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Of course not, but pretending it's a newly revealed secret lets people be mad at Chuck Schumer over it.
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Of course not, but pretending it's a newly revealed secret lets people be mad at Chuck Schumer over it.
Something that occurred to me while reading note 2: is it possible that "ὑπὸ τοῖς ὅπλοις" is using "under" the way we'd colloquially use "alongside" – that is, as "in addition to" (maybe with connotations "of lesser importance"), instead of a literal description of position?
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Something that occurred to me while reading note 2: is it possible that "ὑπὸ τοῖς ὅπλοις" is using "under" the way we'd colloquially use "alongside" – that is, as "in addition to" (maybe with connotations "of lesser importance"), instead of a literal description of position?
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The problem with you guys is that you don't actually want to solve problems, you want a religious reawakening in the usa
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The problem with you guys is that you don't actually want to solve problems, you want a religious reawakening in the usa
"better government, lower taxes, and a pony"
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"better government, lower taxes, and a pony"
(AIUI it literally does – that's how moving information around works in a computer system.)
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
(AIUI it literally does – that's how moving information around works in a computer system.)
presumably leftover prejudice from the Clone Wars
It is weird that you'd need that in a bar, though. Though maybe that's why he had to say it – it doesn't come up often enough for the policy to be posted.
It is weird that you'd need that in a bar, though. Though maybe that's why he had to say it – it doesn't come up often enough for the policy to be posted.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
presumably leftover prejudice from the Clone Wars
It is weird that you'd need that in a bar, though. Though maybe that's why he had to say it – it doesn't come up often enough for the policy to be posted.
It is weird that you'd need that in a bar, though. Though maybe that's why he had to say it – it doesn't come up often enough for the policy to be posted.
I always assumed it was way too expensive, if not flatly impossible – the thing about mind tricks is that they work on *basically everybody* except other Force-users and a few very rare outliers (read: protagonists). Jedi are rare enough that most troopers will never see one.
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I always assumed it was way too expensive, if not flatly impossible – the thing about mind tricks is that they work on *basically everybody* except other Force-users and a few very rare outliers (read: protagonists). Jedi are rare enough that most troopers will never see one.
"but why won't you let *me* look through the one-way mirror?" bsky.app/profile/dari...
begging people to understand that politics isn't a spectator sport, not because nobody is watching but because *everybody is playing*
this isn't professional poker, there is no one-way mirror that allows the audience to see what everyone's cards are without breaking the game
this isn't professional poker, there is no one-way mirror that allows the audience to see what everyone's cards are without breaking the game
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"but why won't you let *me* look through the one-way mirror?" bsky.app/profile/dari...
> horde money
evidence continues to mount for the A Significant Fraction Of Adults Are Functionally Illiterate (Probably Because We've Been Teaching Kids To Read Wrong For Decades) model of internet fuckwittery
evidence continues to mount for the A Significant Fraction Of Adults Are Functionally Illiterate (Probably Because We've Been Teaching Kids To Read Wrong For Decades) model of internet fuckwittery
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
> horde money
evidence continues to mount for the A Significant Fraction Of Adults Are Functionally Illiterate (Probably Because We've Been Teaching Kids To Read Wrong For Decades) model of internet fuckwittery
evidence continues to mount for the A Significant Fraction Of Adults Are Functionally Illiterate (Probably Because We've Been Teaching Kids To Read Wrong For Decades) model of internet fuckwittery
skill issue
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
skill issue
21st-C historian: "Yes, a bunch of people you know died, and now your job is harder. But you're not being taxed as much, because the state power (that protected you from bandits) is gone. So you're not that much worse off, really."
6th-C farmer: [beats the historian to death with a hoe]
6th-C farmer: [beats the historian to death with a hoe]
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
21st-C historian: "Yes, a bunch of people you know died, and now your job is harder. But you're not being taxed as much, because the state power (that protected you from bandits) is gone. So you're not that much worse off, really."
6th-C farmer: [beats the historian to death with a hoe]
6th-C farmer: [beats the historian to death with a hoe]
most hinged & ranged Israel hater
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
most hinged & ranged Israel hater
Fair enough, but IMO "poorer & low-equilibrium" vs. "awful" is kinda just arguing semantics. "Awful" is a reasonable colloquial for that kind of situation. As is "a dark age, compared to the glory days of whenever they built this aqueduct."
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Fair enough, but IMO "poorer & low-equilibrium" vs. "awful" is kinda just arguing semantics. "Awful" is a reasonable colloquial for that kind of situation. As is "a dark age, compared to the glory days of whenever they built this aqueduct."
But it's a lot easier to draw a causal throughline from this end of history – there was no guarantee at the time that the final outcome would be better. And that unclarity cuts both ways.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
But it's a lot easier to draw a causal throughline from this end of history – there was no guarantee at the time that the final outcome would be better. And that unclarity cuts both ways.
"uses the system to their own advantage" is kind of a defining trait of the elite in any given society
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"uses the system to their own advantage" is kind of a defining trait of the elite in any given society
*a second goose appears*
HOW OLD WERE THE GIRLFRIENDS??
HOW OLD WERE THE GIRLFRIENDS??
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
*a second goose appears*
HOW OLD WERE THE GIRLFRIENDS??
HOW OLD WERE THE GIRLFRIENDS??
In the USA, at least, the overwhelming majority of people who go to prison survive to leave it.
The survival rates of "exiled from hunter-gatherer group" are not as well documented, but there's no way it's over 50%. Or even close to 50%.
The survival rates of "exiled from hunter-gatherer group" are not as well documented, but there's no way it's over 50%. Or even close to 50%.
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In the USA, at least, the overwhelming majority of people who go to prison survive to leave it.
The survival rates of "exiled from hunter-gatherer group" are not as well documented, but there's no way it's over 50%. Or even close to 50%.
The survival rates of "exiled from hunter-gatherer group" are not as well documented, but there's no way it's over 50%. Or even close to 50%.
On the one hand, that's arguably because our current standards for "is this art good" are descended from the Renaissance tradition
On the other hand: no, you're right, medieval art sucked and didn't become good again until they re-discovered things like "perspective" and "how to draw faces"
On the other hand: no, you're right, medieval art sucked and didn't become good again until they re-discovered things like "perspective" and "how to draw faces"
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On the one hand, that's arguably because our current standards for "is this art good" are descended from the Renaissance tradition
On the other hand: no, you're right, medieval art sucked and didn't become good again until they re-discovered things like "perspective" and "how to draw faces"
On the other hand: no, you're right, medieval art sucked and didn't become good again until they re-discovered things like "perspective" and "how to draw faces"
there are vastly higher odds of starving to death, dying of accidental injury or disease, and getting killed by predators
for humans, getting thrown out into the wilderness alone is effectively a drawn-out death sentence
for humans, getting thrown out into the wilderness alone is effectively a drawn-out death sentence
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
there are vastly higher odds of starving to death, dying of accidental injury or disease, and getting killed by predators
for humans, getting thrown out into the wilderness alone is effectively a drawn-out death sentence
for humans, getting thrown out into the wilderness alone is effectively a drawn-out death sentence
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Paul Fussell — “Thank God for the Atom Bomb”
This post is a stunning essay by Paul Fussell published in The New Republic in 1981. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. On August 2, we observed the 76th anniversary of the atom bomb th…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The alternative to "killing thousands more" was "continuing to kill hundreds of thousands more on an ongoing basis, with long-term projections in the millions or tens of millions."
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The alternative to "killing thousands more" was "continuing to kill hundreds of thousands more on an ongoing basis, with long-term projections in the millions or tens of millions."