Open Thread 23 FEB 22 ~ Potpourri
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 02/22/2022 - 6:29pm
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“Twinkle twinkle little bat. How I wonder what you’re at. Up and above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Hello. Welcome to today's OT, where off-topic is encouraged. Just a few odds and ends to get the
bowl rolling. Enjoy!
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A sailors nightmare ..
4-story rogue wave that randomly appeared in the Pacific Ocean is the 'most extreme' ever detected; Scientists describe it as a "once in a millennium" occurrence.
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https://www.livescience.com/most-extreme-rogue-wave-ever-recorded
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A general topic open thread so feel free to post whatever. See The Dose for covid and mandate
related topics. Thanks!
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Porcelain teapot with painted ants Evelyn Bracklow, Germany
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On this date in history
in no particular order ..
1992 The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia
1997 Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1903 The US and Cuba sign an agreement by which Cuba releases Guantanamo and Bahia Hondo to the US for naval stations
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1861 Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union
1926 President Calvin Coolidge opposes a large air force, believing it would be a menace to world peace
1972 Black activist Angela Davis is released from jail where she was held for kidnapping , conspiracy and murder
1819 Spain ceded Florida to the United States
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Well the US goal has been achieved...
...Nord Stream 2 won't be approved (with my caveat, YET). Germany has become a US vassal state I guess.
When people suggest Russia started the conflict, you might mention it was Ukraine who started shelling their own (Russian speaking) people. And isn't it interesting that the so called invasion was met with cheers, flag waving, and fireworks?
I've posted this clip a couple of time because it provides a excellent background to where we are now. (12 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOx6dW_0vU]
This morning I caught this fairly reasonable report... (15 min includes panel discussion)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d182UL9hTEg&t=4m]
Ben Norton hits it on the head reminding people of why we try to diminish both Russia and China...from 1992
Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yup
The fallacy of the empire dreamers total world dominance is being challenged.
Fiddling in sovereign nations affairs is a no win scenario.
You would think we have learned that by now.
The higher the reach, overextension, the further the fall.
Brings this ditty to mind ..
peace out
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
brings this to mind
I think, Kamala has no understandding of Europe and its history. I pray to God that she won't be US President one day.
PS you made me search for my own porcellain teapot, but somehow it is gone. Or it is on another computer. Sigh.
Do you remember 1996? I think it was the year Besoz launched his website with the 1 million books or something. I launched at the same time a site called "Global Scientific Booktraders". Of course his was much better,as it was interactive, but if you wonder about the internet as being a fair archival site ... nooo wayyy.
I have a young man, who helps me with stuff in the house, and who sometimes has to be a driver for Amazon here in Germany. His boss says he should stop driving for them. I told him his boss has the right instincts and he should listen to his boss' advice.
What angers me most, is, that I don't find my old website anymore (probably my internet usange incompetence) I bet you know how to find websites from 1996. OH well, what for anyhow.
Thanks for being so generous and patient with my incompetencies.
Today was the day the father of my son was born 93 years ago as a half orphan in Cameroon. The French colonialists took him in into the only existing boarding school in Cameroon at that time. That's why I always prefer the French and their school system. They were the base on which he managed to escape extreme poverty and somehow enabled him to go to Europe, studied there and on that basis enabted him to build his life in the US.
So, thanks, French people. I like you more than the German people, escpecially your school system.
Vive La France !
https://www.euronews.com/live
The Wayback Machine starts 1997
guten morgen, das alphagoog says there are forty-five ways to say good morning in German. I am getting phish bait with linux payloads based on my own fine quatsch, which only goes here, so... I don't even care. THEM can pry icecat from my cold dead hands is how I feel about modern browsers. What was the question? Oh yeah!
I simply cannot believe that you are the OG booktraders dot com. Maybe not, but just in case chick, hold on to your memory hat and here goes nothing. Went live 1998 or so says the archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980423043755/http://www.booktraders.com/
I can't see the vid you embedded, I hope it is subversive. SMILE Have a nice day.
Peace and Love
subvert thy
dominant paradigm
no, that was not my website,
I had a imple one with a couple of hundred (may be more - Baker and Taylor had a categorization list and for each category they had, I had one webpage to click on. Simple but not interactively searchable. So, what. I liked mkne nevertheless.
The only reason why I do not forget that, because I remember having seen and heard Besoz in I think 1994 in New Orleans at a Bookseller'S Association Meeting.
Nobody knew then who he was, especially not that he was a hedge fund manager.
Heh, you really think I should talk about Besoz? The guy is dead in my books.
