Your generation and my son's generation are on the hook for every penny both parties rack up on the intergenerational credit card. Meanwhile, my generation demands more spending we aren't paying for while attacking the boomers as greedy.
So thanks for the dough, I guess....
So thanks for the dough, I guess....
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-andrew-tate-announces-conversion-islam
I feel like the only winning move with a guy like that is not to play. It's like making fun of the Kardashians -- even if you win, what exactly do you expect to achieve?
I feel like the only winning move with a guy like that is not to play. It's like making fun of the Kardashians -- even if you win, what exactly do you expect to achieve?
Doesn't matter anyway except insofar as he's putting up legislation that won't pass so his party can pretend they would have passed it but for the other team not voting for it. They'll get Congress and the Senate and it'll be deafening how silent they'll be on these topics.
There's some stuff they seem to have done right, considering the etymological roots of algebra, alchemy, and alcohol. The Islamic golden age and it's aftermath should be a lesson but our ruling class doesn't read history.
I'm more interested in the idea of this ancient work surviving for millennia elsewhere and then triggering a literal Renaissance when it comes back.
The story of the arabs curating Greek writings then those coming back is one of the most interesting out there.
[admin mode] restarted everything and changed IP addresses about an hour ago. It helped, but I think there's some regional connectivity issues going on.
I tend to agree with you that the likelihood of a full mad Max civilizational collapse is pretty limited. If you have a region that is fully capable of maintaining its own electricity using resources such as solar or hydroelectric as well as maintaining its own food supplies, and doing a reasonable job of internal defense and external defense, then there's no reason to believe that such a region won't be able to maintain itself. The places that are most at risk are going to be the big cities that rely on other regions to jam them full of material resources. In scenarios like the bronze age collapse, the code orders were just fine, and even the nation of Egypt continued to bump along, but other civilizations such as the Minoans were completely erased from history for millennia.
I tend to think that the places that will be hardest hit in an apocalypse scenario will be the ones that can't actually sustain themselves. Mortality rates in overpopulated regions will be astronomical since there won't be anything nearby to deal with all of the people to feed. For parallel to that, you can look at the Harappan civilization, also known as the Indus valley Civilization which collapsed leaving basically nothing. That occurred in part because of changes to the climate and also degradation of the soil. There seem to be evidence of the Harappan civilization in the stories of Hindu, which does suggest that somebody made it out alive, as far as I know even today that region is barren and unpopulated.
I don't think we can make predictions as to which currency might be in use. Over the past 8000 years gold has been something that kept its value, but many things that were also considered valuable stopped being valuable. My favorite example is aluminum which was once a precious metal more valuable than gold and today we make disposable drink containers out of it. I tend to think that the Internet functioning to the extent cryptos would need it to is likely a bit aspirational even in a mild collapse scenario as international infrastructure would be the first thing to stop working, since regional conflicts would likely not desire a global network to allow tactical and strategic information to sieve through.
I tend to think that the places that will be hardest hit in an apocalypse scenario will be the ones that can't actually sustain themselves. Mortality rates in overpopulated regions will be astronomical since there won't be anything nearby to deal with all of the people to feed. For parallel to that, you can look at the Harappan civilization, also known as the Indus valley Civilization which collapsed leaving basically nothing. That occurred in part because of changes to the climate and also degradation of the soil. There seem to be evidence of the Harappan civilization in the stories of Hindu, which does suggest that somebody made it out alive, as far as I know even today that region is barren and unpopulated.
I don't think we can make predictions as to which currency might be in use. Over the past 8000 years gold has been something that kept its value, but many things that were also considered valuable stopped being valuable. My favorite example is aluminum which was once a precious metal more valuable than gold and today we make disposable drink containers out of it. I tend to think that the Internet functioning to the extent cryptos would need it to is likely a bit aspirational even in a mild collapse scenario as international infrastructure would be the first thing to stop working, since regional conflicts would likely not desire a global network to allow tactical and strategic information to sieve through.
For years I've been warning about the limitations of EVs, and I was told I'm stupid or I'm lying or I'm wrong. The thing is, the real world doesn't care about arguments, it cares about whether the thing does what it needs to do how it does it.
We're on episode 4 of "I parry everything" and in the comments I see lots of people going "oh god he's so dense does this stop?" but I just wanna say "bro I'm 5 novels in, he just parried an elder god to death, and he's still as humble and dense as he always was"
O&O Shutup10 (free of charge) will let you totally stop windows updates. Obviously not something you want to do with something directly on the public Internet, but if you're behind a firewall it'd be just fine.
Kamala isn't a real person. She'll be whatever she is told to be. Monday she'll throw a bunch of innocent people in jail, Tuesday she'll raise money to keep them out of jail. Whatever she's told to say and do she'll say or do.
