If prosperity is what causes obesity, then why is obesity an epidemic among the poor and not nearly as much the wealthy?
The Islamic world is the home of the hookah, they have hookah bars all over the place to deal with the fact that they're not allowed to drink alcohol.
"is this a cult of some kind?"
Whenever this question comes up the answer is always yes. No matter the context.
Whenever this question comes up the answer is always yes. No matter the context.
"but we didn't want him to win!!!"
Yeah dumbass, you don't get a say. Ask King George all about it.
Yeah dumbass, you don't get a say. Ask King George all about it.
I just think of if the American army was on the border about to take my city, and the call went out: "Who wants to volunteer to fight the Americans?" -- I'd probably be like "Howdy you all parteneur" -- go ahead, doesn't negatively affect my life if it's Trump instead of Trudeau, but it will very negatively affect my life if me and all my friends die fighting the Americans!
So I've got kind of a dumb question...
For the actual people living in Ukraine, is there a reason for them to actually care which assholes flag is flying over their building?
For the actual people living in Ukraine, is there a reason for them to actually care which assholes flag is flying over their building?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyun6SVfPM
This is an amazing restoration of a toy from 1918. The guy goes so far as to build his own stamping presses to remanufacture many of the parts that are totally destroyed.
I can't help but think that this toy would have been one of the most expensive toys you could buy in 1918. It has tons parts made of steel and all kinds of clockwork. After this restoration, it's probably among the most expensive toys on the planet.
This is an amazing restoration of a toy from 1918. The guy goes so far as to build his own stamping presses to remanufacture many of the parts that are totally destroyed.
I can't help but think that this toy would have been one of the most expensive toys you could buy in 1918. It has tons parts made of steel and all kinds of clockwork. After this restoration, it's probably among the most expensive toys on the planet.
They might be around but hiding. Look for fabric covered end tables you don't remember.
I like linus, but you will have to remember until the end of time that he wrote out the sentence "yes I understand I am about to break my Linux install" on camera then was shocked that his Linux install broke.
If figures like this stay this way there's no way bonds go down since risk goes up ...
Elf on the shelf is problematic, but not because it's authoritarian, but because it isn't. The elf on the shelf doesn't have any way to hurt you in the physical world, it won't actually rat you out, and it's just supposed to be a metaphor for guilt-based morality where you act as if someone is watching even when you know they aren't.
To properly prepare kids for our enlightened world that has killed God and replaced it with corporations and totalizing states, we need to give it power and judgement. We need elf on a shelf with a badge, a gun, and a twitter account. We have to give it a pellet gun, and give it the authority to shoot the children when an integrated AI recognizes an infraction has occurred (don't worry, it won't kill them, it's just really painful and might leave permanent scars or blind them), and give it veto power over the children's next meal. For really bad infractions, send emails to future potential employers in the region so the kid will never be able to get a job. All this "God will judge you after you die so be good while you're alive" stuff is too weak, we need to teach kids how things really are now.
This will prepare kids for the real panopticon we've created, an omnipresent threat of cancel culture, or of the authoritarian government that monitors and punishes your every move we're seeing increasingly around the world, such as the girl in England who was arrested, charged, convicted, and punished for posting a dead friend's favorite song on Facebook (a song which contained the naughty N word), or the schoolchildren who were recently arrested for saying words like "retard", or getting banned from social media for direct messages with another consenting person because social media companies face fascistic pressure from the state to control every word we say to everyone.
We've given up on our guilt-based morality and have begun a new era of fear-based morality. We need to update our traditions to reflect that.
To properly prepare kids for our enlightened world that has killed God and replaced it with corporations and totalizing states, we need to give it power and judgement. We need elf on a shelf with a badge, a gun, and a twitter account. We have to give it a pellet gun, and give it the authority to shoot the children when an integrated AI recognizes an infraction has occurred (don't worry, it won't kill them, it's just really painful and might leave permanent scars or blind them), and give it veto power over the children's next meal. For really bad infractions, send emails to future potential employers in the region so the kid will never be able to get a job. All this "God will judge you after you die so be good while you're alive" stuff is too weak, we need to teach kids how things really are now.
This will prepare kids for the real panopticon we've created, an omnipresent threat of cancel culture, or of the authoritarian government that monitors and punishes your every move we're seeing increasingly around the world, such as the girl in England who was arrested, charged, convicted, and punished for posting a dead friend's favorite song on Facebook (a song which contained the naughty N word), or the schoolchildren who were recently arrested for saying words like "retard", or getting banned from social media for direct messages with another consenting person because social media companies face fascistic pressure from the state to control every word we say to everyone.
We've given up on our guilt-based morality and have begun a new era of fear-based morality. We need to update our traditions to reflect that.
The banality of evil. Imagine being on that jury, and saying "guilty" and nobody having any moral qualms about what they're doing because they're just doing their job as a jury.
One line in a recent p'nut video on YouTube describing the situation bothered me. It was saying Trump supporters were somehow blaming Biden or Harris for New York state raiding a home, stealing a pet squirrel and a raccoon, then euthanizing them. In the book "the master and his emissary" by Iain McGilchrist, he discusses the difference in information processing between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. One side of the brain is very literal, factual, precise, the other side is more broad, looks for connections between things, intuitive. The thing is, for the intuitive side of the brain, you don't need to directly link two things that are intuitively linked for them to be seen as connected. Government overreach by New York state still tells a story about government overreach federally even if there is no direct connection.
Holistic thinking often finds truth much faster than autistic data analysis because patterns show faster than all the calculations required for a direct mathematical calculation of everything. Moreover, it may find truths that data analysis never find enough data to prove the still intuitively obvious link. That's what made the story compelling to people, the intuitive injustice in one tiny case applied to many other daily situations despite not having a direct link.
Holistic thinking often finds truth much faster than autistic data analysis because patterns show faster than all the calculations required for a direct mathematical calculation of everything. Moreover, it may find truths that data analysis never find enough data to prove the still intuitively obvious link. That's what made the story compelling to people, the intuitive injustice in one tiny case applied to many other daily situations despite not having a direct link.