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"I find it a remarkable irony, incidentally, that up to about the end of the Second World War, if not later, European (or Christian) civilization was triumphantly declared to be the creator of the modern world but that now, confronted with a menacing future, it is more common to hear people talk about humanity's self-destruction – as though the peasants and working classes of the world had the same responsibility for that future as the industrialists, politicians, military careerists, bankers, and arms manufacturers." - Talal Asad, British anthropologist

"You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other. That's the secret to survival. Never go to war, especially with yourself." - Yuri Orlov, Lord of War

RIP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/philip-lee-physician-and-lbj-official-who-rolled-out-medicare-dies-at-96/2020/11/05/fe047d0c-1f67-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Trebek

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/legendary-australian-entertainer-jeanne-little-dies-20201107-p56cgs.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bones_Hillman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Stone

Follow-Up

Pigs and chickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJJf_zoPDs https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170110-despite-what-you-might-think-chickens-are-not-stupid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika https://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/november-3-1957-laika-the-space-dog-becomes-first-living-creature-in-orbit-11364014214352 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayam_Cemani

https://justhistoryposts.com/2017/11/13/medieval-marginalia-why-are-there-so-many-snails-in-medieval-manuscripts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Van_Winkle's_Family_Reserve

Ethiopia-Sudan border closed https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/05/ethiopian-military-claims-to-be-at-war-with-tigray-leaders https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/06/africa/ethiopia-abiy-sudan-border/index.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/6/airstrikes-in-tigray-region https://www.ezega.com/News/NewsDetails/8226/Ethiopia-Imposes-No-Fly-Zone-in-Northern-Region

Kev's petition

Things

Australia Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)

Adani brand is totally not toxic alright!

Myanmar https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-06/myanmar-election-marred-by-voting-cancellations-and-covid-19/12846778

Stacks

MS-DOS - 40 years ago this week

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Wallabies

fin