Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
The amount of inbreeding in the Islamic world hovers around 50% inbred in most areas (including the United Kingdom and Europe) due to how normal it is for first cousins to marry. Some scholarly texts hypothesize this could be a root cause for the congenital defects and low IQ measured in certain cultures in certain parts of the world.
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Not to mention the percentage that are on gobderernment assistance currently.

Let alone the ones that have been here for 10 plus years that are cirrently.on Clgoveenrment assistance.

With what looks like zero effort to you know actually contribute to the places they moved to.

Shit. Think i should say ''in minecraft'' or just stop now.



I'm retarded and all that. Or something.

Where is the foots butt again?
 
Moorik said:
I live in the European part of the world, and I can tell you one rather not-so-funny thing: in reality, things are even worse than you say 🙃
Really, much worse
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Nah

Diversity is your strength.

Unrelated, did you know that Vlad The Impaler didn't actually start impaling anybody until he was about 30?

I wonder what happened that made him like that? In Minecraft.

Did you know that Spain had a 200 year golden age of prosperity that started in 1492? Also in Minecraft.
 
That said she had flown to England 4 times in fall 2023-spring 2024 a d she said England isn’t England anymore. I told her it was lost as soon as the massive invasion had started 4-5 years ago.
Before that it was a trickle or what i call the Frog in the pot of water where the heat is gradually turned up until it’s too late. It’s too late. Europe and England are toast.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Nah

Diversity is your strength.

Unrelated, did you know that Vlad The Impaler didn't actually start impaling anybody until he was about 30?

I wonder what happened that made him like that? In Minecraft.

Did you know that Spain had a 200 year golden age of prosperity that started in 1492? Also in Minecraft.
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I know the character Vlad the Impaler from Minecraft pretty well. As far as I remember, there was something about him being captured, and it was a pretty nasty story. By the way, as a result of that, he started making those kinds of constructions, like stakes in Minecraft.
 
I just watched a thing about this. Vlad was held hostage by Ottomans and raised by them and learned about torture and inspiring fear as a deterrent etc. He used the impalement, which was really mean as it entered the butt and was calculated to not kill you as the rounded end of this pole pushed its way through, and arranged the captured ottomans impaled like this in geometric patterns. Alive and moaning impaled like that. Mehmed the sultan marched into this and saw his men and stared at them and turned the ottoman army around, Vlad was celebrated as a hero for driving away the Ottomans.
 
I happen to have dinner with a two-star navy admiral a few weeks ago. A lovely non-religious Persian man, very well educated. He did not disagree with the assessment that the England would be the first thermonuclear capable Islamic country.
 
Fonedork said:
But then Vlad had become addicted to impaling and arranging people, and started impaling everyone he could get on the poles, and the guy with the nickname “the impaler” turned out to be a bad guy after all.
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Oh, this is a story,right?
Anyway, there’s a somewhat ambiguous aspect here, because these were times when the actions he took actually look extremely cruel and horrifying from today’s perspective.
In reality, if you look at the history of that period and see how many other people, historical figures, acted, what he did was actually fairly standard for that time 😅.
It’s just that history is written in a way that makes it seem, through natural study and observation, that he was incredibly terrible.
In fact, in his context, it seems that acting differently would have been extremely difficult.
And he played his important role.
I think it’s all a bit more complicated.
And the real truth about such things, we may never really know
 
Pàdruig said:
Sunday School is a day early. Weird.

Here’s something fun: I am having to replace the CVT on a four year old Subaru. Just happens to fall outside of warranty too. At least Subaru is offering to cover 50%.
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That’s a bummer. Which model, if you don’t mind me asking? My wife drives a 2020 Buick enclave that has had the transmission rebuilt twice. First time under warranty, second time on my dime. I’ve been thinking about picking up a Forester for her.
 
Fonedork said:
But then Vlad had become addicted to impaling and arranging people, and started impaling everyone he could get on the poles, and the guy with the nickname “the impaler” turned out to be a bad guy after all.
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Meh

Probably not so bad. We cannot judge a culture based on our modern day standards. I'm sure it was perfectly normal and acceptable.
 
In fact, I would go so far as to say, embracing moral relativism, maybe Europe will have another Vlad the Impaler who gets celebrated one day. But then demonized later. Kind of like Thomas Jefferson!*





*Thomas Jefferson was awesome, I don't care what anyone has to say about it.
 
Thomas Jefferson had slaves so he is persona non grata now. 😞

Do you know who else had slaves?

If you're not familiar with the Barbary wars (which occurred during Jefferson's presidency), you should look into it, it's really fascinating. It's our country's first foreign battle and they really kicked some ass. But I wonder who's ass they were kicking and why? Crazy stuff. But I guess it's best to not judge because this was a a different time, even though the rules of the culture they were fighting have not changed because it would be a literal sin to change them. Punishable by death or something idunno. But other than that, lovely people.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
In fact, I would go so far as to say, embracing moral relativism, maybe Europe will have another Vlad the Impaler who gets celebrated one day. But then demonized later. Kind of like Thomas Jefferson!*





*Thomas Jefferson was awesome, I don't care what anyone has to say about it.
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Do you really believe in moral relativism?

What about objective truth?
 
This is, by the way, some kind of new trend in society: to take a historical figure, someone who was essentially a founder, or at least at the origins of something, and suddenly start treating them as persona non grata, just because they did what they were supposed to do.
I think, in a way, this is even done on purpose, to make people feel some kind of guilt or something like that.
Or like with great personalities, whom people start labeling as “bad guys.”
As if from the perspective of 2026, we now have to say that everyone back then was somehow excessively cruel 😁
The world was like that, and if you live somewhere where things aren’t so bad now, it’s thanks to those same “bad guys” who suddenly became persona non grata or “villains.”

What is objective truth, anyway?
Is it like when some guy in 2026 decides to say that some guy from the 1400s did terrible things?
Objective truth is a reaaaally flexible concept!
And everyone has their own version of it.
 
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