Ferocitus
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Can't blame you there.I like the Kafka one, but you know I can't bring myself to like many messages with a german title
BTW, Nein is an American who developed a persona based on Theodor W. Adorno.
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BTW, Nein is an American who developed a persona based on Theodor W. Adorno.
Can't blame you there.
BTW, Nein is an American who developed a persona based on Theodor W. Adorno.
I haven't read much by Adorno (only an article on Kafka, actually), but since he hated Kundera he can't have been all bad!
H4run
Deity
"As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.“
(c) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Cancer Ward
(c) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Cancer Ward
From a Grauniad article:
As the political economists Raj Patel and Jason Moore have argued, [chicken nuggets] are a homogenised, bite-size avatar of how capitalism extracts as much value as possible from human and nonhuman life and labour.
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Thorvald of Lym
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"If [Robert Carter III] is the anti-Jefferson, the man who did not lack the will to free his own slaves but who did lack the vision and clarity to make his love of freedom eloquent, then the Deed of Gift is the anti-Declaration of Independence, a document that makes liberty look dull but which is so absent of loopholes and contradictions that no result but liberty could prevail."
—Andrew Levy, The First Emancipator
"Coffman is beginning to understand that history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance."
—Noam Cohen, "One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia"
—Andrew Levy, The First Emancipator
"Coffman is beginning to understand that history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance."
—Noam Cohen, "One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia"
AmtrakQuebec
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"Put your hands down my pants and I bet you'll feel nuts"
Bloodhound Gang
Bloodhound Gang
I was doing a quest to retake Charleston Landfill, a workshop I'd claimed.
Sadly some of the robots that had taken the site from me spawned underneath the defences I had built.
Because I was in combat with the robots I couldn't go into workshop mode to remove the defences that were preventing me from killing the robots to end the combat!
Sadly some of the robots that had taken the site from me spawned underneath the defences I had built.
Because I was in combat with the robots I couldn't go into workshop mode to remove the defences that were preventing me from killing the robots to end the combat!
All human behaviour comes down to a quest for sex or food in the end - Tristram Kidder, archaeologist
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What utter and despicable nonsense. But self-hate is strong in this world, and so is the willing debasement of oneself to an animal, or alternatively a robot. Makes it easy to not carry your cross, to not take responsibility, to not strive for a heroes journey, doesn't it?
The animal is in each one of us, to be sure. But so is God. And so many men and women already lived his endless divinity. But I suppose you are materialistic post-modern type, even congratulating yourself for seeing things in such terms. Very sad. And what destroys this world. But not forever. Not for long.
Just to clarify somewhat what he was saying, is he was talking about ancient monuments such as Poverty Point, Louisiana, Easter Island and Göbekli Tepe and working out the motivations of the people who built them. Not that that invalidates your point.
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Either Google is screwed or society is screwed
fasterthanlime in reference to a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google. El reg Writeup here.
fasterthanlime in reference to a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google. El reg Writeup here.
Thorvald of Lym
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It is well to be careful who we designate an immigrant: The black man has been here a lot longer than the Angle, the Saxon, the Jute... the Norman, the Huguenot...
[audience laughs]
Long before many of your forefathers walked "this green and pleasant land", it was the Nubian who stood watch on Hadrian's Wall. Now, the motion before this esteemed house calls for all settled immigrants to return to their ancestral lands. So, that being the case I have to say...
[turns to Lady Bayswater]
"After you."
[audience laughs]
Long before many of your forefathers walked "this green and pleasant land", it was the Nubian who stood watch on Hadrian's Wall. Now, the motion before this esteemed house calls for all settled immigrants to return to their ancestral lands. So, that being the case I have to say...
[turns to Lady Bayswater]
"After you."
— Marcus X, Endeavour S5E4, "Colours"
Did he give no speech in Scotland then?
Besides, despite english romanticist views about hailing from the roman empire, that island was a backwater during the roman era and had quickly reverted to almost full barbarism. It was only after the defeat to France and the start of colonization that it became relevant, so not even a ghostly nubian presence to speak of.
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Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
I love people who use 'barbarism' unironically.
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
My favourite authors are the ones that should know better.You must love a lot of books then
My favourite authors are the ones that should know better.
Come on, bro, there are some valid unironic uses of "barbaric". And not just when it simply means "not greek"
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