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It's been fifty years since magery returned to the north. The citizens of the Sharren Accord have enjoyed decades of peace and prosperity.
Giadella Marteen didn't mean to ruin that.
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被名字耽误了的并非玄学养生科普综述——读「超越百岁」 https://blog.douchi.space/book-outlive/?utm_source=douchi.space
作为一个养生博主（？），尤其是这两年年纪越大越注重养生，就摘抄一些读书笔记哪怕能多唤醒一个人更注重自己的身心健康也是极好的。
本书原文名就起得一般了双关没被强调，中文翻译名真是雪上加霜，跟书里开篇就讲“不是要延长低质量寿命，而是要做好预防增加高质量生命的时间”根本就完全是两个意思。翻译质量也堪忧，也就比流传甚广的 AI 机翻版强那么一丁点，依然是词不达意需要去猜一下原文是什么帮助自己理解。书确实是被标题耽误了，内容其实还可以，不是什么养生玄学，甚至从分子生物学和生物化学角度的科普讲得篇幅都有些略多略枯燥了。话虽如此绝大多数内容还是“道理你都懂”的东西，但没一本书来系系统统来跟你整理逻辑据理说教可能真还容易忽略很多事情的重要性，就冲着万一看完能让自己重视健康付出点行动了的可能性也值得一看。
"“苻宏这个人吧，确实没多大的野心；但有些仇如何报，他还是很清楚的。于是，当他发兵的时候，他人还未到洛阳，已让人给姚兴送去了一份礼物。这份礼物成功让姚兴掀了桌子，因为……它是一条铁制裤衩。意思很明显：你爹为了驱我爹的好鬼魂，被兵器扎中了下半身，创伤感染去世了，我先送你一条铁裤衩，你总不会这麽稀里糊涂地死了？”"
— 千里江风: 天幕剧透我谋朝篡位, p. 41
此事在星露谷物语中亦有记载（并没有）
因为没有很喜欢读叙事的书所以没读下去，但”Why be happy, when you could be normal“这个书名真的很有启发。这句话是（queer）作者的母亲对作者说的，说出来听起来离谱对不对？但放到现实生活中很多人的实际选择其实就是这位母亲的思路。所以觉得有时候做选择的时候这句话拿出来警醒自己再好不过了。
（相比起来中文这本书翻译成正向的“我要快乐，不必正常”感觉力量就比反问弱太多了）
Quite a relaxing Saturday, though still productive. Early morning work on a private cloud architecture for Gentoo VM hosts with Rocky 8/9 VMs, then a very pleasant nap, followed by two hours at the pool for the first time in years, real D3 from the sun!
Afternoon resumed a legacy effort to process RAW slide scans of old "Scala 200" and "Provia 400" photos from the 90s (always shot at 100 ISO, with exposure coefficient adjustment to get deeper contrast). So, yeah, here's late teenage me.
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最近在看象上有人推荐的「被入侵的天堂」（拉美环境史）。昨天读到作者提到其实欧洲人眼中的“新世界”准确来说不应该是从 1492 年开始的，毕竟当时拉美文明昌盛人口密集，跟后来人们印象中的密林自然人烟稀少的“新世界”完全是两幅景象。欧洲人带来的病菌战乱导致美洲原住民人口骤降 90% 之后自然重新占领大片以前的人类聚居区形成的世界才是欧洲人之后大规模移民 17、8 世纪之后熟知的“新世界”模样。
Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #goodreads ? #Bookwyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #Bookwyrm instances and on #mastodon . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
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#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
Both the first and second book of the Desolation saga will be available on my new Kickstarter, at a discount. Jump on in to the series critics are calling: "exciting and multifaceted", "Fun, thrilling and sharp" & "imaginative and fast-paced".
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started reading Beneath the Underdog
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"时间在户外有一种奇异的面貌。在太阳之下，时间好像是静止的。只有当每一分钟都是一种对身体的折磨时，你才会发现原来一个小时里真的有六十分钟，而且下一个小时并不比这个小时更接近黄昏。受钟表支配的室内工作者们从来没有跟时间正面交锋过。他们的秒针在打字机的“哒哒”声中走得飞快。当打字机静下来时，他们的一天也结束了。我们这些在户外工作的人，每天都在跟永恒作斗争，其间只有我们的手是忙碌的；我们的头脑在日出和日落之间可能已经变老又再度年轻；未来可能在一个小时中被重写，乌鸫的一首歌还没唱完，希望可能就被杀死又重生过了。我们确切地知道一天有多长。在几个月漫长的煎熬后，我们因为许多的沉默和许多的惊奇而苍老困惑，回到坐在办公室的朋友身边时却发现他们完全没有变化，只一脸单纯地从时间的表面滑过。"
— Stella Benson: 独居, pp. 127-128
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『古罗马的法律还有这样一个特点：它们即使年深日久也不会失效，只会陷入被遗忘的境地，然后又被某个狡猾的讼师在需要的时候从故纸堆里翻出。接着它们的有效性就通过在某个具体案例中的成功运用再一次得到证实。法律和立法程序并非以成文宪法为基础，而是以声望和人格尊严权（dignitas）为依据，贵族阶层对此多有贡献。此外，政治家的权威也是立法的重要依据，他们运用法律、颁布法律、执行法律。故此，一条法律的效力与一位辩护士、一位政治家或是一个群体的社会声望和执行能力息息相关，是他们使法律生效。因而人格尊严权和政治权威在罗马意味着更大的影响力和权势，比一位高级官员手中的职权（potestas）更甚。数百年来，这给了罗马共和国必要的制度弹性，令共和国能及时应对各种变革。在共和国最后的100年里，这却往往意味着专制。每一次职务的交接和权力关系的变化，都能带来一轮法律条文和国家制度的变迁，因为政治家个人和他的利益对立法和释法起到越来越强的一锤定音的作用，而元老院和监察官们作为审查机构却失灵了。』
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Probably the best and most easy to understand text on dialectics, materialism and Marxism I've ever had the pleasure to read.
https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/elementary-principles-of-philosophy/
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