Meta tags:
Headings (most frequently used words):
review, of, to, critical, race, theory, lawrence, the, new, evolutionistx, or, not, seven, pillars, wisdom, by, in, arabia, berlin, baghdad, express, nettles, bad, content, vs, good, avoiding, hyperstimuli, everyone, conspiracy, theorist, now, year, president, specter, morality, post, navigation, evx, book, club, almost, table, contents, recent, comments, popular, posts, tags, archives, meta,
Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (610), and (298), you (138), that (117), was (85), for (80), they (74), but (68), with (62), were (55), this (54), have (54), british (51), their (49), not (48), #lawrence (48), are (45), war (42), people (39), who (38), all (38), ottoman (37), your (36), from (33), about (32), like (31), just (29), them (27), men (27), his (26), had (26), good (25), into (25), book (24), some (24), because (23), when (22), what (22), empire (22), get (21), out (21), more (21), other (20), one (20), know (20), actually (20), 2021 (19), has (19), don (19), think (19), could (19), part (18), been (18), even (18), never (17), can (17), then (17), only (16), these (16), will (16), arabia (16), most (15), course (15), which (14), might (14), there (14), take (14), its (14), while (14), world (14), wwi (14), arab (14), comments (13), 2016 (13), bad (13), make (13), read (13), time (13), very (13), food (13), attack (13), troops (13), why (12), 2017 (12), 2018 (12), 2019 (12), many (12), things (12), back (12), over (12), also (12), would (12), look (12), did (12), simply (12), nettles (12), german (12), may (11), 2020 (11), society (11), evolutiontheorist (11), him (11), person (11), across (11), made (11), any (11), russia (11), real (11), work (11), end (11), arabs (11), already (10), now (10), january (10), theory (10), going (10), here (10), well (10), down (10), side (10), once (10), want (10), where (10), against (10), turks (10), army (10), aaronsohn (10), content (9), 2015 (9), june (9), july (9), race (9), new (9), strategy (9), isn (9), how (9), uncategorized (9), everyone (9), first (9), whether (9), conspiracy (9), something (9), less (9), family (9), came (9), jihad (9), under (9), small (9), crt (9), nea (9), memes (8), march (8), between (8), life (8), system (8), really (8), right (8), point (8), years (8), trying (8), before (8), than (8), way (8), around (8), sense (8), country (8), children (8), black (8), still (8), gallipoli (8), desert (8), muslim (8), pages (8), britain (8), faisal (8), critical (8), october (7), february (7), two (7), our (7), lives (7), through (7), evil (7), teaching (7), much (7), internet (7), own (7), aren (7), become (7), someone (7), ordinary (7), day (7), normal (7), those (7), rice (7), beans (7), need (7), hard (7), germans (7), ottomans (7), lines (7), wanted (7), seven (7), pillars (7), wisdom (7), jews (7), april (6), august (6), september (6), cathedral (6), morality (6), india (6), history (6), cultural (6), review (6), america (6), anti (6), since (6), every (6), terrible (6), probably (6), maybe (6), example (6), run (6), least (6), true (6), wouldn (6), enough (6), moved (6), field (6), unfortunately (6), lot (6), eating (6), pizza (6), long (6), after (6), being (6), off (6), union (6), let (6), few (6), quite (6), yet (6), decided (6), basically (6), needed (6), force (6), support (6), thus (6), subjects (6), berlin (6), baghdad (6), yale (6), die (6), nation (6), students (6), wordpress (5), com (5), evolutionistx (5), november (5), december (5), trump (5), europe (5), election (5), marxism (5), mind (5), age (5), should (5), white (5), death (5), human (5), almost (5), reading (5), year (5), social (5), friends (5), instead (5), see (5), such (5), doesn (5), sure (5), believe (5), obviously (5), hundred (5), conspiracies (5), left (5), come (5), water (5), didn (5), difficult (5), though (5), themselves (5), far (5), place (5), best (5), especially (5), ask (5), ground (5), put (5), worth (5), absolute (5), fact (5), quickly (5), guns (5), tried (5), armenian (5), egypt (5), armies (5), largest (5), front (5), express (5), oil (5), spy (5), wasn (5), books (5), teachers (5), says (5), school (5), started (4), account (4), disease (4), open (4), americans (4), intelligence (4), club (4), power (4), little (4), reason (4), everything (4), move (4), schools (4), cultures (4), societies (4), sorry (4), lies (4), historical (4), hand (4), accounts (4), definitely (4), feel (4), thing (4), lived (4), today (4), supported (4), past (4), issues (4), rest (4), college (4), rule (4), president (4), allowed (4), full (4), try (4), convince (4), big (4), wrong (4), study (4), provide (4), bunch (4), lying (4), friend (4), secret (4), problem (4), she (4), yes (4), each (4), order (4), particular (4), rain (4), idea (4), making (4), use (4), keep (4), pay (4), interesting (4), times (4), hyperstimuli (4), until (4), starving (4), fruit (4), important (4), send (4), stupid (4), market (4), nor (4), level (4), parasites (4), cheaters (4), home (4), nothing (4), head (4), winter (4), appropriate (4), famous (4), available (4), land (4), forces (4), worked (4), worst (4), turkish (4), during (4), state (4), million (4), train (4), starvation (4), european (4), muslims (4), however (4), bedouins (4), william (4), informed (4), able (4), jewish (4), allied (4), stay (4), given (4), palestine (4), meat (4), grinder (4), interest (4), prince (4), fight (4), american (4), spies (4), basic (4), opportunities (4), effective (4), share (4), members (4), name (3), collapse (3), view (3), log (3), liberals (3), blog (3), feed (3), women (3), religion (3), racism (3), psychology (3), math (3), law (3), indians (3), hunter (3), gatherers (3), anthropology (3), african (3), built (3), attempt (3), warfare (3), done (3), popular (3), posts (3), political (3), post (3), happy (3), unless (3), millions (3), ideas (3), anyone (3), clothes (3), subject (3), clear (3), majority (3), top (3), germany (3), understanding (3), better (3), cheating (3), serious (3), government (3), away (3), qanon (3), explanations (3), start (3), figure (3), evidence (3), her (3), sound (3), working (3), together (3), exactly (3), dance (3), god (3), energy (3), sun (3), air (3), earth (3), ridden (3), movement (3), clearly (3), used (3), moving (3), rather (3), expertise (3), both (3), actual (3), word (3), boring (3), enemy (3), nearly (3), spent (3), turned (3), nice (3), stimuli (3), avoid (3), tend (3), facing (3), turn (3), running (3), thousand (3), community (3), non (3), oliver (3), honest (3), convinced (3), decisions (3), whole (3), city (3), often (3), hawk (3), doing (3), said (3), itself (3), looking (3), greens (3), couldn (3), perhaps (3), modern (3), anything (3), area (3), eat (3), salad (3), always (3), found (3), wild (3), looked (3), behalf (3), disaster (3), dardanelles (3), directly (3), allies (3), brought (3), constantinople (3), paid (3), attention (3), naval (3), machine (3), slaughtered (3), military (3), middle (3), equipment (3), suez (3), soon (3), favor (3), camels (3), kept (3), too (3), population (3), armenians (3), afford (3), money (3), cost (3), kill (3), corpses (3), clogged (3), wells (3), mecca (3), economy (3), region (3), wage (3), necessary (3), territory (3), adventures (3), duty (3), french (3), oppenheim (3), russian (3), oppose (3), help (3), standard (3), east (3), went (3), locust (3), resources (3), desperate (3), giving (3), absolutely (3), upon (3), controlled (3), town (3), others (3), including (3), matter (3), fighting (3), marching (3), deaths (3), sykes (3), picot (3), action (3), himself (3), promises (3), supply (3), fewer (3), bit (3), current (3), thyself (3), proverb (3), education (3), project (3), national (3), oppression (3), academic (3), frameworks (3), association (3), information (3), site (2), website (2), required (2), comment (2), manage (2), reader (2), sign (2), subscribed (2), subscribe (2), join (2), conservatives (2), memetic (2), ethnicity (2), create (2), free (2), theories (2), politics (2), thread (2), nrx (2), migration (2), metapolitics (2), islam (2), homicide (2), hbd (2), genes (2), gender (2), psych (2), evolution (2), democracy (2), culture (2), crime (2), civilization (2), round (2), friday (2), endless (2), makes (2), genetic (2), capitalism (2), care (2), satanic (2), punishers (2), meet (2), say (2), man (2), equality (2), virtually (2), dumb (2), mongolia (2), humans (2), grow (2), chomsky (2), foucault (2), critiques (2), species (2), exit (2), homeschooling (2), table (2), contents (2), mental (2), typically (2), realize (2), belief (2), ever (2), guy (2), invented (2), necessarily (2), shouldn (2), block (2), slightly (2), crazy (2), tell (2), either (2), okay (2), secretly (2), question (2), animals (2), literal (2), slavery (2), deeply (2), opposed (2), evils (2), problems (2), behind (2), legitimacy (2), having (2), chosen (2), truly (2), four (2), essentially (2), effect (2), believes (2), totally (2), research (2), alternative (2), completely (2), entire (2), theorist (2), enthusiastic (2), gives (2), grain (2), truth (2), does (2), vatican (2), roman (2), international (2), protect (2), child (2), doubts (2), accurate (2), crocodile (2), canada (2), lost (2), ability (2), formed (2), clouds (2), geocentrism (2), push (2), horses (2), feels (2), common (2), distinguish (2), sounds (2), sometimes (2), grift (2), track (2), beliefs (2), unlike (2), struggle (2), pick (2), attacks (2), united (2), stole (2), wing (2), hope (2), dollars (2), guys (2), nonsense (2), claim (2), cabal (2), reach (2), university (2), purpose (2), live (2), supposed (2), era (2), knowledge (2), viral (2), pretty (2), regular (2), hamburgers (2), happier (2), stimulus (2), happiness (2), source (2), nutrients (2), vegetable (2), getting (2), likes (2), facebook (2), modernity (2), systems (2), listen (2), strangers (2), largely (2), solution (2), spending (2), must (2), events (2), hikes (2), parties (2), love (2), families (2), algorithms (2), red (2), tape (2), businessmen (2), operate (2), ultimate (2), merchants (2), exhort (2), burden (2), planning (2), notion (2), defectors (2), group (2), soviet (2), stands (2), planned (2), starts (2), ways (2), different (2), catch (2), rabbit (2), advantage (2), actors (2), article (2), hall (2), monitors (2), stop (2), picking (2), taste (2), whatever (2), onions (2), ancestors (2), store (2), genuine (2), sea (2), chopping (2), mine (2), asparagus (2), early (2), spring (2), complement (2), plants (2), carefully (2), tender (2), press (2), holding (2), tongs (2), bring (2), trees (2), foods (2), loss (2), humanitarian (2), decision (2), isolation (2), dream (2), sultan (2), former (2), defenders (2), attacking (2), defend (2), seen (2), mess (2), mediterranean (2), impressive (2), conquered (2), failed (2), figured (2), spot (2), disastrous (2), remotely (2), points (2), threw (2), possible (2), build (2), railroads (2), completed (2), ethnic (2), genocide (2), strategic (2), hardly (2), literally (2), rail (2), dead (2), central (2), vast (2), areas (2), based (2), pilgrimage (2), above (2), biggest (2), pilgrims (2), farming (2), meant (2), economic (2), broke (2), manpower (2), wasteland (2), week (2), bribes (2), potential (2), continent (2), foreign (2), local (2), infidels (2), holy (2), ruled (2), scheme (2), distracting (2), western (2), materialized (2), named (2), exchange (2), efforts (2), along (2), income (2), declared (2), within (2), materials (2), recommend (2), begun (2), personal (2), hadn (2), depth (2), public (2), role (2), story (2), involved (2), born (2), policy (2), interests (2), destruction (2), eventually (2), capacity (2), company (2), learn (2), meanwhile (2), watching (2), enver (2), pasha (2), trains (2), expulsions (2), railroad (2), eradication (2), eager (2), locusts (2), cause (2), nations (2), faced (2), posed (2), france (2), expelled (2), sent (2), short (2), days (2), aside (2), parts (2), aaron (2), zionist (2), nearby (2), bags (2), forthright (2), commanders (2), advising (2), benefit (2), peace (2), blow (2), weren (2), last (2), thousands (2), leading (2), officer (2), carry (2), actively (2), sabotaging (2), cannot (2), conflict (2), ultimately (2), telling (2), agreement (2), certainly (2), bind (2), rebel (2), job (2), knew (2), neither (2), hundreds (2), soldiers (2), realized (2), prufer (2), focuses (2), officials (2), 690 (2), battle (2), damage (2), achieved (2), combat (2), distinct (2), throwing (2), complicated (2), among (2), anywhere (2), arabic (2), useful (2), got (2), annual (2), wants (2), additional (2), quantum (2), voted (2), item (2), budget (2), seems (2), context (2), denying (2), minimizes (2), sentence (2), simplify (2), teach (2), brown (2), races (2), hiding (2), bed (2), busy (2), determined (2), entirely (2), inappropriate (2), pathetic (2), further (2), convey (2), topics (2), impact (2), existing (2), anthropocentrism (2), dogs (2), speciesism (2), grammar (2), publicize (2), team (2), attempts (2), ban (2), 1619 (2), educators (2), staffers (2), hate (2), design, email, write, loading, bar, subscriptions, report, privacy, 631, subscribers, mock, fear, separation, mitochondrial, entries, meta, archives, whites, tribalism, technology, slate, star, codex, sjws, science, neanderthals, native, judaism, immigration, harvard, genetics, fertility, feminism, evolutionary, ethnography, eskimo, economics, dna, communism, christianity, blacks, autism, africa, tags, ratiocination, dysphoric, stonehenge, bell, beakers, neolithic, burials, frontiers, bronze, helplessness, genghis, khan, kills, parents, brother, adoption, mongols, animism, hela, cells, mystical, flesh, ails, appalachia, pat, scandal, daycares, defector, cooperation, newton, 