Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
CIA Remote Seduction
Lame Sci Fi Movie I saw what I thought was going to be an interesting movie the other night but I ended up not even finishing it. It had an interesting concept, but this turned out to be a gimmick. One that wasn’t enough to overcome the weak story and character development. […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
Rhyming Historical Destruction
Truth Is Impossible Studying history objectively is impossible. Everybody has filters and biases. It’s widely known that people who study history bring their unconscious biases with them. It’s kind of like how we choose to read from certain news sources that validate our confirmation bias. Few Venture Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16Loop.mp4 In order […]
Impending Cannibal Apocalypse
Science Fiction Story There is this really cool story by I think Ray Bradbury. It’s about this planet that has a bunch of people. The first use fire, then they discover agriculture, then they have an Industrial Revolution and then they invent nuclear weapons. Then they use the weapons on themselves, bombing […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
The Hallucinated Dinner Party
Library Expansion I’ve noticed a new thing they are having down at my local library. They’ve been putting up notices for these day trips. They are put on by the city, and I don’t think they library itself is involved in organizing these trips. I think the library is just a convenient […]
Cult of Sacred Geometry
Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
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