Jejej, the Portuguese seem to like declaring their own version of things as a bigger category than they are. They call Portuguese a language instead of a dialect, and they made up the word cachaca for Portuguese rum. :)
Jejej, the covid scam is made perfectly for the Chinese communists. It uses face masks that people there wore anyways, it sounds vaguely scientific, and it can be used to fool millions of people into obedience.
Interesting, apparently the fingers don't have muscles, instead being controlled by the hands. I wouldn't have guessed. And finger control is one of the finest advances of human evolution.
The Russians are fighting a twenty-first century war with twentieth-century technology and first-century ideology. :)
Last night we had about two inches of rain, inside the house. :)
You can justify pretty much anything. Nobody's gonna care in fifty or a hundred years. Most people don't even care now. :)
A bandaid on your knuckle's a good prop. I cut myself last night by accident and put on a bandaid. Today I realized while shopping that people who noticed probably assumed I punched something or someone. :)
I like spiced rum more than regular rum. Makes sense. I like spiced food more than regular food.
"Decarbonization" plans wound up with Western European countries buying tons of fossil fuels (natural gas) from Russia and supporting state terrorism.
How to decode the left-wing media: "far right = right", "moderate = far left". :)
Seems like Ukraine is no longer afraid of Russia, has defeated them. Now picking the fascist militants off like losers. Russia seems seriously outgunned, thanks to their conservative idiocracy. Many of the regular Russian people are victims of the Rascists as much as Ukrainians are.
I think one of the few things Russian politicians had going for them was intimidation. Now that they're losing a war the politicians seem less intimidating.
Women are Potemkin villages. :)
Girlfriend (n.): someone you rent for a while to have sex with ;)
Instead of having leftists and rightists destroying societies, couldn't we just have decent people? :)
Russian liberals haven't fared too well, under the tsars or commies or fascists.
If Russia had managed to take over Ukraine according to plan, the Russian politicians by now would probably have strengthened their hand and killed off the Ukrainian resistance. Now the Russian politicians face serious weakness and threats to their own lives.
Here's an idea for a clock: one global clock, without any time zones or daylight savings. For example, if it's 9 AM in New York City, it's also 9 AM in Paris or Tokyo. You don't have to calculate different time zones or have any other confusion. People just have different typical waking hours, e.g. in NYC maybe it's normal to work from 3-11 AM while in Tokyo maybe it's normal to work from 3-11 PM or whatever. Easy! :)
Global time!
Imagine if sports were a bit more like war, and you could have teams start a game with different numbers of players or different types of equipment from each other...
Russia vs. Ukraine is not a fair fight, but in the opposite direction of what one would've thought.
Sustainability (n.): the desperate bid to deny the mortality of things. :) See also: circular economy.
Looks like Russia has a less free society and thus a crappier military than the West.
Let's use evolution to improve our living experiences! :)
What's useful? Things that make subjective experiences more desirable, I think. Whether directly or indirectly. Is that what defines a use? Something wanted? That's my current opinion.
What's a term for "lover of positive experiences"? I.e., instead of "lover of figuring out how to attain positive experiences" (philosopher), "lover of actually having or creating positive experiences"? Or is that the same and needlessly philosophical? ;)
Nuke school and let's have sex class instead. :)
What seemed so new and exotic to me only two and a half months ago when I arrived in Curacao, now seems old and familiar. :) e.g. Indonesian foods, the lay of the land, etc.
I think caffeine stirs up sexual and pro-social thoughts?
Idea: photoshop Rembrandt nerdily trying to paint like one of those modern painters who splatter paint on the canvas. :)
Girls just wanna have fun, but women want money. :)
Shit, the Russian fascists look like dogs now. Is there a deadpool on Putin's political life?
Viva la libertad!!!!!!!!! :)
A successful politician is someone who screwed over their society. ;)
A useful response to most of what's published in the news media or said by politicians: "Are you deceiving or deceived?"
In five or ten years, will Russians be driving around in clunky old gas cars while people in other countries use electric cars or e-bikes?
Things can look really different with time. Agricultural people probably really hated rats, way more than people do now, for threatening their livelihood. Maybe now we should be thankful for rats, without which humans may not have domesticated cats? :)
I think Putin read 1984 as an instruction manual. :)
Most website upgrades seem to be downgrades.
Throw out the failures of the bast, build new failures for the future! ;)
I guess Russian politicians got used to being seen as one of the two main players during the Soviet Union. Now that Russia's just another second-tier country it seems like they're "on tilt", embittered.
Take the chances!
Exciting that Aruba's coming up this month! In just a week and a half! If things go well! :)
Can't wait to go to a new island. Feeling massively relieved to have largely if not completely recovered from the illness that I had for much of my time in Curacao. Wouldn't want to get stuck with a flight while sick. Also as a general health thing!
Infographic: Map of the brain, with various regions labeled as "what you're biologically programmed to believe", "what your parents taught you", "what you learned in school", "what society told you", and a small area for "what you figured out on your own". :)
That could be read as a compliment or an insult to social influences. I meant it as indicating how most of people's thoughts are crowded out by external influences that don't necessarily reflect their own best interests.
Each day's exciting now, with the countdown to Aruba! :)
It looks like the failed Russian invasion of Ukraine may cost them many billions of dollars. Meanwhile it looks like Ukraine is saving its sovereignty and after reconstruction probably many billions of dollars.
The political cycle: Conservatives take charge and beef up the military, which they then use ineffectively. Liberals take over and overspend, ruining the economy. :)
The COVIDiocy on rampant display in China is a good illustration of what the COVIDiocy in the rest of the world accomplished: harming society. It's not like the threat of the COVID virus itself ever exceeded the negligible effects now, so the draconian/fascist policies caused more problems than they prevented. We can see the same still happening in China, where more people are dying and suffering from Chicom fascism than from the benign COVID virus.
China's screwing over their own society and economy with insane COVID fascism. Free people can work and travel and live. Locked-down serfs are stuck under the jackboot of their politicians.
Renewables may get more investment this year than oil and gas, unlike previous years!
In practically any country, there's such a large amount of political messing around with the economy that free markets are a bit of a fiction.
So if people are gonna claim so-called "positive rights" like health care, how about the right to sex? Sex is more important for human psychology than medical assistance, and doctors are often wrong whereas sex is generally valuable. Let's have a right to sex.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already killed more people than a nuclear attack. While a nuclear strike would still of course be terrible, I think that reveals how terrible this event already is.
Protein, caffeine, creatine... That's a lot of teens! :)
So exciting! Only a week to go until Aruba!
A bit anxious about the travel itself, given all the COVID fascism plus the usual difficulties around travel, but hopefully should be fine.
Stoked to see another new island! Probably a bit cloudy when I get there, like here in Curacao. Also probably quite similar culture and geography, given how close these islands are together. Still, each island has its own charms, and I'm looking forward to some adventures on Aruba!
Viva la libertad!!!!!!!!!! :)