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InequalityGodzilla posted:See when someone said they didn't have street names I thought it was a pretty good idea. Then someone else popped in and said they don't even have street numbers so there was that good idea gone. I kind of figured they must have some ingenious system but Nope! Numbered by build order. As someone who get's lost easily I imagine traveling in Japan to be my own personal hell. Street names did exist during the Occupation, though. They were abandoned in the mid-fifties, once the Allies had left.
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berzerker posted:Not really. Go gather the final-year PhD students from the top ~5 history schools, have them elevator pitch their dissertation topics, choose the top 24 (or however many episodes/year) most telegenic ones. Infinite free material, and it's going to be a lot more interesting than you might imagine. There's a podcast similar to what I'm describing I've listened to lately (https://historicaloutreach.blogspot.com) that's like that for UC Berkeley history PhDs, and there are other ones for Cambridge and other places. Episodes include relations between Vikings and Charlemagne the Great, Protestants as a force for liberal policies (pro-UN, pro-Civil Rights, for progressive taxation, etc) in the 1940s-50s US, countries trying to steal each others' industrial technology. Those would make interesting TV, even if most of the lesson each week was just "look how insane the past is and how different yet similar these people are to us." There's no more a shortage of great history stories to tell than there are fiction stories. So like Drunk History, but sober. Not that it's a bad idea at all, and since I've upped my playback speed to 1.8x in Pocketcasts I've got room for one more podcast 
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Samurai Sanders posted:A few of the main streets in every town I went to had names, the rest is a different system that frankly is not THAT much worse than having arbitrarily named streets going all over the place. It might sound dystopian to say you live in apartment 305 in building 2, block T4 but dammit if it wouldn't be organized! FAUXTON posted:Not that it's a bad idea at all, and since I've upped my playback speed to 1.8x in Pocketcasts I've got room for one more podcast
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berzerker posted:There's no more a shortage of great history stories to tell than there are fiction stories. Some are even better than fiction, because actual history is insane. It makes me sad that all we get are 'manufactured reality show garbage drama #562' instead of 'the Ottoman Empire used to have an executioner who would chase you through a hedge maze. If you reached the end of the maze, you were free. If you weren't, he'd loving strangle you to death. Only three people ever reached the end of the maze. The executioner was called the Head Gardener.' That's what a world spanning empire used to execute people and it wasn't for comedy, it was serious loving business. Much more interesting than some dumb hicks who live in the mountains.
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Dapper Dan posted:Some are even better than fiction, because actual history is insane. It makes me sad that all we get are 'manufactured reality show garbage drama #562' instead of 'the Ottoman Empire used to have an executioner who would chase you through a hedge maze. If you reached the end of the maze, you were free. If you weren't, he'd loving strangle you to death. Only three people ever reached the end of the maze. The executioner was called the Head Gardener.' That's what a world spanning empire used to execute people and it wasn't for comedy, it was serious loving business. Much more interesting than some dumb hicks who live in the mountains.  That is the most  job known to man, I'm pretty sure
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Dapper Dan posted:Some are even better than fiction, because actual history is insane. It makes me sad that all we get are 'manufactured reality show garbage drama #562' instead of 'the Ottoman Empire used to have an executioner who would chase you through a hedge maze. If you reached the end of the maze, you were free. If you weren't, he'd loving strangle you to death. Only three people ever reached the end of the maze. The executioner was called the Head Gardener.' That's what a world spanning empire used to execute people and it wasn't for comedy, it was serious loving business. Much more interesting than some dumb hicks who live in the mountains. Bizarrely similar to what a future civilization might say about our idiot hicks on reality TV. 
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Jul 27, 2014 09:27
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InequalityGodzilla posted:Do all of your podcasts sound like Alvin and the chipmunks now? Serious question. No. It doesn't affect the pitch. It does something like removing bits so you're literally hearing the same pitch but for less time. It makes certain music sound a little odd (specifically things with long tones like classical music) but for spoken word it doesn't change anything.
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Well, other than that everyone talks fast as gently caress, but yeah if you're at a crunch for podcast time upping the speed is pretty solid.
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Game of Thrones ain't got poo poo on real history.
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I will join the chorus supporting your effort posts. they are a good catalog of why I hate this loving country.GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:Game of Thrones ain't got poo poo on real history. game of thrones has dragons real history does not point game of thrones
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Game of Thrones has based its most famous scenes on actual events, so. Gurm also gets to wrap it nicely together and add dragons, so. Dude likes his Middle-Age English history.
