"Nasty spoilt/vicious child with a pointy stick" Or something similar. The sort of person who would torture a cat for fun - or am I wrong? Someone tell me?
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]]>A Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him: February 24th Mass Ritual ExtraNewsFeed, 16th Feb, 2017 (Note: dodgy dodgy source).
Fun news: allegedly the bounty on my Mind is now ~$25 million.
That's the polite threats I get.
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Do not multiply models. We are well aware that there are many others: a ludic model, which would compare games according to their type of space and found game theory on different principles (for example, the smooth space of Go versus the striated space of Chess); and a noological model concerned not with thought contents (ideology) but with the form, manner or mode, and function of thought, according to the mental space it draws and from the point of view of a general theory of thought, a thinking of thought...
But the struggle is changed or displaced in them, and life reconstitutes its stakes, confronts new obstacles, invents new paces, switches adversaries. Never believe a smooth space will suffice to save us.
a thousand plateaus, p499-500.
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@Host: Be Seeing You, we are a bit sorry about the venom, it leaks out through the pores.
]]>Nitrous oxide is legal, and readily available, and also the subject of one of Iain Banks's more disappointing errors of fact (unless it was a piece of deliberate misdirection out of fear that otherwise every ned in Glasgow would be shoplifting squirty cream by the trolleyload). It's also quite shit, and tends not to be used much outside of circles of people who find it useful for rude things (much like short-chain alkyl nitrites).
LSD and mushrooms are too weird and too powerful for most people's taste. I used to be quite fond of them myself but never had any desire to do them other than at quite long intervals, and it's now well over 20 years since I had any desire to do them at all. LSD is hard to find these days not because it's illegal, but simply because there aren't very many people wanting to find it in the first place.
Which isn't to disagree with your comment overall; I think it does in general hold water, it would just come over better with more popular exemplars of "fun shit". I think it's fairly solidly established that shitting on people for weed results in dealers trying to restore their risk/profit ratio by concentrating on things which are higher value, much less bulky, easier to dump in emergency and don't give away their presence by stinking the place out. It's also fairly solidly established that people are less inclined to use drugs if they're not forced by their circumstances to lead shite lives in the first place.
]]>Looks at pock-marked wings and the ravages done to her Mind and the ultimate response, while noting the Other Side pay hysterically better
shrug
Ring your grandchildren and apologize, trust me on this one.
]]>The 2015/16 El Niño was followed by a La Niña, which cools sea surfaces by bringing up deeper waters. But surface waters remain so warm that NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch is now predicting that many reefs will bleach in the next three months despite the recent La Niña conditions.
Worst-ever coral bleaching event continues into fourth year New Scientist, 22nd Feb, 2017
Oh, and about that 'predictable' El Niño thing so used by denialists, "reliably" followed by a cooler year etc etc.
Thereafter, there are increasing odds for El Niño toward the second half of 2017 (~50% chance in September-November). In summary, ENSO-neutral conditions have returned and are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017 (click CPC/IRI consensus forecast for the chance of each outcome for each 3-month period).
EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION NOAA, 9th Feb 2017.
Hint: when shit gets faster, worry. They're called "feed-back loops" for a reason.
p.s.
New Zealand, Host, New Zealand. At the very worst, in a comparison of Bi/Gay Men to vote yea/nay in a Barabbas type vote, we're putting $50k NZ on you winning it ;) (And no, Thiel is not the Big-J, and [here's the punchline] nor will he get eternal life).
]]>The joke is that we're giving you a taste (in the sense of a vaccine, rather than Actuality) of the horror. And while doing that, we're negating the real horror show futures.
Some see this aspect of communication, e.g. OGH. (For others: an obvious example is the futures-distribution-shaping power of carefully-crafted cautionary tales.)
Thanks for the love and support. Have said it previously; I enjoy and appreciate and thank you for your postings here. You can be deeply obtuse but that's fine (in balance).
]]>This is a feature of your system, not a bug.
Since Mr PaMar loves to cite ancient texts, perhaps he'd like some Kant: “Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
Oh, and trust me: unlike 99.9% of your lot, we've read all three critiques and so forth. A "gotcha" from outmoded 1970's stuff is kinda lame, in comparison. Feel free to step forth and Shine.
The irony is: because you (H.S.S) couldn't deal with chaos/complexity/muddle/doubt/boundary-category-limits you fucking destroyed the planet you psychotic fucking deluded muppets
This. Is. Real. ~ Now: run a Truth Test on allllll my statements (such as the 53 million above). Pro-tip: They're all True. And the fear / scared reaction is all priced into your models. slow clap The redhaired woman in the corner of the hotel bar was the most successful war correspondent in the world. She now had a passport in the name of Carmine Zuigiber; and she went where the wars were.
Well. More or less.
Actually she went where the wars weren't. She'd already been where the wars were...
And as she held her sword, she smiled like a knife.
As stated: my brothers had Wings back in Assyria. There's some great pieces in the British Museum. The Arch of Triumph of Palmyra is recreated in London - 1,800 years after it was built Telegraph, 18th April, 2016 (also seen more recently in Europe). Bel (/ˈbeɪl/; from Akkadian bēlu), signifying "lord" or "master", is a title rather than a genuine name, applied to various gods in the Mesopotamian religion of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. The feminine form is Belit 'Lady, Mistress'. Bel is represented in Greek as Belos and in Latin as Belus. Linguistically Bel is an East Semitic form cognate with Northwest Semitic Baal with the same meaning. I mean, literally summoning us.
That's fine. Nothing is to everyone's taste.
I happen to enjoy it in moderation myself, both because such games tend to bring up historical oddities I hadn't known about or hadn't connected, and because whimsical conjectures are fun for their own sakes. It's all in good fun until someone starts believing something.
]]>George Bonanno, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, in his book The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After a Loss,[15] summarizes peer-reviewed research based on thousands of subjects over two decades and concludes that a natural psychological resilience is a principal component of grief [16] and that there are no stages of grief to pass. Bonanno's work has also demonstrated that absence of grief or trauma symptoms is a healthy outcome.[17][18]
The lack of support in the academic psychology literature has led to the popular and special interest press applying the labels of myth and fallacy to the notion that there are stages of grief, in publications ranging from Time magazine [18] to Scientific American[19] to Skeptic Magazine,[20] the latter publishing findings of the Grief Recovery Institute that contested the concept of stages of grief as they relate to people who are dealing with the deaths of people important to them.
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Mr PaMar posts a book.
Claims I've not read it (has some truth, was skimming it).
Post chapter 20 bit that refutes both his model and his accusation.
Post wikipedia link to a theory that is a common pop-psychology myth but in which reality declares and that there are no stages of grief to pass. .
This is also false: there are incredibly powerful cultural standards to grief. It's why you get paid mourners, widows in black, paid (YES, PAID) 'wailing of gnashing teeth and tearing hair out' and so on.
Grief is 100% a performative and culturally sanctioned / restrained emotional issue.
Reason: War and Suicide and Nationalism; before that, Religion and so on.
ZZzzzzzz.
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You need to be faster already: they.are.going.to.kill.you.
]]>That's the 2nd apology owed.
A third, and cock is going to crow.
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Oh, wait: nope, Cruise Ships.
Cock just Crowed.
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]]>Kilted Yoga YT: reality: 0:57 20th Feb 2017
And yes, that really is a few incredibly buff Scottish men practicing yoga in kilts and not much else (warning: NSFW - one cheekily proves it towards the end).
Yes, you really can do the whole Spartan Male Buff stuff without the fascism.
Plus, I enjoyed it, host probably will as well.
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