In France they have a separate company that verifies the age, and when you then visit your eccentric and embarrassing porn site, they verify the age, but provide no further info.

She has since been eaten, with a dash of oregano and soy, and side dishes of baked potatoes, onions and carrots. She was accompanied by red wine of the finest sort, and her remains transported forthwith to the local compost bin.

Belmondo is a B movie actor, many of film were B-movies. He played in genre movies, often action comedies, L’as de L’as, Le Cervau, Animal etc. De Funes specialized in comedies. When i say B-movies it is not derogatory in any way, but a way to set them apart from these slightly self conscious drama movies that win oscars, or the cahiers directors of the new wave. They were both in the entertainment business. Some of the plots in a Belmondo movie resemble a Van Damme movie today, but without the martial arts. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill adds that physical element, but in a way that makes them into European Jackie Chan movies, in a way. The stylized fist fight with a gleam in your eye. It is physical comedy in a sort Chaplin of tradition. Remember also that the modern spy thriller was created when hitchcock arrived from Babelsberg where he had been educated during the silent era, and then he filmed the pioneers of the british thriller genre, Joseph Conrad (secret agent) and John Buchan (39 steps, that is invasion literature) and Ethel Lina White (Lady Vanishes), and Farjeon (number seventeen). Then he moved to the US, and continued developing this. But the genre was created in the UK, using all these british writers in british made films with british actors. he also made a serial killer movie, The Lodger (Marie belloc lowndes story). And in Germany Billy Wilder, Fritz Lange and Peter Lorre (the famous villain of the murder movie M), were refuges from europe to hollywood. lange fled from persecution and his nazi wife, and then helped spur the noir film tradition, which used the novels written in the us by old american soldiers of WWI, Hammet, Chandler, Burnett, but also the Brit Graham Greene, a later generation of that type of story. But the point is that these were European immigrants to the US, and they created many iconic movies of the Hollywood golden age. And through immigrants like Von Sternberg, Wilder and Lange that lighting you see in those alleys was created. They were not the only source, but the ones i mentioned were all european trained. The film school generation drew heavily on the European tradition, but often serious films. But Tarantino, a generation after them, remade one of the most iconic spagetti westerns Django. Had it not been for him, those old Django movies would not have been lauded the way they have. And Eastwood created his career using Leone as a director, another import from Europe. He also starred alongside Burton in an Alistair Maclean movie, a scottish writer who shaped action movies in a major way. It should also be noted that a huge number of iconic Hollywood movies are REMAKES of classic French genre movies. They bought the scripts, and we in Europe only remember the English language version? Many people do not even know this? And if you removed all the old British actors from the Hollywood golden age (James Mason, Cary Grant, Laurence Oliver, Ralph Richardson, John Guilgud, Alec Guinnes, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Burton, Charlie Chaplin etc), there might not even be anything to term a Hollywood Golden Age? Ingrid Bergman and Greta Garbo were swedes, and Charles Boyer French.

Even today, European actors are very important in Hollywood (think Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes etc). Arnold is Austrian and van damme Belgian.

The point here is that Europe has made great entertainment, they have just been prevented from making most of it at home. But what if they were not?

What do you mean by communist? Karl Marx died ages before the Russian revolution, he knew nothing about it. According to Lyndon Orr, who wrote an early piece on him, he was not a cold rational man, but rather a dirt poor and very passionate man, who adored his own wife. When he wrote about poverty he wrote about the poverty of characters like Little Dorrit, the world of undeserving poor, child labor and so on. There were many reasons for the Victorian poor to be angry. The Russian revolution occurred in 1917, and stalin died in the early 1950s. If you by communist mean that stalin followed lenin, you might be right. You might also be right in assuming that Marx himself was an advocate of violence to achieve ends. But it came from a place of hurt, and it was by no means any genocidal rage or psychopathic coldness about him. There is a very odd story about Vienna, at one point in 1913 both stalin and hitler were in the same parts of vienna, but as far as we know they never met.

Even if AI is an enabling technology that solves many problems, it is also a potentially a horrific totalitarian tool. And the consumers must be protected. By this I mean, they must not be allowed to centralize too much and regional and local services established. And the consumers must have an offline PC, in which some services work detached from this thing. They can still use the services on some other PC. The purpose is to protect spaces for being human, centralization that i heard bezos wish for is the absolute worst scenario.

