Nearly three years later, I had a chance to actually look in the book since it is now being sold in a museum in Devon!
Many lies in here. DNA shows "11% of people in Roman York were black" - there are literally NO confirmed black samples from Roman York! They just made that up!
Early European Farmers in Britain had "dark brown skin" - No.
The page depicting Tudor England is a joke!
Ever notice that in Dune humans fly spaceships between planets but don't use a single computer?
That's not a plot hole. It's completely on purpose. The movies barely explain why, but once you know, almost everything else in Dune starts to make sense.
About 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, humans did exactly what we're doing right now. They built thinking machines to make life easier. They let the machines do their work and make their decisions, hoping it would set them free.
Instead, the people who controlled those machines gained the power to enslave everyone else.
Humanity eventually fought back in a holy war called the Butlerian Jihad, and won. The thinking machines were destroyed.
To make sure it would never happen again, they made one rule sacred: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
But getting rid of computers created a problem: who would do their work? The answer was humans.
Mentats are trained from childhood to think like computers. Navigators use the spice to glimpse the future and steer ships safely through space. The Bene Gesserit spend generations pushing the human mind and body to their limits.
Every superpower in Dune exists for one reason: there are no computers.
That's my favorite thing about Dune. It's also the most terrifying. Dune isn't a future without AI. It's the future after AI.
Frank Herbert wrote that in 1965.
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-ESCÁNDALO: La ganadora de las elecciones de BERLÍN, del partido de ultraizquierda Die Linke confiesa por error que Hamás controla su partido y teme por su vida💣
Un error acaba de generar una crisis de seguridad impresionante. La revista Der Spiegel —un medio, cabe destacar, de marcada tendencia izquierdista— ha sacado a la luz un documento interno que prueba cómo Die Linke ha sido secuestrado por el islamismo.
Su candidata a gobernar Berlín, Elif Eralp, envió por accidente a la redacción las notas privadas de una entrevista donde confiesa estar coaccionada y aterrorizada por Hamás que opera dentro de su propio partido.
Resulta que luego de una entrevista, el equipo de la candidata revisó la transcripción. Durante este proceso, Eralp hizo comentarios internos que debían quedar en la más estricta confidencialidad. Sin embargo, el documento con las acotaciones sin borrar fue devuelto a los periodistas.
El contenido de esas notas es dinamita. Cuando Der Spiegel le preguntó por Ibrahim Ibrahim —un propalestino simpatizante de Hamás que celebró la masacre del 7 de octubre—, la respuesta pública iba a ser esquiva. Pero en el margen del documento filtrado, Eralp escribió la verdad: «Hay un PROBLEMA. [...] mi marido no, y yo tampoco, quiero nombrar nombres concretos, él tiene miedo de esta gente y yo también».
La filtración expone la cruda realidad del islamoizquierdismo en Alemania: Eralp llegó a comparar el nivel de amenaza de estos militantes pro-Palestina con el del Crimen Organizado e implora abortar la publicación: «No puedo poner en peligro a mí misma y a mi familia por Der SPIEGEL. ¿Qué hacemos ahora? ¿Anulamos toda la entrevista?».
El mayor chiste de toda esta situación, sin embargo, quedó plasmado en una de las frases que Eralp sí quería publicar. En un alarde de desconexión absoluta, la candidata afirma en la entrevista: «Lo que sí puedo decir con total claridad es que, como alcaldesa gobernante, velaré por la seguridad de todas las berlinesas y todos los berlineses». Una promesa que resulta irrisoria viniendo de una dirigente que, en el mismo documento, reconoce en secreto que ni siquiera puede proteger a su propia familia de las bases de su partido.
Luego del escándalo, Eralp ha anunciado que procederá legalmente contra Der Spiegel y presentará una queja formal ante el Consejo de Prensa por haber citado sus anotaciones internas. Esta maniobra judicial evidencia de inmediato lo susceptibles y completamente desbordados que están en realidad estos cuadros dirigentes frente a situaciones de crisis.
La izquierda radical berlinesa creyó que podía capitalizar electoralmente el extremismo islámico; hoy, los documentos demuestran que es el extremismo quien los tiene de rehenes.
Cobb County honors Native Americans by having an African American in tribal attire identify as being an "indigenous person"
This could be a South Park skit
When I was in Africa, there was a constant, visceral hatred of whites because we had stuff and they didn’t.
