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• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Most older German laws were superseded by German BGB in 1900, but in certain circumstances older local law prevails. So according to German Wikipedia, Jutlandic law still partially applies in parts of Schleswig-Holstein and was quoted in court decisions concerning...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Concerning the pebbles, I'm reminded somewhat of the "spreading-out counter-measure to counter-battery fire. It'd also make forensics a nightmare......
• Commented on Place your bets
  Nah, actually, a cynic is a follower of Cynicism, another branch of the λόγος community. Basically, they were the Ancient Greek version of crusties, no, they didn't have dogs-on-a-string, but people thought they acted like dogs. Reading wiki articles about...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Concerning Nataraja, I guess you might know it, but in case not, I'm reminded of Stephen Jay Gould's text "The Cosmic Dance of Siva". Basically, he's thinking Nemesis is a bad name for the non-avian dino killer, let's go for...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I know OGH doesn't do Yotube, but... I mentioned MilitantThomist in my latest post. For a general view on religions, there's also Religion for Breakfast and Let's talk Religion. There's also Al Muqaddimah and HikmaHistory about Islamic history. One of...
• Commented on Place your bets
  But back to the religions of the word: they also gave us mind/body dualism (thank you, Rene Descartes) I was originally going to answer to Heteromeles, but I'd like to combine my answer to him with my answer to you;...
• Commented on WTF
  Actually, uptimers with some experience in Modern german being able to understand neighbouring German downtimers might be a case of fridge logic. Modern High German developed from certain administrative standard languages, with Luther's translation of the bible being another factor....
• Commented on WTF
  It's terrible eurocentric but... I'd vote for 1492. Just because that one started the biggest exchange in biological species in the last few ten thousand years. Let's just wonder where Prussia would be without potatoes......
• Commented on WTF
  Well, in retrospect, make that: "Happy New Year, and may God (if they exist) have mercy on our souls (if there is such a thing)." (for alternatives, there is anatta, and my personal favourite, the idea our individual consciousness ist...
• Commented on WTF
  Happy New Year. May God have mercy on our souls, if she exists. ;)...
• Commented on WTF
  One can claim that billionaire is simply better (or alternatively, everyone else is worse) at reacting to "information provided through market prices". After all, no matter how good information is, it is of not use if you do not act...
• Commented on WTF
  Err, 1989 was before the 90s in Russia. Whatever, I'm on the record of saying we have (checks clock) 150 minutes for old Waldemar and Henry Kissinger to suffer a brutal, painful and humiliating death. Come on, 2022, you owe...
• Commented on WTF
  Beyond not positing an afterlife, a) Actually, there are multiple "afterlifes" in Capitalism, though they usually require the intervention of the anointed priesthood and the believer fulfilling certain rituals during his lifetime, similar to some interpretations of Egyptian religion or...
• Commented on WTF
  On a somewhat tangential note, and to report back[1]... Just on the way to some crusties from Bradford growing old. Concert is in Cologne, and German public broadcasting is recording and streaming it (livestream online till tomorrow, official broadcast some...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Err, I guess you're talking about Remilitarization of the Rhineland, not pushing the French out of the Ruhr. The Western part of the Ruhr would have been part of the demilitarized zone, but e.g. AFAIK most of Dortmund wasn't and...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Hm, I was looking for explanations for the curse of natural resources. Japan is notoriously low on natural resources, and as for China, which China are we talking about when?...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  That's be the first of two narratives I' like to point out, namely a Rentier state. a)Rentier states b)Dutch disease Please note the Rentier state concept has likely been somewhat overextended lately....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  I guess I'm going to write something from a (somewhat biased and isolated) insider perspective. The problem is most likely not electricity; Germany has quite a few old coal power stations, screw CO2 and fine particles; there is much debate...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  the coffin having a hermetically sealed lead liner to make sure That's Schrödinger[1]'s corpse? Yes, I'll go to bed... [1] Combining this one with some proclivities of the guy is left as an exercise to the reader....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  seen from 5000 years' remove, never mind 5 million -- any event happening to a contemporary head of state is trivial.<7blockquote> I take that one as "most probable, but not necessarily so". Given a choice, I'd vote for historical materialism...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Err, you haven't been stalked by somebody who wanted to see your glorified chemistry set, err, lab, right? First semester biology, oh, the memories... As for board games, for those having an, err, interesting sense of humor, see "playing Pandemic...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  No way of bringing the urinals into that one, Jon Snow might have known nothing, but sewage treatment in residential areas us serious business, and AFAIK cholera is making a comeback. OTOH, gamma irradiation to sterilize the sewage sounds interesting......
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  For the paper on the gene variant, I'm not sure how this relates to ADHD, if it relates to another syndrome, if it's yet another indication ADHD is a spectrum or if it's an indication ADHD is a construct encompassing...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  i do hope the pawn sacrifice pays off tho Never underestimate pawns though, even leaving aside the fact you can turn them into a queen (or apparently a rook, a bishop, or a knight)... To quote this little upbeat poem...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Putin is no longer sane - otherwise he would not have kicked this off in February. Greg, I think Putin is about as sane as many of the people I meet in my everyday life[1]. It's just his weighting of...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  I still think Russian barbarity is calculated to influence Ukraine not to accept surrenders from Russian soldiers; at least in part to keep their own soldiers from being able to surrender. Nah, if the Ukrainians are resourceful, and it seems...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Oh, and you might want to look at a statistic quoted in this article: https://www.merkur.de/politik/mehrheit-der-deutschen-gegen-waffenlieferungen-an-ukraine-zr-91262823.html The voters least opposed giving weapons to Ukraine were Greens and Liberals. (Meanwhile, Angela Merkel's press secretary mentioned she doesn't regret vetoing Ukraine's admission to...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Greg, if you're talking about me personally, as mentioned, the German Greens are only SLIGHTLY more anti-nuclear than the other parties in Germany. If you're talking about Germany in general, er, no comment, but in the general spirit of "Jammern...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  I have been thinking about the issue in German, the Netherlands are plural, like the United States. Which is about the only rule that seems to somewhat generalize. Generally, regions use an article, but not always, "das Elsaß" (Alsace), but...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Short clarification, I mixed up our minister of economy (Habeck, Realo Green, Lawful Good to Neutral Good) and our minister of finance (Linder, Liberals, Chaotic Evil And Lawful Evil, strangely decidedly NOT Neutral Evil). Disclaimer: I voted Green this time;...