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A thread for excerpts from “Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West” by John Ralston Saul (1992)
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Caustic Pop
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Caustic Pop
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"A creature of the void motivated by the winds of mercurial contempt for everything at once. A Marxist one day, a bond trader the next."
Beigetreten Kasım 2011
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@Fullcarry Ed you strike me as old enough to have been rooting for the CIA coup against Mossadegh. Do you have moth-bitten paper certificates in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company or something?
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I have been told the word for dead man walking in Farsi is "Mojtaba"
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Here we go again
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The 1970s OPEC oil crisis as a massive corporate boondoggle
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@bonddude The absurd backstory to why they hold it in Jackson Hole, WY was to entice the then-Fed Chair (Volcker I think?) to show up to it because he liked fly-fishing
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@PolemicTMM Highly recommend you/friend read the magisterial “Manual for Survival” by Kate Brown. Radioactive fallout still gets into the European food supply from Chernobyl. There’s something to be said about cost-benefits of lithium batteries, but it’s incomparable to radioactive fallout
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Lunch with a good friend. He observed.
More people were killed in the recent Korean lithium battery plant fire than at Fukushima.
More people were killed in the last three major lithium battery plant fires than at Chernobyl.
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"I had not realized that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum, inventor of the first chatbot ELIZA
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct science fiction author.
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Elon creates a Jira ticket: "pin cat girl tweet to main page" - priority: highest
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@yashalevine Check out the stock prices of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. They struggled after the Covid crash. The MIC got left out of all that stimulus. Now they're getting theirs when everyone else's stimulus has gotten cancelled.
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the brain bug is happy with how things are going.
yasha.substack.com/p/if-they-knew…
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In the good ol’ days of the 1800s dudes were inventing whole fake ass countries and getting hundreds of marks to pay to be shipped to their deaths on promises of land, riches and noble titles.
Now we have dorks with links to pictures of monkeys. history.com/news/the-con-m…
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@nosunkcosts Been out of finance for 3 years and counting. Log back in and Evergrande is still chugging along? Massive lol
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