took many years before it became apparent.
Not like khan Tervel who in the 7th century helped Constantinople against the islamic hordes who had a plan to close on Europe from Spain and Byzantium. They succeeded in the west but not in the east.
So, thank you crusaders for saying thank you to Byzantium and Bulgaria for saving all your Christian asses by pillaging, raping, burning and killing of your brothers and sisters by faith. The historians traveling with the crusaders admit that Orthodox Christians were treated worse than the Saracens.
BTW, I'm not excusing the Ottomans for any of their inhuman atrocities committed against us (ask the Armenians too).
Google Januarius McGahan and read....
BTW the NZ motherfucker had inscriptions in Cyrillic on the gun and cartridges mentioning the struggle of all if us East Europeans against the turks. Fuck him! Erdogan is a piece of shit but I refuse to hate an entire nation or religion because of some wrongdoing in the past. But I won't forget it either...
Read some history, man!
Don't be so hasty in pointing fingers.
I live in NL, in the so-called "Randstad" area, which is several of their biggest cities situated so close to each other that they form almost uninterrupted metropolitan area along the west coast. I have never owned a car, even my license expired few years ago (and I would not dare use ti without refreshment course anyway). Commuting with bicycles and trains. 300 000 km in the train, about 40 000 km on a bicycle in 17 years.
Such efficient, fast, clean train system is expensive. Really expensive. I work 65 km from home. If I purchase monthly train subscription for this trajectory only it comes to 300 Euro per month (if you subscribe for a full year; month by month it is 350). I use "always free" subscription (travel everywhere at all hours) that costs 342/400 Euros per month. So far every company I worked for covered those expenses in full. If I'd use a car they'd give me 80 Euro per month and that's that.
So, you see that a combination of living and working in the busiest metropolitan areas (I guess substantial portion of the population is concentrated there) plus the generous companies (who do this because they get some tax kick-backs to encourage people to switch to public transport) allows me to use this option. So I can work or read or just doze off during my commute which is great. Also, the women are nice to look at (major users of that transport are the middle and worker classes plus all students at all levels). Do they have plenty of issues with the system? Sure! But the cars also get stuck in jams regularly.
Did I mention I have no children? That's a big one even though helicopter parenting is not as wide spread here as in the USA.
However, once you are out in the countryside it becomes a bit difficult. Transport is available but you have to wait quite a bit. And suddenly traveling with a car is twice as fast as public transport, whereas in the metro area the trains do 140 km/hr (or 160km/hr on one specific and very busy trajectory Amsterdam-Schiphol-Rotterdam) and are as frequent as 4-6 times per hour. And thus, contrary to what some might imagine it is the rural inhabitants and those is small towns that do not use trains and buses so much but make do with cars and motorcycles.
I am not an expert but in my opinion a train system with such efficiency cannot be supported to connect everyone, everywhere for an affordable price. At least for now. But many smart hybrid-like solutions are probably available if we care to implement them. For example, I would love to have properly automated car. Very small, cheap, electric. If I can go in and say "bring me to work" and then read my books....bring it on! No traffic jams, much more efficient use of the roads, improved safety...what's not to like?
In USA I think the cities can do so much more to improve the transport and reduce the car usage. I guess you can build some high speed lines to connect the really big cities....but will it be convenient enough and affordable enough? I don't know but I have the feeling that you can win bigly there ;) And yes, I agree that the car lobby has had too much influence. Still, public transport as it is is not the answer to everything...
I guess the whole point of my ramblings is "It is complicated. Don't be hasty! Think rationally instead of ideologically"
Liar! ;)
Clearing the viewing history really helps. With or without being subscribed. Freshly deleted YouTube non-subscribed only gives me viral and trending videos as well as the most popular videos in my region. So there's geo-location at work but that is all...
BTW, I have yet to see one, even one loony video recommended to me....according to the crazies in the mainstream media I should have, since I follow "gateway to alt-right" personalities...
This is non-story....unless you are peddling towards total authoritarian control.
Great idea!
When will the ban on religion be enforced?
