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u/ObnoxiousFactczecher · 0 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

> Ethiopian emissaries did pass through Bohemia on their way north at one point

And any citation of that...?

>If it's referring to trade between solely central and west Europe, it's right, but between the near-east and central Europe Bohemia was a logical stop.

Bohemia is Central Europe. And as Sedlar states,

>"Bohemia lay aside from the main long-distance routes through Central Europe, which in medieval times were linked to the Rhine or the Danube and their tributaries. This meant that its foreign trade was largely regional in scope; and Prague lacked the commercial importance of Vienna, Nuernberg, or Regensburg, where transit trade played a major role."

> ...

> "The kingdom of Bohemia was unfavorably situated to profit from staple rights, since the most important medieval transit routes bypassed its territory. The chief international thoroughfares which crossed in Prague--those from Nuernberg into Hungary and from Regensburg to Wroclaw-were of only secondary importance."

So no, hardly "a logical stop". Of "Central/West Europe and Venice, the Kipchak Khanate, Constantinople, and a little thing called the Ottoman Empire", the only route actually passing through Bohemia is the one ending or beginning in Bohemia. Now of course, unless you're insane, if you're going to the east, you actually start south and board a boat in the Adriatic. It's like three times faster.

> And as I pointed out, Ethiopian emissaries did pass through Bohemia on their way north at one point.

"At one point"? That's a rather strong appeal to chance, don't you think? In a land of a few million people, there was an Ethiopian emissary at one point - wonderful, so the average chance for a Medieval Bohemian to meet an exotic foreigner once in his life just went up from 0% to 0.02%! Now that's progress! That would perfectly justify his inclusion in the game! /s

> The level of stubbornness people display on this issue is interesting.

This I agree with; you are indeed exceedingly stubborn.

u/Thameus · 7 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

> e.g. they both use negging but is there a version where it is way more harsh? also, are pick up artists more socially acceptable than the red pillers

"Negging" is a specific PUA technique from the "Mystery Method" that is meant to "break through the bitch shield" and convince a woman that you are (in essence) sincere about engaging her socially and not just messing around. This is perhaps the most positive way to phrase that. PUAs "play a numbers game" in order to engage women that, as they see it, "want to be picked up".

A PUA is on a mission to get himself laid; whether or not that technique leads to something more substantive exceeds the scope of the technique. The general consensus is that these are "Dark Side of the Force" tactics.

Whether this is more socially acceptable than the red-pillers' deeper issues with power and sexual politics probably depends on your perspective.

u/KaikoLeaflock · -21 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

To add to this, 25% of Americans are Evangelical or similar faiths. Since the 1980's after the Fundamental Baptist preacher, Falwell, created a coalition of both Fundamentalists and Evangelicals to infiltrate society and politics to recreate the US under theocracy, many of these people have either been actively seeking or have not been opposed to a Christian theocracy. It is not wholly uncommon to see members of this 25% worshiping politicians or training their followers how to vote and what to support.

Edit: Don’t get mad at the messenger. This is all from their own mouths. Obviously there’s bias for religion here . . .

Edit2: This sort of proves the point that Americans, whether they are Christian or not, give the benefit of the doubt to religion, regardless of stakes. I challenge you to disprove anything I said: Falwell created the Moral Majority, created a religious coalition with the express interest to re enter society and elect republicans, and here’s evangelicals worshiping Bush.

Here is a book about Falwell that’s probably as honest as you can get (thank god for modern anthropology).

u/WizardTrembyle · 2 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Nothing about the work itself was really all that interesting - we wrote pretty bog standard fleet management, revenue management, and data warehousing software. I do basically the same things now, but for the rental car industry, there are a lot of parallels. What was interesting about this job specifically was learning the history and seeing how much work goes into managing a fleet of millions of containers, which we produced in-house for quality control purposes. It wasn't something I'd ever really thought about before.

