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• Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  Since it came up, here's the start of a truly splendid takedown/revue of Watch on the Rhine- https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitWehraboosSay/comments/d1vidb/the_scolar_visari_memorial_book_club_103_watch_on/ Very strongly recommended, if you have the time....
• Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  I'm not prepared to deny there may be an occasional grain of truth but in almost every case where some right or centrist pundit has mounted his hobby horse to rail against those wicked SJWs, there's usually a far more...
• Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  Haidt may have had some crediblity once but he got swept up in the bollocks that is the so-called intellectual dark web. He publishes tripe like The Coddling of the American Mind now. It's the same stupid schtick the right...
• Commented on Lying to the ghost in the machine
  @977 There's plenty of creditable historians who would come down on the other side when describing the reasons for Japan's surrender. The whole issue is a minefield. There's an excellent summary of current historiography on the nuclear secrecy blog- https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/06/09/what-journalists-should-know-about-the-atomic-bombings/...
• Commented on Lying to the ghost in the machine
  I'm not clever enough to judge this but it seems a good fit for the neighbourhood - Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life - https://avinayak.github.io/algorithms/programming/2021/02/19/finding-mona-lisa-in-the-game-of-life.html...
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  @ Greg 389 - "But there are an awful lot of fascist-ennablers around" Depress yourself with a nasty concrete example - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/waiting-for-our-salazar/...
• Commented on What happens now?
  Greg @ 710 "cobblers" I am curious as to what you think your collection of photographs actually proves. It's just a restatement of the Hitler's Pope new atheist nonsense that the article I linked thoroughly debunks with sources. Even Cornwell,...
• Commented on What happens now?
  Greg @ 607 "I can now see why the RC church, officially, found it so easy to cosy up to the Austrian corporal" Yeah that's not what actually happened. Plenty of reasons to dislike the Catholic church but Hitler's Pope...
• Commented on What happens now?
  A strongly, strongly recommended screencap of something brilliant that's turned up on 4chan pol https://i.redd.it/4v40rp6m02a61.jpg As for Trump's new party, how about The Banana Republicans?...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  Since we're on nuclear power again I wondeer if someone knowledgeable can tell me how correct or not the paper - Limits to growth: Can nuclear power supply the world’s needs? - is? It sounds plausible to me but then...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  The Imperial Slug is clearly the ruler of the gastropodian invasion fleet....
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  888 "parking brakes and steering locks just don't seem to happen at all" I knew someone who had an old Rudge with a steering lock like this one- https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/rudge-steering-lock-barrel-removal.249970/ Never understood why it wasn't still a thing....
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  The thing about the qucumbers that truly astonishes me is the amount of obviously ridiculous stuff they accept and angrily propagate. The goddamned mole children for example https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/fw97bz/what_are_the_mole_children/ (it's a mocking site not a gathering of the loonies. Reddit shut...
• Commented on Dead plots
  A slightly more charitable view on why conspiracy theories have gained a hold from Cory Doctorow- https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/ Key extract- "why is it so easy to find people who want to believe in conspiracies. My answer: because so many of the...
• Commented on No comment necessary
  I give you the machine gun jetpack as calculated by Randall Monroe. https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/...
• Commented on No comment necessary
  That lot of wankers calling themselves America's Frontline Doctors that had the press conference spamming Republican reopen-style talking points? Not front line at all. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/87797 Key extract[- "none of the most vocal members have practices that would place them on...
• Commented on No comment necessary
  Saved by someone else because the arseholes responsible have judiciously deleted it but Cain's Twitter account was still posting covid bullshit just hours before he shuffled off. - https://twitter.com/sandiuagain/status/1288856408323219462?s=09 As for Trump's attempts to delay? Well I'm sure he'd like...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  This is the latest itetration of the site that tells you where sci hub is and what it does. https://sci-hub.now.sh/ For obvious reasons it moves around....
• Commented on Cough Cough
  While you bring up startling duck news, here's a couple of golden oldies-Necrophilia https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/mar/08/highereducation.research And thuggery https://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-vicious-duck-beats-crap-anything-moves/...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  More on Friston and the alternative sage here, with a couple of links to the papers they've produced if anyone wants to check his workings. https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/karl-friston-takes-on-the-pandemic-with-the-brain-s-arsenal...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  The alternative SAGE comittee that's publishing all its deliberations has enlisted Karl Friston to do their modelling. https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/karl-friston-takes-on-the-pandemic-with-the-brain-s-arsenal I am definitely not smart enough to tell if that's a good thing or not. There's a couple of papers in the...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Apropos of nothing, an interesting read about a bloke trying to bag all five deepest points in the oceans. Long but well-written. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-thousand-feet-under-the-sea...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  I think this is about the right way to think of it- https://useyouroutsidevoice.co/2020/05/05/im-voting-for-joe-fucking-biden/?fbclid=IwAR3qBRb492MCUTXv2IBufxYwaj99J7dzhPM-bgp3jh7A3ojkOxRRmxPpUN0...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Did you read the somewhat of a polemic from Current affairs? https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/05/the-attacks-on-tara-reade-are-unbelievable-bullshit. Some key extracts "Tara Reade has witnesses—multiple people she told, contemporaneously, about her experiences of being sexually harassed and assaulted by Joe Biden in 1993. As many people...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Please don't read Strunk and White. They are entirely unreliable and often even contradict their own advice within the advice they give on a topic. This is a good paper kicking the shit out of them - http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/LandOfTheFree.pdf. Stephen King's...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Please read this piece https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/05/the-attacks-on-tara-reade-are-unbelievable-bullshit It takes a sledgehammer to the horrible USA todat hitpiece....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  Towards Windows 10's last gasp at phones the Nokia Lumia 950 had a dock to make it into your PC. http://www.notebookreview.com/feature/windows-10-continuum-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-smartphone-as-a-pc/ Didn't save them so they never really got the chance to poish it up....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  Well I finally had to unlurk to post the Allie Brosh improved pain scale https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html...