Woah he knows his shit “While Fonstad’s maps are the most accurate she didn’t have access to the archives and as such described the inland sea of Rhun and Naren as remnants of Sea of Helcar and included Dark Land of South existing into the third age but we now know Eru cast it aside in S.A. 3319”
Has Black Mirror done a Black Mirror on tech people getting their ideas from Black Mirror?
"imma quit the internet & go to the park" the park IS the internet idiot. u walk thru the park eatin gumdrops somebody gon get a pic of u & caption it "gumdrop vibes". now u viral on the news "gumdrop man has nice day". now u got a whole new life on youtube like "hey GumHeads"
Tom Gara's not over here, but HT to him for this fascinating study of why Britain's economy has stagnated while France's is successful despite higher taxes and more regulation. The three big reasons? France kept building housing, rail/trains, nukes; while the Brits did not -- ukfoundations.co
Why Britain has stagnated
The Catholic church should cut out the transubstantiation middle man and just serve the literal Body of Christ in place of bread/communion wafers. We have the technology! Get a swab off the Shroud of Turin and do a labgrown meat with it!
This Homeland Security report about how they helped Trump fake an Antifa conspiracy in cities like Portland is a bombshell, and yet completely unsurprising. Thank you @wyden.senate.gov for surfacing it.
A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.
Sam explains why demands for 'efficiency' in the public sector lead to inefficiency as they are prompted by searches for savings rather for improved productivity (£/free trial). The Efficiency Paradox, by @Samfr open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
Why are governments so bad at saving money?
Celebrimbor ordering PCP from the dark web: "this technology would have stopped the sinking of Beleriand"
