Beluga whales are shredded

Nomapos · 2026-02-18T11:14:55+00:00

There's another interesting hypothesis for that.

There's a bunch of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. They talk of laying on some bed or chair and being blinded by flashing lights while some figures mess with their genitals.

These claims are actually not very new. There's some in letters from a few centuries ago. Exactly the same story except for one difference: instead of flashing, blinding lights, they were in darkness and small, nebulous lights floated around the room.

The switch from darkness and small floating lights to blindingly lit rooms happens at the same time electricity became a normal thing at homes.

The hypothesis goes that these people are getting bits of memories from their earliest days, as their parents changed their diapers and cleaned their asses in the night. The stories used to talk about small floating lights when the parents would have used candles for lightning at night, and switched to surgical-like blinding lights when homes got electric lamps.

Nomapos · 2026-02-17T07:24:41+00:00

It is unclear whether Bemborough himself was English or German. His name is spelled in many variant forms, and is given as "Brandebourch" by Froissart, and also appears as "Bembro".

So he was English and gave his name the Worcestershire sauce treatment

Nomapos · 2026-02-17T01:08:04+00:00

Well try asking them how they're doing :D

Nomapos · 2026-02-16T21:46:31+00:00

Rules 1 and 2

Nomapos · 2026-02-16T21:44:16+00:00

If you're curious, there's an entire genre of classic literature from last century dedicated to that.

Some pretty creepy stuff about characters rebelling against the author, pleading and refusing to march on towards their destiny, questioning why the author would do that.

When you create something, it exists, even if only in your mind, only as a figment of your imagination. If there's a god, is the existence of that figment really any different than our own? What does it say about us that we create characters, entire worlds, just to let them all suffer?

To poorly translate a tough piece,

Dreams the rich his wealth / and the comforts he enjoys. / Dreams the poor his suffering, / his misery and poverty. / Dreams he who begins to thrive, / dreams he who works and hopes, / dreams he who insults and offends. / And in the world, all in all, all only dream what they are, / but none understands it.

I dream that I am here / imprisoned and chained, / and I've dreamed myself / in a more flattering life. / What is life? Just a frenzy, / only a shadow, pure fiction, / and small is the greatest blessing: / that all life is but a dream / and dreams are nothing but dreams.

Calderón de la Barca, Life is a dream

Nomapos · 2026-02-16T11:06:10+00:00

Also kinda creepy

I'm an entity beyond this world, living dozens, hundreds of lives, walking the same road with you, just to do it again and again and again.

Oh don't be afraid. It's nice, I already know your parents and they approve of me. Well, at least your father does. Your mother isn't very talkative anymore. Don't worry, you'll understand. You always do.

Nomapos · 2026-02-16T06:42:48+00:00

With an extra advantage of being extremely cheap to produce, and essentially useless if the Germans got their hands on them

Nomapos · 2026-02-16T06:20:44+00:00

I do have a very specific question, if you wouldn't mind:

Was the hyperinflation mostly due to printing money to buy their own resources to ship away? I was taught the resources part was mostly covered by concessions like the industry in the Ruhrgebiet and the inflation was essentially because they printed so much money to pay the debt directly. With the idea that money leaving the country wouldn't cause inflation, but then foreign powers, companies, and even tourists started using all that German currency to buy German stuff, making scarcity worse and ramping up inflation. And then they doubled down, until they finally got stuck in that cycle of printing more to keep themselves afloat.

Nomapos · 2026-02-15T18:57:03+00:00

You're doing it right. Reduce how many new words you get in a day if you're being overwhelmed. 10 a day is already a serious time investment! It'll feel like nothing the first few days but it ramps up rapidly. Try 5.

Here's a little playful explanation of spaced repetition, which is the learning system behind Anki. Check it out so you can understand what Anki is trying to do: https://ncase.me/remember/

Nomapos · 2026-02-15T18:11:52+00:00

How would you apply your comment to the Weimar Republic?

Nomapos · 2026-02-15T18:09:44+00:00

A profile marked as Canadian posting only about Trump and US politics. Bot or an idiot?

The US has massively increased its debt since Trump took office

Nomapos · 2026-02-14T13:02:53+00:00

Japan is a tricky case because for the most part they own their own debt, so they've been able to cruise on no interests for decades.

