Was excited to read my first Ian Banks book in the culture serie: The player of game. Disapointed. The culture is a cool concept for a book. What we have are an uninspired personnage saying hello and goodbye before and after every conversation. A fist half dealing with the uninspired protagonist and his insipid conversation with personnages who will totally diseapear in second half when the conflict really begin. The conflict is okayish. The alien civilisation feel alien. The dig at autoritative society isnt event too on the nose. -- One cool short James Ellroy novella (he is always cool): Shakedown It is ellroy: misogynist, racist , republican, but he do it with panache. -- Some bad french Sci-fi (my favorite genre tend to do bad book 99% of the time) , and one cool Sci-fi: Salvager of Time (Wesley Chu 2015) Fun premice: human society is in shamble, they only survive by going in the past salvaging ressource. Well written. Unfortunatly nothing is resolved, we are waiting for a scond tome, which didnt come yet. Still a good read. -- The killing Joke (A.Moore) What a deception. I discovered that comics could be epic with Moore (Vandeta, From HEll, Watchmen...) The killing joke, is just a short story, 40 page, where nothing interesting happen. Joker back story is bland. Batman doesnt do anything remarquable. Joker tell him where he is, and batman come and kick his ass, end. -- Next will be 2 James Ellroy (I'm closing on having read all his books now). One of which is in English.. and as I feared, I realized after the 1st few pages , that my english is not good enough for that level of slang.
You say that Biden could be mentally impacted by his age. Which is fair after the poor debate. But the man is known for his lack of debate prowess. Politically it look like he is the best president US had in years. He already did more good things for the US people and on the international front, than Obama (a great debater ) did. We can argue that he is not the creative mind behind all those good things (and I rather see you guys have Cortez or Bernie as president), but they happened either way.
Finally the left prevail. And the Far right, got 3rd place. BUT, still 9 millions peoples voted for them, which is a lot in 60 million population. An interesting point in the article is that Macron hoped to create a strong Moderate party (which seems reasonable).. there never was a strong middle party in France historically (only strong left and strong right, like Democrat and Republican). And curiously what happened, is that, the left and right disappeared in a few years, and got replaced with far left and far right. Very telling about human mind, somehow.
Some context: Borges was a poet. He only wrote poetry for years. Then he had an accident (or a stroke), and had to spend some week in an hospital. He feared his brain was damaged. So he didn't want to write poetry in fear he realized it was bad, and his brain was really damaged. So he decided to write a short story for the first time of his life: Pierre Menard. Thus began the carrier of the best short story writer of all time.
good argument, but the BMI is stable within all the sample 29 for <8 hour, and 28 > 8 hour window to eat
20 000 is not "small sample size"... that 20x more than needed to have reliable data
Since the beginning I argued for a more open, less elitist forum. I finaly found that on lemmy Anyway, with the actual heavy on ad reddit , before the stock premiere, you can espect some new wave of refugee without a dark hubski
so for who do you think your work will be used by ? another artist?, really? that seems a bit naive
writing trash white on white between the line?
Una Pazzia - Alin Prandea all the song from this artist are of the same construction, but for some reason only this one stood out to me
Gohatto, 1999: a japanese movie in a strict medieval military school, where everyone start to become romanticaly obsessed with a new recruit. But I have a weird fascination for medieval japan history, to the point where I must be the only one who enjoyed the Seven samourai. The real thing, 2020: japanese movie in modern time . A normal dude become romanticaly obsessed with a girl driving him into weird situation. I suspect Japan has a tradition of some people being able to entail profound irresistible love. Because thoses 2 movie are totally non realistic for a western eyes.. yet they work. The strangenest is fascinating. I recently watched the last of Sheila, 1973: a murder mystery where everyone is bad, and the reveals piles up. I suspect I liked it more because it is filmed in Antibes, a french city I spend some weeks, in a difficult time, roaming the streets and port at night, like we see them in the movie.
The author of the paper about chin's explanation, argue in this interview, than speach and chewing, is not enough https://italy.timesofnews.com/health-care/why-do-humans-have-chins-a-scientist-explains-the-enduring-puzzle I was wrong about elephant (and probably manatee) they dont have one : https://www.npwrc.org/why-do-humans-have-chins-a-scientist-explains-the-enduring-puzzle.html
Nolwen Leroy - Juste pour me souvenir trying to figure out what gave me chills in song.. The voice is not enough, since all the other song from this artist dont have the same effect
Me too, especially with a reputed news outlet like the washington post tittle is :"Billionaire smacks back at capitalism" And other lament, that the poor Billionaire had to pay 17 millions, just to gift Earth all his fortunewhen Patagonia announced the move, I naïvely took it at face value.
