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  1. Tiki Tom

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Very true. Regarding your point about the Buffalo, etc, I think I was well into adulthood before I realized how crazily my own culture had spun the whole thing: somehow painting the pioneers and cowboys and railroads as the “good guys”. Then you look at the world today and see the same...
  2. Tiki Tom

    Oumuamua

    Update: As you’ll recall, on July 26th their was a congressional hearing in which former intelligence officer (with the former rank of major) David Grusch doubled-down on his allegation that the U.S. government is in possession of several (!!) crashed UFOs and is attempting to reverse engineer...
  3. Tiki Tom

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sort of in the same vein: earlier in the week I was given quite a lecture by a 24 year old regarding the state of the world, what needs to be done, how we should think, what pronouns to use, etc etc. I wish I could be around in 40 years when some pampered kid with no life experience gives him a...
  4. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    We have a winner! 21 year old wins $40,000. Not bad, kid! https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bxq8/a-21-year-old-just-solved-a-2000-year-old-mystery-in-world-historical-breakthrough
  5. Tiki Tom

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I am still having difficulty accessing FL. It is taking a very long time to load. Any updates about solving this problem?
  7. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    Yay! Time travel is —apparently— possible. And maybe you can change past events. Cooool. https://thedebrief.org/scientists-successfully-simulate-backward-time-travel-with-a-25-chance-of-actually-changing-the-past/ Of course we at F.L.A.S.K. Have heard stories of people suddenly and...
  8. Tiki Tom

    What Are You Reading

    Well, yes. In Les Mis, Victor Hugo certainly wears his politics on his sleeve. But in the twenty first century, his pet issues don’t seem very radical. He beats the drum about supporting mandatory childhood education, he supports republicanism, acknowledges that women had it rough in the...
  9. Tiki Tom

    Any Hebrew speakers in the Lounge?

    Hebrew fascinates me. Is it true that the Written text has no vowels and that the vowels must be inferred? Is it true that it was almost a “dead language” until the state of Israel made a conscious decision to try to revive it? I love linguistics.
  10. Tiki Tom

    What Are You Reading

    Bucket list item checked off: I am now a member of the elite club of people who have actually read Les Miserables. At 1,460 pages, it took me four months of fairly disciplined reading. More than a decade ago, my wife and I introduced our daughters to the musical Les Miserables. Our 13 year...
  11. Tiki Tom

    Tramp Steamers

    Pirates infest San Francisco Bay. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12584341/Homeless-PIRATES-marauding-crime-ridden-San-Francisco-Bay.html Truth is stranger than fiction.
  13. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    Beautiful!
  14. Tiki Tom

    Indiana Jones V

    Yes. I am experiencing the same problem.
  15. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    Oh, East Enders. I know you lot from the TV show!
  16. Tiki Tom

    Western, anyone?

    Just goes to show: it doesn’t matter how much money you have. Elon Musk roasted for wearing his cowboy hat backwards: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-had-a-disastrous-livestream-at-the-border-while-wearing-his-cowboy-hat-backwards/ Am I a bad person because this made Me smile?
  17. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    Re: the nature of consciousness and where it comes from: ”People experience “new dimensions of reality” when dying according to ground breaking study.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamgm/people-experience-new-dimensions-of-reality-when-dying-groundbreaking-study-reports So, basically they...
  19. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    I am a bit more of a Cartesian, although that might just be the contrarian in me. If consciousness is the foundational bedrock of the universe, that can only lead to God. If matter somehow generates consciousness, then perhaps an extra step is required. :)
  20. Tiki Tom

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    The following dovetails nicely with the theory that the brain does not generate consciousness but, rather, acts as a ”filter” that only uses (let’s through) the level of consciousness that our physical bodies can use to survive and prosper...
  21. Tiki Tom

    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    My wife’s father was a Marine Corps Corsair pilot in the Pacific during WWII. Regrettably, he didn’t talk about it much, so —despite internet searches— I know little about the specifics.
  22. Tiki Tom

    What Are You Reading

    For a long time, Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” was one of my favorites. It’s an autobiographical tale of his growing up in/near Vienna in the last days of the Habsburg empire. Full of color and pathos. I was living in Vienna at the time, so it added some depth to my understanding of the...
  23. Tiki Tom

    Anyone else interested in the ancient world?

    Shame on Mary Beard! https://time.com/6317735/men-roman-empire-mary-beard-history/ Don‘t get me wrong, I’ve read a book or two of hers, and I enjoyed her BBC series on the Roman Empire. But in the article above, she disappointingly says men like to think about the Romans because it’s a space...

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