Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Davino]

By this point The Blog is my daily best media consumption. I just had the the insight 

[Ash55]

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When you die and go to reincarnate, God asks you, Easy mode or hardcore mode this time?

If you selected hardcore mode, You get Syria in 2010 before the civil war, North Korea, or saudi Arabia harem as female LOL

[TheAlchemist]

Check this out:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-africa-sucks-geographically

It's a fascinating video which highlights an important piece of the puzzle; a piece that is often forgotten or ignored. lots of accurate information too. Yet at the same time I think it's good to not take this as the whole story as some tend to do. The conditions of modern Africa can partly be explained through physical geography, yet there is another half to the story that is just as, if not even more important. That is of course the massive impacts of systemic colonization and oppression by the west.

Unfortunately many conservatives take this type of narrative and use it as a way to dismiss concerns about western dominator culture and colonialism. I'm sure Leo and most others here are aware of how there is more to the story, but someone who never studied history might take this kind of thing as the whole story. 

I heard that in the Peterson University there is an "alternative history" course about how western colonialism wasn't that bad really, and how there's not much to self-reflect on there.

But also, many left-wingers may be unbalanced in the other direction, not wanting to consider any environmentally determinist perspectives for fear of minimizing the impact of colonialism etc.

So, both perspectives are needed here to get the full picture I think.. I can't imagine a maximally holistic perspective on Africa that doesn't consider the wealth of critiques coming from postcolonial theory for example. Yet it's also not as holistic if it doesn't consider the real impacts of those geographic conditions.

 

 

Edited January 25 by TheAlchemist

[Staples]

That Africia geography video has to be the only coherent content from Thomas Sowell I've ever seen.

Beware the rest of his conservative bullshit.

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura Could you do a blog post on the scale you use to weigh your mushrooms? Anything you recommend for storage? I may possibly be getting them from a friend and I want to be prepared. I’m gonna probably do 1g lemon tek. I’m kinda excited! If you put the affiliate link of what you use, I’ll get it. Thanks!

Edited January 25 by r0ckyreed

[Davino]

Every Ideology Splinters

It is interesting to note that the same religious tradition/ideology born from Abraham, the father of the faith, has lead to first Judaism, next to Christianity and finally to Islam. In the context of the Israel-Palestine war the granfather is at war with the grandson. The original chain has splintered to the point of friendly fire.

[Leo Gura]

43 minutes ago, Davino said:

and finally to Islam.

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

[Raze]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

That’s a splinter from Christianity. From there is Bahai.

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

There's always the weird one in the family

[Archie]

@Leo Gura I switched from DMSA to DMPS and I found that it worked better so it might be something worth looking into. I'm pretty sure they target different metals

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Archie said:

@Leo Gura I switched from DMSA to DMPS and I found that it worked better so it might be something worth looking into. I'm pretty sure they target different metals

Interesting. I'll have to try it out.

[mmKay]

@Archie whats your doses? how often for how long? What does " working better" mean for you?

Edited January 26 by mmKay

[UpperMaster]

@RendHeaven thanks I've read some responses

[Vibes]

@Leo Gura I've been curious about it but never asked you. What was the thumbnail you used on the solipsism episode?

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, Vibes said:

@Leo Gura I've been curious about it but never asked you. What was the thumbnail you used on the solipsism episode?

I don't even remember the thumbnail.

Edited January 27 by Leo Gura

[Onecirrus]

The lessons from Life Below Zero blog vid doesn’t exist anymore. It was one of my favorites. There isn’t very good philosophical material about survival. The video convinced me to move to Alaska one day, I’m getting my pilots license now to be a bush pilot.

[Vynce]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't even remember the thumbnail.

By the way..

When are you going to finally release a full episode on the phenomenon of "Trump; epistemic degeneracy and pervertry; bro and vibe culture; tech oligarchy" ect. 

To me it seems like you study this field like it was a full time job. Why not make an episode?

[Vynce]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't even remember the thumbnail.

Just the blog posts from the last 11 months would do a pretty solid 3-part series on Trumpism. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

Somewhere Leo Gura gave the ideia of not only reading books, bit using rhe power of internet to read and at same time look for videos,maps,graphics etc..

is the case I use this ideia even to Leo Videos. So I am listening the PostModernism part 2 and related to the when he say Rural America life  is not compared with China Rural life. 

Is am still looking for some videos. But I found this one of a Phillipino Teacher reaction to a Rural area she came to teach. Nice to see videos where a worldview of someone is confronted with another culture. 

And this guy get himself to hold some communist flags by some sweet aunties in Rural China Lol

 

 

 

Edited January 27 by Rafael Thundercat

[Rafael Thundercat]

The relativity of gender duality. See the Trans Frogs