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                      2021 başlarken bir soru / / A Question As We Go Into 2021
                      • 1 min

                      2021 başlarken bir soru / / A Question As We Go Into 2021

                      Soru aşağıdaki Türkçe video'nun içinde. The question is in the English video below. Kaynakça / Resource: https://ourworldindata.org/birth...
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                      Acaba biraz Dünya'ya mı baksak?
                      • 4 min

                      Acaba biraz Dünya'ya mı baksak?

                      Bu postun başına koyduğum resmin özel bir anlamı var, tesadüfen seçilmiş birşey değil. İlk bakışta güzel birşeymiş gibi duruyor, değil mi...
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                      An interval of unease
                      • 3 min

                      An interval of unease

                      I sleep a lot. Most of the day I am asleep. I wake up very late in the afternoon. I need the little black cat to be with me, and she usua...
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                      Where the blazes are the percentages? aka. yes, of course it is a new religion…
                      • 2 min

                      Where the blazes are the percentages? aka. yes, of course it is a new religion…

                      Because what else would you call something that ignores data and instead goes solely by superstition and dogma? The big superstition arou...
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                      Yes – it is absolutely a new religion…
                      • 4 min

                      Yes – it is absolutely a new religion…

                      Complete with its priests, its acolytes, its zealots, evangelists and pious worshipers. And its symbols and attire. Namely, the mask. Its...
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                      And… There is Life on the Street!
                      • 2 min

                      And… There is Life on the Street!

                      I am not going to make this long. There is a lot to write, to think about and to self-examine. Especially self-examine. Back when I wrote...
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                      Don’t blame me… Blame Mark Twain!
                      • 1 min

                      Don’t blame me… Blame Mark Twain!

                      “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ____ Attributed to Mark Twain. ____________________ A pic...
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                      Very odd indeed…
                      • 2 min

                      Very odd indeed…

                      Surely I am not the only one who sees something askew with this, am I? This has actually been on my mind for quite a while now but I want...
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                      Is this a religion now?
                      • 2 min

                      Is this a religion now?

                      This man I know. In general good health as far as I am aware. Very intelligent. Educated. Creative. Sophisticated. And scared to death of...
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                      The music that we lost…
                      • 1 min

                      The music that we lost…

                      Which is also the America that we lost… Because regardless of whether we ourselves were Americans or not, the music was ours. We lost the...
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                      I disapprove of what you say…
                      • 3 min

                      I disapprove of what you say…

                      … but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Well, disapprove is probably too strong a word. I didn’t exactly disapprove. Not ...
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                      Isn’t it my job to fret?
                      • 3 min

                      Isn’t it my job to fret?

                      My nearest and dearest appear to be worried about me. “What difference does it make if you fret like this?” “You cannot change anything, ...
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                      Taking out yesterday’s trash
                      • 4 min

                      Taking out yesterday’s trash

                      I saw this a little while ago: https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/12/why-are-some-alt-media-embracing-a-permanent-police-state/ I wasn’t go...
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                      Dumbing Down. Part 2
                      • 14 min

                      Dumbing Down. Part 2

                      A while ago I wrote a post in which I talked about the dumbing down of the world mind. It is a long one, I’m afraid, (and this one will p...
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                      Datavis shenanigans
                      • 8 min

                      Datavis shenanigans

                      I have been wanting to do this for days. It is my profession, after all. Or rather, it is a very important part of my profession – data v...
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                      Stick a pin in these, aka. my little laundry list
                      • 13 min

                      Stick a pin in these, aka. my little laundry list

                      This is a feed of information and analysis with regards to the current outbreak of covid 19. The feed goes against and questions the prev...
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                      I don’t really know how to put a title to this post
                      • 3 min

                      I don’t really know how to put a title to this post

                      This time next year – if it turns out that this is indeed a massive pandemic that in the meantime has killed millions, as they are now pr...
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                      Who Benefits?
                      • 2 min

                      Who Benefits?

                      A few hours after I made that post yesterday, about half of which asks the question “who benefits” to which I myself cannot find the answ...
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                      I am more scared than I have ever been
                      • 11 min

                      I am more scared than I have ever been

                      And I am alone in my fear. Blogger is now putting page views right next to the posts on the dashboard, so one doesn’t have to go to a sta...
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                      March 2020 – Naxos made me write this…
                      • 5 min

                      March 2020 – Naxos made me write this…

                      I have not written anything on this blog for a long time. I could say it was because nothing terribly interesting was happening and that ...
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