Geneve is a nice place, but pretty small, so you can get around it in a few day. Very international Lyon has (imho) the best cuisine from all the country. So you can go enjoy some restaurant there ("rue des marronniers" is a rare place with restaurant for tourist that the locals also go to) , and there are some museum. Lyon is direct from Geneve by train in ~2h. Trains in europa are cool (I heard this is not the case in america) Venice is great in winter with fewer tourist and still amazing church and rare painting to visit Without ski , or outdoors passion, I would go for food, musueum and city touring (the visa for Swiss is may be different for the rest of Europa, as Swiss is not in the EU)
The family still get 100% voting power. And the move is just a way to avoid taxe for the children while they still control the company. And it Seems that the charity (owned by the oligarch family), is still able to use fund to campaign, and corrupt (sorry influence) the elected officials
I had the same reaction! I was thinking it would be a greater deal, since everyone looked for that tomb forever
I cant access Truth Social, as it is only for american , and I dont use VPN. But apparently Trump is saying there that the whole "nuclear document" is a hoax:
Hahah under scuttlebutt, way to go hubski In the bottom of the list there is https://www.upquest.com/ I like the idea: you vote to predict the best post/comment , and win karma accordingly. Way more fun than reddit. I wonder what would the front page be with such a system on reddit.. It cant be worse than what the front page is since the last 5 years.. can it be?
J'aime les gens qui doutent - anne sylvestre I put some translation, because I like the contrast of the sweet melody, and occasional slur. It must be a musical genre. But the only well known example I can think of is Fuck you -lily Allen . At least in Allen's the vulgarity serve a purpose. Here, it sound so weird : people who listen too much to the move of their hearts. I like people who talk And contradict And never denounce I like people who tremble Sometimes they seems able to judge. I like people passing by one feet in their beaters and the other aside Even if they pass for twats I like those who panic Those who are not logical Finally, not "as it should". Those who, with their chains So that it doesn't bother us Make just a little bell noise Of being in the end just failures of the heart. Because they could'nt say: "Deliver us from the worst And keep the best" chorus Take ownership of things even less of people. Those who only want to be Just a simple window in the eyes of children's Those who without banner And with a color blind soul Ignore the colors. Those who are retard enough so that the History never give them military honors I like people who doubt But would like us to leave them the fuck alone from time to time. And that we don't mistreat them when they walk Their autumns in the spring Makes more beautiful flames That all those sad assholes. And we thank them Let us tell them, we shout to them: "Thank you for having lived" Thank you for the tenderness And too bad for your ass that did what it could I like people who doubt chorus: I like their little song Those who will not be ashamed I like people who don't dare chorus Let them be told that the soul
... He was, of course, also a racist and eugenicist. In 1916, he authored The Passing of the Great Race, in which he claimed the superiority of the "Nordic" race and painted immigrants and Jewish people as "inferior" "social discards" overrunning his city. American "culture" , even at its worse it permeate the world's mindMadison Grant was born into a blue-blooded New York family.
freaknomics podcast, had, last week, a good take on the saudi arabia "soft power" move to get into golf:
Nice duet about the drive to leave everything behind Stuart Staples: Leaving feeling
You can put as many bomb/co2 as you want.. Any atmosphere will be stripped away by the sun due to lack of a magnetic field on Mars . Then, may be the plan is to nuclear bomb it every few hundred year while the Elon Musk's people live there.. I can get behind the idea
just a reminder that the original sounded the same and was from 1975! And if you like prehistory of Techno, you might enjoy Jacno (1979):
No. For an unknown reason he start with the subprime crisis.. why not the tulip bubble, while he is at it? He try to explain anything from Bitcoin to ETH, to EFT and then the second ETH build or whatever. But the guy is clear and entertaining.. to be fair, I drop off around chapter 12. The interesting part are why some people chill crypto, and who are obsessed with it
Where have all the flower gone -Marlene Dietriech .. For some reason the crescendo in the german version give you the drive to invade Poland
Those are military leak during cold war! They were trying to make Weapons, not searching for cure. I suppose the Geneva convention is against that. No wonder they tried to cover up. There are ton of virus lab around the world, I never heard of any leak, or even abnormal death rate around them. I mean, There is one lab in the center of Paris, the Pasteur Institute, I drink my coffee in a bar right in front of it, should I be worried!Gruinard Island, Sverdlovsk, Vozrozdeniya Island, Reston, fuckin' Rajneesh
Key word being "less skeptical".. meaning you will still need other evidences. You made up your mind already! And you blame it on Occam's razzor, and the dude dont deserve that. On the my end, just bring me a secretary working in that lab saying I have a memo proving we fuck up , and I sign on the lab leak theory. Ok even if she just has an email saying they try to cover up something, I sign on the lab-leak. No doubt the US secret service want and can bring that girl here already Ok , even just a few neutral biologist saying "ok I looked on what they were working on, and it is basically covid, they fucked up", and I'm team leak I dont even know what "furin cleavage site" are and the 1st answer from search engine is a study that it is a natural occurence Or someone bribed them!If they found a single example of a furin cleavage site that matches this one, I'd be more skeptical of the lab leak. And if they could find it in an animal that has any reasonable connection to the Wuhan area, I'd be even less skeptical.