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DIY-HP-LED

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I watched this a couple of days ago and it gives a pretty good description of the medieval Islamic world. It's the story of a world traveler and shows the richness and variety of the culture, it is by no means just fundamentalist Wahabism of the Saudi's that they tried to push into the larger Islamic world with money, other more northern and European Muslins are quite different culturally. Islam like Buddhism mutated as it spread and adopted local cultural influences, like Christianity adopted the Pagan practices of northern Europe.

At around this point in History Islam and Christianity started to diverge with the rise of secular civil society and technology. At one time they were more advanced than Christians and much of our knowledge of the Greeks and ancient western culture is from Islamic sources. This is just a small slice in time of history, but a good tale.


The Incredible Journey of Medieval Adventurer Ibn Battuta

208,302 views Aug 4, 2022
When most people are asked to name an epic traveller from history, they usually come up with names like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, or any number of other well-known European explorers and adventurers that come to mind. Very few could name an explorer or traveller outside the realm of medieval and renaissance Europe, despite the obvious reality that there was at the same time, an enormous, incredibly diverse and highly interconnected parallel world outside their own relatively isolated domain, in which the Islamic faith had established networks of sultanates and empires extending from the Westernmost edge of Africa, all the way to China.

This was a world in which newly conquered peoples were only just starting to assimilate the Arab Islamic culture, adopting – and adapting - this new faith to their own tastes and styles in an organic process of fusion that few Westerners ever credit other cultures as being capable of. What if I told you that around the same time of the celebrated Marco Polo, there was a young Muslim adventurer, who travelled 5 times as far. From his homeland in Morocco, through the middle East, doing numerous side-trips- north into Russia, with Mongol khans of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanate and Genoese traders, and then south again to India's Tughlaq Sultanate and South East Asia, dwelling in the court of mighty Sultans as well as hermits in lonely caves. He would go on to loop the middle East and Mediterranean and then sail down the mysterious East coast of Africa only to weave his way back north and on to modern Indonesia, Malaya and on to Yuan Dynasty China. Regularly stopping for months at a time to study and work under the greatest teachers of the day, on his journey, he would meet mystics and maniacs, firewalkers and killer elephants; princes and pirates.

He would marry and divorce ten times; win and lose several fortunes; undertake the sacred Hajj 5 times; outrun the bubonic plague; and after a quarter of a century eventually make his way home, only to travel across the Sahara into deepest Africa. He would go on to recount his journey, the people he met and the cultures he encountered in rich and vivid detail, in a precious book that would eventually make him a hero throughout the entire Islamic world, and a household name, much as Marco Polo is to us. If this sounds like a rollicking adventure worth exploring, then join us, as we dive into the life and times of Ibn Battuta (بْنُ بَطُّوطَةُ) - pilgrim, intellectual, adventurer, hustler and all out freeloading tourist whose exploits across 40 modern countries over thirty years held the record for the longest individual journey until the advent of the jet-age, making Marco Polo’s journey look like a Contiki tour.
 

schuylaar

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yes but when did the Volvo turn into a swan?
Mid-90s..The 940 stayed sedan-ish but turned into the S90..S70 different suspension and the C70 with low profile wheels sporty spunky feel the road car. I sold our dealerships first one right off the floor..lady and husband came looking, looking before she left I took a pic from our Polaroid (when we deliver the car) halfway home she turned around with pic in hand and bought the car. Between $50-60k.
 

cannabineer

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Mid-90s..The 940 stayed sedan-ish but turned into the S90..S70 different suspension and the C70 with low profile wheels sporty spunky feel the road car. I sold our dealerships first one right off the floor..lady and husband came looking, looking before she left I took a pic from our Polaroid (when we deliver the car) halfway home she turned around with pic in hand and bought the car. Between $50-60k.
I think I remember the C70 described as a Swedish Mustang.

The I-5 motor made a really cool major-third harmonic noise at high revs.
 

schuylaar

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Indonesia’s parliament has overhauled the country’s criminal code to outlaw sex outside marriage and curtail free speech, in a dramatic setback to freedoms in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Passed with support from all political parties, the draconian legislation has shocked not only rights activists but also the country’s booming tourism sector, which relies on a stream of visitors to its tropical islands.

Newspapers in Australia have labelled the legislation the “Bali bonk ban” as the law will apply to Indonesians and visiting foreigners. More than 1 million Australians visit Indonesia each year, with many heading to Bali for its yoga retreats, surfing and all-night beach parties.


Sucks, high on my list.

But then who needs tourists when you can just mine rainforests for nickel
Musk..again!
 

schuylaar

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I think I remember the C70 described as a Swedish Mustang.

The I-5 motor made a really cool major-third harmonic noise at high revs.
VOLVO means 'I roll'..due to the high intensity virgin steel used in the vehicle cage..even the C70 had a roll bar for when the top was down.
 

schuylaar

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If the republicans had won that big red wave, you would have Biden vetoing the same legislation in America, contraception and abortion bans too, Islam is more liberal than republicans when it comes to abortion.
What does it tell you when SCOTUS is floating their potential judgement to media?
 

DIY-HP-LED

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What does it tell you when SCOTUS is floating their potential judgement to media?
Impeachment inquiry, but the republicans control the house. However Sen Sheldon Whitehouse wants their asses and has for some time.


The Scheme 19: “Operation Higher Court” and the Supreme Court Ethics Crisis

8,007 views Nov 30, 2022
November 30 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, delivered the nineteenth in a series of speeches titled “The Scheme,” exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture the U.S. Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.

