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TIL that Stephen Hawking had to be convinced to drop every equation in the manunoscript of A Brief History of Time except for E = mc^2 because supposedly every equation would cut the number of people interested in half.
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TIL numerous requests to license Rollerball (1975) into a real game angered the director, Norman Jewison, who said the movie's point was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure".
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John Waterhouse, "Boreas" (1903)
In Greek mythology, Boreas was the god of the north wind who commanded the forces of nature.
Before us is clearly a spring landscape, but executed in somber colors. The feeling of icy wind adds to the gray-blue clothes of the girl. She is literally blown away by the gust, but her face remains unemotional, which increases the feeling of coldness (in all senses) in the painting.
In Greek mythology, Boreas was the god of the north wind who commanded the forces of nature.
Before us is clearly a spring landscape, but executed in somber colors. The feeling of icy wind adds to the gray-blue clothes of the girl. She is literally blown away by the gust, but her face remains unemotional, which increases the feeling of coldness (in all senses) in the painting.
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How male ukrainians 🇺🇦 avoid draft?
“We have 3.4 million people who are not abroad, not in the Armed Forces, not disabled, not studying and not engaged, I don't know where all these people of draft age are, - deputy Natalukha
In order not to fall into the field of view of army commissars , people will stop being served by banks,, own credit cards, and travel”
Males also don’t use e mails, digital passports, dress as an old people on the streets,don’t live in the place of registration,use monero and cash,dont pay taxes, use burner numbers for their social network accounts and have a telegram groups that tell people where army commissars are now.
Parallel/shadow economy also exist.According to some data 50% of Ukrainian economy is in the shadow and while official/government firms in Ukraine must provide people for connoscription businesses that operate in the shadows do not.
“We have 3.4 million people who are not abroad, not in the Armed Forces, not disabled, not studying and not engaged, I don't know where all these people of draft age are, - deputy Natalukha
In order not to fall into the field of view of army commissars , people will stop being served by banks,, own credit cards, and travel”
Males also don’t use e mails, digital passports, dress as an old people on the streets,don’t live in the place of registration,use monero and cash,dont pay taxes, use burner numbers for their social network accounts and have a telegram groups that tell people where army commissars are now.
Parallel/shadow economy also exist.According to some data 50% of Ukrainian economy is in the shadow and while official/government firms in Ukraine must provide people for connoscription businesses that operate in the shadows do not.
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The EU is reportedly developing a plan to undermine Hungary's economy if Budapest rejects agreeing to a new aid package for Ukraine, according to FT.
The publication suggests that Brussels aims to weaken the exchange rate of the Hungarian forint and diminish Hungary's investment attractiveness to harm the country's economic "jobs and growth." If Prime Minister Orbán doesn't concede, the EU leadership might publicly announce the complete cessation of funding to Budapest with the intention of "scaring the markets."
The publication suggests that Brussels aims to weaken the exchange rate of the Hungarian forint and diminish Hungary's investment attractiveness to harm the country's economic "jobs and growth." If Prime Minister Orbán doesn't concede, the EU leadership might publicly announce the complete cessation of funding to Budapest with the intention of "scaring the markets."
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Progressives are starting to get worried. They should be.
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count heads on bodies rather than heads chopped off of bodies, because if both sides have the same proportion of violence-capable males, the larger side is likely to win if it comes to a fight.
This is why early democracies limited the franchise to men, or even to land-owning men. If you were no good in a fight, either personally or via your ability to rally others, your opinion was fundamentally irrelevant to a political question.
As long as the franchise was limited to men, this assumption could go unspoken. Indeed it's so basic we forgot about it. That's starting to change.
We're now entering a period in which political questions are divided along sexual lines. One side is composed of a preponderance of women, while the other has a majority of young, fighting-aged men. Under the current rules of democracy, everyone gets the same vote, so all that matters is which side is larger.
But.
What happens when side A is 55% of the population, but 80% women, and the 20% of men are the least virile of the population? While the other side is say 45% of the population, 80% of men, but contains effectively 100% of the fighting aged men who are actually capable of fighting? Side A will keep outvoting side B at the ballot box because it is larger. But eventually side B realizes that if they just … take over … there is absolutely nothing, from a purely realpolitikal standpoint, standing in their way.
