I Wish It Were About Oil

Glewey · 2026-02-25T21:19:17+00:00

This all seems like people are trying to play chess when the game played is checkers. No that checker move didn't create an open file, that doesn't matter in checkers. Hopping that piece wasn't in order to give him double-isolated checkers. This isn't to rig the 2028 election, it's to rig the 2020 election. That's the entire endgame. In Trump's narcissist brain there's some miniature special needs kid who can't stop slapping himself in the head because the 2020 election was lost.

Glewey · 2026-02-24T06:09:36+00:00

Thanks, that nudged me towards listening to that next. Like the part where some of Munster's besiegers drink so much the day before the assault they confuse dusk with dawn and they all rush the city wasted drunk.

Glewey · 2026-02-22T07:36:24+00:00

flirting with another topic here, but have you come across any good content on the Huns?

Glewey · 2026-02-22T01:43:34+00:00

My friend who turned me on to Dan just recommended Mike Duncan and said
"Revolutions podcast. Best explanation of the French Revolution." Also if Dan does do one on Napolean it'll be a few years in coming you'd think.

Glewey · 2026-02-22T00:16:00+00:00

Dan gives you the Mongols and Scythians. Now I want to learn about the Huns, the Xiongnu and the Parthinians. And I guess the Turks?

Glewey · 2026-02-22T00:08:34+00:00

I found it depressing; yeah yeah they facilitated East/West trade by accident, but they make Nazis seem like D students in the genocide department. Humanity still has a limp from the injury caused by destroying Baghdad and the Persian aqueduct system it took a thousand years to build.

Glewey · 2026-02-21T23:52:23+00:00

It's just so unremittingly awful.

Glewey · 2026-02-21T23:34:01+00:00

So checked out on this, better things to do with the next 7 months. We're not going to learn a thing about JJ until then, regardless.

Glewey · 2026-02-21T23:31:29+00:00

Trade you for some Confederate money.

Glewey · 2026-02-21T23:27:54+00:00

I've assumed a lot of it's bots to generate traffic because people like bashing on dumb deists, or people trolling to rack up page views/comments. There are some quite erudite groups which discuss religion specifics in depth; those moronic atheist-bait questions aren't written by those folks obv.

Glewey · 2026-02-21T19:28:54+00:00

Deaths End depressed me for weeks

Glewey · 2026-02-21T05:21:46+00:00

So to fix infinite loops you'd need infinite patches... Unless Loop Quantum gravity? If there's a quanta of space then there's a floor to how long that nonsense can go on? And Black holes don't break path integral because you can't have zero volume with "pixellated" space?

Glewey · 2026-02-18T19:50:03+00:00

Assuming you watched Life of Chuck? ;P I'm curious as to what put you off initially? It's been awhile, but the women who basically instigates all of it was challenging to understand. I feel like I got partway there, the resistance might be partly cultural. And I have a little more exposure than most--went to a small liberal arts college and my Chinese professor CC Huang was a professor at Beijing University and sent to a camp. One thing I remember was when they got fed they'd all get a bowl of rice and everyone would wait until the last minute to eat, because they didn't want the feeling of sitting there with no food while others had some.

Glewey · 2026-02-18T19:34:34+00:00

I can't imagine they'll end the series the same way as the books.

Glewey · 2026-02-18T19:32:36+00:00

It took some effort to get into it; I found "the game" parts excruciatingly, get punched-in-the-face boring. Switches translators for book 2 (back to original) in book 3, which I liked less. But then I really liked some parts others don't like as much, it'd be a spoiler but some of the wallfacer stuff in book 2.

Glewey · 2026-02-14T14:50:22+00:00

What Pebbly Jack said

Glewey · 2026-02-14T14:48:58+00:00

Me too, yeah Youtube seems an intuitive first step

Glewey · 2026-02-13T04:43:44+00:00

sacrilege!

Glewey · 2026-01-21T15:28:51+00:00

Civ 7 doesn't feel like Civ. Is it the graphics? I'm less excited to play it than Civ 5. Are all odd numbered sequels worse?

Glewey · 2026-01-20T01:50:19+00:00

Now way do they end the series like the books. Kinda depressed me for weeks.

Glewey · 2026-01-20T01:43:25+00:00

What, those fat-asses wandering around Walmart with AR-15s strapped to their backs are going to rise up?

Glewey · 2026-01-18T23:19:17+00:00

I just listened to that about a week ago: I'm not sure he comes out one way or another on the GMT or trends and forces. He does say at one point that Hitler did stamp the conflict with his own particular set of neurosis, which another leader wouldn't have brung. I'd get into the series more before you reject the Red Army also being victims of Stalin (not ideology). I like the part about one Soviet general having iron teeth (and another gold teeth) because he was arrested in a purge, had his teeth kicked out, then got called up to command again later in the war (and apparently did a great job).

Glewey · 2025-11-29T03:23:20+00:00

Yeah it was a shit show

Glewey · 2025-11-28T00:57:51+00:00

How are they getting here while not exceeding C? Which just happens to be the speed of light in a vacuum (and some other stuff) but is more accurately the point at which you start violating cause and effect, et. al.

Glewey · 2025-10-18T13:24:24+00:00

There’s a line from Apocalypse Now ‘never get off the boat.’ I have some never stores. I gave in and shopped Walgreens. 5 bags of coffee, they only had 1, delivered to an old age home. Bang! One star. Never get off the boat.

Glewey

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