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Comment · 2 years ago
Nutrition influences phenotype, snooze...Zz.z.z.z.z
Comment · 2 years ago
What is your definition of progress?
Comment · 2 years ago
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Comment · 2 years ago
Stopped short of.... exposing how powerless the ICJ actually is.
Comment · 2 years ago
The blackpill is once you realize this all stems from democracy catering to the lowest common denominator in everything.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a lot of what I've seen the upper class be. Take a lot of bets, you need one to hit VS play it safe...

And it even pans out in generations. The scion of the Tang family (as in MIT Tang hall) sent half his kids to business, half to politics, figuring out on average it would turn out ok (it did)

Comment · 2 years ago
Only anglo-tard, 'guess the intent' legal systems. "Is he a person having bad thoughts?"
Comment · 2 years ago
Really, I always considered it as one of the easiest if not easiest.
Comment · 2 years ago
Damn, even for run of the mill, retail labor I've seen courtesy extended as wait until January
Comment · 2 years ago
Impossible, no cancer or anxiety, cause we are totally not made of ions and water /s
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly the point, EROI of PV is questionable. It relies on a lot of industry (mining for example) that is/was only possible from oil/"fossil"
Comment · 2 years ago
This is the energy machine bottleneck, what kinds of machines are net-energy positive? Probably only hydrocarbon extraction/burning, nuclear, hydroelectric dams and maybe, maybe solar PV (barely, not convinced we can continue building solar panels without hydrocarbon or another source).
Comment · 2 years ago
Au contraire, domino and chess are so mechanic that they're boring. Leave them to the machines
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not familiar with the Bloomsbury group. Was their effort just a, oh we are going to delegitimize elites? "They're just like us!! Just a different tAstE" Or is there anything else to their argument?

Like this seems the classic leftist/materialist reframing trying to pretend there is not even a possibility of superior ideals and everything is just arbitrary and cultural. I always wonder of people pushing such ideas if they actually believe them or they just see it as a means to an end.

Why did the Bloomsbury set embark on this reform? To...claim eliteness and gain legitimacy themselves?

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