Nothing illustrates the difference between rational and Rationalist than ignoring the advice of trained professionals and instead roping in a SO to help perform ad-hoc personality tests. Dude's gonna need to work to keep that girlfriend coz it's unlikely he's going to find someone else willing to put up with his shit.
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These people all sound like they want to be Ernst Jünger but instead of being wounded in WW1 they all just got very high at liberal arts colleges.
Fuck yeah The Control of Nature is great.
Basin and Range is the first book in the geology series.
Another fav of min is "Waiting for a Ship", about the merchant marine.
The "survey" purporting to show most EA's are "left-wing" was run and hosted by Astral Codex Ten???? Are you fucking kidding me?
I have listened to the entirety of John McPhee's geological books as audiobooks, which is more entertaining than it sounds.
I think the concept of geological Deep Time is very humbling, and it kind of grounds the human condition in a weird way.
To be honest I've long since forgotten where Mike Hearn stands within the crazy world of intra-BTC rivalries (Ver was behind "Bitcoin Cash" which is an offshoot) but I knew from the get-go that the facts, such as they are, in the Nix debate don't matter. It's become an alt-right cause celebre and yet another anecdote to weave into their yarn of dastardly SJW meddling in the holy world of FOSS. So trying to derive any sense of the analogy is useless. It's all nasty vibes.
I'd say it's a bit on the advanced side but if you can find it "off the back of a truck" then it's worth giving it a try.
The history of the reaction in the 19th century is fascinating. I can recommend this book:
- Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
Metternich was so scared of radical students he basically ensured that the universities in Austria-Hungary were hamstrung by political meddling and censorship. This was a great foundation for the war with Prussia later on! /s
I'm pretty sure that the position of the papacy after the fall of Rome was that they should have temporal power not only over the city of Rome but of all the territories of the Papal States that had been annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
Also note that the popes were terrible secular leaders. The papal states were shitty places to live, even considered by the standards of 19th century Italy, and the popes lived in constant fear of their own subjects. In fact the only thing keeping Rome from finally falling was a garrison of French troops, that had to be withdrawn during the Franco-Prussian war. When the citizens of Rome were given the option to join the Kingdom, they won in a plebiscite. The people who wanted a temporal papacy were the elites and foreign ultramontanes.
One thing I’d mention is that we spent a lot of time beta-testing this, with thousands of people, before we released it. We did six months of that beta-testing.
I’m sure they tested it, but were their testers the nice Catholic people they happen to know, or, you know, normal internet people?
Eh, just ask ChatGPT.