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This UKR thing is like de ja vu for me. Jjst like fucking COVID. Same sides same moronic level narrative.

I prayed after 9/11 our For Pol couldn't get any stupider but whelp.

I ordered it. 700pgs!

Steven have you read The Frontiersmen by Ekhart?

Or Hopkirk's books about The Great Game?

I had a dogtown skateboard back then and an inherited P&P skull and sword. My buddy had a JFA (Jodie Foster's Army) skateboard. Listened to Agent Orange. Too tall to be any good.

So, I was reading this guy a few years ago and his stuff was very good. He had the ideal vibe for a medical doctor. His whole attitude and approach was exactly what you want.

Idk if he has sold out now but he was legit back then.

McDonald's fries and pies when they were cooked in beef fat.

Not dying when you absolutely should have died. That's belief in God. That moment when your standing there and not dead. That feeling.

Read this Tome called Dragon Bone Chair. Epic fantasy written in the before times. It was annoying but I powered through due to reccs. Ended well and the second book is really good. Lots and lots of detail. Esp in book 1. Book 2 is just really well done. Nothing special. Just a good sane escapist re...

Oh yeah. Our GDP is really really huge.

That's US State Dept NGO bullshit. The lead is a physio who became a "data scientist". Ffs RUS has an almost entirely indigenous aeronautics industry. US hitches rides to the space station with RUS. And RUS has true hypersonics and the S-500. It also churns out Borei class subs. And the ne...

I took the time to read Peter Thiel's stuff. Nothing really amazing. Not saying he himself is like that. Idk him. He prob is incredibly impressive in person. Hell, I own his stock. The only thing I felt he was really trying to get across was how fervently the important tech guys believed in the end ...

Nice MJS.

Sun Ra on Nuclear War. Been laughing and singing this all day.

https://youtu.be/lsPrINajncU

Amen. I do think things have changed. Or people have begun a rapid downward slide all over. Jesus, it is days sometimes without seeing a beautiful woman or even pretty one. And then it is some super young girl. Very depressing. These damn smart phones. I went flip phone about a year ago. Idk dude. I...

Is it just me, or is there a ton of horribly negative psychic energy oppressing us all rn? It could very well be me. But swear to god this feels as bad as the depths of covid hysteria. Even the mainstream media seems unable to even attempt to tell ppl everything is fine, let alone great. So many ppl...

Yeah. I choked up a few times too. Glad you liked. Wonderful fantastic book.

j-cubed wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:37 pm Not terribly surprising. They are also the same people that have no idea what is under the hood and how it works. Those people at least are enlightened enough to know they need gas, but have no idea where it comes from or how it's made.

Fair point. True.

I am not trained enough to evaluate the science. Or if this guy is worth listening to. So, this is not an endorsement. But I found a lot of interesting stuff in here. Fwiw (not much) I believe Chronic Disease is a dietary problem. And, our medical system is incredible at dealing with acute issues bu...

I think individual decision-making about personal actions are largely irrelevant right now. Even if everyone acts at a huge scale. There's really no connection between individual economic and social activity and legislation or corporate behavior. Some would argue there never has been, maybe so idk, ...

The Moore film was dumb and disingenuous. That article was too. IN MY OPINION. Malthusianism is cruel and ahistorical and I personally disregard anyone who uses it. It's the language of people who live off the work of others. It's the language of Financiers and usurers. Same with people who use &quo...

THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT FOR OR AGAINST ELECTRIC VEHICLES I have noticed that 90% of ppl I have talked to and either own or like electric vehicles think the battery makes the energy. Or some other battery somewhere makes the energy they put in their batteries. I don't know what to make of this. They ...

Viriconium: ehhhh. *shrug* I am not a fan of the whole "writer's writer" thing. Technically quite good. Pacing was (intentionally) ponderous. Ponderously ponderous. Heavy influence from Gene Wolfe and Clark Ashton Smith and Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany. Lethargically lethargic. Dying world ...

The key would be a command to not plagiarize. Idk if that is possible. But detecting cheating then would be very difficult absent some embedded code in the product alerting teachers. Or the thing uploading all essays to some database with teacher access.

Can you ask this thing to write a paper on Vespasian and the Sack of Jerusalem without plagarizing?

Because hahahahahahaha if you can.

Bad owners get screwed by bad GMs. Yes. There are very few (I can't think of any) MLB owners anymore who are so incompetent as to allow an exec to ruin a franchise. Almost all of what fans consider incompetence is very profitable intentional behavior. PIT is the one franchise that might be considere...

I really liked this article. And like the author, I had been wondering about it. It seemed strange that both players and teams wanted these longer contracts (for a lot of reasons (at least to me)). 13 years? That's just bizarre. Totally ahistorical. I've never been particularly bothered by players g...

This one guts me every time

https://youtu.be/x8A9Y1Dq_cQ