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One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count heads on bodies rather than heads chopped off of bodies, because if both sides have the same proportion of violence-capable males, the larger side is likely to win if it comes to a fight.
This is why early democracies limited the franchise to men, or even to land-owning men. If you were no good in a fight, either personally or via your ability to rally others, your opinion was fundamentally irrelevant to a political question.
As long as the franchise was limited to men, this assumption could go unspoken. Indeed it's so basic we forgot about it. That's starting to change.
We're now entering a period in which political questions are divided along sexual lines. One side is composed of a preponderance of women, while the other has a majority of young, fighting-aged men. Under the current rules of democracy, everyone gets the same vote, so all that matters is which side is larger.
But.
What happens when side A is 55% of the population, but 80% women, and the 20% of men are the least virile of the population? While the other side is say 45% of the population, 80% of men, but contains effectively 100% of the fighting aged men who are actually capable of fighting? Side A will keep outvoting side B at the ballot box because it is larger. But eventually side B realizes that if they just … take over … there is absolutely nothing, from a purely realpolitikal standpoint, standing in their way.
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Progressives are starting to get worried. They should be.
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count…
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count…
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Nikki Haley has failed to win the Nevada primary despite there being no other Republican candidates on the ticket.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/07/nikki-haley-just-lost-a-gop-primary-to-nobody/
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Nikki Haley Just Lost A GOP Primary To Nobody
By more than 20,000 votes
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TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.
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TIL that the oldest surviving creation myth (the Sumerian Eridu Genesis) written in 1600 BCE tells of a massive flood. There is also archaeological evidence that a ‘continuity disrupting’ flood occurred at around 2900 BCE.
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Two separate new polls have revealed that Joe Biden’s approval rating has slipped to an all time low of 37%, with him trailing behind Donald Trump by more than a third on key issues.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/04/biden-approval-hits-all-time-low-trails-trump-by-thirty-five-points-on-border/
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Biden Approval Hits All Time Low; Trails Trump By THIRTY FIVE Points On Border
"The belief that Biden is more likely to be up to the job has evaporated”
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Former Chilean president Sebastian Piñera died in a helicopter crash today. He was the president who imposed insane lockdowns (some of the worst in the world) and vaccine mandates on Chile, leading Chile to have the highest excess mortality in the world per capita during covid and one of the highest covid vaccine uptake rates in the world, including the highest for children 2 to 5. He feigned compassion and empathy on TV during the "pandemic", but he was a billionaire oligarch who spent his two presidential terms selling Chile out to the worst people in the world and, with covid, helped kill a litany of innocent Chileans. Good riddance to a genocidal cretin who truly deserved the worst.
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TIL that we don't actually know who the first person to reach the North Pole was. Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, and Richard Byrd all said they were the first people to reach it, but none of their claims are confirmed.
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Generations to come will look back on our age as one of great barbarism.
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🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇶 USCENTCOM Conducts Strike Killing Kata’ib Hezbollah Senior Leader
🔶️ At 9:30 p.m. (Baghdad Time) February 7, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata’ib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. There are no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time.
🔶️ The United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces’ safety.
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🔶️ At 9:30 p.m. (Baghdad Time) February 7, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata’ib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. There are no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time.
🔶️ The United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces’ safety.
📎 CENTCOM
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The United States will supply Ukraine with high-precision GLSDB "cruise bombs," but the exact delivery dates will not be confirmed, according to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder at a briefing.
Ryder stated, "As for small diameter bombs, as we recognized last year, we will provide them to Ukraine as part of our security assistance efforts. But for security reasons, we are not going to confirm specific dates. The US leaves Ukraine with the right to notify about the supply, and America, in turn, will continue to work to ensure that Ukraine receives and is ready to use American weapons as soon as possible," responding to claims from Politico that Ukraine may receive these weapons on January 31.
Ryder stated, "As for small diameter bombs, as we recognized last year, we will provide them to Ukraine as part of our security assistance efforts. But for security reasons, we are not going to confirm specific dates. The US leaves Ukraine with the right to notify about the supply, and America, in turn, will continue to work to ensure that Ukraine receives and is ready to use American weapons as soon as possible," responding to claims from Politico that Ukraine may receive these weapons on January 31.
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