Activity from Fiasco da Gama

The argument about demand and supply economics is totally convincing, the [implied] argument about the sinister influence of modernism is tedious. And echoes anti-modernist and illiberal arguments about ‘beauty’ you used to see by Twitter accounts… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 hours ago

I am going to use the term "liberal" loosely in the classic sense, not American left-of-center. My hot take is "liberal" norms evolved in a very different milieu, namely between tightly networked landed nobles and other… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by skoosh, non canadian guy, Artifice_Eternity, clew, hydropsyche, cendawanita
MeFi comment - 12 hours ago

Social History Of The Cardboard Box
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MeFi post - 2 days ago

I own, because I am an idiot who likes old cars, a 1999 Land Rover Defender. It was then and remains a very large car; it’s designed for 4WD and we take it camping as often as we can. You could easily live out of it for weeks. I had occasion to… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Well I never, d-no, mostlymartha, queensissy, Barbara Spitzer, wenestvedt, clew
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

FWIW one of the most in-demand 4WDs in the Australian market? The Suzuki Jimny, the size of a generous fridge, manual transmission, with a pants-tearing 1.5L engine capacity. And a towball. When good cars are offered, people take the opportunity... [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by d-no, zenon, credulous, Dip Flash, hydropsyche, Audreynachrome, fairmettle
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The most precious thing on the internet, for me, are the contents of the old PhpBB forums for cars and motorbikes, before about 2008 or so, full of the advice and knowledge of the weird old guys who'd tell you, for example, exactly how to replace the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Topological is one way to look at it but the functionality and cultural significance is another. The Earl Sandwich's premise was that he wanted a snack that he could eat while drinking and gambling that wouldn't require a sit-down service meal. It's… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by It is regrettable that, May Kasahara, GenjiandProust, Audreynachrome
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

fondue is a sandwich You're still thinking topologically. Fondue in the form of meats or bread dipped in cheese is neither easily portable nor prepared quickly. Can't imagine popping down the street from the pub at kick out time for a quick fondue… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by May Kasahara, wenestvedt, GenjiandProust, jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

I bet if you're to do a screening of Office Space it'll go over like gang busters I think that's absolutely right and revealing about what's going on in China. Office Space was a story about the pointlessness and arbitrary power of a corporation,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

The problem with the word "liberal" is that it means many different things Yes but no, I think. There's a core of liberal thought that's common to all the political traditions you've described, and a few others too (including many… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Heritage professional here; installation of solar panels on roofs of culturally significant buildings is a very controversial subject and there isn’t an easy answer. There are as many ways to do it badly as to do it well. But it’s only ever a matter… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

The most New Zealand Thing is that the approved kiwi-holding technique looks to be exactly the same technique as catching a football, preparatory to running through the defence and scoring a try [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I mean the thing about liberalism is that even when all of the criticisms of it are true---and all the criticisms come down to its failure to live up to its own promise---looking around at the other options, there are still very many things worse to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Imagine being an American, in a country and society that was established as a revolution against monarchy, which created the notion of the people being sovereign, which derives its political identity literally in opposition to absolutist kingship,… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by ButteryMales, Reverend John, nofundy, AsYouKnow Bob, bq
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

They are certainly a particular type of Catholic America, where even the Catholics are Evangelical [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 days ago

This has a way to go before it reaches the levels of the most grotesque and cruel diss track of them all; Jarvis Cocker absolutely annihilating a Greek girl he went to art school with [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Historical time management in very high latitudes
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Ask MeFi post - 8 days ago

So it’s also the distinction between history and heritage; pure historians aren’t necessarily trained to appreciate that conservation efforts and the heritage movement (going back to the Athens Charter in 1931, or earlier) are almost exactly virtue… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

ARE WE NOT MEN? / WE ARE PRINTERS [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Operational activity game
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Ask MeFi post - 14 days ago

There’s no way for laypeople to tell, but I don’t think it’s out of the bounds of possibility for these algorithm relationships (gender roles —> political conspiracism) on an opaque platform to have a State intelligence operation basis. If you… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by nofundy, clew, edithkeeler, dr_dank, whuppy, non canadian guy, i_am_joe's_spleen
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

