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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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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...

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

@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...

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...

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

Today's exercise, let's run that last quote down...

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...

I won't link every issue here. Try Whitespace if you want links to all of them.

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

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

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...

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

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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Back when I spent two years as an 'opportunistic statistical hire' exploring the Evil Empire in its lesser hold, Dol Guldur/Redmond, I picked up two interesting factoids.[1] 1/ spam isn't due to spammers. It's due to people who CLICK on spam (idiots). 'Hotmail' researchers learned there was a...

Thread related... https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/re-inventing-the-ezine-on-twitter.1369

This is a reprint of a substack chat (rant) on this topic: Chat | Substack Currently, I slide my 'timeline' with reposts, often of replies to interesting threads. That leads to very good engagement at a low level, and fruitful inter-personal conversations on the topics I am interested in...

Why the dig at #SewerLiberalism? https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/seattle-vs-silicon-valley-in-ai-generated-trans-former-images.1368/#post-12876