Yes, he's dead, he's dead... But we are alive!
Yes, a wave of grief did arise and lasted for a time, but then it began to subside and one fellow had already returned to his table and, furtively at first, but then openly downed some vodka and taken a bite to eat. And indeed, why waste suprème de volaille? How can we help Mikhail Alexandrovich? By staying hungry? After all, we are alive!
"I'm suffocating," said Pilate. "Suffocating!"
With a cold, damp hand he tore the clasp off the collar of his cloak, and it fell on the sand.
"It's stifling today, a thunderstorm is brewing," rejoined Kaifa, staring intently at the procurator's reddened face and foreseeing all the torments yet to come. "What a terrible month Nisan has been this year!"
"No," said Pilate, "it's not the sultry weather that's making me suffocate, it's you, Kaifa."
Process:
📦4K/wallpaper: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2023/2023-01-13_my-neighboor-mastodon-2_final.jpg
🗒️License: Fan-art derivation of Studio Ghibli © materials (fair use).
copyright in the US
1. recipes can't be copyrighted because you can't copyright a "series of steps". too simple
2. but you can copyright a computer program right?
1. well yes
2. aren't computer programs a series of steps?
1. ...
2. didn't we start copyrighting computer programs right about the time we started going from women doing the computing to men taking over those workplaces?
1. look, computer programs are worth a lot of money,
2. and cooking is feminized labor. understood, have a good day
读过《The Dictator's Handbook》
https://neodb.social/book/6vOWn5j1KiHSKqEIcGWhnh
读书拖得太久,没想到拖到了书出新版,把 2020 年美国大选以及 COVID 相关的内容也加进去了,挺好的。
对于我这种政治盲来说还是挺有收获的,获得了一些新的视角。但是有些知识点(观点?)重复得过于多。而且尽管作者有在说明民主也不是表面上看起来的那么好,但依旧会经常蹦出“我们这些幸运的人”“我们民主国家的人已经得到了大部分我们想要的东西“这种怪话,感觉作者(作为老白男)真的特别喜欢美国的民主制度。。
而且我之前一直不明白美国为什么那么好心帮德国和日本建立民主制度,作者的解答是其实各种 foreign aid 都是为了本国的利益,美国当时需要抓盟友来共同抵抗苏联/共产主义,而对面刚刚好也想要民主,两边利益重合,这属于历史上几乎不可复制的成功。。
#TheDictatorsHandbook
荷兰医生瑞贝卡·冈波茨(Rebecca Gomperts)开着一艘船,在公海上给需要帮助的女孩做堕胎手术
在公海船只上只需遵守船只所在国家法律,而荷兰法律是允许堕胎的
但我认为她最大的历史功绩是用包裹和无人机向需要的女孩运送堕胎药
我要分享的是她和她的“浪之女”号游艇的纪录片《Vessel》(暂时还没找到字幕,建议保存,建议扩散防封)
https://www.aliyundrive.com/s/gyUaixtF5wy
提取码: 0b6q
《Vessel》豆瓣条目:
https://movie.douban.com/subject/26373501/
关于她的事迹:
https://www.163.com/dy/article/GR7CK33Q051484S5.html
她的散发堕胎药联系网站:
https://aidaccess.org/
https://www.womenonweb.org/
PS:在日本,口服避孕药在1999年之前是非法的
根据2015年联合国的调查,泰国女性避孕药的使用率为33.7%,远高于日本女性的1.1%
在日本,购买避孕药每月需要5000日元左右,这对使用者来说是一种金钱上的打击。至于紧急避孕药,在法国不需要处方就能买到的20年后的今天,在日本仍然需要医生的批准。
https://bgme.me/@pinata/109669718386716550
我比较惊讶的是 Rooibos 竟然可以翻译成路易波士茶,一副高大上跟皇家有什么关系的样子。
之前只知道博士茶这个翻译,感觉土土的。