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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Ancient Gilgamesh tablet seized from Hobby Lobby by US authorities

The craft store had acquired the 3,600-year-old artefact for its Bible museum, but court says it had been smuggled and should be returned to Iraq

The things men do in order to bring Democracy.
Was that worth it? 
Well documented registered 3600 years old artifact stolen from its original location soley motivated by making big bucks. 

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Battlestar Galactica remake wasn’t flashy and ridiculous. It was brooding and bleak, full of deeply flawed characters who drank too much and glowered alone in their bunkers. Moore had given NBC a show that resembled Mad Men in Zero Gravity – which...

Battlestar Galactica remake wasn’t flashy and ridiculous. It was brooding and bleak, full of deeply flawed characters who drank too much and glowered alone in their bunkers. Moore had given NBC a show that resembled Mad Men in Zero Gravity – which was especially impressive as the actual Mad Men didn’t even exist at that point.
They also did their best to turn the show’s bespoke expletive of “frack” into a swear word in the real world.
The real genius of Battlestar Galactica lies in its villains. By contrast the Cylons are evangelists convinced it is their moral duty to obliterate the “Twelve Colonies” that are home to mankind and assume their rightful place as rulers of the galaxy. They are machines who rose up against their creators (i.e. us). And they see their domination as the logical next step in evolution. 
The gripping twist. The Cylons are monotheists who believe they are chosen by the one true god. Humans by contrast, worships a hodgepodge of deities –  much as indigenous people across the world did before organised religion came thundering through. 
Who, then, are we the viewers to empathise with? The baddies, with their relatively familiar spiritual framework? Or the pagan heroes?
During its third season that Battlestar Galactica grasps the live rail in earnest. The surviving humans have been tracked down by the Cylons and imprisoned on the planet of “New Caprica” (“Old Caprica” being the most populous of the colonies). To fight back against the occupation, the good guys mount a guerrilla campaign with roadside explosives and suicide bombings. Did this remind you of something.

These scenes were beamed into living rooms across the world as the US was becoming bloodily bogged down in Iraq. Here was a TV show casting suicide bombers as the heroes. It was stunningly transgressive and still feels so 14 years later.
#battlestargalactica #television #scifi #syfy (at battlestar galactica)
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The Error in The Ways of Venture Backed Initatives

Ranjan Roy, a content strategist and writer, wrote about the latter in his newsletter The Margins; one of his friends who owns a few pizza restaurants suddenly got an influx of customers complaining about delivery when the restaurants didn’t offer delivery. “He realized that a delivery option had mysteriously appeared on their company’s Google Listing
Bijan Stephen

Covid-19 based pandemic changed the ways of globalism deeply in the past 3 months more than the previous decade. Yet, there are still many things that don’t make sense about global capitalism. The incredible speed of capital travelling between the countries, algorithmic millisecond trading that screwing up any prospects of individuals that choose to trade daily; and of course venture-backed monstrosities like scooter- sharing, workspace-sharing, ride-sharing and also food delivery and take out service models. 


I’m aware some of those services provide great convenience. I remember before the times, changed how I interacted with the places order food. Magnets with telephone numbers covering the fridge or any other metallic surface in the house. Magnets of expired business with invalid phone numbers was a mess. 

The thing is, once backed up with venture capital those initiatives that we believe provide those convenient services and prices start to promise their investors, more than the return and convenience of their initial business model. That’s done in order to continue burning through a reality-warping amount of cash in a way that upends the basic economics of things like taxi service and food delivery and fail, intentionally, to turn a profit.

The current venture capital model is broken. There are these insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. Cash is burned to subsidize an unattainable customer convenience. They also risk damaging an eco-system of small businesses or trade guilds.  You claim you create employment yet only decrease the average income of a business or service of licenced professionals. There’s also damage on the workforce (in the long run) and social security systems  to minimize your genuine labor expenses.

Those companies target their capital on customer acquisition. At the end, only viable promise can be a  monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable? Is there any developed or democratic government that would allow this in their eco-system. Look at european union, japan  

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