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Dr. Who season 1 with Christopher Eccleston
alternate and parallel universe stuff. keep going back to studying simulation theory. i want to get good at up coding
what's the simulation theory?
that we live in a video game style computer simulation like in the matrix movies
oh, i weirdly do believe in that
i know a bunch of quantum experiments that support this theory. i could link you some if youd like
i have a gigantic list of content that i want to get through this year, hope to get to it eventually also
A documentary, “The War on Kids”
huh, sounds interesting tend to like docs a lot
It’s all about how awful the public school system is. It’s been good so far.
I’m halfway through Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”. I can’t vet the geopolitics, but the man has some serious misunderstandings of money which casts doubt, IMO, on his whole suite of predictions. https://image.nostr.build/09a71094153524f100e9c4777751c56f2a07e84fff04cb0deafa2bc4fdda52ac.jpg
you find it to be utopian or dystopian so far?
Definitely leans dystopian. He thinks the world is basically fucked except for America. But like I said, he has some fundamental misunderstandings about money, which is a big deal if you’re trying to predict the outcomes of geopolitical changes spanning decades.
I don't watch, I read. Currently; about The Cuban Missile Crisis, The 6 Days War and have just started on The Prince by Machiaveli.
Seen bunch of videos and lectures on Machiavelli, really want to read The Prince myself too
Not long started it. It's very much based on a "Manipulative" way of thinking, which isn't really my way of thinking but it does give a wider perspective on the way that the cunts in power do so!!
well there's the whole "dirty hands" argument and discussion + the teleological and deontological discussion of it also just had a public ethics and corruption class last semester, so had to read through a bunch of pieces and articles on that topic
blow blow blow the cool north wind blows goosebumps
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