3rd, progressive, virus, convert, puritianism, finno, ugrics, inverse, relationship, adults, bullying, bullshit, foil, self, rise, mommy, lol, racists, neighborhoods, shadow, euphemism, lynching, degeneracy, type, letter, centrists, horticultural, act, three, entropy, welfare, maoism, peaceful, paragons, homeostasis, personality, melissa, pinol, kinds, jacob, stewart, tall, maximum, height, recent, structures, 115, 122, neuropolitics, 110, miscellaneous, 119, 108, 231, corner, 112, fiction, select, category, caldwell, entitlement, 60s, evx, follow, search, older, navigation, anyway, quiet, lately, difficulty, natures, declares, highly, isolated, form, disability, chances, sensitive, judgements, morals, underlie, figures, textbooks, hagiography, devoted, seatbelt, thanking, saving, event, reconstruct, scratch, preemptively, declaring, case, else, listening, lumped, please, hurt, triumphant, sees, wondering, emperor, gently, broach, entertaining, thoughts, class, tries, widespread, agreeing, nazis, mill, shoplifters, kick, cartoonishly, satan, similarly, horrifically, nazi, antebellum, vociferously, privately, moral, clarity, fortitude, obvious, specter, closed, doors, undermine, due, allergic, reaction, biden, reflects, voters, cared, electoral, husband, yesterday, historian, reasonably, argue, assume, sans, bizarre, exact, same, great, oppress, stream, minor, conducted, unbiased, researchers, proves, babies, racist, luck, disabusing, fan, favorite, internally, consistent, observed, phenomena, claims, explanation, seemingly, trustworthy, pro, exists, fabricated, tricked, believing, discernable, lols, revenue, mother, recently, consider, bored, covid, fascinating, watch, finds, credible, ones, contain, hearts, pedophile, catholic, church, huge, network, powerful, pedophiles, prosecution, definition, give, abused, priest, pope, hack, office, shuts, trafficking, ring, inside, worldview, provides, detailed, universe, outside, looks, silly, angry, sucked, ocean, invisible, low, pressure, zone, flow, neighborhood, uphill, hold, rained, again, sacrifice, warmed, situation, gets, worse, incorrect, heliocentrism, versus, gallileo, bones, correct, pushing, walked, carts, earthquake, happen, idiot, sky, notice, moon, planets, stars, ivory, tower, mathematicians, lolwut, determine, handwaves, acceleration, deceleration, steady, horse, nerds, stuff, yourself, knows, merely, noticed, fakers, conspired, conspire, future, genuinely, conspiring, backroom, deals, turf, graft, cover, incompetence, details, ahem, heterogenous, single, blame, focus, democrats, cheated, identical, ago, leftists, putin, sounded, sincerely, regret, billions, taxpayer, investigating, struggling, rent, buy, hoity, toity, aisle, heterosexual, whose, tentacles, aspect, prenatal, television, incarceration, established, believed, degree, funneled, departments, uncovering, universal, usher, increased, harmony, theorists, meme, viruses, hyperstimulating, plate, nicely, spiced, brain, processing, pale, comparison, ice, cream, cookies, dinner, weigh, spend, heart, abstractly, implies, term, adjust, presence, hyperstimulus, downgrade, treating, feast, month, fun, monotonous, setpoints, return, weathering, slings, arrows, fate, fortune, misfortune, confidence, dour, trial, endured, misery, returns, exceptions, radically, alter, anymore, yay, trend, moods, contains, naturally, occurring, sugars, body, craves, sugar, valuable, natural, candy, sugarcane, annoying, fibrous, stripped, refined, pure, sugary, chemical, substance, riding, rollercoaster, chatting, interaction, avoiding, selects, resist, personally, inclined, mostly, talk, consequences, hurting, existent, vastly, distorted, ironically, interacting, addicted, twitter, rude, service, kicking, platform, limit, organize, meetups, dog, pandemic, grounded, value, goodness, sakes, concluding, thrives, platforms, agree, define, differently, designed, spread, regulations, onerous, extensive, encourage, markets, execute, regulatory, profit, abandon, willed, agents, behave, creates, conditions, thrive, discussing, levels, morally, disdain, refuse, disgust, react, accordingly, harder, involves, extent, simple, large, scale, affect, watering, hole, hunt, game, valley, extensively, mundane, police, bribery, pleasant, places, brasilia, cult, intentions, habit, unexpected, perspective, bringing, chicks, sneaky, bastard, parasite, infects, tapeworm, absorbing, ecosystems, innocent, grass, feeding, bunnies, bam, swoops, takes, ing, eats, royally, pissed, seconds, tears, stumbled, onto, vulnerable, gaming, unscrupulous, censorious, crying, principal, breathed, whiny, demanding, tech, change, faith, glenn, greenwald, recommended, quote, journalistic, tattletale, industry, conclude, bite, choice, next, tea, cooked, flavor, overwhelmed, kale, collards, strong, opinion, unpleasantly, mildness, sorts, health, benefits, fresh, arrived, sailors, oranges, lemons, unusual, shops, grocery, deficient, sunlight, washing, opted, sauté, butter, crop, felt, tastes, mint, oddly, closely, related, superficial, similarities, raw, crush, spines, sticking, mouth, leaf, bottom, sides, curse, verify, stinging, nettle, mash, satisfied, crushed, ouchy, bits, harvest, touch, leaves, bag, poke, plant, handle, rinsing, eaten, woods, hiking, pointed, kids, poking, everywhere, pine, accidentally, brush, walking, shorts, spiky, fascinated, berry, parsnip, distant, flavors, enjoyed, catastrophe, produced, entirety, step, led, likewise, pan, islamic, weak, puppet, young, cup, gov, deposed, paper, reality, assumed, diversion, somewhere, weaker, logic, futurama, zapp, branigan, shows, zoom, picture, straight, connecting, navy, opening, russians, easily, bear, capitol, stupendous, victory, handful, 2000, waters, landed, extremely, easy, forays, schlepped, sinai, discover, hemorrhaged, desertion, enlisting, 50s, inability, intelligent, sparing, weakest, bloodbath, coastline, transported, wagons, setbacks, paranoid, sultans, afraid, funding, mountains, sudden, employees, trivial, crews, drafted, loyal, lose, rivers, overstate, horrifying, deserts, roads, scarce, mention, mentioned, ships, arabians, ruin, without, transportation, networks, undertake, map, sparsely, populated, nomads, dabbled, tribal, banditry, hinterlands, pacified, control, rulers, trade, positions, relative, subordination, higher, taxes, compared, colossal, theaters, asian, potatoes, essence, bets, odds, grandly, traipsing, particularly, appealing, declaration, insecure, cases, interestingly, eve, realization, revolt, causing, havoc, colonies, cutting, bogged, grinding, match, stalemate, propaganda, pamphlets, undoubtedly, jihadi, stampede, mcmeekin, traces, peculiar, inspire, managed, canal, english, advances, northern, border, depended, traffic, took, bribe, disappeared, sherif, dominated, secular, modernizers, sudanese, libyans, trekking, uprising, overcame, sunni, shia, split, afghanis, ostensibly, signed, practical, afghanistan, note, railway, chapters, bulk, relations, sphere, interested, late, memoir, enjoying, find, glad, 650, material, dense, covered, talking, issue, published, general, familiar, various, battles, plays, theatre, declare, comes, player, attempting, influence, creation, treaty, versailles, naïve, experience, regions, dispute, surprise, paying, stranded, neutral, combatant, hunkered, drilling, resume, status, protected, privations, saw, joined, effort, mid, expert, another, abandoned, loyalty, hailed, gifted, branch, fallen, laborer, oklahoma, ambitious, scout, became, close, travelling, affected, thinking, murderously, incompetent, invade, credit, apparently, save, streaming, requisitioning, famine, zombie, apocalypse, bodied, males, shot, elderly, marched, thirst, stations, throngs, tracks, formerly, skilled, workers, official, transformed, needs, functioning, hired, program, sweeping, powers, rid, bugs, authorities, preferring, swarms, biblical, proportions, descended, devouring, eyes, asleep, drink, moisture, eyeballs, barely, blind, consisted, witnessed, communities
Text of the page (random words):
as sparsely populated by nomads who dabbled in tribal warfare and banditry the hinterlands had not at all been pacified and brought under central control the british supported muslim rulers in egypt didn t want to trade their positions of relative power for subordination to the ottomans and no one wanted to pay higher taxes unlike central europe the ottoman empire had very few completed train lines especially across its vast deserts and even roads were scarce in some areas not to mention water down in mecca the economy was based on the pilgrimage and as mentioned above the world s biggest muslim country was british india british ships brought the pilgrims grain and other foods to a region that could do very little farming for itself war with the british meant for the arabians economic ruin and starvation the german attempt to build railroads across the ottoman empire so that troops and equipment wouldn t have to be transported by wagons and camels across the desert kept running into setbacks from paranoid sultans who were afraid of too much work being completed at once to funding issues to mountains to the sudden loss of all of their armenian employees a non trivial