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Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 13. juli 2020 - 10:57 [0]

Autoritære regimer tilsmiler de korrupte og udygtige

The Anglo-Saxon world is not so different from Poland and Hungary. Britain has handled Covid-19 so disastrously because only servile nobodies, willing to pretend that a no-deal Brexit would not harm the country, could gain admittance to Boris Johnson’s cabinet.

Rather than grab at standard explanations, Applebaum understands that a society based on merit may sound fine if you want to live in a country run by talented people. But what if you are not yourself talented? Since the 1950s, criticisms of meritocracy have become so commonplace they have passed into cliche. Not one I have read or indeed written stops to consider how one-party states represent the anti-meritocratic society in its purest form. Among her friends who became the servants of authoritarian movements, Applebaum sees the consequences of the lust for status among resentful men and women, who believe the old world never gave them their due.

Ny bog af Anne Applebaum.

 

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 6. juli 2020 - 8:15 [0]

Erin's Audio Corner

Erin's Audio Corner er et af de bedste hjørner at læse om billigt hifi. En ærlig nørd.

I’m seeing reviewers give these 4/5 stars. I don’t understand how. I guess they just want to sell speakers through their affiliate links or the like. I can’t imagine any other reason why someone would recommend these for hi-fi purposes. What I heard from the get-go was bad and what I saw in the data was even worse. I know it is hypocritical to tell you to ignore others’ positive (subjective) reviews and trust my negative review but I can back my reasons up with data and will do so in this review.

Fra testen+anmeldelsen af Jamo S807. Heldigvis får han også godt udstyr melem hænderne.

Fundet via den fine artikel The Biggest Lie in Audio.

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 21. juni 2020 - 7:56 [0]

Signalér som var det Facebook Classic

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 13. juni 2020 - 7:46 [0]

Sjov (vrang)forestilling

Siri, hvis mig morsom selvovervurdering:

Jeg skriver hurtigt, så jeg har nok sammenlagt brugt 1 time på at diskutere dit opslag. Hvis du sammenholder det med hvor mange mennesker, der er blevet varigt klogere er der jo helt enormt ROI!

Fra et sted i den sammenklapede morads af kommentarer til Affæren of statsministerbesøget
 

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 13. juni 2020 - 6:23 [0]

Amerikanske medier i krise

"We’re watching an intellectual revolution undertaken by a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts - Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness."

The American Press Is Destroying Itself

Propaganda-kanalen Fox er også rædderlig .

Og det er ikke kun medierne, der er uholdbare .

Steven Snedkers billede
Af Steven Snedker den 12. juni 2020 - 8:57 [0]

Den dag de kom efter Halløj på badehotellet

I England er de ved at udrense "Halløj på badehotellet", "Little Britain" og meget andet. Der er sådan lidt Fahrenheit 451 over det. Og noget 1984. Vi må ikke høre hvad den senile major født i 1895 tænker. Vi må ikke se Basil krænke sin omgivelser.
I sådanne tider er jeg glad for at have været med til at lave TV4ever . Jeg har optaget det meste af det, der nu censureres og kan, med lidt held, pakke det ud og vise det til børnebørnene om 20 år. Så de også kan høre en af verdens bedste replikker: "Me? You started it! [...] you invaded Poland!"

Opført som en række hurtige links

https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1271178600679723017

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1271013104755920898

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1271015980408414208

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1271035409817100289

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1270804154714337280

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1270791147846275075

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1270607895537819648

https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1270770623049072640

https://twitter.com/TheTortorian/status/1270998818977468418

https://twitter.com/JarvisDupont/status/1270292723027922944

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/481916-every-record-has-been-destroyed-or-falsified-every-book-rewritten

Men selvfølgelig vil der altid være dvd'er...

https://twitter.com/findus_ff/status/1270967057966870528

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