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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.

I wouldn't say having the fab is worthless, but more that saying you have build one and it actually producing as specced, at scale, and not producing rubbish is hard. From what I got talking to somebody who knew a little bit more than me who had had contact with ASML these fabs take ages to construct properly and that is also quite hard. Question will ve how far they are on all this, a tech demo can be quite far off from that. They have been at it for a while now however.

Wonder if the fight between Nexperia (e: called it nxp here furst by accident apologies) and China also means they are further along on this path or not. Or if it is relevant at all.

the medieval Church’s stance on heresy

Im not an expert on this, but wasnt this period not that bad and it was more the early modern period where the trouble really started? (Esp the witch hunts, and also the organized church was actually not as bad re the witch hunts, the Spanish inquisition didn't consider confessions gotten via torture valid for example, and it was an early modern thing). The medieval period tends to get a bad rap.

E: I was wrong, see below.

The Soylent meal replacement thing apparently forgot some important micro nutrients.

Happy new year everybody. They want to ban fireworks here next year so people set fires to some parts of Dutch cities.

Unrelated to that, let 2026 be the year of the butlerian jihad.

Power! Unlimited power! I say as I shoot Force Electrons into the jedi knights.

Sunday rant post. I really dislike that so many people are now adopting 'electrons' when they mean power (it is good as a 'this person drinks the coolaid' shibboleth however).

And I was amused to hear people go 'AI (by which they meant the recent llm stuff) malware creating will be a risk in the future, look at the drug discovery that AI is already doing', wonder if drug discovery people have said 'look how great drug discovery will be in the future, look at all the malware development AI is already doing'.

The commit message claimed “60% cost savings.”

Arnie voice: "You know when I said I would save you money? I lied"

Thanks!

The only 'debates' are, when after a lecture somebody goes 'this isn't a question, more of a comment but ...' and then half the audience groans.

Nah they tend to just tell them to get the fuck out of the class they are disrupting, it has happened a few times now in the usa where random fasc types start to shout things and get chased off.

Wonder if the recent 'i got my trans teacher fired for failing my paper correctly' shit is going to shift that.

It is in fact the barbarians who bring the 'debate hall' with them, with the 'change my mind' or 'prove me wrong' shit.

I'm in the wrong racket