part of the work crews in a country where almost the ethnic turkish population had been drafted the armenian genocide was of course both a humanitarian and strategic disaster while some armenians did side with russia during the war the majority of armenians were in fact loyal subjects and the state could hardly afford to lose both subjects and the money it cost to kill them their corpses also literally clogged up rivers wells and rail lines it s hard to overstate just how horrifying a million dead people are the ottoman empire s military forays were just as disastrous they tried to attack russia in the middle of winter which worked out exactly like you d think they schlepped men and equipment across the sinai desert to attack the suez only to discover that the british had machine guns their army hemorrhaged men through death and desertion so quickly that they were soon enlisting men in their 50s about the only thing that worked out in their favor was the british inability to do anything even remotely intelligent thus sparing the ottomans attacks on their weakest points instead they threw their men into the literal bloodbath that was gallipoli just about the worst possible place they could have chosen to attack on the entire ottoman coastline if you re trying to make sense of the absolute mess that was wwi this book is a good place to start it shows how each decision looked at in isolation basically made sense and yet when you zoom out to look at the big picture what you get is nonsense the british decisions to attack the dardanelles the straight connecting the mediterranean and the black sea directly made sense the british could use their impressive navy in the attack opening the dardanelles would let their allies the russians move more easily into the mediterranean and their forces could be brought to bear directly on constantinople the ottoman capitol if it had worked it would have been a stupendous victory unfortunately the british should have paid more attention to the fact that constantinople has been conquered only a handful of times in 2000 years it s a difficult city to take when the naval attack failed because the turks figured out how to mine the waters around the dardanelles the british decided they needed to land a ground force to support their naval force gallipoli they decided was a good spot to provide ground support to their naval force so that s where they landed their forces unfortunately gallipoli was extremely easy to defend the turks quickly moved in machine guns and the british were slaughtered and slaughtered and slaughtered if you ve seen futurama the british are basically zapp branigan gallipoli was such a stupid place to attack that at first the defenders didn t really believe the british were attacking it they assumed the attack was just a diversion and that the real attack would come somewhere weaker and more difficult to defend the germans essentially couldn t believe that the british would actually be this stupid but the real attack never came against all logic they were actually trying to attack gallipoli in the end gallipoli was a terrible loss an absolute humanitarian catastrophe that produced nothing of worth for anyone but like the entirety of wwi each step that led up to the decision to land at that point made sense in isolation likewise the german dream of pan islamic jihad on behalf of the ottoman sultan a weak puppet of the young turks cup gov t that had deposed the former sultan looked good on paper and was an absolute disaster in reality 5 comments nettles march 1 2021 march 1 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized the sun is up and the nettles are out i ve always been fascinated by wild foods picking a wild berry or parsnip gives you a little taste of what our distant ancestors lives were like the ways they looked at the world and the flavors they enjoyed nettles are famous because they re one of the very first wild plants available in spring and are available almost everywhere there s not a whole lot available in winter unless you really like pine trees which i don t they re also famous because they don t look spiky but if you accidentally brush up against one while walking in shorts you will be very very sorry i ve never eaten nettles before but when i found them in the woods while hiking with the family decided they d be worth trying why not once i pointed out the nettles my kids of course started poking them the best way to harvest nettles is with salad tongs because you don t want to touch them you always bring salad tongs on your hikes right pick the tender top leaves and