Let me tell you a thing that is not often mentioned, which I think contributed to the rise of the American right we see today. In the us, unlike in Europe where freedom was economically tied to the rise of lower classes in their struggle against landowners and aristocracy, the notion of freedom implied a freedom from the norms of the majority. This is the old "frontier myth". Then the prairie was settled, but that myth was entrenched. Then the internet came and opened up an unlimited and unregulated space for these cults and alternative views, and since the technological dynamics constantly drives everyone away from pain and towards pleasure, that is confirmation of existing beliefs, the "echo chambers" mushroomed. Because of historical baggage, the US was predisposed towards eccentricity, in a way. On top of this comes the fact that Congress has always had a very very low approval rating. It is epitomized by the representatives who read the phone book out loud, or filibuster, from the podium in order to sabotage the passing of legislation. At salaries paid by the taxpayer!! Then there is the annual shutdown ritual over the raising of the debt ceiling, which could have been avoided by switching from absolute numbers to a percentage of GDP. But it is a ritual, like the knocking on the door of the British parliament. So they keep it. But it adds an impression that they do nothing, that everything is jammed and that no representatives from different parties ever talk to each other over coffee, and that "hate" remains even after the cameras are off.

Some day, when you grow up, you too will see naked adult women. In the meantime, you can do research online...I recommend pubmed, base and core, as well as anatomical atlas.

That people start open newssites is good, but if it is not commercially run, the issue of the backer's influence will always be there. I still hope they make it work, but that they make clear these things.

The advancing Russian forces must be distracted by means of cheap vodka.

There is this fantastic nineteenth century tech that i came across, which i think could be improved upon by using lightweight modern carbon stuff, like in a bicycle. It is a laundery wringer. You attatch them to a bucket, and then you place your wet laundery in them and use a crank. It must be of such length that the process does not become toilsome. It removes 95% of all water. Then they hung up the laundery in those days when they were in use, and they dried much quicker. If mass produced, students could just have one under the bed, and fetch it when needed. The problem is that those i see are too expensive and in steel, which means heavy and cumbersome. If Musk could ditch this pointless and overly expensive migration plan to Mars, he could solve this high-tech issue and have them sold at low cost to students?

That you don't like the song, I cannot comment on. That is an individual taste. But the original recording was a wax recording, remember that. To get from a wax recording to this is not bad. But I do not know who you are, and you may have much superior skills and resources. I just wanted to mention this wax recording point.

You have cut two sentences in half? I have not said that I was a Trump supporter? I said that one particular view is something I also share. If Hitler denies that the earth is flat, it is still not flat? And I am not saying Trump is Hitler either. But one view. What if Trump said that people should drink water?

This is very interesting, they have entered Ai into the bureaucracy, in stead of other places. They haven't done what i thought they would do. The Ai people are feeding off health budgets by pushing products. I didnt expect this.

I dont live in the US. But what i expected was that they would implement Ai in those devices that scan or work directly on blood, and also in routine task in organizations. And i also expected some patient communication via Ai chat which feeds directly of your securely stored medical record. So that all advice would have your blood work, your medical statistics, weight, gender, height medical history etc as a foundation for the advice it offers. So while expected it to suggest tests, I expected a price comparison engine similar to pricerunner or kelkoo to provide you with the cheapest options at any time. So AI would suggest diagnosis, but not any provider of test or treatment.

Yes, this is something most people dont undertand when they see the TV series. There was much more propaganda in the original stories. In the Eye of Appolo, a woman is tricked into removing her glasses by an evil new age man, and i therefore found dead in an elevator shaft. She fell down. And the new age con man of course has ulterior motives. So because she was blind to God in a way, she ended up dead. Of course, if you are very Christian, this would seem true to you. But for most other people, it would indeed be very annoying. They have stripped the TV series completely of this propaganda subtext. But Father Brown is historically a very very important character.

Isn't Oxford a particularly well-endowed university?

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Inspector-Hanaud-and-The-Ginger-King-Audiobook/B0HHDG5SND?qid=1790108595

In France they have a separate company that verifies the age, and when you then visit your eccentric and embarrassing porn site, they verify the age, but provide no further info.

I recorded a story with religious overtones. It is a little sad. It's by Edward Bellamy. I didn't actually record all it. I modified the librivox file, simplified language and added an intro. Bellamy's outline is actually a masterpiece. But his sentences prevent you from grasping it. Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VUSwGgqbo

But it is a very dark story. Also, Bellamy was no fan of organized religion.

Everything is CGI, they strangle and choke your emotions with horn-blowers and fanfares and explosions, and then hammer the moral of the movie into your head with a sledgehammer in drawn-out and nauseating camera-staring monologues. And there is also a limit to how much interest I am able to muster for the psychological dilemmas that come with superpowers.

But what can be done? What should one do? It is not possible to un-invent a new technology?

Well, the problem is that on these old cylinders there is quite a lot of static noise, and then in addition sometimes a sort or repeating thump every time the cylinder rotates. When you then remove the static and thump, you take some of the fullness of the original voice. I do not doubt that those with better equipment than myself would get a better outcome. But it is not easy. They have a recording of both Queen Victoria and Lord Tennyson. And it is very hard to extract something you can be sure is genuine. I hope these Ai services would set up some template for this. It should actually be quite easy, as the noise profiles on all of these are almost identical, and that subtraction process would be much better. It could be very interesting to hear the oldest voices on wax cylinder. I did this because enjoyed the song, probably because I also used to enjoy drinking :) Some people like other things, that's ok...:)

If you live your life waiting for confirmation from others you always be disappointed. However, if you live to annoy others....

What was she doing there?

Belmondo is a B movie actor, many of film were B-movies. He played in genre movies, often action comedies, L'as de L'as, Le Cervau, Animal etc. De Funes specialized in comedies. When i say B-movies it is not derogatory in any way, but a way to set them apart from these slightly self conscious drama movies that win oscars, or the cahiers directors of the new wave. They were both in the entertainment business. Some of the plots in a Belmondo movie resemble a Van Damme movie today, but without the martial arts. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill adds that physical element, but in a way that makes them into European Jackie Chan movies, in a way. The stylized fist fight with a gleam in your eye. It is physical comedy in a sort Chaplin of tradition. Remember also that the modern spy thriller was created when hitchcock arrived from Babelsberg where he had been educated during the silent era, and then he filmed the pioneers of the british thriller genre, Joseph Conrad (secret agent) and John Buchan (39 steps, that is invasion literature) and Ethel Lina White (Lady Vanishes), and Farjeon (number seventeen). Then he moved to the US, and continued developing this. But the genre was created in the UK, using all these british writers in british made films with british actors. he also made a serial killer movie, The Lodger (Marie belloc lowndes story). And in Germany Billy Wilder, Fritz Lange and Peter Lorre (the famous villain of the murder movie M), were refuges from europe to hollywood. lange fled from persecution and his nazi wife, and then helped spur the noir film tradition, which used the novels written in the us by old american soldiers of WWI, Hammet, Chandler, Burnett, but also the Brit Graham Greene, a later generation of that type of story. But the point is that these were European immigrants to the US, and they created many iconic movies of the Hollywood golden age. And through immigrants like Von Sternberg, Wilder and Lange that lighting you see in those alleys was created. They were not the only source, but the ones i mentioned were all european trained. The film school generation drew heavily on the European tradition, but often serious films. But Tarantino, a generation after them, remade one of the most iconic spagetti westerns Django. Had it not been for him, those old Django movies would not have been lauded the way they have. And Eastwood created his career using Leone as a director, another import from Europe. He also starred alongside Burton in an Alistair Maclean movie, a scottish writer who shaped action movies in a major way. It should also be noted that a huge number of iconic Hollywood movies are REMAKES of classic French genre movies. They bought the scripts, and we in Europe only remember the English language version? Many people do not even know this? And if you removed all the old British actors from the Hollywood golden age (James Mason, Cary Grant, Laurence Oliver, Ralph Richardson, John Guilgud, Alec Guinnes, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Burton, Charlie Chaplin etc), there might not even be anything to term a Hollywood Golden Age? Ingrid Bergman and Greta Garbo were swedes, and Charles Boyer French.

Even today, European actors are very important in Hollywood (think Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes etc). Arnold is Austrian and van damme Belgian.

The point here is that Europe has made great entertainment, they have just been prevented from making most of it at home. But what if they were not? What you are seeing in the classic movie Casablanca, is a tiny american icon on plateau shoes telling a Swedish actress that he really likes to look at her, just before she boards the plane to Hollywood.