Open Thread – Mon 11 Sept 2023
1,553 responses to “Open Thread – Mon 11 Sept 2023”
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Rosie
Sep 13, 2023 9:19 PM
What’s really hilarious about the tartarian nonsense is its focus on architecture.
As though western civilisation with its medical, artistic, musical, mathematical, philosophical, scientific, physics, mining, water management, engineering, literature, and so many other discoveries, inventions and innovations developed over more than 2000 years somehow failed in the 19th century and couldn’t knock together a few buildings for world fairs.Another that gobbles up the narrative without critical thought. Much like you offering up you arm for a jab.
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Wait. People were locked out of social media and ridiculed by people from the “party of science” for saying the vaccine causes myocarditis, and now this weasel casually acknowledges we were right all along?
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There is ZERO evidence of wrongdoing!!!
*other than…
Texts
Emails
WhatsApp Messages
Whistleblower Testimony
Hunter’s Laptop
Biden Video re Shokin
Bank Records
Gov’t Docs
Phone Calls
Business Meetings
Statements of Former Partners and Clients
Hunter’s Own Words…
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Tickler
I think it was you who talked about how much earlier building structures were built—much sturdier and more solid. Was that you?
Is that really surprising, though, when the accomplishment of the modern age is to do more with much less? Modern structures may not appear comparably sturdy, but these things are being built with much less input, all things being equal.
Also, there was an astounding stat the Fed chairman once gave to Congress in his annual Humphrey Hawkins testimony, which was around the turn of the century.
He said that if you picked up all of the previous year’s GDP and weighed it, it was 25% lighter than GDP in 1970. I can’t recall how many fold US GDP increased from say 1970 to 2002.
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Yep, the buildings were already there. History has been borked for about 300 years. Time lines have been changed. That includes Australia across the board and the World.
There is a big GAP in history.
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My Lunch Break:
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JC
Sep 13, 2023 9:50 PMHistory in the books is crap. Total wank. Some of the most marvelous constructions in the world goes way way back. I reckon a thousand years back with construction. Talent superior to ours today.
Something is not right. If you wish to quote a rusted on Historian, go for it.
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JC
Sep 13, 2023 10:11 PM
Some of the most marvelous constructions in the world goes way way back. I reckon a thousand years back with construction.Is it marvelous to a lot but with more, or a lot but with much less? That’s what I was getting at.
There was a OLD WORLD that built all the constructs. A building firm today wouldn’t know to even begin today. So, we’ve gone backwards.
Point taken with a simplified model. It doesn’t detract that the people of the Old World were superior in all shapes and form.
A modern day Architect wouldn’t know were to start on some of these buildings. They would shit their pants.
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Something to shove in the face of leftists.
Thanks to John Ray.
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The evidence is piling up, just like the victims of communism, communalism, or whatever fake name you want to give it!
“…the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things… They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
– Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Books, 1985, originally published in 1848), p.120.
It gets worse!
“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”
– V.I. Lenin,” Lessons of the Moscow Uprising,” Proletary, No.2, August 1906 (as posted on Marxists.org).
As for violent antisemitism:
What truth is there in this argument? Marx’s essay, On the Jewish Question, originally published in 1844 contains the following:
What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
Marx argues that, “In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.” Larry Ray explains, “Marx’s position is essentially an assimilationist one in which there is no room within emancipated humanity for Jews as a separate ethnic or cultural identity.” Dennis Fischman puts it, “Jews, Marx seems to be saying, can only become free when, as Jews, they no longer exist.”
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Let’s build this!
Good f*cking luck. It was already built and people were moved in. Shock!
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A modern day Architect wouldn’t know were to start on some of these buildings. They would shit their pants.
You think? Not this dude, he’s possibly the best. He creates wonders with modern engineering techniques and materials. Calatrava is the best.
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From the WSJ.
Real-estate startup Roam looks to bring 3% mortgage rates within reach.
Roam, which is set to launch Wednesday, is betting that it can popularize an obscure workaround to a problem for home buyers and sellers alike: mortgage rates that are above 7%. “Assumable loans” allow sellers to transfer their own mortgage loans to the buyer alongside the house. Few consumers know about the option, and fewer still follow through with it. And many lenders are cool to the idea because for them it would mean more work for less money.
The way mortgages are structured (they die when you sell a property & you get a new one when you buy again) is so antiquated.