One key difference between nonstick pans and cast iron pans is they're not nonstick pans. Project Farm did a roundup of nonstick pans and the result on camera was conclusive imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eBmPSqd4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eBmPSqd4g
I get a kick out of the idea that the Biden administration and its overwhelmingly left wing bureaucracy would decide to help Donald Trump win the election. (95% of federal bureaucrats who donated to a political party donated to democrats according to one source which I'll admit was biased and may be wrong)
As I recall, luciferian evil is more like thinking you're outsmarting God, it's cunning evil, an arrogant hubris that you're smarter than God. Satanic evil tends to be more stupid and base, carnal desire or animalistic hatred and anger, in a sense giving up your rational humanity to submit to those parts of your animalistic nature you know are evil. I assume Molochian evil would be related to false idolatry and sacrificing innocence to something evil.
I'm framing this in terms of christianity, but I think most organized religions have a concept of the good and the bad, and overall while there are certainly details that are different from culture to culture, there's a limited number of ways to succeed as human beings, and so from a purely cultural evolutionary perspective ideologies that continue to exist past a few generations must have a certain view of ways to behave and ways not to behave.
As a counterexample that isn't really a counterexample, the akkadians were famously vicious, participating in horrendous practices such as having The Losers of a war have to grind the bones of his wife and child and then bragging about it in Statue form. Now this might look like it proves that such ideologies can survive, but eventually the entire Mesopotamian region banded together just to fight back against them, ultimately resulting in the collapse of their empire.
Another counterexample that isn't really a counterexample, is the Mayan civilization that was discovered in the Americas by the Spanish. Because of their practice of human sacrifice, not only did the Christians coming over from Europe feel morally obligated to wipe them out, but once the Europeans had come over and put their finger on that scale they were quite quickly able to make a coalition of all of their enemies and wiped out the entire civilization in record time.
I'm framing this in terms of christianity, but I think most organized religions have a concept of the good and the bad, and overall while there are certainly details that are different from culture to culture, there's a limited number of ways to succeed as human beings, and so from a purely cultural evolutionary perspective ideologies that continue to exist past a few generations must have a certain view of ways to behave and ways not to behave.
As a counterexample that isn't really a counterexample, the akkadians were famously vicious, participating in horrendous practices such as having The Losers of a war have to grind the bones of his wife and child and then bragging about it in Statue form. Now this might look like it proves that such ideologies can survive, but eventually the entire Mesopotamian region banded together just to fight back against them, ultimately resulting in the collapse of their empire.
Another counterexample that isn't really a counterexample, is the Mayan civilization that was discovered in the Americas by the Spanish. Because of their practice of human sacrifice, not only did the Christians coming over from Europe feel morally obligated to wipe them out, but once the Europeans had come over and put their finger on that scale they were quite quickly able to make a coalition of all of their enemies and wiped out the entire civilization in record time.
Yes, the conception of a nation as just a geographical area and a democratic government slapped on top is I think a product of the modern period's colonialism, resulting global empires such as the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent powers like France, and existing nations like the United States that don't have those long histories and relatively unified ethnicity. In that sense, premodern states were effective ethnostates.
I'm using the word in the modern sense since that's how we use it today because it helps people (including myself) who were confused by the concept of national socialism in a postmodern world that doesn't see nations that way colloquially anymore.
I'm hypocritical in my distaste for the use of the word neoliberal in such a way that it represents an effective growing of government while pretending to do the opposite by reducing public services. I recognize that that is how it is come to be known now, however.
Something a lot of leftists don't seem to realize is that the social liberalism is just a tool for the destruction of capitalism. In every example on record they'd open up to degenerates until they're in power then they call that behavior anti-revolutionary and crack down. Every time. I could see a winning ideology that proposed socialism but also was against the absolute degeneracy of the Weimar Republic being tempting for communists who want to get closer to socialism and see what the Weimar republic showed them as capitalist decadence and decline suggesting all capitalism was about to collapse.
I'm using the word in the modern sense since that's how we use it today because it helps people (including myself) who were confused by the concept of national socialism in a postmodern world that doesn't see nations that way colloquially anymore.
I'm hypocritical in my distaste for the use of the word neoliberal in such a way that it represents an effective growing of government while pretending to do the opposite by reducing public services. I recognize that that is how it is come to be known now, however.
Something a lot of leftists don't seem to realize is that the social liberalism is just a tool for the destruction of capitalism. In every example on record they'd open up to degenerates until they're in power then they call that behavior anti-revolutionary and crack down. Every time. I could see a winning ideology that proposed socialism but also was against the absolute degeneracy of the Weimar Republic being tempting for communists who want to get closer to socialism and see what the Weimar republic showed them as capitalist decadence and decline suggesting all capitalism was about to collapse.