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Joementum posted:Somerset, Kentucky had a problem: the small fishing town had too high gas prices and for some weird reason The Market wasn't keeping the price down through competition, so the Mayor came up with a solution: open a public gas station with the price pegged to the regional average. Needless to say, not all of the local merchants are impressed. Confession time: this is my hometown. The entire county's gas infrastructure is owned by a single wealthy individual, who also happens to bankroll half the town. The socialized gas station is an attempt by the mayor to break the gas baron's hold on the political scene. The wealthy gas station owner has threatened to give the mayor's political opponent in this year's election a million dollars if he promises to close the city gas pumps. The gas station is also, hilariously, working perfectly; gas came down 30 cents per gallon the day it opened.
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ufarn posted:Game of Thrones has based its most famous scenes on actual events, so. Gurm also gets to wrap it nicely together and add dragons, so. I know, and nothing he wrote ever came close to the sheer  that was the European MA.
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Dapper Dan posted:Some are even better than fiction, because actual history is insane. It makes me sad that all we get are 'manufactured reality show garbage drama #562' instead of 'the Ottoman Empire used to have an executioner who would chase you through a hedge maze. If you reached the end of the maze, you were free. If you weren't, he'd loving strangle you to death. Only three people ever reached the end of the maze. The executioner was called the Head Gardener.' That's what a world spanning empire used to execute people and it wasn't for comedy, it was serious loving business. Much more interesting than some dumb hicks who live in the mountains. Can we replace lethal injection with this? We already can't get the chemicals and then we'd at least make the executioner earn it. Also, put it on PPV.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Confession time: this is my hometown. Correct me if I am wrong, but socialism involves the state owning the means of production. A publicly owned gas station is not in and of itself a "socialist" enterprise, especially since it has private competition. This is a great example of how government is at times required to create a fair marketplace. Opening a publicly owned station wasn't the only option but there was presumably a reason that nobody else had opened a private station.
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SavageBastard posted:Correct me if I am wrong, but socialism involves the state owning the means of production. A publicly owned gas station is not in and of itself a "socialist" enterprise, especially since it has private competition. Probably get kneecapped if you open a station there without the protection of the city government. When the entire infrastructure is owned by one man, there tend to be physical restraints, not market restraints.
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anonumos posted:Probably get kneecapped if you open a station there without the protection of the city government. When the entire infrastructure is owned by one man, there tend to be physical restraints, not market restraints. Or he'd just pay you off or threaten your other interests. I'm not blind to the possibilities of what those reasons may be I just can't speak to the specific facts of why nobody has done it.
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SavageBastard posted:Correct me if I am wrong, but socialism involves the state owning the means of production. Wouldn't that also make most absolute monarchies socialist as gently caress?
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I am no expert in the subject, but I think the name for that is state capitalism, or command economy?
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SavageBastard posted:Correct me if I am wrong, but socialism involves the state owning the means of production. A publicly owned gas station is not in and of itself a "socialist" enterprise, especially since it has private competition. THE FREE MARKET HAS DECIDED that the gas is too drat high. I've been listening to a lot of MF Doom, and he has a bunch of Fantastic Four interstitials. One of them includes Dr Doom exploiting some capitalist moron to take over the world. When did the whole notion of capitalists = geniuses come back into vogue?
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Phone posted:When did the whole notion of capitalists = geniuses come back into vogue? Since they could pay people to trumpet their achievement, go on about their brilliance and the colossal girth and heft of their penises? So a long time. I'm always amused at how a friend of mine who was mildly conservative (one of those socially liberal, economically conservative types) started working as an auditing accountant for Ernst&Young, and after six months he was abosulotely terrified at the things he saw routinely. "They have no clue about what they do and the poo poo they pull. They are morons. Well-connected morons that can pay others to pretend to be morons too." If you have any self-honesty left, a dip into the pool of raw capitalism works better at making you a raging liberal than all the Chomsky in the world.
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Phone posted:When did the whole notion of capitalists = geniuses come back into vogue? Deserved or not, it was probably when they were the last man standing out of the competing economic philosophies in the last century. One particular strain of economic thought that they sent to the junkyard is rather popular in this subforum, I hear. 
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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DeusExMachinima posted:Deserved or not, it was probably when they were the last man standing out of the competing economic philosophies in the last century. One particular strain of economic thought that they sent to the junkyard is rather popular in this subforum, I hear. Libertarian cryptofascism? I thought we purged that, but then you posted.
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Sephyr posted:If you have any self-honesty left, a dip into the pool of raw capitalism works better at making you a raging liberal than all the Chomsky in the world. [ASK] me about how working in private equity turned me into a socialist
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I appreciate new threads each month because I can never keep caught up, and it gives me a point of reference to give up and start over.
