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Architecture/Interiors
27monadicpoast interesting interiors and architecture
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interesting studies
570monadicgoing to start a thread to keep track of random studies I come across
social effects of testosterone vs perceived effects of testosterone,
sci-hub.ru/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19997098/
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jung bookposting
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cuppa
5monadicwhat're we drinking, lads?
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whole raw eggs
8monadicnew twitter drama over right wing body builder egg slonking. Can the biotin binding in egg whites really make you deficient if you're eating the yokes with it?
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Uriah on Northwest Europeans
244monadic(Preserving this great thead here- via @crimkadid on Twitter)
This is the Big One: the “why are Northwest Europeans so...different from everyone else?” post. I’m going to argue that they really do possess a significant mental advantage over other people, a result of frontal lobe overgrowth enabled by lactose tolerance.
Back in 2000 or so, there were lots of Nordicist attempts to explain NW European advantages by invoking ancient hunter gatherers. These arguments run into the problem that it's NE Europeans, like Latvians, who possess the highest amount of this ancestry, not Isaac Newton.
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notes on Marx
156monadicIt's incredible how far Marx will go in magical thinking to defend and deny inflation.
First, he points out that there is an African tribe which uses an imaginary currency called a "bar" when they exchange commodities. The one man will say that a cow is worth 3 bar, and wheat worth 1/8 bar per bushel. In this way they know that they can trade 1 cow for 8 bushels of wheat. He uses this example to say that price is something purely ideal, and merely an expression of the relative values of commodities. Now, when we use another commodity as the medium of exchange, e.g gold, it also depends on the value of gold, which we know for Marx means the labor time to produce gold. But price is the thing which is primary and the medium of exchange the arbitrary and accidental thing. So for him only two things can happen- either the value of gold changes, e.g through improvements in mining technology, or prices change of their own accord and money supply increasing is an effect of this rather than the opposite.
With debasement the problem is not that the quantity of money has increased, and therefore prices have gone up, but rather that since the copper that is being mixed in with the gold has a lower labor-time value, that is what has diminished the value of the money. If there were just more gold on the market but if it were not mixed with copper, it would have no effect on prices, is how Marx sees it. Even though the people trading have no idea about the copper, the labor value as some metaphysical spirit causes the prices to go up.
The other way is described in Capital. He says here that if the value of gold goes down (because technology has improved, so it requires less labor to mine), prices raise, and when prices raise, it requires there to be more money circulating to circulate those commodities, hence more money comes into the market. Marx believes that prices go up first, and then more money comes onto the market because of that.
The mixture in Marx's work of glimpses of genius and glimpses of mental retardation is more striking than in any other writer I've read. I think it can be explained by his fetish for centralized banking and ulterior motives. He's a smart guy, but when he writes for something he is promoting he has no problem writing nonsense. If you pull apart the good and bad in Marx I think you would see a pattern there
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Shallow eyes = Soulless
129monadicI heard you should never trust someone with shallow eyes, could there be something to this?
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50monadicstill think about this goethean-science anon from /lit/ around 2018. If you search the warosu archives for goethean science you can find some other posts from him. I think I recognize his writing style in a ton of old stuff actually
