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#31
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 15 Novemb...
Last post by MrBogosity - November 15, 2020, 06:00:01 PM
[mp3]https://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/s/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-11-15.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
18:12 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media
24:48 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Naomi Wolf https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1325604856283869189

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#32
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 8 Novembe...
Last post by MrBogosity - November 08, 2020, 06:45:58 PM
[mp3]https://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-11-08.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
12:22 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Intercept
20:45 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Gavin Newsom
This Week's Quote: "Principles are not meant for times or circumstances when abiding by them is easy. They're for when it's hard. They're not meant to be thrown over in an emergency, or suspended 'for the duration', but to be honored no matter how dangerous or difficult it gets." ?L. Neil Smith

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#33
Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire / Re: IE nomination: The Egyptia...
Last post by evensgrey - November 08, 2020, 03:13:37 AM
Quote from: Ibrahim90 on October 27, 2020, 03:32:50 PM
The only way you can eliminate that risk, is to elminate the dam. So you're right: a second dam on the blue Nile would only exacerbate the problem: even less of that valuable silt will head up north--as well as less water.

I was referring to the risk the dam may collapse and wipe out most of the country.  The fact the delta isn't being built up and hasn't been since it went up is a different problem.
#34
Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire / Re: IE nomination: The Egyptia...
Last post by Ibrahim90 - October 27, 2020, 03:32:50 PM
Well, all the bread I've ever seen looks like that--regardless of the bakery :shrug:

Could be rural v. urban though, since most bakers I've met come from or live in the cities.

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I kind of hope it at least reduces the risks associated with the Aswan High Dam. 

The only way you can eliminate that risk, is to elminate the dam. So you're right: a second dam on the blue Nile would only exacerbate the problem: even less of that valuable silt will head up north--as well as less water.

#35
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 25 Octobe...
Last post by MrBogosity - October 25, 2020, 06:15:16 PM
[mp3]https://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/s/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-10-25.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
15:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joe Biden
21:10 - Idiot Extraordinaire: DHS
This Week's Quote: "Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." ?Louis Brandeis

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#36
Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire / Re: IE nomination: The Egyptia...
Last post by evensgrey - October 20, 2020, 10:16:18 AM
Quote from: Ibrahim90 on October 10, 2020, 08:28:31 PM
It's not generally served in triangles AFAIK, but I do know it's very calorie dense compared to what you're used to, and they eat it with a lot of things:

[yt]mSpf4fRNCcs[/yt]

To give you a sense of how important this is to Egyptians: the Arab world generally calls bread "khubz"--which is just the word for bread. The Egyptians literally call it life ("3eysh").

I think the triangular loaves are a result of a traditional baking technique that goes back into antiquity.  This isn't going to be what you get from large, commercial bakeries, but I understand you can still find it in some villages.

Quote from: Ibrahim90 on October 10, 2020, 08:28:31 PM
As to Egypt running out of money: it goes beyond tourism (or lack of it). This has been going on for years. The Egyptian pound has been getting devalued since at least the Arab Spring, and many of As-sissi's new policies have pretty much guaranteed a massive increase in the cost of living, and wasted much money (one of his projects is to create a new capital/administrative center. Normally, this wouild be along the Nile, but this genius wants it in the desert. It's extra bad, because Cairo is actually the best possible location. There's a reason it's been the capital for the last 1200 years).

There's also the simple fact that Egypt's becoming less attractive a place to invest. Aside from all the other problems, Egypt's future is very uncertain. This is because of the dam Ethipia's building on the Blue Nile, just dowriver of Lake Tana. That's massively affect the amount of water going upstream (Sudan will also be eating shit from this--especially the area between Khortoum and the Egyptian Border).

I kind of hope it at least reduces the risks associated with the Aswan High Dam.  Sounds like it's going to make the Nile Delta problems even worse, though.  It would have been ice if this was a Belt-and-Road project, since those are likely to all come to a crashing halt soon, but it looks like it isn't, even though it's got a lot of funding and equipment from China.
#37
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 18 Octobe...
Last post by MrBogosity - October 18, 2020, 06:00:01 PM
[mp3]https://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/s/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-10-18.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
12:12 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The New York Times
18:25 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Twitter
This Week's Quote: "Aggression is simply another name for government...He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy." ?Benjamin Tucker

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#38
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 11 Octobe...
Last post by MrBogosity - October 11, 2020, 06:00:00 PM
[mp3]https://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/s/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-10-11.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
14:20 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: LAPD
18:50 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Facebook and Climate Feedback
This Week's Quote: "He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true." ?Wendell Phillips

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#39
Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire / Re: IE nomination: The Egyptia...
Last post by Ibrahim90 - October 10, 2020, 08:28:31 PM
Quote from: evensgrey on October 04, 2020, 07:30:19 AM
This is the traditional Egyptian bread we're talking about here, the triangular loaves of the heavy stuff, with loads of oil in it?  The stuff that really is a meal in itself? That makes what we call bread in North America look like a sickly child by comparison?  (This stuff goes back as far as there are records of bread in Egypt, and that's a LONG WAY.)

There's no surprise that Egypt is running out of money.  Egypt's dominant industry for bringing in foreign exchange is tourism, and there's precious little of that this year.  (Egypt INVENTED being a tourist trap, and did it in antiquity.  Romans used to go to Egypt to see the sights, many of which are still visited by modern tourists.)

It's not generally served in triangles AFAIK, but I do know it's very calorie dense compared to what you're used to, and they eat it with a lot of things:

[yt]mSpf4fRNCcs[/yt]

To give you a sense of how important this is to Egyptians: the Arab world generally calls bread "khubz"--which is just the word for bread. The Egyptians literally call it life ("3eysh").

As to Egypt running out of money: it goes beyond tourism (or lack of it). This has been going on for years. The Egyptian pound has been getting devalued since at least the Arab Spring, and many of As-sissi's new policies have pretty much guaranteed a massive increase in the cost of living, and wasted much money (one of his projects is to create a new capital/administrative center. Normally, this wouild be along the Nile, but this genius wants it in the desert. It's extra bad, because Cairo is actually the best possible location. There's a reason it's been the capital for the last 1200 years).

There's also the simple fact that Egypt's becoming less attractive a place to invest. Aside from all the other problems, Egypt's future is very uncertain. This is because of the dam Ethipia's building on the Blue Nile, just dowriver of Lake Tana. That's massively affect the amount of water going upstream (Sudan will also be eating shit from this--especially the area between Khortoum and the Egyptian Border).
#40
The Podcast / Bogosity Podcast for 4 October...
Last post by MrBogosity - October 04, 2020, 05:59:59 PM
[mp3]https://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/s/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2020-10-04.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
12:35 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Treasury Department
16:09 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ireland
This Week's Quote: "Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible...nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant." ?Learned Hand

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