There have been lots of histories of religious movements (take the various Great Awakenings in US history), as well as the reverse, secularisation in societies over time, particularly the UK (take the Death of Christian Britain for example). In… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

For worldwide recognition, the Shahada in Islam ('there is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet') would have to be up there, in variants (some 'I bear witness that', and so on). [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Buttonwood Zoo Red Panda Cam
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

When Davis tries to live as a tradwife, she imagines “taking over the cooking from my husband” and “cleaning way more than I normally would”: dutiful little projects that don’t matter very much. Men’s role in this fantasy seems hazy, and indeed, men… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

If we take the area of Port Jackson as 55km^2 and the size of a rugby league field as 7,480m^2 then the size of the reclamation, 187,000m^2 or 0.187km^2, is approximately 0.3% of a Sydney Harbour, the correct Australian Standard Unit. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

‘Oh Australia is so dangerous you have spiders’! You know what you can probably just brush off your clothes? A spider. But in Soviet Canada, mountain brushes you off [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

It's an extraordinarily eerie museum, by the way. I'm a huge fan of nautical and maritime museums wherever I go---my partner despairs at my keenness to go and look at lobster pots and lamps and ship models and paintings of wrecks---but this one is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

In modern terms Blazing Saddles has an extraordinarily white-dominated cast, probably intolerably so. The only reason it’s still watchable in the contemporary era is that the viewpoint about the West is shifted drastically, right… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Related: I found, and find, The Death Of Stalin entirely unwatchable. The period details and costumes are right, the casting nails the characters, it’s historically erudite, it has a deep sense of self-parody, and there’s Iannucci and the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I feel like the news outlet missed a trick by failing STRIPPERS COVERED as the headline though [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Also sometimes contemporaneity catches up with fiction. When it was first in theatres Gone With The Wind was praised both as realistic historical fiction, and a compelling historical romance. Nowadays we recognise it properly as a very… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

It's not necessarily about education so much as realism; one of the better though not perfect educational shows I mentioned before (Horrible Histories) is written by people with a very careful sense of history and research,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

[Strine intensifies] would you just get a fucken load of this arsehole [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

For a director he compiles a powerful soundtrack album, that’s what I’ll say for Tarantino [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Kiwis! Whimsical champions of deadpan humour! What could be more irony-laden than building tunnels as transport nodes in one of the most geologically active places on the planet? Now that’s John Clarke level humour IMO [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I guess the male equivalent of an fantasy economic system I was thinking about just this question, implied in the whole discussion. What does this look like for men, and indeed why don't any men want to be tradwives? When I asked myself why I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Right-to-left Cartesian planes
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Ask MeFi post - Last month

It all depends where. In common law countries you would not have a ‘default’ ruling, guilty or otherwise; you may have a mistrial. In NSW where I am, first, intimidation like this would be its own separate [extremely serious] offence. Secondly,… [more]
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The thing about film isn't just that it's an endpoint to a complex industrial infrastructure (though it definitely is, an extraordinary one, maybe one of the most interesting of the 20thC). It's also that the use case for film has completely altered… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

It's not just because their coffee sucks (though it does). The other reason why Starbucks has been a failure in Australia is because our economy of retail commercial rent is incredibly marginal, especially in the centre of our [few] major… [more]
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When was the last time you had a holiday? When I feel like this it's usually because I haven't had significant time off in too long. [more]
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Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, Found
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MeFi post - Last month

He recommends that struggling navigators ask themselves which way is north 10 times a day, This is the thing though the article identifies that people from cities with complex/irregular layouts have different core assumptions to people from grid… [more]
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The bizarre thing is that as instantly recognisable and culturally important as this bus is, it’s not even the most famous bus from a movie in 1994 [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

‘Viva Cristo Rey’ was a slogan of the Carlists (who were monarchist absolutists, and opposed to liberal parliamentary democracy and communism both, and of course, to Jews) who fought, most recently, in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War on the Francoist… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

it's pretty effective to deter a crime to punish it by putting someone in prison for a few years, but increasing that punishment doesn't do much to deter the crime any more There's a distinction between deterrence and denunciation, both principles… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Re. Ray Bradbury. He belongs IMO with a much earlier generation of American literature of writing about frontier and anxiety about expansion. He’s far closer than anyone realises to Jack London, who has really compelling stories about sled dogs and… [more]
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