I always enjoy learning more about stuff that's normally taken for granted - without intermodal shipping, we wouldn't have the global economy. This book was really eye opening. Malcolm McLean was one of the biggest innovators in the history of the transportation industry.

u/SilverwingedOther · 69 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

When you have a book for kids like this existing: Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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...Can you really be surprised that he's got a bit of an ego?

u/thevoiceofzeke · 2 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

One of their former writers, Ben Thompson, wrote a pretty great book called Badass. He's also the maintainer of badassoftheweek, which used to be great but is pretty well dead now. Not sure what he's doing nowadays, but that's about as much "fame" as most writers will ever achieve.

u/TunerOfTuna · 9 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

I recommend reading The Plantegents it’s an easy to read book that isn’t that dry most of the time.

u/kiwipride · 1 pointr/OutOfTheLoop

Someone made a "Do You Like Bread" T Shirt lol https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HYSY1RR

u/InterPunct · 3 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

The Eleven Nations of North America (2012) is very similar, and by it's greater number more granular on the topic. As a New Yorker (New Netherlands) I can see its differentiation from New England (Yankeedom.)

u/wristcontrol · 2 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Hijacking the top answer to add that All Out War by Tom Shipman is an excellent read if you want a deep dive into what was going on behind the scenes in the months leading up to the vote. Much has happened since its publication, and if I recall correctly, there's a revised edition out, containing updates from 2017-2018.

u/obiwanspicoli · 1 pointr/OutOfTheLoop

Also look for The Annotated Scripts. Particularly with A New Hope you can see how radically different the story was and how it changed and evolved. In the first draft Han Solo was a green skinned alien!!

The book is basically a transcript of the movies but with foot notes that provide background information and insight into earlier drafts.

u/SaibaManbomb · -1 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

If it's the same Simon Baron-Cohen I'm thinking of, then he doesn't support this memo's arguments. Baron-Cohen explicitly points to biology as a starting point for differences between the sexes, and advocated for the ability of social and cultural change to erase this over maturation. He definitely would disagree with the broad, sweeping generalizations made, too: he constantly points out the 'female' brain is not inherent to only females, the 'male' brain not inherent to males, etcetera. Channeling his work to justify bias against women in the workplace is a very unfortunate distortion.

u/ReservoirDog316 · 1 pointr/OutOfTheLoop

> I don't get it, why isn't she really writing anymore?

She'll basically never run out of money with what she did and it's really hard to make up new stuff. No reason to rush.

Having said that, she somewhat recently wrote this.

u/Psyladine · 3 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

You need to get your head out of your ass mate. They don't want to "meet the left halfway", they aren't interested in dialogue, or compromise, or getting along.

They would glady curb stomp you and piss on your corpse except it's just slightly against their favor right now. But every cringing waffling "surely we can talk through our differences!" type empowers them.

Since you enjoy edification, pick up a book next time.

u/OnlyDeanCanLayEggs · 30 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Answer:

Summarizing sites like 4chan in a reddit post is really hard.

"This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" is a pretty fantastic gonzo-journalism/ethnography about online trolling culture circa 2012 that dives deep into the culture of 4chan users and other outlines of "troll culture".

I recommend it because I think it gives a better answer about the essence of those sites than is possible in this thread.

But to attempt to provide something in the way of an answer, I'll summarize the book's ultimate hypothesis:

  • Many of the most prominent posters to 4chan (and other similar sites, but I'm going to call them all "4chan" for ease of writing) compartmentalize their lives in "online troll" and "offline person". This allows them the ability to act in an anti-social or even sociopathic way online without suffering cognitive dissonance.
  • In the author's assessment, these online trolls put on the "Mask" of the cross-cultural culture hero "The Trickster". The Trickster has different forms in different cultures, but one of the common cross-cultural similarities in Trickster stories is that the Trickster breaks cultural norms and taboos to reveal something.
  • When viewed through this lens, online trolling can often be see as a way to reveal something. Through trolling, the victim is forced to confront their assumptions and values about a situation. The troll is asking them to see it in a new light, often to simply revel in the absurdity of existence in an Existential or even Nihilistic philosophical lens.
  • Other times, trolling victims are chosen precisely because they build themselves up as an authority, or some other type of important person or authority figure. Cross-Culturally, one of The Trickster's roles is to humble the powerful or arrogant. This type of trolling will often focus on the contradictions in the victims stances. The Trickster reveals.
  • All of this is amoral and largely unethical. The author struggles with making a value judgement around online trolling. Much of it is very cruel. But it intentionally exists outside of cultural norms and accepted behavior.
u/zedlx · 6 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Gators can't chew. They usually kill their prey by doing the "death roll" and drowning them, and then stashing them in a lair somewhere under a river bank. After a few days, the decomposition process softens the meat enough for the gator to eat it.

Read about it in a children's book, of all places.

u/IntegrityNotIncluded · 72 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Yikes. Literally none of this is accurate (as demonstrated by you using The Sun as a resource).