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Fish in a barrel news.
Russia’s Navy Port At Sevastopol On Fire After Massive Ukraine Missile Attack (13 Sep)
It’s always been the problem for the Russians: the Black Sea is more like a lake than a sea. The Turks by comparison could always withdraw their fleet into the Med, but the Russian Black Sea Fleet can’t do that. It was only a few weeks ago that Ukrainian sea-drones nearly sank a large Russian naval ship in Novorossiysk on the far side of the Black Sea. The Russian Black Sea Fleet is going to be history fairly soon, it looks like, killed by drones.
This last attack looks to have involved 10 cruise missiles and NATO assistance.
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dover0beach
Sep 13, 2023 11:10 PM
Fish in a barrel news.Russia’s Navy Port At Sevastopol On Fire After Massive Ukraine Missile Attack (13 Sep)
It’s always been the problem for the Russians: the Black Sea is more like a lake than a sea. The Turks by comparison could always withdraw their fleet into the Med, but the Russian Black Sea Fleet can’t do that. It was only a few weeks ago that Ukrainian sea-drones nearly sank a large Russian naval ship in Novorossiysk on the far side of the Black Sea. The Russian Black Sea Fleet is going to be history fairly soon, it looks like, killed by drones.
This last attack looks to have involved 10 cruise missiles and NATO assistance.
A guess: NATO EW provided targeting for the missiles?
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Whoops: EW aircraft. My bad, just finished conquering galaxy when I should be looking up Covid impact on fertility for a friend. Material I found last night was disturbing, big hits on sperm count. The inflammation may have caused permanent damage and ACE2 receptors, the spike protein target, very high in testis.
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Indolent
Sep 13, 2023 9:38 PM
James Woods
@RealJamesWoodsWait. People were locked out of social media and ridiculed by people from the “party of science” for saying the vaccine causes myocarditis, and now this weasel casually acknowledges we were right all along?
James Woods is erecting a straw man. It was acknowledged the vaccines can cause myocarditis. Many vaccines can cause myocarditis. The strange thing is that sometimes a particular immune molecule that attracts immune cells, CCL2, targets heart muscles. It is not an autoimmune condition. T cells are not the culprit, monocytes and macrophages are.
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Well, it’s possible seeing that Russia was intimidating cargo shipping carrying Ukrainian grain. Now US warships are there to stop this terrible Russian childish behavior.
Ukraine and the Europeans didn’t live up to the grain deal, but none of this has anything to do with the grain deal. Ukraine are looking for something to crow about given their counter offensive has failed at the first hurdle.
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MatrixTransform
Sep 13, 2023 11:39 PM
and NATO assistancenot good news
from defending Europe/Ukraine to attacking the Russian Navy
… just like that
I suspect NATO has long had those aircraft over the Black Sea and feeding data to Ukraine. The drone and British RC135 aircraft(surveillance) incident over the Black Sea point to that possibility. Of course nothing can be proved …
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Some of their products are very good, I’m just not a fanboy.
You know, I own a IMac which I’ve had since 2016 and it’s running all day everyday. Never a problem. The one before lasted about 8 years. The Mac is great and never had an issue and the iphone 12 same. I also have an Ipad 2 which I never use, but it still appears to work fine.
I have another screen operating Microtheft I use for trading platforms , which is shakey and needs replacing ever couple of years.
My hunch is that we’re not far way from just having a screen as a phone and everything will be on the cloud making smartphones as we know them obsolete.
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dover0beach
Sep 13, 2023 11:47 PMYou’re not interested as you despise Apple products.
Some of their products are very good, I’m just not a fanboy.
I don’t understand the animosity, I use about 1 % of the capability of my android phone.
What do iPhones do to justify the price?As to mac computers, when you have to have simulators to run programmes what does it tell you?
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Gabor
Sep 14, 2023 12:28 AM
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dover0beach
Sep 13, 2023 11:47 PMYou’re not interested as you despise Apple products.
Some of their products are very good, I’m just not a fanboy.
I don’t understand the animosity, I use about 1 % of the capability of my android phone.
What do iPhones do to justify the price?As to mac computers, when you have to have simulators to run programmes what does it tell you?
I was thinking of buying a Mac until I found out that the program where I have 30 years of material stored can’t be emulated through Wine. More importantly there are so few games that can run on Macs!
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