🧊 freezr 🥶If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
Sean MurthyWhy Iran needed to be bombed:
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#Iran #Pakistan #assassination #news #guilty #sarcasm #excuses #rationale
Pakistani business owner convicted in Iran-backed plot against US politicians
A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil. A jury delivered its verdict against Asif Merchant on Friday. Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign. He testified that he was acting on instructions from a contact in the Islamic Republic’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Merchant said the handler broached possible targets including then-candidate Donald Trump, then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and presidential hopeful. The Iranian government has denied trying to kill U.S. officials.
WIST QuotationsTHE DOCTOR: Logic, my dear Zoë, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
Doctor Who (1963-1989) British science fiction television series (BBC)
05×07 “The Wheel In Space,” Part 3 (1968-05-11) [w. David Whitacker, Kit Pedlar]
More about this quote: wist.info/doctor-who-1963/4639…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #authority #error #logic #rationale #reason #doctorwho #seconddoctor
Hacker NewsThe JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05987
#HackerNews #JPEGXL #ImageCoding #Features #Design #Rationale #CodingTools
The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future
JPEG XL is a new image coding system offering state-of-the-art compression performance, lossless JPEG recompression, and advanced features. It aims to replace JPEG, PNG, GIF, and other formats with a single universal codec. This article provides an overview of JPEG XL, including its history, design rationale, coding tools, and future potential. It can be used as a companion document to the standard (ISO/IEC 18181), or as a standalone article to better understand JPEG XL, either at a high level or in considerable technical detail.
WIST Quotations Has Moved!HECUBA: The clear actions of a man,
Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
good words should get their goodness from our lives
and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
a rottenness that festers in our speech
and what we say, in capable of being glozed
with a film of pretty words.
There are men, I know,
sophists who make a science of persuasion,
glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
but in the end a speciousness will show.
The imposters are punished; not one escapes
his death.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]
Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
good words should get their goodness from our lives
and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
a rottenness that festers in our speech
and what we say, in capable of being glozed
with a film of pretty words.
There are men, I know,
sophists who make a science of persuasion,
glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
but in the end a speciousness will show.
The imposters are punished; not one escapes
his death.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77262/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #actions #evil #excuse #glibness #persuasion #propaganda #rationale #smoothtalker #sophistry #wordsanddeeds
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much as the embarrassing questions put by babes and sucklings. Their most antisocial acts indicate the defects of our society. When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertLouisStevenson #adolescence #error #opinion #perspective #radicalism #rage #rationale #reason #truth #youth
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Prejudice,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1080/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bias #opinion #prejudice #rationale #reason
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives any more.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives any more.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
Andrew R. Moxon (contemp.) American writer, critic [a.k.a. Julius Goat]
Essay (2017-01-16), “Sky,” Blogspot
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moxon-a-r/38965/
#quote #quotes #quotation #approval #commitment #complicity #excuse #fascist
#fascism #history #selfjustification #Nazi #rationale #support
Noticias Rock CLGlitterer en Chile: «Rationale» (2024), Explorando el sentido de la existencia | vía #ZumbidoCL
https://zumbido.cl/glitterer-en-chile-rationale-2024-explorando-el-sentido-de-la-existencia/
#glitterer #glittererenchile #monkeychile #posthardcore #rationale
Glitterer en Chile: «Rationale» (2024), Explorando el sentido de la existencia - Música y Espectáculo
Texto por: Franco Zurita La disolución o pausa de Title Fight dejó un gran vacío en el corazón de los más fanáticos. Este hecho, si bien marcó una oleada de bandas que se inspiraron en el sonido de los de Kingston para hacer sus propias carreras, también fue el comienzo de los proyectos en paralelo...