  1. The child supposedly molested in Monaco was Jordan Chandler, who isn't part of Leaving Neverland.
  2. Gavin and Star Arvizo are the two children who accused Jackson of supplying them with alcohol and pornography. (Your Smoking Gun link erroneously lists them as siblings of Frank Cascio, who categorically denied saying anything in his 2011 book.)
    1. As to the first claim, no witnesses ever saw Jackson serve alcohol to the minors, though some (witnesses Rijo Jackson and Simone Jackson, bodyguard Shane Meredith) have caught the Arvizo boys stealing bottles of wine from Jackson's wine cellar in his absence.
    2. As to the second claim, a search warrant of Jackson's house located mountains of adult, legal, heterosexual pornography, which was promptly spun into "grooming" charges. On one occasion, Star explicitly identified a magazine Jackson had apparently shown to him and his brother, despite said magazine having been issued months after they'd last seen him.
  3. Descriptions of Jackson's penis by the aforesaid Jordan Chandler did not match.
    1. Jordan claimed Jackson was circumcised, which he wasn't. (Arguments are often made that an uncircumcised penis can appear to be circumcised when erect, but given that Jordan had supposedly seen Jackson's genitalia "so many times and from every possible angle" [page 210], you'd think he'd know.)
    2. Dr. Richard Strick, a medical professional hired by the authorities to attend the strip search, was never shown Jordan's description and was only told afterwards that it was a match.
    3. Correctly identifying distinct marks or disfigurements on Jackson's naked body would constitute probable cause for the LAPD to file charges against Jackson, yet they never did.
    4. According to Jordan's uncle Raymond Chandler, Jordan offered a second description to family attorney Larry Feldman, which apparently required extended periods of refinement and adjustments before they "eventually arrived at" [page 210] one that matched.
    5. Prior to the search, Feldman stated that given the sporadic nature of Jackson's skin disorder, "anything [Jordan] says is irrelevant" because "if he's right he's right, and if he's wrong, we've got a simple explanation!" [pages 202-03].
    6. Feldman filed a claim that posed the potential of having the photographs of Jackson's penis barred from evidence.
    7. During the 1994 grand jury trial, authorities were "attempting to determine whether Jackson has done anything to alter his appearance so that it does not match a description provided to them by the alleged victim," which they logistically wouldn't otherwise do.
  4. No child porn was found at Neverland. Authorities refuted that claim years ago.
  5. Authorities confiscated 26 photography books from a library of thousands, three of which — The Boy, Boys Will Be Boys, and In Search of Youth Beauty — contained photos of nude children in non-sexual and non-explicit fashion. While questionable, it isn't illegal, especially considering the other photography books contained explicit forms of nudity and sexuality with adult men and women. Such material is the only vague link to child pornography found at Jackson's house: an impromptu November 2003 raid and seizure of Jackson's personal items, including computers and various safes, found absolutely nothing.
    1. Also, care to offer a source that these books were located in a secure filing cabinet? I can't seem to find such claims anywhere in the 2003-05 court documents.

      This is why it's important that people read the actual court transcripts and interviews instead of relying on tabloids and half-assed documentaries.

      EDIT: Silver! Hell yeah! Thank you!
u/shadowsweep · -18 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

Incels are at the_donald, rDrama, alt-right, 4chan, redpill, mgtow, mra

 

rHapas are for Eurasians born of racist white fathers and self hating mothers.

 

rAznIdentity is for combating western racism. such as

www.halfasian.org

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles,blogs,forums/anti-Chinese-persecution-in-the-USA-history-timeline.htm

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles,blogs,forums/chinese-in-britain-history-timeline.htm

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles,blogs,forums/hollywood-asian-stereotypes.htm

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles,blogs,forums/not-racist-just-goofy-squint-eye-faces.htm

http://www.kulturemedia.org/

 

Cambodia

http://www.amazon.com/Sideshow-Kissinger-Nixon-Destruction-Cambodia/dp/0671835254/

 

Laos

Hiding America’s War Crimes in Laos | http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/2715

 

Vietnam

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/1250045061/

http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Program-Americas-Forbidden-Bookshelf-ebook/dp/B00KGMIW6Q/

 

Korea

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Korean-1950-1951-Nonconformist/dp/0316817708/

 

Philippines

http://www.amazon.com/Benevolent-Assimilation-American-Philippines-1899-1903/dp/0300030819/

 

China

● China’s Rise, Fall, and Re-Emergence as a Global Power | http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/03/chinas-rise-fall-and-re-emergence-as-a-global-power/

● USA’s warfare against China ½ | http://www.voltairenet.org/article177063.html

 

India

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities