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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Tell that to the synapsids. Tell that to the trilobites! Tell them that straight to their faces, if you can find one.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Compared to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the black death barely qualifies as a mishap, let alone the greatest catastrophe ever !
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
You refer to it as ancient, but I just looked it up, and it seems it was last updated in 2014 How ancient can these laws be? The BRD is not that old.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
How is it up to a politician to "allow" a prosecution? Shouldn't that be up to the court?
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
... which is in a country so small, google maps searches end up with the town in Michigan of that name ;)
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
More funny than infuriating. Unless there's an actual production issue, at weekend o' clock everyone goes home.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Being treated poorly? Ha. Demand for our expertise has, as far as I can tell, always outstripped supply. Compared to most sectors, we are treated like royalty. Funny war stories though, of course I have some. One of the owners of the compan
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
What, do they have to be identical to make the comparison? I could refer to Putin as the Russian Erdogan, but Putin was there first.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
He is the Turkish Putin. I find it worrying. Turkey seemed to be such a success until a few years ago. A booming, increasingly western economy, seeming stability. Somehow you expect dictatorship to come with a revolution, but it seems it ca
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
When you're young and relatively inexperienced, every day you have to figure something out you don't yet know how to solve. I believe this does the same thing as the deliberate practice of a musician. Five years of 40 hrs a week o
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> Consider every day driving. 100 hours should be enough. 100 hours should be enough for most people to pass a driving exam, not to become an expert driver.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> The guy isn't really a right-winger, he's a centrist nationalist as far as I can tell. There's a word for that: populist. Policy by opinion poll. As most European democracies have found out over the past decades, most vo
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
A Bosnian Serb once tried to explain to me that the Emperor's decision to have this parade on St. Vitus Day was a deliberate insult so great they had no choice but to respond with violence. On that day, they commemorate the start of ha
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
It may also be a matter of getting used to it. Oddly enough, after so many years, I don't like the taste of sugar any more, it seems 'off'. Aspartame is fine.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
All natural, like arsenic, botulinum toxin, elephant seal blubber, corpse ichor and dying in child birth...
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
What is this current obsession with stevia? It has a very strong, pretty much unpalatable taste that even strong espresso can't mask.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Imagine trying to explain to an ancient Greek philosopher how Christianity is monotheistic. So, you have one God, but also a demigod, who is his son. There's a god of the underworld you call satan, and a number of divine or demonic cre
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Do you know how medievalists view the Accursed Kings series of Maurice Druon?
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
There's an internet subculture that might appeal to you: people who write elaborate, thoroughly scathing reviews on Amazon for widely admired masterpieces. [1] http://www.salon.com/2010/04/03/mean_amazon_
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Most would describe Eco's work as 'challenging' rather than accessible.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Naa, I was just not the intended audience, and maybe a few decades too young.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
That book made me feel stupid and uneducated. There was hardly a paragraph without a word I had to look up or a reference I couldn't get. The translator utterly defeated me. I never finished it.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
That reminds me of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, on thanksgiving: Anya: I love a ritual sacrifice. Buffy: Not really a one of those. Anya: To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice. With pie
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
It's not medieval philosophy, with "years after that conversation was set", the poster you're replying to means 600 years. The book should not be seen as an historic work.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> And the reason they hold so many is not as some control play against the US -- its because it was the best way to devalue their currency enough to support exports. Can you explain how that devalues a currency? Isn't a simpler exp
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
P is the 15th letter of the alphabet, 15 is 0xf in hexadecimal, the ascii code of f is 102. 1 + 0 + 2 = 3 omg, Half-Life 3 confirmed!
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
The Germans will be ok, don't worry about them, but maybe they'll change their mind about collective guilt now. I never saw the EU bailouts as handouts from the virtuous to the losers, nor do I see it as an altruistic gift to our
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. For the past 8 years, day in day out you have to hear jokes about how dishonest and unreliable Greeks are, that they caused these problems for us with their cheating, how they should be strictly hon
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Maybe he can propose to sell some of the German islands to cover the bailout.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
My colleague from Greece has been giddy as a schoolboy about this story all week. Not quite the roaring, thunderous fits of laughter as with the Volkswagen scandal, but this is still developing.

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