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Interested in life, philosophy, service governance, ethics, logic, science, rationality, illusionism, mathematical modelling & psychiatry.
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That's a very brave statement - do you have any evidence for it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_St...
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To be even fairer, the US / NATO, is by that measure, technically at war with Germany, since the bombing of the Nordstrom pipeline was an act of war.
This is why Germany has said so little about it, it isn't really kean on retaliating.
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To be fair, an unprovoked attack on a sovereign country is an act of war.
I'm amazed CNN still survives.
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I'm sure that Aubrey didn't mean to spin his top into your eye... and it looks as if you should recover. #GirlsOwnCC
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Like toothpaste you can shampoo with?
Blokes discovered that sort of thing, decades ago.
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"She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." Mrs. Malaprop
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The really depressing thing about 'Star Wars', is watchers, even American ones, identify with the rebels...
..then they leave the cinema and vote for The Empire.
Failing to see the contradiction.
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I've really enjoyed our chance encounter, and chat. Do you think it'd be forward of me to put my overcoat down?
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Garlic is far more suitable, unless you're attracted to creatures of the night.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_O...
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I'm not sure it's about conclusions. The debate between the medical / psychiatric view and the neurodivergent as a version of normal view has been going some time.
This proposes that understanding the evolutionary background can help unite these.
As usual, a moderate path between extremes is good.
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I asked Deepseek to summarise it in layman's English:
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At the moment, the H5N1 position isn't too serious, if the CDC is able to continuing monitoring, it may stay that way. Just 70 cases and 1 death in the US, with no human-human transmission:
web.archive.org/web/20250617...
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Oh, run away. That's odd. Perhaps it was a war crime supporting troll. Peculiarly sensitive, but not very clear. Ah, well.
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FWIW, the full geek code is:
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
C+++++ OS:LUX++++ MAC++++ LANG:PAS++++ ADA+++ SH++++
J/ITSM++++ GOV+++
EDU/SCI+++ PHIL++++ MED++++ PSY++++
CULTURE/SA+++ ENG++++ WEL++ SCO++ LIT++++
LANG/EN+++ AFR ZUL+
GLOBAL/TRAV+ COSMO+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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I don't normally think of 'cultural background', so I got deepseek to use the old Usenet geek code to describe me - it gives:
CULTURE: SA+++ ENG++++ WEL++ SCO++ LIT++++ | LANG: EN+++ AFR ZUL+ | GLOBAL: TRAV+ COSMO+
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I think propaganda is perfectly straight forward, it is a biased persentation intended to persuade the consumer of the worldview / narrative of the one intending to persuade.
Or as the OED puts it:
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This covers it quite well, including a reference to evolutionary psychology providing some ætiology:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40171117/
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Why would that be relevant? I think it's fairly straightforward that obvious propaganda is less dangerous than subtle propaganda.
As it happens, I'm in England, my 'cultural background' is more complicated, books, Welsh, English, South African, Scottish.
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Wouldn't it be, very slightly, better that the propaganda was, as it is, often badly done,an, thus, obvious, because it is so OTT in the biased use of language - supported actors 'announce' or 'insist', 'warn', or 'admonish', whilst everyone else 'claims', or 'states', or 'is reported to have said'.
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But they are on one side. They are on the side of the Imperial Narrative, which is compulsory for all members, even if they used to be journalists, of the MSM.
The narrative is in favour of the War Crimes and genοcide, as it is in favour of Apartheid (South African Apartheid too).
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Then there ware the 'Carrion' films - 'Carrion Camping' probably most appropriate.
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You'd expect people to know it from Carrion Crows, by inference, at least, if not directly from reading about Hyena.
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You want them to hide the propaganda more cleverly?
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The units of heartbeat are beats / minute. You can't have negative beats, but, if you had negative minutes, then you could have a negative heatbeat.
Fortunately time travel is impossible for humans for multiple reasons, but, if it wasn't, there'd be a negative heartrate if you went backwards.
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Brilliant! Reviewers by disgruntled enemies will have to be well disguised.
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I'd never heard that expression before. I see it is quite an old one, but American.
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'Misspelt', pedant.
I'd say 3am tomorrow, or 3 in the morning, it is a bit late to be 'tonight', though, technically, it is.
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Even the skiff anatomy is squiffy, the jib and mainsail share the mast.
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Well, clearly Chloral hydrate isn't quite the pick-me-up our usual gin and it provides.
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It's not surprising they can't spell, but it's an amusing irony they have the slogan 'Honour First', when the clip makes it abundantly clear that's a lie.
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'I was the arse, but, now I am the arsehole', seems more appropriate, but self-awareness was never a feature of The Great Fart.
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Those less familiar with dissociative states than Elon Musk might find an upset tum a better example of a liminal state blurring external & internal worlds.
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Unfortunately, the notion that some things are intrinsically, essentially, impossible for the human mind is, obviously, neither provable, nor disprovable, which is a bit of a snag for a theory.
∞ is a possible candidate, but then the question becomes 'what does "not graspable" mean?'.
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L'État, c'est moi.
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This talks about the NAO in those years: cmsenvis.cmsindia.org/resources/ne...
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In Sweden particularly. It isn't clear what caused the big famine, as there wasn't a high VEI volcanic eruption in the years before. It's probably connected to the heavy rainfall in the years before over Europe. Maybe a change in the Atlantic Oscillation.
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Musk believing X is quite good grounding for ~X.
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His assumptions are said to include teleology, which is an extreme position: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thank you. Old, yes, but I don't think Carrol is quite old enough to be 'classical'.
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My Faber-Castell slide-rule, and HP 2100, but, yes, perhaps.
To use a slide-rule properly, you do need to know the answer within an order of magnitude.
I think the results might have been different had I not been left-handed with -12 diopter myopia & astigmatism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100