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by Parodite
Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:19 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: The Crisis of Meaning
Replies: 285
Views: 1188930

Re: The Crisis of Meaning

There once was a Nose very keen, Who tried to explain what he'd seen. To Eye, he did say, "In fragrant display, Life's colors are hidden, you glean!" Then Eye with a vision so bright, Tried show Nose that all there is light. But Nose just replied, A sniffle beside, "Your world just l...
by Parodite
Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:58 am
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Levitas
Replies: 4766
Views: 448782

Re: Levitas

by Parodite
Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software
Replies: 65
Views: 7399

Re: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cn7tOHnp68 This New AI Generated Scam Is a Mind-Bender [/size][/b] Means that bit by bit the Internet loses value as a source of reliable information and a safe medium to do business. A location less and less people think is a good place to be. Even a dangerous one....
by Parodite
Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: East Asia | Japan; China; Korea; Taiwan; Mongolia
Topic: China
Replies: 1490
Views: 241829

Re: China

Maximum control and maximum freedom. Only an emperor without cloths can make it work. In competative environments losers are essential. Without them no winners. An admittedly very low res impression I have, is that in Chinese culture only winning is acceptible. To lose, to fail is deeply shameful an...
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2950
Views: 815039

Re: Israel

Such "ambient noise" is irrelevant. Like seeing faces in the clouds. Two competing tribes in a life and death territorial fight are too busy killing or being killed. Nothing else is there. There are three tribes. The Hamas/Kazarian mafia tribe attacked Israel and pretended to be Palestine...
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: The Crisis of Meaning
Replies: 285
Views: 1188930

Cultural Alchemy: a Deja Vu [Re: The Crisis of Meaning]

To play with this definition a bit: Alchemy is the process of transformation. Day 1. Calcination: The purifying fire. Day 2. Dissolution: Stirring the pot. Day3. Separation: The good and bad. Day 4. Conjunction: The point of no return. Day 5. Fermentation: Death & resurrection. Day 6. Distillati...
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
Replies: 828
Views: 111171

Re: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics

A blackhole being at two places at the same time. Knew it! Sabine Hossenfelder is jumping off the quantum cliff, but which of the two cliffs? And which Sabine; the Quantum Cult member or the Quantum Critic? She seems to have chosen to bet on both. May entanglement save her... and not decohere before...
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2950
Views: 815039

Re: Israel

Such "ambient noise" is irrelevant. Like seeing faces in the clouds. Two competing tribes in a life and death territorial fight are too busy killing or being killed. Nothing else is there.
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Spirit of the Season
Replies: 585
Views: 167860

Re: Spirit of the Season

Inshalla may the easter bunny have a field day.
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: The U.K.
Replies: 1006
Views: 80689

Re: The U.K.

Most Muslims die because of inter-Muslim "civil war" and this civil war will continue for next centuries. To claim that all refugees exist only because of Western agression is childlike nonsense. Putin invaded Ukraine, he had no reasons only excuses. West certainly reason of many refugees ...
by Parodite
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: Russia
Replies: 1474
Views: 134769

Re: Russia

Wild Dog West retreating more to its own borders. USA no longer policeman of world. All good news. NATO was never a threat to Russia but supports former USSR nations that now choose not to be under Russian boots and want to be part of Western Europe, or just be left alone for a change. Russia is ver...
by Parodite
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:43 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: The Crisis of Meaning
Replies: 285
Views: 1188930

Re: The Crisis of Meaning

Screenplay A ChatGPT test run INT. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - DAY A group of PHILOSOPHERS huddles around a dusty ancient text, their faces filled with curiosity and concern. PROFESSOR JORDAN, the leader of the team, flips through the pages with reverence. PROFESSOR STALKENBERG This text could be the answe...
by Parodite
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: The U.K.
Replies: 1006
Views: 80689

Re: The U.K.

Unless you think Chinese and Indians have much lower IQ compared to Western, what you advocate only delays a bit the inevitable .. and .. end-result is much worst outcome for those sayin what you sayin. IQ is fine everywhere. Means nothing and is no metric or source for reliable prediction in this ...
by Parodite
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: The U.K.
Replies: 1006
Views: 80689

Re: The U.K.

Thanks for the Speng piece. There is no space between his general understanding of the free market where there are always various policies needed for it to operate and "even no policy is a policy" and how I see it. My point is completely different: he is the perfect FMF because he accepts ...
by Parodite
Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:20 pm
Forum: Art + Architecture
Topic: Painting
Replies: 37
Views: 11486

Re: Painting

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Pieter Bruegel, Gloomy Day (February), 1565

https://www.atlasofplaces.com/painting/ ... pe-memory/
by Parodite
Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: The U.K.
Replies: 1006
Views: 80689

Re: The U.K.

Good to hear you talk like a genuine Free Market Fundamentalist [FMF]. :) You are in good company of course: the world is full of them, like the Godfather of OTNOT, David Goldman. I'm not denying reality: just showing you the future, what ends rather soon and what probably comes next. Based on curre...
by Parodite
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2950
Views: 815039

Re: Israel

One can't blame the majority of Palestinians supporting Hamas. They are traumatized especially now and brainwashed decades long into Jew-hatred, convinced that the Jewish state should be destroyed without compromise, knowing only one game: being and playing the victim. And if you not fully agree wit...
by Parodite
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: Russia
Replies: 1474
Views: 134769

Re: The SIRI Cartel [Re: Russia]

Even gangsters have to live by certain rules and respect borders. Some things never change. . This no brainer .. Pomegranates (Pers*ans) and China, pretty much, dominated the known world till 1000 yrs ago .. And the records are clear That''s rich. The Pomegranates had their asses decisively kicked ...
by Parodite
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: Russia
Replies: 1474
Views: 134769

The SIRI Cartel [Re: Russia]

https://static.miraheze.org/greatcharacterswiki/5/53/Joe%2C_Jack%2C_William_and_Averell_Dalton.png?20230224183420 Dalton gang . Goes without saying, that gangsters and gangs always compete with other criminal, quasi-criminal and non-criminal powerful players. Mexican drug cartels are a good example...
by Parodite
Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:30 pm
Forum: Europe
Topic: The U.K.
Replies: 1006
Views: 80689

A Dream [Re: The U.K.]

Immigration HP, the argument you make is a popular one among businesses who want the cheapest labor and delusional leftists who want a "borderless world for everyone", while draining wealth with their CO2 obsessions and having disputable "courts" decide on eco-policies that shou...
by Parodite
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: News from Forum Participants
Replies: 755
Views: 595406

Re: News from Forum Participants

ムラーたちは笑っている! :D
Enjoy your trip, stay tuned