A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2d ago
trying to negotiate an accounting identity ... which is precisely the thing Trump says he wants them to stop doing
And is now firing people for similar! If he wants Powell to lower rates, bad job numbers would help...
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
5d ago
The early draw of reddit for me was learning fuddlore from different communities.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
5d ago
Tucker Carlson
He interviewed the ex Nikola motors CEO, Trevor Milton.Trevor tried to play all the cards, claiming democrats went after him, big oil was out for him etc. But he pumped a company to $60B by claiming it had a factory with thousands of employees, making working trucks etc. In reality, 20 employees and they made cardboard models of trucks, which they pushed down hills for demonstrations and commercials. And the investigation started in the Trump admin. The fraud was about the same size as Madoff's, but it only cost him $1.7mm to buy a pardon from Trump.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
9d ago
This is a very nice article related to this: https://happyfellow.bearblog.dev/computational-tyranny/
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
9d ago
There are no more assyrians or chaldeans or zoroastrians
Both exist, today!
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Yazidi or Armenians or Copts because they were successfully extinguished as viable populations
All 3 currently exist. There are millions of the latter 2.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
2000 year old grievances
There was no conflict until, at the earliest, 140 years ago. Praytell, what "2000 year old grievances" do the Palestinians harbor and wage war over?
He called Israel unwelcoming to Christian organizations and then met with the Palestinian authority yesterday.
Letter from him qua ambassador: https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2025/07/IMG_0737-merged.pdf
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
13d ago
This doesn't make sense in context. There are constant offer of peace talks, constant public praise and hit pieces, years of rumor around Zaluzhny's political future etc. Seymour Hersh is a joke with negative alpha.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
15d ago
native underclass
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
16d ago
Spectating, voyeurism is bad, robs you of life, time.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
16d ago
pied piper of Hamelin
What's the moral of the tale, to you? (This is a 20 year mystery for me.)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
18d ago
while the left fetishizes education and high-class culture
Since when? In them I see no love for wisdom and erudition, no study in perfection.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
24d ago
On the sensation of hunger and the specific wording I'm using "the sensation of hunger" and not simply the term hunger, this is part of the meditative practice that I think has allowed me to maintain the weight loss. In Buddhism we talk about dependent phenomena and conditional arising, and the fundamental emptiness of all such things. In this understanding, hunger is not an indication of needing to eat, or at all even related to the nutritional state of my organism, its a sensation like the temperature of the air, or ambient sounds. It never, ever, ever goes away. If I am awake, I am hungry. Starving. Even now that I'm "better", I'm hungry from the moment I awake until I return to sleep. No amount of eating of any type of food has any effect whatsoever on my sensation of hunger. In fact, eating generally makes me even hungrier, as well as exhausted. I could eat so much food that I had trouble walking, I would feel like I was on the verge of vomiting from how stuffed I was, and I was still starving. I think something like this drives the behaviors of many, if not all, obese people to some extent. I am fortunate that the same techniques I use to manage chronic pain work pretty well with chronic, inescapable hunger.
Could you recommend books on this kind of Buddhism instead of the typical pop-Buddhism?
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
24d ago
Tangential, but: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/russian-peasant-life
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
25d ago
trash
That's what crud means. I'm not talking about the blockbusters. Now, 50s style b movies are different, but the studio system had everyone on top of their game because they were putting movies out so quickly, with teams having control over their specific domain. The end results would often be forgettable but rarely incoherent like today.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
25d ago
The studio system/golden age of Hollywood churned out fast crud, by committee, significantly better than what we have now.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
26d ago
e grid is getting worse and is going to keep getting worse due to Green energy mandates.
your link 404s chage it to https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-eu-as-suicide-pact-or-how-germany
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
26d ago
For me, his other best songs are: Getting Down the Mountain, I want to be in the Calvary, Horse Soldier
Nice and similar: Keep your Rifle by your Side - Dan Romer, UnReal Estate - Compound Interest, Which Side are you on? - Alderon Tyran, Dawson's Christian - Duane Elms, Down in Yon Forest - Wovenhand, Another Hitler - Clem Tholet
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
27d ago
For better or worse, Turkey is no longer "cheap" but equivalent to Paris. When the last wave of inflation was mid course (early 2022), you could rent a well-located flat in Istanbul for 200 usd. A favorite restaurant of mine went from 17 to 53 lira by May 2022. Later, leaving Ankara in 2024, coffees were approaching 200 lira, while the exchange rate had only gone from 30 to 38 lira : usd.
Various monuments and attractions went from free to charging 50 euro entrance fees (like the Hagia Sophia).
I did get a comprehensive medical scan for about 30 usd, even running on a treadmill with things taped to me and testing blood. I think they're less scams and more so trivial/brass tax if you're going to do a (serious) cosmetic surgery. Beyond that, I have no idea about medical tourism costs at different points; my partner did that in Iran. A friend was considering some sort of knee operation for about 2000 euro, though.
If I can get one of my parents an MRI in 1 week for $5,000 vs in 9 months for free when time is directly proportional to better outcomes,
MRIs are only a few hundred in Mexico (City, Guadalajara etc.) They even accept walk ins. Random reddit link for random info.
But, you do realize you can go private in Canada, too and pay about 1k cad, right? Plenty of Americans go to Canada for private healthcare. Ilumina's in Toronto. In Buffalo, you're looking at about 500.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
27d ago
covering up special forces killed during some off-the-book op
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
We might call it "agency", or projecting a sense of "in-control-ness", if not over his external environment then at least over himself. If a man can't demonstrate at least a minimal amount of "put-together-ness"
Nietzsche's Will to Power (expressing a sense of agency, freedom, self-sovereignty)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1mo ago
Basically the National Union of Mine Workers was butting heads with the planners in the socialist part of the British economy and seeking rents based on their ability to crash the economy by coming out on strike.
The plot of Heinlein's 1940 The Roads must Roll
https://youtube.com/watch?v=haPcdobyINc?si=ncLFUNKgJeahFTyU&t=10
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