Whitehouse discussed “Operation Higher Court,” a private campaign by right-wing activists to “embolden the justices” to write “unapologetically conservative opinions.” Whitehouse also called on Congress to pass his Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, a bill to enact stronger recusal standards, require the Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of conduct, and mandate more robust rules governing judges’ duty to disclose gifts and travel paid for by outside parties.
 

schuylaar

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I watched this a couple of days ago and it gives a pretty good description of the medieval Islamic world. It's the story of a world traveler and shows the richness and variety of the culture, it is by no means just fundamentalist Wahabism of the Saudi's that they tried to push into the larger Islamic world with money, other more northern and European Muslins are quite different culturally. Islam like Buddhism mutated as it spread and adopted local cultural influences, like Christianity adopted the Pagan practices of northern Europe.

At around this point in History Islam and Christianity started to diverge with the rise of secular civil society and technology. At one time they were more advanced than Christians and much of our knowledge of the Greeks and ancient western culture is from Islamic sources. This is just a small slice in time of history, but a good tale.


The Incredible Journey of Medieval Adventurer Ibn Battuta

208,302 views Aug 4, 2022
When most people are asked to name an epic traveller from history, they usually come up with names like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, or any number of other well-known European explorers and adventurers that come to mind. Very few could name an explorer or traveller outside the realm of medieval and renaissance Europe, despite the obvious reality that there was at the same time, an enormous, incredibly diverse and highly interconnected parallel world outside their own relatively isolated domain, in which the Islamic faith had established networks of sultanates and empires extending from the Westernmost edge of Africa, all the way to China.

This was a world in which newly conquered peoples were only just starting to assimilate the Arab Islamic culture, adopting – and adapting - this new faith to their own tastes and styles in an organic process of fusion that few Westerners ever credit other cultures as being capable of. What if I told you that around the same time of the celebrated Marco Polo, there was a young Muslim adventurer, who travelled 5 times as far. From his homeland in Morocco, through the middle East, doing numerous side-trips- north into Russia, with Mongol khans of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanate and Genoese traders, and then south again to India's Tughlaq Sultanate and South East Asia, dwelling in the court of mighty Sultans as well as hermits in lonely caves. He would go on to loop the middle East and Mediterranean and then sail down the mysterious East coast of Africa only to weave his way back north and on to modern Indonesia, Malaya and on to Yuan Dynasty China. Regularly stopping for months at a time to study and work under the greatest teachers of the day, on his journey, he would meet mystics and maniacs, firewalkers and killer elephants; princes and pirates.

He would marry and divorce ten times; win and lose several fortunes; undertake the sacred Hajj 5 times; outrun the bubonic plague; and after a quarter of a century eventually make his way home, only to travel across the Sahara into deepest Africa. He would go on to recount his journey, the people he met and the cultures he encountered in rich and vivid detail, in a precious book that would eventually make him a hero throughout the entire Islamic world, and a household name, much as Marco Polo is to us. If this sounds like a rollicking adventure worth exploring, then join us, as we dive into the life and times of Ibn Battuta (بْنُ بَطُّوطَةُ) - pilgrim, intellectual, adventurer, hustler and all out freeloading tourist whose exploits across 40 modern countries over thirty years held the record for the longest individual journey until the advent of the jet-age, making Marco Polo’s journey look like a Contiki tour.
I'm quite interested in The Bog people of Northern Europe and the Egyptians..specifically the female pharaohs.
 

schuylaar

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Impeachment inquiry, but the republicans control the house. However Sen Sheldon Whitehouse wants their asses and has for some time.


The Scheme 19: “Operation Higher Court” and the Supreme Court Ethics Crisis

8,007 views Nov 30, 2022
November 30 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, delivered the nineteenth in a series of speeches titled “The Scheme,” exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture the U.S. Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.

Whitehouse discussed “Operation Higher Court,” a private campaign by right-wing activists to “embolden the justices” to write “unapologetically conservative opinions.” Whitehouse also called on Congress to pass his Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, a bill to enact stronger recusal standards, require the Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of conduct, and mandate more robust rules governing judges’ duty to disclose gifts and travel paid for by outside parties.
Do they? Who's Leader? It's not the Senate:wink:
 

schuylaar

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This is awesome..Eric Garner, Sandra Bland..12 people killed by police..you get to celebrate their birthday, they're no longer having.

 

schuylaar

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This is dedicated to Sam Bankman (that's funny.. Bankman) Fried who did what even Madoff couldn't do..this makes what Madoff did, look like an accounting error.


I imagine this kid telling family how all their FTX crypto is gone.

Money for nothing and chicks for free is only MTV.

 
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Sativied

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Speaking of former dutch colonies:


The research will be carried out by Leiden University and with supervision by a committee led by Gert Oostindie, emeritus professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History.

That name worries me. It's a clear sign the matrix is using more of its processing time and memory for something big to come, resorting to such young cache instead. "Oostindie" means East Indie, singular version of East Indies, aka the former dutch name for Indonesia.
 

xtsho

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Unfortunately he's just joining many other car manufacturing groups who invested billions for the same reason. The Indonesian government is to blame for selling their forests and polluting their waters.
Speaking of Indonesia. Better plan on getting married before taking the girlfriend to Bali on vacation.

"Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year under the new laws, which take effect in three years."


 

rkymtnman

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