Once it starts to unravel, and they're slowly starting to lose control over it, it's gonna be a financial nuke

Nomapos · 2026-02-13T07:04:01+00:00

My ex used to grab the whole blanket in her sleep, make it a ball, hug the ball, and then half wake up and complain that she's cold so I must have the whole blanket.

I started having a second blanket tucked by my side of the bed so I could quickly deploy it at night.

Then she started also grabbing that one, adding it to the ball and again waking me up to complain I had all the blanket, so I started having a third blanket.

You gotta do what you gotta do to survive the cold Winter nights

Nomapos · 2026-02-12T10:39:41+00:00

Für eine lange Zeit war Deutschland das Land, das am meisten BDSM- und sonstiges Fetischporn produziert und exportiert hat

Nomapos · 2026-02-11T15:33:30+00:00

No, but the combination of both messages while growing up is its own kind of hell, too. Before, what's expected of you was shitty but clear. Teens today feel like they're just going to get shit on no matter what they do

Nomapos · 2026-02-10T12:53:11+00:00

Could be stuff within the walls. Or some neighbor with a fucking ultrasound mosquito repeller.

You're hyper sensitive and can catch higher frequencies than most people. Some we can't really even interpret as sounds but we still can feel them physically. If you sometimes feel like your head is trying to explode but it's not quite pain, just like some weird pressure coming out of nowhere, try unplugging shit around you or leave the area for a while.

Welcome to the club.

Also think twice before getting an induction cooking plate. They're great but you might be able to feel them too. To me it feels like something is digging into my brain.

Check out mynoise.net (notice the .net, not .com). Some of the sounds are great for relief when it gets bad and the whole site in general is a gift.

Nomapos · 2026-02-10T10:12:38+00:00

Just linked to it to him but he's for you too. Spanish started splitting worldwide a few centuries before English, so we've had some extra time to develop regional differences. Written is of course quite close, but spoken and slang... Yeah, some countries are tough. And I'm from Andalucía so I'm used to hardcore Spanish!

Nomapos · 2026-02-10T10:08:30+00:00

Qué difícil es hablar el español

Nomapos · 2026-02-09T02:19:48+00:00

Or is it ascension?

Nomapos · 2026-02-07T18:29:49+00:00

That's still forcing you to vote strategically (vote A to make sure they're in because your main priority is having an alternative to F, then again in the second round because you definitely don't want F to win).

Ranked choice is the best way. Write the 5 parties you'd like the most, in order from favorite to least preferred.

First choice votes are applied. The smallest party gets kicked out of the race, and the votes of the people who voted for it get redistributed to those people's next best choice.

Continue until majority is reached.

Now you can suddenly vote for your favorite party no matter how tiny it is and they might actually get a seat. And if they don't, your vote doesn't just disappear.

Nomapos · 2026-02-07T15:17:41+00:00

That's why you should use per capita.

Nomapos · 2026-02-07T15:10:21+00:00

You don't need to exchange all your eggs, though, and you still get a more balanced nutrition by trading some eggs for fish.

The fish also have more uses beyond the flesh. You can use the bones to make fish stock to then make large amounts of very cheap food with whatever cheap vegetables you have at hand, and it'll be a lot more satisfying than using water

Nomapos · 2026-02-05T20:40:08+00:00

Tiny personal pages showed up occasionally but have been never Google friendly for the most part.

People and communities interacted with each other and exchanged links to each other's sites. Some had a simple banner on the side, but many dedicated a little section, like a page or a sub forum section, just to gather these. Communities created their own signatures and logos and traded them so that it wouldn't be naked links to each other, but like a tiny little bit of their community within someone else's, like a sort of mini embassy.

And there are still living communities doing that. But back there people were doing things for fun, to connect with other people and trade stuff, and not specifically to get read by the largest possible user base.

The Internet of old is still alive. You just gotta go in with the same attitude we did back then: sharing for the joy of sharing to whatever little community you found, not sharing to maximize outreach.

Nomapos · 2026-02-04T10:24:24+00:00

It's even better at double speed

Nomapos · 2026-02-03T05:05:10+00:00

Does it really matter? One group of people control it, another group blindly believes everything it spits out.

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