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seven is a very fine number but it is no nine which is one of the most sacred numbers in the world. I always feel like the universe god is looking favourably at me when my total at the shop is made of individual numbers that add up to units of 9 - like 9.27 or 15.30.

five - quincunx, pentagram, THE QUINTESSENCE

All of the significant numbers in my life are 9s or resolve to 9 - a vision I once had during a psychotic break was of a world ‘breathing’ in 9s. It was very odd.

I've had a lifelong obsession with 9 myself and do all sorts of daft superstitious rituals based around it.

five is bad and ledge shd feel bad

nine is better than eight but it is no seven

used to be a seven partisan but i seem to have moved to nine

it's true five is kind of a garbage number

11 is tight though

hmm

11 is just two ones, who gives a shit

the letter k = 11, which is why crowley spelled magick like that

I would think twice before making fun of a number like 11

xi

1132 guys, 11=eternal return and 32=feet per sec per sec

Menninger’s Number Words and Number Symbols is U&K.

i remember liking the number 7 a lot as a child, being glad to turn 7 - this was partially because aesthetically i liked 7s, i definitely found 6s very bland.

3 is the best number

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No one actually cares about when Bernie Sanders conceded in 2016. 100% of the people who blame him for hurting Hillary Clinton's chances would still blame him if he had withdrawn three months earlier.

yep

For all the criticisms of Bernie, that one was always the most toothless

If he'd withdrawn three months earlier it would have been before the Russian Bear infiltrated the DNC, which means no leaks during the convention. So no, I think insiders really do care when he conceded. That it miiiiiight be unfair to think Sanders should have thought of Russian ratfuckers in his planning is another thing.

Iow, it's scapegoating, but the trauma is real

To Fred B

Thanx for Danesplaining

Sincerely yours,

Julie Newmar

Hi Neanderthal

We have twitter in Denmark, and I probably follow more neoliberal Dem insider scum than you do

Sincerely yours

Someone in the 21st Century

It's scapegoating = those 'insiders' would just find another reason to scapegoat him

If the Russians' goal was to hurt Clinton, idk how much difference it makes that they leaked the DNC emails four days before Sanders conceded (and a month after anyone had a chance to vote for him in a primary) or months afterwards. Anyone who was pissed off about the contents could have been pissed off either way. Anyone who think Sanders bears some responsibility for Russian ratfucking would have pointed to Russian social media trolls instead of DNC emails if they had never been leaked.

It seems as if ‘the dnc emails’ was less something to be disclosed, some mass of data, and more something that was constructed. The meaning of the emails was something made by a whole system of influence, mass communications, ideology etc.

I think the timing of the release was important for this process, the resulting meaning being chaotic. Of course maybe he result has more to do with the shape of the system processing the media than the contents of the media itself. Would the mass of beliefs about the political process be actually different if this process was starved of data?

There was no significant decline in Clinton's poll numbers following the July DNC email leak.

Sorry, I was more thinking about what the leak was seen to mean rather than it’s effects.

"And being a congress member is somehow better than being Secretary of State and First Lady of US and Arkansas." -- frederik b, expert on the nuances of american politics, january 2016

children should be emancipated from their parents no later than age 5

and vice versa tbf

on board w this

if you don't follow sports especially basketball you can't truly understand hip hop

That would explain me, at the least.

if you don't follow sports especially cricket you can't truly understand prog rock

if you dont follow sports especially wrestling you can't truly understand what the rock is cookin

if you don't follow sports especially bocce ball you can't truly understand how to please a man

I agree with all these

Films aren’t art.

What are the Roaring Twenties like from up close? I've always wondered.

much louder

my less controversial but still controversial opinion is that film isn't a narrative medium. Neither are television, or novels, or video games. Basically only drama is narrative.

"people are stupid" is at worst untrue and at best a poor explanation of anything

Most people who say it resemble the remark

otm, there just isn't any such thing imo

As stupidity? How noble of you.

i've certainly never seen any

Stupidity should be seen and not heard

people are stupid all the time but any one person is very rarely always stupid and vice versa