PS: yeah the video was 'subversive, Tulsi revealing Kamals's quatsch. I likee it.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Faux News Blockage
hi, great now I can point out the glaring typo on page one of that site. The word simple does actually contain an L last time my simpe mind did check. over out
I kept trying to get that vid to show up, unblock unblock unblock unblock unblock, jesus h. christ why must I allow so much access? never mind I did eventually see it was a tulsi clip from foxnews, and I can retrieve it myself if I need to. Thanks. I like the way Tulsi speaks her truth to power. right on
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File this in the circular bin under another six degrees of useless trivia. My first technical support job is on the machine. I wouldn't be surpised if I talked on the phone to someone here wayback then. If any one had an HP printer, I apologize. GRIN
My bosses promoted me the fuck up, all of them. One was named Mickey Mantle and his everlasting advice to me was "lower your expectations." I still disklike him for being right. oh
https://www.svod.org/mickey-mantle/
Another boss is on the wiki now. For years you just couldn't find her and we were not allowed to mention anything at all about any past lives, or hollywood, or Betty White.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gerritsen
Lisa was nice, I still have her Move Specialist business card she spelled her name Leisa on it, and gave me contacts after we left the sosterhood. heh Smart she was and cashed in freelancing the tsunami of moves and aqcuisitions that washed over all. tides change
There are a couple of cards from Fairchild Semiconductor too, recruiting me for desktop and systems support. I could have been so stinking rich PU! if I could only have tolerated just a little war killing every day, not much just a little. In the name of security, I mean really. oh well
Peace and Love
voluntary simplicity
When I returned to Germany a couple of years ago
here in the Northern parts, people saidL 'moin, moin' and I wondered why they said that, because it seemed to be an abbreviation for 'Good Morning=Guten Morgnen'. But they said that in the evenings as well.
So whatever the browser tells you about hundred ways of saying 'Guten Morgen' in Germany, it's for certain not correct.
Moin Moin, and I say that at 7:25 pm my time and it is still correct.
Moin, Moin, eyo
https://www.euronews.com/live
I see where the L went now
thank you, moin moin is a lovely salutation. aloha like
Currently experiencing instant regret for past spell check critique. I don't even use spell check so my posts are going to be filled with typos who do I think I am. All those squiggly lines distract me, so I just shut them off now. lol Oh man and then there is the extra L I said was missing right there in your next comment. LOVE
Peace and Love
good karma
Kamala will not be our savior
Glad you hosted yesterday. Isn't eyo a blast? I love her wild way of describing the world.
Know not what to think of the French except Macron reminds me of Trudeau. Out of
touch.
Zum Wohl!
Alles Gute!
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
I think Macron and Trudeau at that time
were still in pampers.
I am too lazy to check who was the french president at that time, I think it was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. May be Pompidous. I also remember Charles de Gaulle.
May they rest in peace. We all have a limited shelf life.
https://www.euronews.com/live
eyo is a super blast - I always feel like I am blown away
and it is exiting as I often have to guess what she means by what she says. But that makes it so much fun to read her.
https://www.euronews.com/live
There are a couple of posters on these threads
who seem to still see peace and purity as higher ideals than dealing with
corruption and global destruction. I will never advocate for war as being a
solution to resolve conflict. Compromise and cooperation are our best routes
out of the competitive and destructive brinkmanship the warmongers want.
There is a definite line between peace and coercion. Human, cultural and
societal dignity is at stake in these games of domination.
People are still willing to stand up for freedoms using civil disobedience and
resistance of mandated new rules. Fighting for peace is not a contradiction,
at least on a personal level. More so on a societal level.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Speechless
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/links-2-23-2022.html
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Will you explain this to me?
I don’t understand what point it’s such to be making. I’d rather see the woods stay the same decades after decades then them being paved for a parking lot. Moscow also has some beautiful churches too that were left out of the photos.
Thanks! Maybe it’s obvious to others, but I’ve been seeing it for days and just go huh?
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I suspect that, like a great many memes, it is
a childish and misleading attempt at conveying some cultural bias - in this case that Ukraine (Kiev) was older and more civilized than central Russia. Of course, that stuff dates to the era of the Kievan Rus from whence Russia and the Russian language come - there was no Ukraine back then
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
They're being snotty about how Kiev was a great city when
Moscow was just a fur trading post. Of course they never mention how Batu Khan and the Golden Horde overran Kievan Rus' and practically every city-state except Novgorod (Alexander "Nevsky" paid them Danegeld - or I guess Mongol-geld).
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Civilized v Stone Age?
Church v Robinhood? Maybe it's Sherwood Forest?
Does anyone think of Moscow as a forest? Or like this?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
The poster's link
wasn't helpful, but the images don't have to do with environmental issues. My guess is it's the US Embassy's response to the comments recently by Putin that Ukraine is largely a put-together would-be country, much of whose territory was birthed or granted by Lenin and subsequent Soviet leaders and therefore, implicitly, Russia has a proper role in determining its destiny.
Very likely, but Ukraine wasn't Ukraine
back then, no place was.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
No of course not.
The point seems to be that there was civilization and culture in Kyiv going way back, while Moscow was just forest.
What about DC then?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Yes, the Rus culture and civilization, from whence
Russia
Russian
Belarus
The Rus built Moscow later, one of Nevsky's descendants, in fact, though there was some sort of village there in Nevsky's time.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning QMS. Rogue waves, ya say --
v=f*lambda, but height is a different matter.
painting ants requires a quick hand - old proverb
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Today's homework --
Take a mildly deep dive into the history of the Kievan Rus.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Don't mess with Olga
bloody hell thanks a lot. I read the version over on worldhistory dot org, and now I think I know who invented the word blowback. Sanctions? hahaha Talk about fleas biting ankles or however that saying goes. It's like the park service saying "oh yeah, we'll just move that pesky 500 pound bear somewhere else." future luck
Peace and Love
fuster cluck