put them in a bag if you re not sure whether it s nettles or not just poke the plant a few times you ll figure it out once you get them home figure out how you re going to handle them for rinsing and chopping you can eat nettles raw if you just carefully crush all of the spines before sticking it in your mouth take a tender top leaf carefully by the bottom press the sides together curse as you verify that yes this is definitely stinging nettle why are you holding it mash once you re satisfied that you ve probably crushed all of the ouchy bits eat it it tastes a little like mint oddly enough they re not closely related as far as i know but they plants do have some superficial similarities after washing and chopping i opted to sauté mine in butter with onions and asparagus asparagus isn t actually up yet in my area but it is an early spring crop and so felt like an appropriate complement cooked in this way i couldn t really taste the nettles whatever flavor they may have had was overwhelmed by the onions other greens i ve had such as kale and collards can be quite strong in my opinion unpleasantly so so i don t mind the mildness people claim nettles have all sorts of health benefits but i have my doubts perhaps our ancestors at the end of a long winter eating only what they could store were in genuine need of fresh greens by the time nettles arrived just as sailors at sea were in genuine need of oranges and lemons but it is unusual for someone who shops at a modern grocery store to be deficient in anything but sunlight i conclude that if you re looking for greens and you re okay with picking something that will try to bite you back nettles aren t a bad choice next time i ll try making tea 9 comments bad content vs good february 7 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized memes modernity viral memes so i was reading this interesting article on the journalistic tattletale industry by glenn greenwald recommended by a friend and came across this quote the article itself is about how these people have become censorious hall monitors who go crying to the principal if they think you even breathed a bad word and oliver here is one of these whiny hall monitors demanding that big tech change its algorithms to stop bad faith actors that said oliver here has stumbled onto something interesting all systems are vulnerable to gaming by unscrupulous actors let s look at ecosystems for example here you are a nice innocent rabbit eating grass feeding your bunnies when bam a hawk swoops down and just takes advantage of all your hard work and f ing eats you if i were a rabbit i d be royally pissed for those few seconds before the hawk tears my head off or from a different perspective here you are a good hard working hawk bringing food home to your chicks when some sneaky bastard parasite infects you and starts eating your food here you did all the hard work to catch that food and now that tapeworm is just lying there doing nothing and absorbing your nutrients ask anyone who s ever lived in a planned society actually getting societies to work and be good pleasant places to live in is difficult just look at the issues people had in the soviet union the city of brasilia or any cult even if everyone starts off with good intentions which they often don t things have a habit of going wrong in unexpected ways every society involves planning to some extent even in very simple societies some large scale decisions that affect the whole group have to be made like we are going to the watering hole today or we re going to hunt for game over in that valley instead of this one the soviet union stands as an example of an extensively planned society but many ordinary societies struggle with mundane issues like police bribery or the red tape one of the big problems with discussing cheaters parasites and social defectors is that you have to think about the problem on two levels on the ground level ordinary people have to morally disdain cheaters and defectors and parasites and refuse to work with them they need to view them with disgust and react accordingly because this makes it much harder for cheaters to operate on the planning level you have to abandon the notion of parasites as free willed agents who can just be convinced to behave if you just exhort them and ask why the system creates conditions where cheaters and parasites thrive in the first place for example if you make regulations and red tape so onerous that honest businessmen simply can t operate in the market then you get an extensive black market here the ultimate solution isn t encourage black market