Yeah, just learned a black person was killed in the USA, and the only reason this was getting some attention was because Renee Good was also killed.
With the benefit of a sea of distance between me and the USA this is just really fucked up. Two different Americas.
Sorry forgot to check, despite a friend of mine doing the same to me with tumblr and I'm also annoyed then.
Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however
Scott Alexander: "I wish the neoreactionaries dropped the monarchy shit"
Monkey paw curls (content warnings: antisemitism, Yarvin).
H2O2 is just water with an extra O.
Water 2.0, get on it or get left behind!
That is shit, also sending good vibes. It never is just one thing isnt it. Bad luck always seems to come in multiples.
Also I can’t help but notice that he didn’t verify the correctness of the solution
Think I have mentioned the story I heard here once, about the guy who wrote a program to find some large prime which he ran on the mainframe over the weekend, using up all the calculation budget his uni department had. And then they confronted him with the end result, and the number the program produced ended in a 2. (He had forgotten to code the -1 step).
This reminded me of that story. (At least in this case it actually produced a viable result (if costly), just with a minor error).
Yeah I was also ver specifically thinking about Christian heresies, and not counting all the other religious wars/conflicts/murders going round.
Do always think it is funny that the whole magical staves thing which people think is some old norse early medieval thing comes from the 17th century and is a bit more christian (even if it is a strange offshoot, esp with iceland being mostly converted to Christianity in the 1000s). But that is unrelated to everything above, more that history is big and what we assume is often not correct and from the wrong periods. As I did here myself. Edit: wonder if there is an overlap between the staves and the sigils from The Lesser Key of Solomon, both of the sources for these things seems to be written in the same period (the lesser key is based on earlier works from what I could tell the sigils itself are always credited to the lesser key, so no idea if they predate that, I don't have much access to grimoires from the 1500s).
Seems my edit and your reply crossed each other. No I agree, I was wrong in all the ways, thanks for the correction and information.
Ah thanks, I didnt know. Edited a bit more in btw. Sorry about that. Scattered mind with a lot of L'esprit de l'escalier energy.
E: A quick Wikipedia check: To provide more of that energy, 1200 in France, yeah I totally stand corrected. My bad people, thanks.
Thanks, yeah, as I also said to Stross, I dont know that much about the period. Most of it comes from Crusader Kings ;) (Doesn't help that these games are sanitized in a large degree so genocides etc will not show up (which is the good decision btw, if they were not sanitized it would be worse, imagine hearts of iron for example), so it isn't a great way to learn about what you could learn more about the dark parts of our history), and the religion mechanics there are not that historically accurate, so I dont put not much stock in that apart form 'some people believed in a religion named like this once'.
Anyway thanks both for correcting me and giving me homework (ill read up on it, any more specifics about the Cathar stuff would be appreciated, as I wouldn't know where to start).
And I would say the latter stance on heresy only applies when your position is weak. When you are strong some random fools not believing correctly are not of a great importance, which is why I thought the church went more internally after heresies vs externally via crusades (in intend, not in practice I know what the first crusade did in the German region etc) later in history. Clamping down internally hard is more a sign of weakness in my mind, you need the hard power cause you lack the soft power (an example now and then not withstanding).
The crusades/Reconquusta were more an externally aimed thing at the Muslims right? (at least in intent from the organized church side, in practice not so much, so im not talking about those rampages). So yeah I was specifically talking about heresies, and im also very much not an expert in these things, so I dont know. I have not forgotten about the Cliffords/ /Alhambra things, as I dont know about it (I will look them up when im not phone posting). I was thinking more about stuff like protestantism, witch hunts and Jan Hus (the latter does count, as it is from the late medieval period iirc).
I just dont know very much about the period, but do knew some wiccan types who had wild ahistorical stories about the witch hunts.
E: yeah, I don't think we should put anti-semitism under anti-heresy stuff, it being its own religion and all that. But as Graydon mentioned, the Albigensian Crusade fully counts for all my weird hangups and so I was totally wrong.
Too late, I already put it on the blockchain.