I worked with a bunch of Roma on the hop farm and they were honestly the best people I've ever worked with. There was a really strong culture of sharing food and Jan found me a banger of a VW Passat for only £500. Jan would disappear off into the woods every lunch and forage tons of cob nuts and apples and we'd all chow down together. Farm owner treated them like shit though which was fucking typical.

The Young Ones is a classic for me for some good old Thatcher bashing now and again. Doesn't really do much critiquing of capitalism in general but it's well worth a watch.

From my understanding MOND has some pretty big hurdles to overcome as a model. When speaking to my PHD friend he still feels it's hammering away at a model to further fit observations; it might prove useful but is certainly no smoking gun for us to wave a flag that we're onto something. It's a 40 year old concept that hasn't born much fruit yet.

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1112.1320/

Yeah there's some ideas about there clearly being a difference in that the brain isn't feed-forward like these algorithms are. The book I Am a Strange Loop is a great read on the topic of consciousness. But I bet these models hit a massive plateau as the pump them full of bigger, shitter data. Who knows if we'll ever achieve any actual parity between human and ai experience.

Am I remembering right where William and Kate tried to visit somewhere with one of these bullshit tours and were told to fuck off pretty much?

Dependable Exploitable

See: Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Brazil, Cuba.. the list goes on

Hey that's just me! Each to there own, I'm not a metal head if you didn't guess lol

System of a Down, Hed PE, Born of Osiris, Lamb of God are some picks from me

Yeah this is really beautiful and enlightening, it's hard to deprogram yourself from this shit as you're spoon fed so much stuff from the get-go it's hard to reassess what's different forms of wester kompromat.

Many apologies upon a reread that's a lot more clear I think I just mistook the context of how westerners espouse about these issues to Thomas and I'm wound up in these same biases.

Thanks a billion, probably more than a hint I should do the leg work lol. I'll edit in anything I find interesting!

Thanks for explaining it to me a lot more clearly, you have any good resources to read into this about? Any authors you'd recommend? This is a massive blind spot in my political knowledge.

Look I'm genuinely trying to get what your argument is there's no need to be so combative because I used the wrong word for that island and the people inside of it. I don't think I'm being obtuse or anything, just you presented a tautological argument without any evidence so I don't know what I'm supposed to read into.

I'm really sorry I'm not quite following what you're saying. Taiwan are claiming all of China?

I think the question is surely should or does Taiwan want independence rather than pointing to the top of a Wikipedia page right?

Thank you so much that offers some great jump off points for some reading. I'm definitely too uniformed to have an opinion here lol.

Maybe I'm missing something but how does this legitimise the claim that China has over Taiwan? Surely you could use the same line of reasoning with Israel right? Genuinely curious btw as I've only ever dipped my toe into the history of this stuff. I feel like I'd like to look at any data gathered about how people living in Taiwan feel about this.

Wow that was definitely an enlightening read on the etymology, so the word was fucked from the get go haha..

Sean O’Conaill (1976) - 'I would not suggest such a thing were it not for the Whatabouts. These are the people who answer every condemnation of the Provisional I.R.A. with an argument to prove the greater immorality of the “enemy”, and therefore the justice of the Provisionals’ cause: “What about Bloody Sunday, internment, torture, force feeding, army intimidation?”. '

I believe that was the original intent of the word, just wondering if it's essentially defunct because of how it's used now.

Another casualty of the American market.