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    Gnosticism as forerunner of Cultural Marxism

    Ham-fisted attacks on Materialism don't help much though. Communism has the opposite tendency (Formalism, Subjectivism), via the German Idealist school. Cultural Marxism is hardly materialist and objectivist in any identifiable sense. It shares this tendency with Quantum Mechanics. Look...
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    How can I make a pinhole camera with two hands, index and thumb?

    Related Twitter thread:
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    How can I make a pinhole camera with two hands, index and thumb?

    OK, this is bloody difficult both (thrith?) to search, to describe, and to photograph because it requires two hands and I have to hold a camera, but make *BOTH* hands like this (pretend you are making a shadow picture or something) and put them together to make a 'diamond' ... then look through...
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    How can I make a pinhole camera with two hands, index and thumb?

    This kid has the diamond right, but he's using the wrong fingers. Also, it needs to be smaller. https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/skin-hair-and-nails/hand-rash
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    How can I make a pinhole camera with two hands, index and thumb?

    @Richard Swagner has new nanogirl gf. I didn't watch the video but take the index finger and thumb of both hands, and put them together like a drunk test. There should be a sort of diamond shaped hole you can look through -- use our best or dominant eye. Take off any glasses or contacts and...
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    How can I make a pinhole camera with two hands, index and thumb?

    You how can I make a pinhole camera with my fingers Copilot Creating a pinhole camera with your fingers is a fun way to experiment with the basics of photography. Here’s a simple way to do it: Form a Small Opening: Curl your hand into a fist, making sure to leave a small opening between your...
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    Today in the Book of Days

    I suppose, then a citation is needed: This is an attestation to an 1807 quotation, from a later source but gives the full citation.
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    Today in the Book of Days

    Today's exercise, let's run that last quote down...
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    Today in the Book of Days

    History is history. I didn't write the 1865 book: tl;dr 'The omnipotent God of nature, the inconceivable Creator of all existence, has permitted Evil, Buonaparte, and Vaccination to exist, to prosper, and even to triumph for a short space of time, perhaps as the scourge and punishment of...
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    Today in the Book of Days

    I won't link every issue here. Try Whitespace if you want links to all of them.
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    Today in the Book of Days

    I've done this 'feature' at several forums and now I am doing it at my 'e-zine revival account' at Twitter.
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    Your Garden and Garden Advice Thread

    https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-h%C3%BCgelkultur-thread.1372
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    The Hügelkultur Thread

    Hügelkultur (German pronunciation: [ˈhyːɡl̩kʊlˌtuːɐ̯]), literally mound bed or mound culture, is a horticultural technique where a mound constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials is later (or immediately) planted as a raised bed. Considered a...
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    The Hügelkultur Thread

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur Thread related: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/your-garden-and-garden-advice-thread.335/
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    Re-inventing the Ezine on Twitter

    Ask anyone under 40 what 'email' is. If you have a child under 30... email them and tell me when they see the letter. I'm counting.
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