The shift in the labor force will be different from previous tech revolutions, it will hit those with education, not manual laborers. That means that jobs that have traditionally been occupied by immigrants will be more sought after. This is a secondary reason for the anti-immigrant views now prevalent in the us. Then there is this wish they have to centralize their Ai, and when movies become autogenerated, to have us watch them in their centralized brainwashing cash cow. They are slashing budgets as if their life depended on it, and building huge solar powered data centers for this in Texas and other sunny places.

Everything is CGI, they beat you to death with horn-blowers and fanfares and explosions, and then they hammer the moral of the movie into your head with a sledgehammer in drawn-out and nauseating camera-staring monologues. And there is also a limit to how much interest I am able to muster for the psychological dilemmas that come with superpowers.

I can tell you that I am not entirely happy about AI myself. But we cannot “un-invent” it? So we must deal with it, unfortunately.

I wrote a short story on this issue, and recorded it with myself as narrator https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9rmsie

I agree with this, but not because I intend to boycott american products, i just dont think that consumers benefit when there are very few choices. Some people want only ONE BRAND of cornflakes, and I dont think it is right. This was my view long before Trump

There is this fantastic nineteenth century tech that i came across, which i think could be improved upon by using lightweight modern carbon stuff, like in a bicycle. It is a laundery wringer. You attatch them to a bucket, and then you place your wet laundery in them and use a crank. It must be of such length that the process does not become toilsome. It removes 95% of all water. Then they hung up the laundery in those days when they were in use, and they dried much quicker. If mass produced, students could just have one under the bed, and fetch it when needed. The problem is that those i see are too expensive and in steel, which means heavy and cumbersome. If Musk could ditch this pointless and overly expensive migration plan to Mars, he could solve this high-tech issue and have them sold at low cost to students?

But what can be done? What should one do? It is not possible to un-invent a new technology?

I am afraid it has arrived. A student can ask Ai to do all his homework. And they all do probably

The advancing Russian forces must be distracted by means of cheap vodka.

AI is going to really transform education, I am waiting to see what models they will chose? I am actually a little puzzled over this new Ai thing…

As permanent draught takes hold of the American Midwest, it will affect agricultural output there, and the Ukraine war will also affect food production. So, Canada might produce more food, if temperatures rise? Isn’t it natural to assume that what is now grown farther south, in a future of elevated temperatures, might grow well in the north?

Let me tell you a thing that is not often mentioned, which I think contributed to the rise of the American right we see today. In the us, unlike in Europe where freedom was economically tied to the rise of lower classes in their struggle against landowners and aristocracy, the notion of freedom implied a freedom from the norms of the majority. This is the old “frontier myth”. Then the prairie was settled, but that myth was entrenched. Then the internet came and opened up an unlimited and unregulated space for these cults and alternative views, and since the technological dynamics constantly drives everyone away from pain and towards pleasure, that is confirmation of existing beliefs, the “echo chambers” mushroomed. Because of historical baggage, the US was predisposed towards eccentricity, in a way. On top of this comes the fact that Congress has always had a very very low approval rating. It is epitomized by the representatives who read the phone book out loud, or filibuster, from the podium in order to sabotage the passing of legislation. At salaries paid by the taxpayer!! Then there is the annual shutdown ritual over the raising of the debt ceiling, which could have been avoided by switching from absolute numbers to a percentage of GDP. But it is a ritual, like the knocking on the door of the British parliament. So they keep it. But it adds an impression that they do nothing, that everything is jammed and that no representatives from different parties ever talk to each other over coffee, and that “hate” remains even after the cameras are off.

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No, it is not Darwinism, for in his The Dsecent of Man from the 1870s Darwin extended natural selection to include emotions; it is the individuals who are to reproduce that transmit their genes to the next generation. And the process of dating does not proceed by rape. Then there is a debate concerning “group selection”, and whether there is a selective mechanism at that level. Then it shifts a little back and forth, with inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) making an occasional comeback until the modern synthesis between Darwin and Mendel in the 1930. But these days, horizontal gene transfer and several other mechanisms continue to blur the image a little. And Gould’s old calculations that made directed evolution improbable have also been challenged in computer models, and where they have landed, I do not actually know, since it has been some years since I even thought about this subject. What you are talking about is probably Herbert Spencer, who by some weird coincidence (or perhaps it was intended?), is buried next to his ideological opposite, Karl Marx, in a London cemetery. It is from Spencer that many such things have emerged. His influence upon the robber barons and the shaping of the American right was considerable.

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