I once read an interesting commentary from a historian. He was discussing the futile attempts of several (rather) competent kings of my country and how every time the state got rich and prosperous they would start some new wars, usually with their eyes fixed on the throne in Constantinople and then ruin the country trying to conquer it...
The scholar then spends a whole chapter of his book on the phenomenon of the court jester and how incredibly useful for a king it was that there is at least one person in the kingdom who can tell the truth to power! Remarking that the only Slavic king to ever have a jester was Peter the Great, who was of course heavily influenced by ideas from Western Europe. The jester survived for two months, after that he was sent to Siberia to tell jokes to the polar bears and the king (tsar actually) never got another one. I noted that not only Slavic tsars but no other ruler apart from the Western kings had a jester....though I think there was something like that in ancient Rome (standup philosopher, hey! Ohh, a professional bulshitter! Did you bulshit anyone last week? Did you TRY bulshitting anyone?)
Anyhow, I always assumed that under democracy, particularly with the aid of the net all of us can be the court jester. And that politicians would be wise enough (dream on!) to realize the usefulness of it...how else would they know (just like kings of old) what are the real concerns and troubles of the people.
Alas, not only everyone outside the West doesn't support telling truth to power; now it is questioned and slowly eroded here as well. From both sides of the political spectrum. Sad!
https://youtu.be/9pQNYeOEFJc
Even RLM takes offence from Brie Larsen.....
If only I could publish a picture of my mom at 67 growing the so-called "bull's heart" tomatoes; 600-800 grams each, only flesh, so MUCH taste....
You know, one of the very few unintentional benefits of the so-called "communism" is that until the wall collapsed we got farmer's food in the supermarkets. You know, food that today costs as fortune and is called "bio"...we called it "food". Sour milk in glass jars that had to be consumed within 72 hrs after purchase, glass re-used, meat and vegetables directly from the field. No one was running green houses or anything like that; we pickled stuff for the winter to get vitamin C (there was meager import from S. America of citrus fruits so you could get lemons in the winter but it was a scarce commodity).
After many years of search I found (in NL) a proper source of sour milk (known as yogurt to most of the world); farmers who come once per week to A'dam. When I brought it to work most people did not like it because it was......sour?!?!? Yes, because in the supermarket a:) the bacteria is dead in order to stop the further acidification and increase shelf life; b) it is often not produced according to the best recipe anyway and c:) is chock full of additives (sugar mostly. but also agar-agar and a slew of other shit that has no business being there). When I see parents eagerly buying yogurt with sugars, syrups, fruits right next to the ad saying "Pick the healthy choice for your children" I just want to scream "Don't, you idiots, talk to your grandparents, do some research" .ahhhggh!
BTW, the only country in the world where sour milk is produced en masse only according to the best Bulgarian recipe with imported bacterial cultures is...Japan!
Back to my young years. The parents of my father were classical farmers. Two elderly people with very little in the way of mechanization (they'd hire machines with operators from the farmer's cooperative a couple of times per year) produced enough to feed 3 families and make all their money (they made more than both brothers and their families; all of us city dwellers; all grand-children (5) with MSc chemistry and engineering).
Everything that they produced was beyond belief tasty and good. EVERYTHING! Granddad made between 500 and 1000 liters of wine per year alone (the front yard of the house was a vineyard, and below in the shadows all kinds of cultures that thrive; naturally they utilized every square centimeter of soil and they had another vineyard on a sunny, dry hill). What to say about the bread, the milk products, the vegetables (they lived close to the Danube river; extremely fertile soil) which grew to unbelievable sizes, the meat....grandad had one of the few clay ovens in the village that could take a whole lamb (takes 24hrs, 6 with the fire on, and the rest slow cooling down)....you have no idea how that tasted!!. They never used any other fertilizer than manure, never had anything to do with accelerated growth and shit like that.
The big, nay enormous lie we are told is that the world would starve if we do not grow industrial food (that is the proper labeling for today, drop the bio and called it food and industrial food). Sure, all kind of advances in agriculture are useful and good; no problem using them, but we went too far to the "cheap" side of things. Cheap is in "" because I always wonder how expensive to society is obesity, diabetes, colon cancer and all the great conditions we get by eating the shit that passes for food these days.
