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Very minor point about pronunciation. Dunning says ”Bitumin” with the stress on the second syllable, and ’Constantinople’ also stressed syllable second. I’ve only ever heard ”Bitumin” with initial stress and ”Constantinople” with stress on the third syllable. It’s a curse of those of us who research mainly from books that we get our emPHAsis wrong sometimes. I once knew a bookworm who spoke of ’A-LEG-ories’. Has this happened here, or does Dunning just have a different dialect to mine?
Darling, necromancers raise the dead not water. Way to make yourzelf sound like a pompous git.
Great podcast. i have improved my listening comprehenson listening to the episodes.
I am so impressed. I think of you as more of an academic and I think of academics as being biased against the ultra wealthy. I don't know if you have that particular bias, but I am pleased that you did a honest assessment. And I was very surprised that the conclusion that billionaires are not necessarily the economy destroying haters of humanity commonly depicted in the media. In fact, the analysis paints a less flattering picture of the strangely wealthy career politicians. Nice job!!
I'm a regular listener of skeptoid, but as a dog lover couldn't make it far into this episode.
Makes total sense now, I so love these podcasts I listen to them all the time while I'm pretenting to work in between periods of actual work. We have similar structures here in the fens I've noticed them whilst out walking and listening to another favorite of mine Ben Nevis, what? You've not heard of him? He's massive here in Scotland
The third movie of the Matrix was originally intended to show how even the "Real World" in the movie was still also part of the matrix world. Much of this evidence is shown throughout the movies, such as Neo shooting electricity out of his hands even in the "real world" when being chased by those machines. Also, the one agent who started to replicate himself, becoming a virus, was the actual "The One" because his viral self was supposed to cause so much damage to the matrix that he would lead to its death. The brothers that wrote all of this (Cohen Brothers, I believe?) had that ending rejected when they submitted it for a movie, and so we got the dumber and more confusing, somewhat rewritten version instead.
The above comment is exactly the ignorance he is fighting. This revisionist history that is often used to parallel the Irish experience to that of Black slaves or to somehow distance the Irish from the US's history of racism towards People of Color is pitiful. Irish had a terrible go of it especially those indentured, but they had more rights even as servants under the law then any slave and though there is records of forced labor the vast majority entered indentured servitude by choice as a means to get to the US. Only some of the slaves brought west from West Africa had bin sold by Africans. Europeans would also do round ups. The African traders often had no idea what slavery was like in the Americas as it was a different slave culture there. And often these traders would in the end be captured and enslaved. Also it ignores the fact that many of these people ended up being rounded up to meet the market needs and were not previous prisoners or slaves. There was no major west African slave trade at that time. The boom came from western expansion. I have both groups in my blood. I don't belittle either, bit find only little parallels as far as level of struggles in US history.
It shows the poor thought processes of white nationalists that even if any of the stuff they claim were true, and not withstanding the fact that black people were often initially enslaved and sold by other black people, this doesn't in any way let America or Europe off the hook for the African slave trade. This fake whataboutism reeks of the "white guilt" they erroneously accuse other people of.
Excellent!