I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
SHERLOCK HOLMES, A STUDY IN SCARLET
Since 9:00
The fate that befell the once mighty Soviet Union is no more surprising than the fate of the 1792 republic in France, which befell it after 1815. In both cases, this turn of events was not inevitable - such inevitability has no real basis - and the story did not end in 1815 or 1989, or with the death of Mao Zedong and the victory of Deng Xiaoping in China. Don't be in a hurry. As I walked in the jungle on my aching knees, I tried to remember when I first heard the famous answer that Zhou Enlai supposedly gave in response to the question of what he thought about the outcome of the French Revolution.
- It's too early to say.
Many have argued that he didn't actually say that. I was going to ask him about it when we met, but somehow I didn't have to. Of course, this is the correct answer.
Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020)
Political Correctness is Fascism Pretending to be Manners
(c) GC
The Battle Butter Book
Dr. Seuss
Special topic dedicated to subject.
As it seems that governments now want to present vaccines as total solution and it is not.
In Germany, antidepressant use had risen 46% in just four years. In Spain and Portugal, it rose about 20% during the same period.
For last 4 years in software developers circles that I know (US, UK and Mordor) popularity of communist ideology and people seriously discussing books written by Marx, Lenin and others more than quadrupled.
And this is people that are on top of the ladder considering their income. They are just sick of lot of things, like doing stupid low quality stuff because capitalists thinking about profits only, inability to properly share knowledge and source code and much more. If you have top living Apple devs discussing (very emotionally) how to end all the mess Apple is doing and fully understanding that changing people won't help, only changing system...
Capitalism is in trouble.
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