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hyggetrold
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Do not be afraid of creating something imperfect or unattractive at first; it is through the process of making and remaking that true beauty emerges."
- In retrospect, it seems like it was a bad idea for Western countries to assume that things were going to remain peaceful after the fall of the USSR. Glad to see the threat of war being taken seriously.
- I'm down with Blind Guardian, they're fun!
- > Modern metal is amazing compared to the stuff from the 90s though.
I know what you mean but Metallica, Pantera, and Emperor (black metal) are still all-time classic staples in my discography.
- Solid selection - I respectfully submit "Hypersleep" as another classic 90s DnB tune.
- This is awesome. Cool to see the history told this way.
I would also encourage folks to seek out photos/footage of the concentration camps in Europe as well as the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Japan. When you see the unsanitized horror it really gives you pause that people did this to each other. And why war is worth trying to prevent.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)
"I will work harder!"
- My prediction is that C will still be in active use 100 years from now.
- The first link you put gives me a security warning so I didn't click through. But the medium article would suggest that this is the one!
- I can't remember the name of it, but over a decade ago I saw something like this - it was a single Linux server shared by (I think) hundreds of people. Really trying to do the multi-user paradigm. They advertised it as a private kind of social network, it was invite-only and I think you had to pay to help keep the server lights on.
Hopefully by posting something incorrect, A Person On The Internet Who Knows Better will come along and provide the correct details. :)
- If I have to, I have to - if it's going to persist for days, I don't want that noise.
- Email filters me son.
- +1 to this - what Europeans consider "the basics" for most Americans is filed under "luxury" or "bougie."
- This is all I ever had heard about Tata consulting as well so I have to say it's been an education seeing how sad everyone is to see Ratan Tata pass away.
It does make a kind of sense to me now though - if Ratan Tata's goal was to pull money into India, he was massively successful. How he got there might be a different story. But that's just as true of all previous great capitalists as well.
- Movie theater is an interesting analogy because they make zero money on ticket sales. Usually ticket revenue pays for the cost of the movie (theaters pay the studio for the movie). The way the theaters make money is on concessions, hence why they're crazy expensive.
- I'm a little about myself that I understood this plus the deep cuts. Well done.
- > In some places USPS is unreliable
I can live with USPS but what made me actually cancel my Prime account was their use of On-Trac shipping in California. They literally missed every single time and had to come back the next day.
- It's a funny expression and it is rooted in advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Perdue
The violence against the Rohingyas is terrible and it's horrible to see Buddhism used as a cover. Japan did a similar thing under WW2 where Zen institutions were "encouraged" to support the war and preach that it was moral and religious.
With that said, the fears are not unjustified. Indonesia was once a bastion of Buddhism and Buddhist thought, now it's a majority Muslim country. In Afghanistan, the Taliban were blowing up ancient Buddhist monuments before 9/11.
Overall this article struck me as maybe well-intentioned but totally unrealistic.