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Phrack Kisses

I always thought Peter Capaldi's Doctor was about accepting that, despite being an ancient creature, he would continue to fall in love with his companions. This love would hurt. It would end. They would die. But above all, love is worth the pain. A universe without love makes immortality pointless.

#doctor who #peter capaldi #12th doctor #drwho #doctor x clara #whouffaldi

tastefullyoffensive

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

dama3-deactivated20210619

old school hate mail

jakovu

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

thesparkofrevolution

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

skeletonrex-deactivated20151101

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

thesparkofrevolution

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

prokopetz

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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comparativelysuperlative

Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—

peter-pantomime

History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of

Ea-nasir:

citizen-zero

Ea-nasir invented the concept of “I love my haters”

philosophicalconservatism

Natural Rights V.S. Human Rights.

Over the course of the 20th century the classical concept of Natural Rights was subtly changed and distorted into the vague notion that is now known as “human rights”. It is a Left wing political innovation whose essential feature is to destroy all that was accomplished through the original introduction of the idea of the Natural Right in the 18th century. I have spoken before about the dangers posed by vague political language; how such language by its very nature serves as an open door to authoritarianism. This is one example of that. The significance of Natural Rights is that they drew a bold line beyond which the power of the state was not allowed to pass; a line drawn by an appeal to natural principles (concerning the individual) that are even higher than the state. The fact that these rights are “natural” means that they are not provided by government and therefore may not be touched by it. This is not an approach that is hopelessly vague but one which furnishes us with relatively clear guidlines for identifying and preserving our liberties.

The idea of human rights erases this foundation and replaces it with sheer ambiguity. The right to life and free speech are jumbled together indiscriminately with the right to free healthcare and the right to a specific material standard of living. State benefits are not merely seen as privileges that the state may choose to bestow out of compassion, but as rights just as absolute as the right to life, speech, property etc. In such a context the concept of Natural Rights is no longer relevant. All rights become “human rights” and are defined entirely at the discretion of the state, according to its understanding of “humanity” and whatever it decides this concept should require. The term “human” in itself tells us nothing, and a political doctrine which purports to act solely in the name of this concept can amount to nothing more than rule by the arbitrary preference of the leadership. What we are toying with here is a regression to the thinking of the pre-Enlightenment world where the political authority simply acts “in the best interests of the people, or of the nation”, as they understand it.

triadic

Definitions are increasingly important.

I really need to go back to making music videos...

#louisa x spiros #the durrells

slayerbuffy

It doesn’t matter if you’re not physical with each other anymore. There’s a connection. You rely on him. He relies on you.

philosophicalconservatism

All of the traditional talk by the Socialist about public versus private ownership of the means of production turns the word “ownership” into an empty formality that conceals rather than clarifies anything. What matters is who DIRECTS the use of the means of production. Now there is no question about who does that under Socialism; it is a cabal of leaders (that is the only way it is even practically conceivable). Under Free Enterprise, businesses (who each have separate interests, unlike that cabal of leaders ) merely oversee the means of production, but it is the consumers (that is, the people) that actually direct their use. The Socialist uses the term “ownership” in a casual, colloquial manner that implies business owners hold billions of dollars in assets that they can just do whatever they like with; whatever enters into their imagination. If the business owner does not use those assets in a manner consistent with the preferences of the consumer (the people) he loses them and they are transferred into the hands of some party who will. On the other hand, when the Socialist state fails to direct the means of production in a manner that reflects the preferences of the people the people merely suffer. So under which of these systems can the public be said to “own” the means of production more?

fluffygif

Less cute during a full moon.

nyyra

Teatime with Moominmamma

justhoughtsx

- "That's what you think she is? a counterbalance?"

- "I think she's the person you love most in the world."

at least Mycroft wasn't totally wrong about everything...

justhoughtsx

- "We're partners..."

- "No. We're much better than that. We're two people who love each other... Always have been."

jonstarks

repeatinglitanies

Netflix credits To All the Boys I loved before for acceptance of a female Asian Lead that made way for Shadow and Bone to have an Asian female lead.

But before Shadow and Bone, there’s already been an Asian female lead in a popular TV show in a partnership with a white male. Without it, I doubt TATBILB or SAB would have been possible

I’m talking about Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson on elementary. Sure her Joan and Johnny Lee Miller’s Sherlock aren’t in a romantic relationship. But it is the most important relationship the characters have within the universe of the show. Romantic relationships come and go for those two. But by the end of the series, they’re still partners and (I’m assuming) co-parenting Watson’s son

So I think LARA JEAN/PETER and Show Darklina has JOANLOCK to thank for its existence!