The industry lies constantly. The greens have gone mad, focusing on meat alone instead of farming practices (how many times we have discussed here that beef is bad for the environment when it is produced as it is today, not intrinsically where it utilizes soil that is not good for farming or it can be made decent by enormous investment in irrigation and fertilizers instead of just graze the bloody cows!). If I sit in Hollywood importing vegan food from every part of the globe (and tapping myself on the shoulder in front of the mir
For something to exist, it has to be observed.
For something to exist, it has to have a position in time and space.
And this explains why nine-tenths of the mass of the universe is unaccounted for.
Nine-tenths of the universe is the knowledge of the position and direction of everything in the other tenth. Every atom has its biography, every star its file, every chemical exchange its equivalent of the inspector with a clipboard. It is unaccounted for because it is doing the accounting for the rest of it, and you cannot see the back of your own head.
Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is paperwork.
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time.
Ha, dream on....
Did you hear about the particle physics conference dedicated to gender equality (what?!?) where one of the attendants showed clearly by bibliometric data that women in physics are taken into positions with half the credentials of the male candidates. So not only there is no glass roof, but women are promoted unfairly against more competent males.
Few days later 1600 cunts, most of them men, singed a petition called "Particles for justice"(LOL!) where they condemned "the dehumanization of women" apparently exhibited by that guy. Yes, in fact this is dehumanization as you look at the SCIENTIFIC credentials of the candidates, both male and female. Perefecly fine for males, unacceptable and dehumanizing for females....So what's the alternative? Look at their horoscope?
BTW, there is nothing worse than a woman who is a dick and man who is a cunt! To"quote the great philosopher Sir Bronn of the Blackwater, "There is no cure for being a cunt".
That's not true and you know it.
The industry told Gene R. that ST would be banned by conservative states and they'd be buried in hate mail because Uhura. Never happened.
Seems like the people are better than what marketing departments believe.
Such things have happened more than once. Fight club is another example.
Yet another - David Goggins was told by the first publishing house he approached that "there are only so many blacks in USA, who will buy a book about abused, insecure, fat black kid who became the toughest man in the world. David has more than 400 000 followers and very few are black.
Again, the marketeers ascribed racism where there was none...
Yes.
He is against government compelled speech. The topic is irrelevant. He always uses the pronoun that the person likes to identify with. But not when the powers that be force to do it....
Of course, the lefties choose to "misunderstand" and declare him transfovbic or something....
There's only one God, m'am, and I'm pretty sure He does not dress like that!
It's already been described in Dune.
Women breeders chained forever (like the latest Mad Max movie)... and they also made the most popular meat in the Empire. Crosbreed between slugs and swines if memory serves. Oh, and facedancers...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
If memory serves there is the opposite effect, i.e. you can stunt the growth of someone if you act as if they are "lost cause".
Teacher should be aware of those and be carefully not to let the talented become lazy or the less talented to give up...
Conference of energy producers, I forgot to add. Info first hand. That's my job these days...
Spot on.
The industry is switching to gas.
All heavy transport, particularly ships and trucks.
Still, I managed to provoke embarrassed silence on the last conference by noting that the incomplete burning will emit methane ( so-called methane slip which however small when scaled to all heavy transport.... ) and how about all those terrible cows farting.....
Ooops!
Try searching that old Top Gear episode, where Clarkson talks about just that.
Number one the US trucks are too large for European cities...
https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg
Please stop advocating for genocide and stop living in the past!
Why the hell every post suggesting genocide is upvoted?
Don't you know that we have passed 'peak child' ?
Yes, 40 yrs ago things looked desperate since we did not know that family size shrinks within 2 generations after child mortality drops...but now we see it in every society.
Never heard about Hans Roseling?
Please, stop living in the past!
https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg
I agree about Youtube.
But on RT, I use the negative critics (not the public's) as a recommendation. See Orvile versus Ghostbusters 2016 for an example.
The world has turned upside down.....