How a hypothetical battle between Leonidas’ 300 and Astors 400 would end would entirely depend on how much prep time would be allowed.
Things did change during those 2372 years that lie between both enumerations. Just a couple of hours of shopping would flip the direction of the to be expected massacre.
On Sundays I switch on the wonderful “Blocksite” extension.
For news, twitter, reddit, feedbin, instagram I have the system show me the results of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random instead.
Image is from the font called Sunday. No affiliation, just google image search nudging me along …
On March 12 2002 the Department of Homeland Security started a system to communicate the threat level of Terrorism with a color codes. Until it got replaced 2011 its state got changed 8 times.
During these 3326 days a total of 4 people fell victim in the US to the actions of Islamic Terrorists. Unless I have overlooked something at this comprehensive list these seem to be
Observations with a sample size of 3 are inherently pointless, so it is not worth pointing out, that these 3 incidents fell into the times when the thread level was as its lowest levels.
It is worth to observer that the daily death count from Islamic Terrorism in the USA during this period was 0.0012.
Covid 19 was more than a million times deadlier during most days last week.
GDRP became law in 2016. Its implementation date was 2 years ago. It is easy.
sorry for the victims, all 7 of them
Still: was too good to let is pass by.
An apt illustration of the Republican reign that started 2016.
The term
What meets the eye
could be used to show a rather interesting aspect of our being: A meeting means that both parties make an effort. If it only would be to open the door, having time. There is an effort on both sides. So it is with using our eyes. Specially with our visual sense we give in to the illusion that it would record objectively what is around us. We ignore the fact that it is only a 2degrees wide cone that we can see non blurry. When a magician has skillfully guided it away from where he does the thing we are not supposed to see we are convinced that he did invisible things. He did not, he just made us look elsewhere.
There is allot of beauty in the world that we can see when we reflect on how we use our eyes and give us the time to do so differently.
Da halten sie dann das Grundgesetz hoch. Vielleicht sollten sie den ersten Satz mal lesen:
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar.
Am Ventilator zu liegen ist schon nicht sehr würdevoll.
Das Internet schafft es leider, dass im Grunde wohl nette und vernünftige Menschen von totalen Vollpfosten (die es leider immer gibt und gab, aber zum Glück ja in sehr geringer Menge) von aussen nicht mehr klar zu unterscheiden sind.
Wer da in Berlin gerader mitdemonstriert ist einer von denen.
Specially interesting since allot of things happened between 1776 and 1976. Many of which would have a debt component, like Wars, space exploration, infra structure buildout, etc.
Gemüter erhitzten sich. Meister Isegrim war wieder da. Aus dem Osten. Arme Tiere reissend. Oder eben Natur die dann wahr und heilig ist. Menschen konnten sich nicht einig werden. Viele waren aufgebracht. Und es schien so wichtig zu sein wie man sich den wilden Vierbeinern gegenüber verhalten sollte.
Und dann war es plötzlich kein Thema mehr. Nicht das die Wolflosigkeit der letzen 150 Jahre wieder hergestellt wurde, oder das intesive Studium der Gebrüder Grimm zum gesellschaftlichen Konsens geführt hätte.
Nein: In der Schublade “bedrohliche Natur” machte sich einfach ein andere Neophyt breit. Und damit ist der Wolf dann kein Thema mehr.
Earlier I was claiming that Facebook had not added anything to culture. Not true: It gave us The Dress.
We could have learned from that even the sense that we trust the most and consider to be the most objective one can raise two interpretations.
We could have leaned that ‘those people are wrong’ is not as strong of a statement as we might think. Of course there is a reality, and of course it matters how far we are away from it with the stuff that jumps around in our heads. We should have learned that what jumps around in our heads is not automatically and always the right view on things.
We didn’t learn. We elected a reality TV star as President. And we get the result in 150,000 Covid deaths.