bencollier49

May I ask what the projects were?

> Capitalism is the 2nd iteration of feudalism.

The Whigs and Tories opposed each other in the UK parliament for a long time precisely because this is not the case.

There is a divide in the UK Conservative Party between Tories and Liberals.

Yeah, the various explanations are a bit like geometry vs. algebra in maths. They're different tools for explaining the same things.

The Tulpa stuff has been reinterpreted in materialist terms too (apparently 80% of people treat it this way, from some study or other).

Of course, interpreting these things in just one way is a category mistake.

The mystical stuff cycles around about every 25 years, but comes in from a different direction each time. The last boom was around the millennium.

As for the traditional religion, my guess is it's traditionalism in response to the increase in cultural warfare we've seen recently.

From reading around the subject there seems to be a weird intersection between the My Little Pony fandom, Tulpas, and some of the more unusual sexual proclivities.

I actually know an exorcist from a mainline church; I should ask him what he makes of it.

Interesting how occult concepts like astral travel (reality shifting) and familiars & daemons (tulpamancy) are getting recycled without the Victorian baggage.

Hermes is the obvious choice, as the messenger of the Gods, hence communications and so on.

I wonder how similar these 1980 versions of Wander are to the 1974 original.

He studied Computational Linguistics, so the cipher figures.

The 5s and 8s are like the Holy Grail. The Grail isn't the point - the quest is.

I take the (facetious) position that English people don't learn other languages because we already learned at least two, if not three.

cf. Uncleftish Beholding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Can confirm - coffee sensitive. If I have a coffee at 11am, my heart rate will rise to 110 and stay there until I go to bed, before slowly declining overnight.

Discovered the gene thanks to consumer genetic testing, and the heart rate thing with a fitbit. I'm more careful these days.

Nice comment! Came here to make a similar joke. I prefer the 0xB800 font set..

"Only 22 Conservatives rebelled against the Government by voting for an opposition amendment to the Environment Bill, which would have forced a legal duty upon water companies not to pump sewage into waters.

...

'Initial assessments suggest that total elimination of discharges from storm overflows would cost anywhere between £150 billion and £650 billion.

This process could involve the complete separation of sewerage systems, leading to potentially significant disruption for homes, businesses and infrastructure across the country.'"

https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/19688229.joh...

You've got it back to front. The Labour Party introduced a completely impractical amendment which would have been impossible to pass into law, so that when the Conservatives voted it down they could use it to convince members of the public that the government want rivers filled with sewage. Classic opposition playbook.

Do the Norse call it England then? I think he means they use a different name which means "Meadow Land".

What do you make of the current state of culture in the West?

What was the user id? testuser1? Or something more convoluted?

Who's the fly fisher who stocked Blenheim with rainbows? That sounds lovely. I didn't think the river Glyme had a wild population?

EDIT: Just found this: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/4317952.angling-new-trout...

That's an interesting observation, because paired with the elite overproduction hypothesis, it implies that allowing skilled immigration destabilises the country those people are entering, and stabilises the one they have left.

This is a great read, but I'm not sure that it succeeds in making its case - there is a lot of weight put on the idea of a big fish in a little pond being happier, but realistically, does a culture flourish when it's composed of complacent masters of tiny points of subculture? Is a person more successful who masters a tiny area than someone who recognises something bigger and strives to master that instead?

It's probably better that people realise their real place in society as far as material wellbeing is concerned, and fight to improve it.

From the UK:

I was about 15, in 1993, when I managed to convince my parents to buy me a modem. I used to use it out of hours when phone calls were cheaper. Nevertheless, I think I managed to rack up a £200 phone bill in the first month or so.

Eventually I started running my own BBS, which would only become available at 8pm and come offline at 8am. If I remember correctly, I called it "The Graveyard". I had a steady stream of callers on the single line that it shared with the home phone. I would often chat to them via "Sysop Chat" whilst simultaneously talking to friends nearby over CB radio.

When I wasn't doing that, I was calling into all sorts of odd places - hacker boards (one of which I was thrown off for asking if there was a non-colour version, "l4mer", me on my Commodore PC20-III) - some cyberpunk boards (including the CyberCafe in London), and "Ooh!", on which I remember being repeatedly propositioned on various insalubrious chat groups, when I wasn't reading posts about Babylon 5 on Fidonet. On another I learned about raves happening vaguely nearby.

The whole thing was a wonderful, glorious chaotic mess. It felt like exploring a mysterious universe which was growing and mutating every day, full of infinite possibilities, and of course it was much better than what we have these days.

The article doesn't say anything about it, but I wonder if this sea eagle could hybridise with any local nearish relatives.

On checking, this page suggests that the individual could pair with a Bald Eagle:

https://www.aba.org/birding_archive_files/v40n4p28.pdf

He may have been a socialist, but he was not living in a socialist country when he did it.

Okay, so while Westerners were playing D&D, socialists on the other side of the iron curtain were playing Zarnitsa and Orlyonok, where you attack your opponents, capture spies and interrogate them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarnitsa_game

I mean, horses for courses, but you could argue that there would be no D&D were it not for capitalism in the first place.

Given that it suppresses organ rejection, my untrained speculation is that it might make you more prone to cancer.

So in birds, sex chromosome arrangement is a reverse of what we have in humans. Their males are ZZ and the female is ZW. Which is why only males appear from this parthenogenesis.

Was this written by GPT-3?