People who've been poor for a good long while enjoy small things more than people who've never lacked for anything.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 09:05:54 JST tuban_muzuru -
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:34:19 JST tuban_muzuru All this is true: when the Portuguese sailor washed ashore in Japan, people weren't sure they were even human, they stank so horribly... etc.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:29:46 JST tuban_muzuru The Chinese did a lot of interesting things. They had gunpowder, but never invented firearms. They had incredibly well-built seagoing vessels and sailed to the Persian Gulf - but that was all shut down. They had the press, but Chinese, with 8000+ characters doesn't work well with moveable type....
They always seemed to come so close.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 22:07:43 JST tuban_muzuru The stupid old saying goes "Americans invent and Chinese steal" drives me crazy.
The world has three levels: Sellers, Makers and Thinkers. At the bottom, Sellers sell raw logs, Makers turn them into chairs and the Thinkers buy the chairs to sit in.
Thinkers make money with technology transfer. They depend on Makers to turn their fine ideas into commodities. The Sellers want to build Maker factories.
I'm from a Thinker culture which used to be a Maker and a Seller before.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 08:59:18 JST tuban_muzuru When Hamas came to power, they murdered all the PA officials, especially the policemen. Dragged them into the streets, shot them through the head. Hamas is no different than ISIS - they enforce Islamic hudud law.
Now, I'd never say this out loud - I'd get dogpiled - but is there an argument to be made, however odd it may sound... that IDF is liberating Gaza from Islamic terrorism, as the USA did in Mosul, for example?
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 08:59:16 JST tuban_muzuru I get this a lot - I sure wish Berners-Lee had established a sarcasm tag
Oh I don't believe what I said, don't get me wrong here - I'm saying these Culpability and Liberation arguments are mostly lying propaganda and are stretched like taffy to cover the most horrible situations.
Yeah, heh, the IDF is "liberating" Gaza. But look who they're fighting, Hamas has been a designated terror org since 1997
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 09:50:42 JST tuban_muzuru ... so God's making Adam and Eve...
"Okay people, I'm getting to the bottom of my box of parts - who wants to pee standing up?
"Memememe !" shouts Adam, jumping up and down.
"Fine" says God. "Okay, last item, multiple orgasm."
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 09:50:39 JST tuban_muzuru What's badly needed is a better engineered bit of porcelain exclusively for women.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 08:45:18 JST tuban_muzuru I like the hat.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:26:46 JST tuban_muzuru @ArenaCops @gentrifiedrose @bmacDonald94
Yesterday I tried to make this point and was dogpiled for it. Compromise of 1877, they'd never heard of it.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 11:50:05 JST tuban_muzuru "Feedback Loops"
-the important loops were created by Citizens United case....
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 06:27:40 JST tuban_muzuru Unsolicited advice: make copies of your passport, driver's license, and put a copy in every piece of luggage.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 06:14:34 JST tuban_muzuru Getting the passport info will speed things up from the airlines' perspective. If they have the info up front, they can bind it to your boarding pass.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 04:08:47 JST tuban_muzuru They don't get the lactobacillus joke...
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 08:26:27 JST tuban_muzuru You may find something you like here...
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 10:13:33 JST tuban_muzuru @phiofx @FantasticalEconomics @fifilamoura @jackofalltrades @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill
The veneer of civilization is very thin. Man's greatest skill is his ability to lie to himself, to make excuses for the evil he does. That includes all that hierarchy / inequality and whatnot - selfishness and cruelty, it's all there, bubbling away, like the contents of our colons.
Time to face facts. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 09:33:57 JST tuban_muzuru @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @fifilamoura @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics
The ancients were awful to each other - to their women, to their slaves.
Carl Sagan lays this out - folks, the only people to say good things of the ancient world were the slaveholders of later generations.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6518559-a-disdain-for-the-practical-swept-the-ancient-world-plato
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 09:33:55 JST tuban_muzuru @fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics
I'm trying to think about these different kinds of social systems - and though I look far and wide, I cannot find any which might vary from the general ugly trends.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 09:33:53 JST tuban_muzuru @fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics
Google, that doth make geniuses of us all. Heh. I saw my first murder in 1966, knelt in the back of my father's little Peugeot, as a group of Yoruba men hacked one of my father's Igbo students to pieces.
No, we're not going there, Fifi. Anthropology is merely educated tourism: they come and visit and act as if they've been there all their lives.
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tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 09:33:50 JST tuban_muzuru @fifilamoura @violetmadder @jackofalltrades @phiofx @the_Effekt @gerrymcgovern @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics
I believe, based on surviving three wars that mankind is a vicious little hominid whose technology outran his morals about the time iron was first forged.
He roams the earth like so many troops of baboons, making bad excuses for his murders, with appeals to Authority and Duty - that's where my bit comes in.
Not even the Fulani I knew, nomadic people, live without authority.