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I, uh, don't think this contest is over yet, Buzz - if that is your real name (I never abuse. You block because you cannot handle contrary viewpoints)
I suspect the key to understanding the complexity of men lies in understanding how differently they respond when their wife cheats with a woman versus a man
I very much want the LNP to win today. The ALP is bad for Australia. But I also want the LNP to know its policies are not good enough. That’s why I’m giving my 1st preference to One Nation in the lower house & to @craigkellyXXX in the Senate. That’s why I’m voting this way:
Calls people racist & removes ability for people to comment. Perfect summation of Australian democracy
saying 'one hundred dollars a minute' is so misleading when it only takes a minute plus chances are that hundred bucks is the cheapest part of whatever event is happening these racists are just mad at the idea of respecting First Nations people
It is widely accepted that gay men are much more interested in casual sex than lesbian women, not because they are gay, but because they are men. The high “body count” of gay men is what the “body count” of straight men would look like, if straight men did not have straight women…
Meanwhile, science funding – yes, even in the NSF – is being directed towards frivolous DEI-themed non-research. A recent Senate committee went through a bunch of NSF grants and found that over a quarter of them were given to diversity nonsense. This is due to a top-down…
Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. And fewer competitors means higher prices for you.
When something is so foreseeable it becomes inevitable, society is negligent for allowing it to happen - and those who push for it are culpable.
A cross-dressing man, who was being housed in a women's shelter in South Carolina, has attacked a woman there so violently that her "internal organs were exposed". He's been arrested and held in isolation as "she is still transitioning to become a woman" postandcourier.com/greenville/new…
“Constantinople wasn’t retaken in a day” they will say in the future
youtu.be/gCImsL8eFNM?si… Miss you Norm
penguin.com.au/books/the-secr… super biased 6th century polemic against emperor justinian but even moreover his wife Theodora. Very entertaining, will make your head fly off
amazon.com.au/Sowing-Dragons… Modern translations of the Praecepta Militaria and the Taktika, two tenth century military treatises. Great example of contemporary MRE tactical and strategic thinking
amazon.com.au/Short-History-… I think this was my starter purely MRE book. Very vivid and illustrative. Comes in a condensed one book or a much longer 3 books. For an earlier less specialised book it’s very engaging. Super accessible.
catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1939211 very interesting book. Written in the 11th century. Laughably biased but Psellos is a dynamic writer. Choice quote: “ardour brings new life to the dead, and the desire for glory is stronger than physical weakness”
booktopia.com.au/the-alexiad-an… 10/10 the first feminist book written by the first female historian in world history. An 11th century book that feels stunningly modern. The topic is the first crusade from Constantinople’s view
amazon.com/Emperor-Romanu… one of my favourite books. Very vivid picture of 10th century Constantinople
books.google.com/books/about/By… very good but mostly about the legal/social status of slaves in the empire and Roman subjects in neighbouring states. Less about numbers, slave sources