There was no corresponding curiosity about how that stuff was created, multiplied or maintained.
All that mattered was that they wanted the stuff and that it was “unfair” they didn’t have it.
This is exactly the mentality that socialism feeds because it is exactly the same instinct, only expressed in fancier language.
You could hear it explicitly and repeatedly in the words of the rioters, looters and protesters in France.
You can hear it in the words of the illegal immigrants / invaders to the West.
It’s the resentful cry of those who believe that stuff falls magically from the sky, and who demand their share of the magic too.
A donkey's mistake left 51 dead
According to foreign media, worshippers inside a mosque in #Afghanistan were performing their prayers when a frightened donkey bolted and entered the mosque. Some angry worshippers opened fire on the donkey, killing it.
The news reached the donkey's owner, who, enraged, rushed to the mosque, opened fire on the worshippers with a hail of bullets, and fled.
Thirteen worshippers were killed inside the mosque.
The remaining worshippers, enraged, launched an attack on the donkey owner's village using light and heavy weapons, killing 38 people, including 33 women.
Ultimately, a donkey going to a mosque resulted in the deaths of 51 people.
Don’t EVER tell me that Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar isn’t a hero, or that it was just an ‘altercation’ in the cockpit.
The man is a genuine HERO who saved 174 lives from a scumbag Islamic jihadist who wanted to end 174 lives.
Each single Somalian in Finland carries the same government and welfare cost PER YEAR that a native Finn costs over an 86 year lifetime.
Let that sink in.
The Western world is filled with low IQ leeches who destroyed their countries so came to ours.
Que no me vengan con que ha sido un error humano.
En el siglo XXI un tren no choca con nada. No puede. Para eso existen el ERTMS, el ASFA, los enclavamientos y los circuitos de vía: para que, cuando el humano se equivoque, la máquina frene sola. Esa es su única función.
Si un AVE con 397 pasajeros ha podido alcanzar a un tren parado, es porque esa capa de protección no estaba. Averiada, desconectada o en modo degradado, da igual. No estaba.
Y un sistema de seguridad que depende de que un operario no se equivoque no es un sistema de seguridad. Es una lotería con horario.
El error humano no es la causa. Es el síntoma. La causa es que alguien decidió que se podía circular a 300 km/h con el sistema principal caído y una persona como único respaldo.
En mi sector, cuando falla el principal, entra el secundario. Cuando falla el secundario, entra el terciario. Cuando no hay terciario, no se sale. Se llama redundancia y no es un lujo. Es lo que separa un incidente de un funeral.
Echarle la culpa al maquinista es lo más barato. Y lo más cobarde.
El que diseñó un sistema donde un humano puede matar a 500 personas, ese es el responsable.
I simply can't fucking believe this is happening.
How the hell is the Islamisation of the world allowed to happen everywhere?
In Israel, of all places, a party whose Muslim leader refuses to recognise Hamas as a terrorist group has more seats in parliament than Jewish Israeli nationalists, after Hamas's massacre!!!!
In the US, Muslim Brotherhood candidates are running for the senate, with the full backing of the Democrats.
And, Western Europe is entirely captured by the Muslim Brother and Jihadists!
What the fucking hell is wrong with you all?
Are you so despicable and cowardly that you're literally allowing the scum of the earth yo take over your countries?
What the fuck is happening? Did you look at places like Iraq and Lebanon and decided "ah, we'd love to be like these countries"?
This is sickening!
The biggest mistake tourists make in Japan is dragging a fifty-pound suitcase up and down subway stairs.
Watch how Japanese travelers board the bullet train. They walk on with a cup of green tea, a small shoulder bag, and both hands free.
Where is their luggage? It is already in the next city, waiting for them.
In Japan, the system is called Takkyubin, recognizable everywhere by a logo of a mother black cat carrying her kitten gently in her mouth.
When you check out of your hotel in Tokyo at eight in the morning, you hand your heavy suitcase to the front desk, fill out a tiny slip, and pay about twenty dollars. You can even send it straight from the corner convenience store.
Then you spend the entire day wandering through mountain temples or eating street food with nothing on your back.
When you walk into your traditional inn in Kyoto that evening, your suitcase is already standing neatly in your room, wiped clean, with the handle turned toward you.
In fifty years of handling millions of bags a year, lost luggage is virtually unheard of.
A society runs smoothly when you can hand your belongings to a stranger at a convenience store and know they will beat you to your hotel.