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Mouse wheel down clicking on a link opens it in a new tab.

Mouse wheel down clicking on a tab label closes the tab (no need to hunt for the little x).

I wish I got to be as militant about my atheist beliefs as some nut jobs can be about their faith.

Not that I really want to, but must be nice sometimes just acting like everybody that doesn’t think like me is wrong

I’m currently reading Anthony Beevors ‘D-Day’… But I’m also in Normandy, so I just read that book whilst sitting on Omaha Beach, which is pretty special.

Black humor is an important coping mechanism

poo-tin

This is the history of mankind summarized succinctly.

I feel like idiota would be overcrowded

I caused a minor diplomatic incident between the development organisations of the Netherlands and Germany in a small African country.

I was working for the Dutch organisation as an intern. There was a little get together of the organisations at a local bar. When introductions were made I used a WW2 term to describe our boss. I said ‘this is our ubersturmbahnfuhrer’.

This was not the right thing to say, as the leader of the German team was an ex-east German and staunch antifascist with little sense for my perceived ‘humor’. He felt personally insulted by being compared thusly and I had to shamefully go down to their offices and profusely apologize.

Yes, consciousness is described as a constant feedback loop by Douglas Hofstadter in his book ‘I am a strange loop’.

Well with the read it you want to explore this though a bit further.

I think Dubai should be high on the list. A vapid city without history that only attracts people because of being expensive.

It’s thriving die to slave labor and violent racism.

Anna Karenina. There’s no better pshychological character study of upper class Russian culture (but at the same time, about people in general).

Brain drain away!

I don’t know the schmuck and I’m going to keep it that way. Sounds not to relevant either way.

I mean what’s in a name?

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You can insulate brick walls, too, you know?

Tl:Dr Sandy was apprehensive absoluut the hose at first, but now Sandy is hooked.

Yeah it’s hard, but that’s why you, my friend, are a light in the darkness;)

Good faith is extremely important. And even though it’s much harder to read this online than in real life, there people being disingenuous in real life.

It’s the reason why online debate is hard and escalates quickly. You see people getting angry with people they agree with, even though they are arguing the same point, but they don’t share their level of anger with the opposing side.

I think remaining calm and level headed and generous through even that is important as people will pick up on genuine emotion over spam and anger, eventually. And if we all do it it makes a better community.

Sacre mille de tonnerre !

Btw the French writer Rabelais, through his character Gargantua has established that the neck of a well endowned goose is the best for wiping the arse:

there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains.

You usually only find out after repeatedly explaining, yet the interlocutor remaining unconvinced to a point where someone with good faith would’ve had enough information to work with.

That’s the thing, it takes time and Gish gallops you into proving ever more reduced assertions.

It’s very childish in nature, yet devis as it takes on the guide of scientific rational discourse.

Well that’s a brand new sentence if I ever seen one.

Great mental image, hard to erase

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