merchants to be better people nor exhort ordinary people to avoid black markets though these are still good things to do nor execute the black market merchants but take some of the regulatory burden off honest businessmen so they can turn a profit so if you re concluding that bad content thrives on these platforms a take i agree with though i define bad content differently than oliver does then you need to ask why this bad content is so popular no one designed the algorithms with spread bad content in mind after all personally i m inclined to think that bad content is mostly a side effect of these being systems where you talk listen to a bunch of strangers you don t know them and they don t know you the ordinary consequences of lying to or hurting someone in your community are largely non existent on the internet or vastly distorted and the best solution i ve come up with so far ironically since this is a blog is for most people to avoid spending a lot of time interacting with strangers on the internet if you re addicted to twitter just send rude comments to the right people and they ll do you the service of kicking you off the platform for you limit your facebook to actual real life friends and family if you must use the internet to organize real life events like meetups or hikes or parties for your dog especially once this stupid pandemic is over but keep it grounded in the real love your families value your friends and have some children for goodness sakes modernity selects for those who resist it after all 5 comments avoiding hyperstimuli january 30 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized hyperstimuli are like regular stimuli but turned up to 11 fruit contains naturally occurring fruit sugars which your body craves because sugar is an important energy source and fruit is full of valuable nutrients fruit is a natural stimulus candy is made from a vegetable sugarcane that has had all of the annoying fibrous vegetable part stripped away and been refined down to a pure sugary chemical substance running is normal riding a rollercoaster is not chatting with your friends is a normal social interaction getting a thousand likes on facebook is not most of us have happiness setpoints that we tend to return to after weathering the slings and arrows of fate and fortune some of us tend to be happy people facing misfortune with confidence that things will turn out some of us tend to be dour facing happiness as a trial to be endured until misery returns of course there are exceptions and things that really do radically alter your life i m not starving anymore yay but for most of us most of the time will trend back to our normal moods this implies that the hyperstimuli in your life are not really making you any happier long term you are no happier eating hamburgers and pizza than you would be eating rice and beans because you adjust to the presence of the hyperstimulus and downgrade to treating it like a normal stimulus pizza once a year is a feast pizza once a month is fun pizza every day is monotonous but once your brain is used to processing hyperstimuli like normal stimuli regular stimuli look pale and boring by comparison if you can have ice cream and cookies and hamburgers and pizza for dinner why would you have rice and beans oh sure you know rice and beans are better for you you have some sense that you d weigh a lot less on rice and beans and that you d spend a lot less on food you might even avoid a heart attack abstractly these are all nice things but rice and beans are boring you don t want rice and beans you want pizza of course maybe if you d never started eating hyperstimulating food every day in the first place you d think a good plate of rice with a side of nicely spiced beans was pretty nice 11 comments everyone s a conspiracy theorist now january 14 2021 evolutiontheorist uncategorized internet meme viruses memes viral memes we live in interesting times the internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge understanding and maybe even human harmony instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists don t get hoity toity and claim that it s only those bad guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies the left believes that the country is run by a secret cabal of heterosexual white men whose tentacles reach into every aspect of life from prenatal care to television to incarceration as conspiracies go this one is well established and believed to some degree by nearly everyone on the left millions of dollars have been funneled into university research departments for the purpose of...
|
