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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:38 pm

Now 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.

What's your explanation -- because clearly inflation is a world-wide phenomenon at the moment.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...