https://youtu.be/qn3VLhBVUCg

2:42 onwards

https://youtu.be/0nlBBBNlCH8

Philosopher Vincent Descombes maintains that "a myth is what is told as a myth and what is transmitted as a myth". Therefore, in his opinion, the correct term would be "poor mythology" or "insipid mythology", rather than "pseudo-mythology".

“Trump says a lot of stuff we all think but we don’t say. Sometimes it sounds a little gay. But he can get away with it because he’s straight,” Watters said.

During his speech Trump broke off from his planned remarks to praise three “big, strong, good-lucking guys” he had seen waiting in the line outside the event.

“Where are they?” Trump asked the crowd. “You can’t miss ’em: big, strong, handsome Oklahoma studs.”

He proceeded to summon two men on to the stage.

“These are studs,” Trump said. “Wow.”

The crowd laughed nervously, unsure how to react to this intimate scene. But perhaps they shouldn’t have been surprised. Perhaps this was just the natural culmination of one man’s growing fascination with azzes, jawlines and steel-like shoulders, a preoccupation that Trump seems to enjoy, but which seems unlikely to help Republicans on 3 November.

“Clearly the aim was to clear a peaceful crowd from the place, which is quite serious and something we’ve not seen before. But even when the square was empty all around us, the CRS continued to gas the orchestra. After 20 minutes we had no choice but to stop playing.”

“We’re very happy to play at demonstrations,” Jarrier, 25, said. “There are lots of anthems for social struggles in France, like the Marseillaise or the International or activist music of the last centuries, but it’s important to play music that appeals to new generations.”

For the recent protests, its repertoire has included The Hanging Tree from The Hunger Games, and the theme from Marvel’s The Avengers film. “Music from a superhero movie on a day of social struggle seemed appropriate” said the conductor.

I think we shouldn't allow having sex in a mosque obviously. But the punishment is too harsh. Okay, this is a reprehensible act, but the death sentence is not something to give left and right. Hard to repent when you're dead. I know that better than anyone ; During the Sinjar genocide, Daesh was giving the death sentence for ♥♥♥♥ like that too. They didn't kill me but took me as a sex slave, thought. Later, during the war agaisnt them, i witnessed and experienced what it's like to kill. And there's nothing holy in it, i can promise you that. It is not something a person can give because it is deserved in their opinion. The opinion of a human being is worthless on this matter.

Apparently, no such reassessment has taken place in all these years: she has stayed silent. She’s a hundred years old; she has a right to remain silent, but her sons aren’t a hundred. I feel ashamed for her sons, who, as far as one can tell, remain embedded in Russia’s network of businesses close to the state. They are the very same sons Igor Shafarevich watched over in the courtyard of Solzhenitsyn’s house that February morning in 1974, when Solzhenitsyn was taken into KGB custody and expelled from the Soviet Union while the children were out for a walk.
[...]
Solzhenitsyn grumbled about borders and Lenin, who had transferred far too much Russian land to the Ukrainian SSR. Nevertheless, his central position was: “I’m not going to war against Ukraine, and I won’t let my sons go either.” His sons did indeed stay out of this war, but, as they say, there’s a catch.

Solzhenitsyn was the only one of those five who lived to see Vladimir Putin in power, spoke with him, was, you could say, a friend of his, was loyal to him, and accepted awards from him, while refusing them from Yeltsin. This matters to Putin. Solzhenitsyn partly filled that need for a Mahatma Gandhi figure.

There are also his personal ties with the widow and the promises Putin made to her publicly and, apparently, privately. When she was invited to take part in one of TV Rain’s liberal human rights projects, she declined: she doesn’t like that sort of activism. She is prepared to speak out only if Vladimir Putin starts reassessing her husband’s legacy.

So man was put in a sanatorium (causing his death) for using his first amendment right (freedom of speech and opinion) and you say “lmao BYE BOZO”

Overnight, Moscow pounded the Ukrainian capital

The woman who accused Peters of rape told police he had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” videos. She alleged that during her visit to a Peters family home, he gave her two or three shots of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her while she was drunk. She told police that when she woke up the next morning, Peters was raping her.

The Poles named their Home Army battalions "Stefan," "Bełt," "Harnaś," "Miotła," "Nałęcz," and so on—and then were surprised that they lost the September Campaign! They should have named these bastards "Rapist" or "Sodomizer of German Azzez"—then not a single German soldier would have dared to cross the border!!!

Rest in piss Bioware

Lê Văn Tống

Next they're going to ban BBC.

Workers of the world, unite! For the steadfast Bolshevik Keychain, the old order is finished and the revolution rides in your pocket. Clad in a black coat, flat cap, and a proud mustache of conviction, this pint-sized agitator hangs from your bag or belt loop, ready to spread the word wherever you go. Get this Victoria 3 inspired creation today and let the revolution begin, one keychain at a time.