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Phone posted:THE FREE MARKET HAS DECIDED that the gas is too drat high. Since the conservative movement took hold 40 years ago? Also, don't get lost in the "it's true because it rhymes!" of rap lyrics. I loves me some hiphop but don't confuse compelling artist expression with worthwhile economic and social policy. AreWeDrunkYet posted:[ASK] me about how working in private equity turned me into a socialist Those who can go yachting. Those who can't go socialist. SavageBastard fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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zoux posted:Does anyone have that chart of incarceration rate by country except it breaks out individual US states? Three days late, but here
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Confession time: this is my hometown. I love it when private enterprise has to face real competition, and they bitch and moan about how unfair that is that they must compete in a free market. The only moral monopoly is my monopoly.
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Finally, the gun ban in DC has been struck down. How come any gun bans exist at all in this country anymore? Is this the middle ages? Has literally no one learned that gun laws equal lost elections? The one thing democrats shouldn't have done after taking over congress and the white house was go after guns, and instead they went after guns immediately and lost the majority in congress and in Colorado. Why are people so dumb when there's obvious constitutional human rights at risk?
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anne frank fanfic posted:Finally, the gun ban in DC has been struck down. How come any gun bans exist at all in this country anymore? Is this the middle ages? Has literally no one learned that gun laws equal lost elections? The one thing democrats shouldn't have done after taking over congress and the white house was go after guns, and instead they went after guns immediately and lost the majority in congress and in Colorado. Why are people so dumb when there's obvious constitutional human rights at risk?
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Fried Chicken posted:Remember how, back when it was originally advertised, the Discovery Channel was basically going to be Cosmos style shows educating people on physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, astronomy, and cosmology 24/7? And the History Channel was going to be educational documentaries about the forgotten parts of history like the Hanseatic League or the Irish Banking Crisis, and virtual tours of historical significance to places most people couldn't go, like the Pazyryk tombs and the statues of the Gupta Empire? Because in the end they exist to make money and, just like TLC learned with Here Comes Redneck Hillbillies: Georgia Edition, more people want to watch that crazy bullshit than actual informative shows, and their ratings are much higher now as a result. Joementum posted:Somerset, Kentucky had a problem: the small fishing town had too high gas prices and for some weird reason The Market wasn't keeping the price down through competition, so the Mayor came up with a solution: open a public gas station with the price pegged to the regional average. Needless to say, not all of the local merchants are impressed. Gas prices have controls on them too I thought? I know when major storms have hit some gas stations tried to price gouge people and got fined heavily for it. Jagchosis posted:I will join the chorus supporting your effort posts. they are a good catalog of why I hate this loving country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon We have dragons too, even if they didn't get to go around wrecking armies in the War of the Roses.  Though in ASOIAF these would be more like the wyrms that lived in the Valerian mines and volcanic areas I guess. Besides, while ASOIAF had dragons it didn't have Satan Jesus and his Devil Disciples like FFT did. KIM JONG TRILL posted:Can we replace lethal injection with this? We already can't get the chemicals and then we'd at least make the executioner earn it. Also, put it on PPV. The Running Man called and wants its plot back.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Gas prices have controls on them too I thought? I know when major storms have hit some gas stations tried to price gouge people and got fined heavily for it. I think there are laws limiting the number of price changes per day.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Gas prices have controls on them too I thought? I know when major storms have hit some gas stations tried to price gouge people and got fined heavily for it. Anti-gouging laws during emergencies are pretty much the extent of price controls on gasoline. Those vary state by state like most things in the US though. Once in a while the federal government will release some of the strategic fuel reserve if it appears that short-term factors (read: middle east instability) are responsible for higher prices, but for the most part prices are market drive + taxes.
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GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:cryptofascism So is this like an Illuminati thing, where it's a secret but they're still in charge? Samurai Sanders posted:To celebrate, people should carry handguns around in front of the White House and other government buildings. I am sure a good time will be had by all. DC Circuit Court posted:As the Seventh Circuit stated in Moore v. Madigan, 702 F.3d 933 (7th Cir. 2012), “[a] blanket prohibition on carrying gun[s] in public prevents a person from defending himself anywhere except inside his home; and so substantial a curtailment of the right of armed self-defense requires a greater showing of justification than merely that the public might benefit on balance from such a curtailment, though there is no proof that it would.” Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional. And until they get a formal carry law passed, it's unregulated (outside of secure buildings ofc). If any public officer tries to stop you, it's a civil rights suit! 
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DeusExMachinima posted:So is this like an Illuminati thing, where it's a secret but they're still in charge? As I understand it, cryptofacism is basically "thinking fascists are evil while simultaneously holding values that are perfectly in line with fascism."
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McDowell posted:I think there are laws limiting the number of price changes per day. In nearly all states, gas stations are limited to changing their price once day, occasionally some states allow changes twice per day. But they don't have much regulation beyond that, other than restrictions on how much prices can change during and around declared emergencies.
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