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- Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:36 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Internal monologue
- Replies: 22
- Views: 44790
Re: Internal monologue
I saw some post on reddit the other day that around half of people don't have an internal monologue in their heads, while around half of people do. And that it's hard for one half of humanity to understand how the other half thinks. Do you have an internal monologue? I guess there's the question of...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:52 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 232
- Views: 267422
Re: What are you reading?
Anabasis by Xenophon The ancient Greeks wrote some amazing books about history that survived to this day. Herodotus' Histories (of the Persian Wars) and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War are the best known, but another example is by Xenophon. The Anabasis, or Persian Expedition, follows ...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:22 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
- Replies: 1003
- Views: 445700
Re: What are you watching?
Highly recommend this series about evolution of human civilization from 20000BC to 3300 BC. It focuses on the near east because that area has been studied the most, but notes the same cycle happened in six areas. Would be nice to see a series for each of the other five. This is the first in the 3 pa...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:02 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
- Replies: 421
- Views: 268091
Re: Run-up to WW3
https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/kremlin-tones-down-nuclear-rhetoric I've noticed this as well. I'm guessing that such talk has achieved as much as it's going to achieve for Russia. At the moment Ukraine is still largely constrained from attacking targets inside Russia, and that's probably due t...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:10 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: How about that inflation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 76310
Re: How about that inflation
What's your explanation -- because clearly inflation is a world-wide phenomenon at the moment.puerile_polyp wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:38 pmNow they're trying to convince everyone that we have all this inflation because corporations suddenly became greedy. I won't be surprised at what anybody believes anymore.
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:07 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Bachelor Chow
- Replies: 31
- Views: 73950
Re: Bachelor Chow
Not a bachelor, but when we're busy, one staple is burritos from a local restaurant drive through. Tonight it was chicken enchilada burritos with added rice and green chile, $10 for 2 people. It would be hard to cook a decent meal cheaper than that. My default cooking mode seems to be pasta with thi...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:59 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
- Replies: 421
- Views: 268091
Re: Run-up to WW3
It feels like 2003 all over again. I might as well be back there yelling at everyone about how stupid it is to believe in that WMD nonsense. It's not gonna matter what any of us says, there will be endless war to feed the MIC. It doesn't feel like 2003 to me. In 2003 we were swept into the false na...
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 4:47 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 232
- Views: 267422
Re: What are you reading?
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth -- by Andrew Carnegie Audible has a section where members can listen to a selection of free audio books, this was one of them. Andrew Carnegie was the major financial figure in the growth of US steel, being one of the 'robber barons' of ...
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:10 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
- Replies: 421
- Views: 268091
Re: Run-up to WW3
If you were wondering about the mobilized Russians, a very cogent first-hand account of a Russian from the far east who went from civilian to front lines to wounded in a few weeks. Something about this reminded me of a Putin-style 'Red Badge of Courage', if you're familiar with that book. https://ww...
- Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:38 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Watcha doin? - a hobby thread
- Replies: 65
- Views: 128146
Re: Watcha doin? - a hobby thread
This has been the summer and fall of home improvement. At this point it's more of a job than a hobby. We've own an adobe house in Albuquerque that for eight years has been rented by the room to friends of one kid. He decided to move to Denver, informed his friends, and all the tenants decamped at on...