You provided an excellent summation, EEE. It's certainly not for everyone, and some may well be triggered by parts of it. On the other hand, very well acted, thoroughly unpredictable, and it'll linger longer in my mind than most of the streaming that I do. In our local art cinema, we just saw Adieu Monsieur Haffman (Farewell Mister Haffmann). It's 1942 in Paris, and a jeweler and his family are forced to flee the Nazis. An excellent film that kept us guessing, with great performances. What is it about our fascination with WW2 and the Nazis? If DB reads this, just wondering when The Fire Agent might be available? When the times comes I'll be clearing my reading schedule so as to devote my full attention to it! :) I've mentioned before that daily I fill up notebooks with many, many summaries that I've read, quotes, statistics, various shit that for some reason strikes me as worth revisiting. Here are just a few things that I've noted recently. This Lex Fridman podcast on nuclear war was riveting, but obviously not for the faint of heart: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen/ I've been thinking of Hanlon's Razor more often than usual lately: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. " The Cass Review recently released in England, or at least a summary of it, should be read by everyone concerned with the trans issue, especially as related to children. The Illusory Truth Effect should be discussed as it's so relevant to our information environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect I love graphs and their ability to convey important information almost instantly is remarkable. Here's one related to global GDP per capita over the centuries. Boy, that industrial revolution really changed things! https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historys-hockey-stick-gross-domestic-product-per-capita-using-the-ratio-scale-1990 Antisemitism in the New Testament (Matthew 27:25) How many Jews were slaughtered because some idiot decided to insert this pearl of wisdom:"His (Jesus's) blood be on us and on our children." And the Gospel of John uses the word "Jews" 63 times, 31 of which are in a hostile sense. There are 49 or so Muslim majority nations, with about 1.9 billion muslims, and there is of course one Jewish majority country, and there are 16 million Jews on the planet. GDP by Country: 1. USA 25 trillion, 2. China 18 trillion, 3. Japan 4 trillion Beware of people who state, "That is my truth" or "We all have our own truth. " We all of course have our own lives, and unique experiences, and certainly opinions, but "truth" is not to be taken so lightly as there is a reality out there, and language games can muddy epistemological waters, and by all means a diversity of opinion is absolutely essential, but enough with MY OWN TRUTH BS! God, I'm sound cranky here, but honestly, I'm a pretty jovial guy given the state of the world and my fears about Trump, jihadists, and those who don't share the doubts that plague me! Crime is DOWN in the USA and Joe needs to speak about it, and he needs to call out right wing media who have a sewer line of outrage feeding the amygdala of Trumpistan. He has to frigging explain, in a nationwide address, how they do this despicable shit! And what would a Peter T. post be without a new Frank Turner song. And he's still the most inspiring artist that I have heard in years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI-o1S9FJl8 That's all folks. Peter T.
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You provided an excellent summation, EEE. It's certainly not for everyone, and some may well be triggered by parts of it. On the other hand, very well acted, thoroughly unpredictable, and it'll linger longer in my mind than most of the streaming that I do. In our local art cinema, we just saw Adieu Monsieur Haffman (Farewell Mister Haffmann). It's 1942 in Paris, and a jeweler and his family are forced to flee the Nazis. An excellent film that kept us guessing, with great performances. What is it about our fascination with WW2 and the Nazis? If DB reads this, just wondering when The Fire Agent might be available? When the times comes I'll be clearing my reading schedule so as to devote my full attention to it! :) I've mentioned before that daily I fill up notebooks with many, many summaries that I've read, quotes, statistics, various shit that for some reason strikes me as worth revisiting. Here are just a few things that I've noted recently. This Lex Fridman podcast on nuclear war was riveting, but obviously not for the faint of heart: https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen/ I've been thinking of Hanlon's Razor more often than usual lately: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. " The Cass Review recently released in England, or at least a summary of it, should be read by everyone concerned with the trans issue, especially as related to children. The Illusory Truth Effect should be discussed as it's so relevant to our information environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect I love graphs and their ability to convey important information almost instantly is remarkable. Here's one related to global GDP per capita over the centuries. Boy, that industrial revolution really changed things! https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historys-hockey-stick-gross-domestic-product-per-capita-using-the-ratio-scale-1990 Antisemitism in the New Testament (Matthew 27:25) How many Jews were slaughtered because some idiot decided to insert this pearl of wisdom:"His (Jesus's) blood be on us and on our children." And the Gospel of John uses the word "Jews" 63 times, 31 of which are in a hostile sense. There are 49 or so Muslim majority nations, with about 1.9 billion muslims, and there is of course one Jewish majority country, and there are 16 million Jews on the planet. GDP by Country: 1. USA 25 trillion, 2. China 18 trillion, 3. Japan 4 trillion Beware of people who state, "That is my truth" or "We all have our own truth. " We all of course have our own lives, and unique experiences, and certainly opinions, but "truth" is not to be taken so lightly as there is a reality out there, and language games can muddy epistemological waters, and by all means a diversity of opinion is absolutely essential, but enough with MY OWN TRUTH BS! God, I'm sound cranky here, but honestly, I'm a pretty jovial guy given the state of the world and my fears about Trump, jihadists, and those who don't share the doubts that plague me! Crime is DOWN in the USA and Joe needs to speak about it, and he needs to call out right wing media who have a sewer line of outrage feeding the amygdala of Trumpistan. He has to frigging explain, in a nationwide address, how they do this despicable shit! And what would a Peter T. post be without a new Frank Turner song. And he's still the most inspiring artist that I have heard in years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI-o1S9FJl8 That's all folks. Peter T.