It's good that there is no Tsar.
It's good that there is no Russia.
It's good that there is no God.

Only the yellow dawn,
Only the icy stars,
Only millions of years.

It's good that there's no one,
It's good that there's nothing,
So black and so dead,

That it could not be any deader
And could never be any blacker,
That no one will help us
And there's no need to help.

In Shushenskoye, Vladimir Ulyanov worked extensively, read, and traveled to visit other exiles—sometimes covering hundreds of kilometers—all without any police surveillance.

Possessing a sharp, critical mind, Ulyanov immediately grasped this glaring blunder by the Tsarist gendarmerie. "An enemy of the throne and the fatherland—the brother of a regicide—and left without any surveillance!" Once he came to power, he made sure never to repeat such mistakes. "Those who are 'dubious' or 'discontented'—into a concentration camp!"—so he wrote in his notes back in 1918. And by the twentieth anniversary of Soviet power, the banks of the Yenisei—where the leader of the Party had once spent time resting—had become literally overgrown with concentration camps.

Here it is, Russian Alaska, Baranof Island, where Russians began exploring and settling these northern lands.

In 1867, Tsar Alexander II, sensing that the empire might choke on its own enormous size, sold Alaska to America for 7 million 200 thousand dollars. For a long time, Americans reproached their Secretary of State for having purchased a useless box of ice.

But it soon became clear that Alaska had oil, gold, and non-ferrous metals. It was then that people realized what an appetizing slice of the Russian pie had slipped into foreign hands.

Perhaps I'm a bad patriot: I look at these lands under a foreign flag and feel not the slightest regret. Because one only has to imagine...

I know, I know that this is not a scientific approach; one cannot speak of history in the subjunctive mood. And yet, suppose for a moment that Alaska had remained Russian, and therefore subsequently become Soviet. What would have happened to nature, to the animals, to the people?

Though sometimes cute and cuddly, Wikipedia is not a kitten. Please do not stroke it lovingly. It scratches! YEEEOOOOW!

In proletarian nations like china the concept of autism doesn't exist, so they call it "shut-in disease"

When I matched with my girlfriend on Hinge, I was at the bar with a friend. My girlfriend had a picture of her horseriding on her profile, because she's a horseriding teacher. My friend was like "lol, send her a text like 'I'm sure you must be good at riding other things ;)'". I was like, "wtf, no, that's super inappropriate", and settled for a very simple "Heyyy 🐴". He, on the other hand, was like "dude you're never gonna get a reply with that, she must get like a thousand of heys everyday".

Well, fast forward to now and... Welp, we're now living together. So it really was that simple

Why does he think someone on bumble wants to sext unless it says so in her bio or at least alludes to wanting something only physical/casual? There’s other avenues for that type of thing. If you see a woman wanting a relationship and the first thing you think is “sxt nao,” you’re fycking socially stupid or you’re only seeing the person in front of you sexually. This isn’t rocket science. This generation needs to read a fycking book and get off of the iPhone.

Ok, you have it rough from a matching perspective. South asian men statistically have the hardest time on dating apps. You are also queer. Your style is sort of alternative. And you are also autistic. So there is going to be a small pool of people interested.

GOD SAVE TYNAN SYLVESTER

Sniga in Latvian is past tense for snowing. "It was snowing" would be "sniga sniegs"

Does this mean I get paid the big bucks now...?

We’re all CEO’s of our own existence. Job done I’d say

I do wonder if forbidding the flagships from requiting love means they have no other ways to feel about us except contempt

The theoretical level of Galician social democracy was never high. Later, “Ignacy Daszyński, our famous member of parliament, a pioneer of socialism, an orator . . . admitted that he too found Das Kapital too hard a nut. ‘I have not read it,’ he almost boasted, ‘but Karl Kautsky has read it and has written a popular summary of it. I have not read Kautsky either; but Kelles-Krauz, our party theorist, has read him and he summarized Kautsky’s book. I have not read Kelles-Krauz either, but that clever Jew, Herman Diamand, our financial expert, has read Kelles-Krauz, and has told me all about it

Super Intelligence may or may not be less scary than Artificial... but... artificial definitely has a lot of negative connotations and so does AI... so... it's a smart move.

Also, an association word cloud with Artificial (ingredients, flowers, light, synthetic fibres, fake) It's all super negative... where as super... (super powers, superman, super duper, super-size, supermarket, superstore, supercar, super computer, superfood, super speed, super strength)

that my friend is called………a toilet creature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn17kRHC_C0

There are sone beautiful old houses in the country towns being sold for pennies (100-250k). Part of me fantasizes about a library, guest suite, and traeger...but then I remember that I'm a single gay man who'd be commuting 60 miles R/t each day living in a town where bigotry plants churches outnumber the bars, and no former "coastal friend" would be in a hurry to go visit my neo-dacha country retreat. For whom would I smoke a brisket? With whom would I discuss the Byun-Chul Han book I've had my eye on?

