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My favorite emoji expression me and my friends came up with is "throwing rocks at it"

Basically if you ever see or hear something that displeases you, You go like this:

🫳🪨

🫳🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

☺️🫳🪨🪨🪨

So on and so forth. But also if something is beautiful or true you throw lotus.

🫳🪷🪷🪷

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I don't watch Wrestling nor Japanese Wrestling but sometimes I come across photos and they do very specific things to my brain I can't identify

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Wind Tunnel in Chalais Meudon, 1935.

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god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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Wow I knew a lot of people in Denmark want to boycott America but I had no idea it was widespread enough for our main grocery store chains to do this. People are ANGRY at Trump like I’ve never seen before.

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“There is violent revolution, but there is walking away”

Walkaway envisions a future in which the very rich have clear control over the world and the only way to break free from their paranoid grip is to go walkaway.

Read the Omnivoracious interview with Cory Doctorow.

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Is and continues to be my favorite dance video. Dude’s so unexpectedly fluid.

> High score! What happened? Did i break it?

> You don’t see too many YouTube videos from 2005..

Weird to think that was almost a 10 years ago.

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“We are witnessing a private equity-style plunder of the entire US government – of the USA itself.”

— Cory Doctorow

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FSU FE model boundary conditions: a compression, b flexion, c lateral bending, d torsion (Somovilla Gómez, Fátima & Lostado-Lorza, R. & Bobadilla, Marina & Escribano-Garcia, Rubén. (2020). Improvement in determining the risk of damage to the human lumbar functional spinal unit considering age, height, weight and sex using a combination of FEM and RSM. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 19. 10.1007/s10237-019-01215-4.)

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The Know Your Enemies guys often discuss the writers of the National Review, the fusionism debates etc, but really when they were forced to answer the question "did those debates matter?" the answer was "no," the conservative intelligentsia generally followed public opinion, the fusionism debates did not matter.

Quinn Slobodian is discussing libertarian thinkers and writers, those were more fringe but I think that's allowed Quinn to believe that those thinkers matter. He talks about how libertarian thinkers developed ideas on how religious conservatism and race were endorsed by these thinkers because they could bind together people in the absence of the state, no I'm sorry that is not why libertarianism became racist and socially conservative. The racists became libertarian because they hated civil rights laws.

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https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protected-landscape-area-while-local-officials-still-8841536

A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed. It saved the local authorities 30 million crowns, and has the public cracking jokes about public administration and red tape.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

They could not have chosen their location better –erecting the dams on a bypass gully that was built by soldiers in the former military base years ago, so as to drain the area. The revitalization project drafted by environmentalists was supposed to remedy this. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area Administration says Nature took its course and the beavers created the necessary biotope conditions practically overnight.

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« The culture of the 21st century – on an increasingly planetary scale – is oriented around the practical principles of utility, effectiveness and impact. The worth of anything – an idea, an activity, an artwork, a relationship with another person – is determined pragmatically: things are good to the extent that they are instrumental, with instrumentality usually defined as the capacity to produce money or things.

[…O]ur culture of instrumentality has settled like a thick fog over the idea that some activities are worth pursuing simply because they share in the beautiful, the good, or the true. No amount of birdwatching will win a person the presidency or a Beverly Hills mansion; making music with friends will not cure cancer or establish a colony on Mars. But the real project of humanity – of understanding ourselves as human beings, making a good world to live in, and striving together toward mutual flourishing – depends paradoxically upon the continued pursuit of what Hitz calls ‘splendid uselessness’.

[…N]ot all useless activity is actually good. Binge-watching television, being hooked on drugs, or spending one’s day doing nothing but eating are useless activities, to be sure. But truly splendid uselessness nourishes and elevates us spiritually, rather than simply providing a rush of mental or bodily pleasure. The output is always more than the input: the contemplation of nature, the joy of music-making, and even the study of mathematics can be rich and ennobling activities that, while also being pleasurable, reward the intellect and the soul. And the more we engage in these kinds of activities, the more we hone our sensibility and capacity for receptivity […].

While rewarding each of us internally, splendid uselessness enriches the world beyond us. Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid uselessness provides abundance far beyond one’s immediate aims, […] tends to overflow, to bring more goodness and beauty into being: one good poem can spark a dozen others […]. »

— Joseph M Keegin, "A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived"

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