Monthly Archives: March 2022

Round About When I Started to Wonder About This St Paul Guy

Posted on 31/03/2022 by oligomath

i would simply be a decent human being and spread my religion using appealingly universal sounding language (“inescapably true”), crude psychological appeals (“i don’t like you as a person”), emotional blackmail (your current religion is “inherently xenophobic”), haughty commands (“you … Continue reading →

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Daedalus Recruitment

Posted on 24/03/2022 by oligomath

i think anyone who hires Daedaluses knows that sex pervert stuff is part of the package, and so the wise prince uses this aspect of Daedalus to make a sex bull for the queen to fuck, or be a honey … Continue reading →

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Gun Control in Britain: A Timeline

Posted on 11/03/2022 by oligomath

the gun control timescale in Britain is basically a 200 year history: 1800: Merrie England is at play. If you can afford a firearm then congratulations it’s yours. 1820: The Westphalian Peace breaks down as Britain has won its first … Continue reading →

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Transhumanist Thought Experiments

Posted on 09/03/2022 by oligomath

there are certain occult milieux where although it is not fair to say that *everyone* in the scene believes they are actually from fairyland or secretly the sun god, it is fair to say that those people are living to … Continue reading →

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Neal’s Feed and Seed

Posted on 07/03/2022 by oligomath

people never talk about the technogimmick in The Diamond Age The Diamond Age, like all Neal Stephenson novels, is about revolutionary shifts in the means of production of something – in this case the transition from “The Feed”, a futuristic … Continue reading →

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Heart Awareness

Posted on 06/03/2022 by oligomath

considering your heart is maybe the most throbbing part of your anatomy i find it remarkable how well the normal physiology of man is set up to allow you to forget it exists until something is wrong, such that if … Continue reading →

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