Andy Brice

'Bugonia' is definately not your average hollywood fare. Worth seeing if you like your dark comedy more dark than comedy.

Nice paint job. However I wouldn't drive a Tesla, no matter what colour it was.

It might make sense in a very hot country. But I don't know why you would do it otherwise. Unless you like cleaning cars.

The Decline of Deviance Where has all the weirdness gone?

Should have included the source: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin... . The whole article is worth a read.

Starmer seems like a decent human being (especially compared to various Tory leaders) but distinctly lacking in political skills.

Easy to find in the car park! Mine is a rather nice blue.

Yes, car colours really are getting more boring.

The Royal Society has been similarly gutless.

I've seen jellyfish with more spine.

Farage: epic grifter

Yes, I was struck by that. I even have a 19 year old son!

The end definitely did not justify the means.

She sounds great.

20 years working on the same software product I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has c…

We made it! There are a few parallels. I did my write up here: successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/2...

I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...

Congratulations! PerfectTablePlan's was 20 in January. Where does the time go?

Swapped one mad king for another.

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

However you describe it, the end result is still delicious.

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But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Will be interesting to hear how this went. I've often thought about it, but always found a reason not to.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

If they close shops, that is also a win isn't it?

That is pretty feeble.

I can't imagine she is going to last long enough as leader for it to matter too much.

Guns at Annunciation I was baptized at the church where kids were murdered. It's a canary in the coal mine for a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns.

It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:

The first Total War Shogun game was great. Never got the same feeling from later ones I tried.

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