I am the result of 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.
I am a thermodynamic miracle.
I am the waking universe looking back at itself.
Mar 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
a lot of this new world variety neo-nazi-adjacent thought basically boils down to ascribing high-caste traits (ambition, intellect, lack of content with just comfortable life) onto europeans as a whole due to living somewhere without a commoner-derived white population
when I first started interacting with them on 4chan, it struck me how most of the complaints about self-evident racial inferiority of "niggers" based on observed behaviour apply almost exactly also to the "čefurji" (population of balkan extraction, mostly serbs) in slovenia
Mar 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
children's books in the past: intended to prime you for real life issues in a playful manner
children's books now: le epic trope subversion
and then we wonder why new generations are increasingly delusional
I don't care about the authors much but if you're a parent or educator and use those with the children you're raising, that's child abuse comparable to - no, it literally is equivalent to cult indoctrination
Jan 18 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I'll go out and disagree on this: Romans lacked one crucial ingredient
Efficient implementation of steam power which made industrial revolution possible relies on understanding of thermodynamics and concepts like latent heat and Boyle's law.
Song China utilized coal and had mass production of steel. Nonetheless an industrial revolution couldn't take place - they, likewise, didn't understand what they're sitting on due to lack of mathematical understanding
trial and error doesn't scale!
Dec 21, 2023 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
People often ignore that a lot of aspects in which Europe (and to a lesser extent, North America) look especially hospitable is usually not something that was intrinsic to the region, but achieved through organized effort to fix things
Let's look at the example: malaria
Malaria (= Italian for "bad air") is fairly well documented from classical Greek and Latin sources, connection to marshes seemed to work well with miasma theory but mosquitoes specifically were not recognised as vector
