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Re:The valley of the cheese of the dead on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:14AM (#38598352)
> La mort, le curé, la femme et la vache. Chronique d’une recherche au village

https://books.openedition.org/iheid/3183

Re:Ancient Fires Drove Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:52PM (#37167896)
Climate change potentially caused by catastrophic comet impacts.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:33PM (#33709202)
> A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs

That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:49PM (#33702059)
I'm sure it's connected, but not because of the bots.

Millions of political moderates are stopping by to see what happens when a large-scale public forum begins to tolerate freedom of speech.

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:18PM (#33701824)
> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290

Re:Cisco Reportedly Lays Off over 4k on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:32PM (#33645242)
> "Frankly, the economic picture ahead is dire"

> "An increasingly competitive world"

Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:22PM (#33554399)
I think it's 1.2B/annum, not 12B.
The first one is based on a Bruce Lee quote :)

> Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. Now water can flow, or it can crash! Be water, my friend.

Re:You Might Also Like on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:04PM (#33513206)
Definitely in the living room.

Tools like the command line and exercise equipment help improve capability and personal agency. Hiding either away pushes the default toward passive consumption.

I know this is a derailment, but

> "[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction." -Christopher Hitchens [0]

> In 2013, in a comprehensive review[8] covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced [criticism of medical care], detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image – which does not stand up to analysis of the facts – was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who shared her anti-abortion views. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa#Qua...

Re:When Elites Tried to Monopolize Hunting on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:27AM (#33353097)
There is a theory[0] that a series of impact events ~12,000 years ago melted the North American ice sheets over the course of a few days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...

Why the antagonism?
Re:The Deep Anthropocene on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:41PM (#24676023)
Care to share any of the stories? I think you'll find a receptive audience :)
Christopher Nolan based the screenplay for Memento (which he directed, as well) on a short story[1], Memento Mori, written by his brother Jonathan.

[1] https://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/assets/Memento-S...