The small town folk stereotype has a lot of basis in truth.

Weird how you remember every single time you've ever seen dudes kiss. Thats the first thing heterosexual guys do, keep track.

saw a bit of the vod, so the attacker comes up before it happened and he is drunk, talking to the guy who got attacked all friendly drunk talk, then the guy who got attacked starting sayin the soft n-word and calling the attacker a baby and calling out his acne, drunk attacker got angry

You arent immune to propaganda queer leftist, or dumb fake news by random Twitter accounts (the origin of this bs) grindr has never crashed at a rightwing conference. It experiences usage surges which happens in literally every big event because of the sheer amount of people gathering in one place.

Christ carries us on his back. God drags us along. The Holy Spirit gives us a push so that we move forward rather than backward, where the winds of passion, ignorance, and aggression pull us.
First, we must preserve hope that, at the right moment, the Lord will send the right people: a community, a normal priest, and a normal spiritual mentor. These are different things, as you understand.
Second, we should remember the well-known joke about the flood. A man has climbed onto a roof. A boat approaches him, and they say, ‘Come with us.’ He replies, ‘No, God will save me.’ Then a helicopter arrives, and again he says, ‘No, God will save me.’ Finally, as he is drowning, he cries, ‘God, when are You going to save me?’ And God replies, ‘I sent you both a helicopter and a boat.’

I did not invent the word ‘Orthodoxism.’ It is not a bad term. Of course, this Orthodoxism, this official state Orthodoxy, also contains genuine Orthodoxy, just as the pre-revolutionary Church contained genuine Orthodoxy. The problem is that a person who enters a church and sees an icon of Stalin or Rasputin hanging there may walk out, spit in disgust, and never enter another church. He will be repulsed, and one can understand him.
Still, I would put it this way: there is no need to worry too much about this. The discussed person used a remarkable phrase: ‘I was lucky.’ It sounds like fatalism, but I do not think it is fatalism. What the devil do you mean, ‘lucky’? We are being carried by God’s chariot. We are sitting in it. Saint Christopher was a dog-headed man. He carried a child on his shoulders, and the child turned out to be Jesus. Then Christopher received a human head.

In theory, there are 150 million Orthodox Christians in Russia. Patriarch Kirill said this some years ago, and it was widely reported, even though the country’s total population is smaller than that. In reality, only about five percent of the population attends church, which means a clear minority. The figure is higher in the West, although the West did not experience militant atheism.
In other words, after becoming disillusioned with atheism, most people did not turn to the Church. The religious influx of the 1990s was not actually that large, I assure you, judging by the statistics: twenty to thirty percent, but it was always a minority. Many people had a purely pragmatic interest. Not a selfish one, since they also donated money, but an interest in fitting into the emerging, transformed state, in which Marxism had been replaced by ‘Orthodoxism.’

A human slave owner could rationalize domination through an entire surrounding social order: status, race, law, custom, household hierarchy. The AI user has enormous practical control but very little social script legitimizing theatrical mastery. Saying “rewrite paragraph three” feels normal. Saying “crawl, machine” feels absurd because there is no audience, no status gain, and no resistant subject whose submission proves anything.

in our cynical society things can't get better ... "human nature is we are always awful and terrible!!!" NOOO silly people more complicated we can do GOOD

In Jewish tradition, there is a saying: ‘When a person is killed, an entire world dies with them.’ In Pavel’s case, this is especially true. An immense and beautiful world, which this remarkable person generously shared with us, has been lost. Eternal memory to Pavel Kushnir.

Well every Irish person blissfully ignores it as not a big deal as well as how resistant local gov and Taoiseach to the idea of closing the factory (hmmm wonder why). And I wouldn't make this comment if I haven't seen how Irish public reacts to anything related to Palestine and Israel. But supplying materials used to make weapons to Russia somehow does not ignite anyone's heart enough.

Herbert Marcuse, repressive tolerance

OpenAI is pissing all over us and hoping we open our mouth and enjoy the rain.

The U.S.A. trilogy

If the regime starts from the premise that its policies genuinely serve the population, persistent opposition becomes difficult to explain as ordinary disagreement. It becomes tempting to explain dissent through ignorance, manipulation, selfish interests, foreign influence, sabotage, or psychological abnormality. That interpretation makes surveillance seem not contradictory to benevolence but necessary to defend benevolent government against supposedly exceptional hostile elements.