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I was supposed to wait until 2026 but a dying SSD forced my hand three weeks ago. Been on Mint Linux since. The only Windows program I haven't found a replacement for is ShareX.
December 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I was supposed to wait until 2026 but a dying SSD forced my hand three weeks ago. Been on Mint Linux since. The only Windows program I haven't found a replacement for is ShareX.
The author turns a speech about the responsibilities of citizenship into a call for moral striving within a society that offers no shared structure of belonging, which is ... pretty well the opposite of what Pericles, and Thucydides, intended. (5/5)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The author turns a speech about the responsibilities of citizenship into a call for moral striving within a society that offers no shared structure of belonging, which is ... pretty well the opposite of what Pericles, and Thucydides, intended. (5/5)
... that Athenian citizens must die for empire because empire funds their democracy, provides their grain dole, pays for their festivals, and maintains their superiority over both slaves at home and subjects abroad. (4/5)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
... that Athenian citizens must die for empire because empire funds their democracy, provides their grain dole, pays for their festivals, and maintains their superiority over both slaves at home and subjects abroad. (4/5)
Pericles was not, as the author suggests, articulating citizenship as "nothing more than seeking to fulfill the highest civic ideals" but was instead making a brutally practical argument: ... (3/5)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Pericles was not, as the author suggests, articulating citizenship as "nothing more than seeking to fulfill the highest civic ideals" but was instead making a brutally practical argument: ... (3/5)
Pericles was articulating a social contract of reciprocal obligation between citizen and city. That's just about the opposite of preaching abstract idealism or voluntarist “belief in democracy”. (2/5)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Pericles was articulating a social contract of reciprocal obligation between citizen and city. That's just about the opposite of preaching abstract idealism or voluntarist “belief in democracy”. (2/5)
Rogue Squadron: Bacta War was pretty good about this. They take out a Victory-class ISD and a Super Star Destroyer in straight-up, knock-down drag-out fights.
January 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Rogue Squadron: Bacta War was pretty good about this. They take out a Victory-class ISD and a Super Star Destroyer in straight-up, knock-down drag-out fights.
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just saying stuff to an infinite and potentially hostile void sucks. we were meant to have the same argument with the same guy day after day and hate them more than anything and miss them if they don't post for a week
January 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
just saying stuff to an infinite and potentially hostile void sucks. we were meant to have the same argument with the same guy day after day and hate them more than anything and miss them if they don't post for a week
Mr President please restore order to the undemocratic Yoon Suk Yeol regime
January 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Mr President please restore order to the undemocratic Yoon Suk Yeol regime
Even if we grant your assertion, there is still a problem with misallocated coercion. If a certain location isn't habitable, the state wall it off, rather than *technically* allowing people to build and live in uninsured places and then throwing them to the dogs when it burns down.
January 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Even if we grant your assertion, there is still a problem with misallocated coercion. If a certain location isn't habitable, the state wall it off, rather than *technically* allowing people to build and live in uninsured places and then throwing them to the dogs when it burns down.
if it was up to the PRC, they'd either be geoengineering the heck out of the region (as they have in Western China), or they'd be retreating from it while making-whole those affected. Instead, the West makes individuals sink-or-swim (and they usually sink).
January 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
if it was up to the PRC, they'd either be geoengineering the heck out of the region (as they have in Western China), or they'd be retreating from it while making-whole those affected. Instead, the West makes individuals sink-or-swim (and they usually sink).
Base 12 is at least similarly intuitive as base 10 as far as it representing the 12 thirds of four fingers, when being counted by the thumb.
[and 144 is when you also use the other hand]
[and 144 is when you also use the other hand]
January 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Base 12 is at least similarly intuitive as base 10 as far as it representing the 12 thirds of four fingers, when being counted by the thumb.
[and 144 is when you also use the other hand]
[and 144 is when you also use the other hand]
Perhaps Mr Treadwell should learn the difference between "no lead" and "Federal standards for lead contamination" before asking stupid questions
January 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Perhaps Mr Treadwell should learn the difference between "no lead" and "Federal standards for lead contamination" before asking stupid questions
So your first post was "who is still drinking lead", and then your follow-up is "allowable levels of lead"
If there are levels of lead that are allowable, then people are drinking lead!
If there are levels of lead that are allowable, then people are drinking lead!
January 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So your first post was "who is still drinking lead", and then your follow-up is "allowable levels of lead"
If there are levels of lead that are allowable, then people are drinking lead!
If there are levels of lead that are allowable, then people are drinking lead!
I watched all of "Silo" to-date over the last week and went back to playing Fallout again. It was like this too after watching the Fallout TV series.
January 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I watched all of "Silo" to-date over the last week and went back to playing Fallout again. It was like this too after watching the Fallout TV series.
The belief that an American president is "locked in" to a position adopted by his predecessor, and therefore cannot be held responsible for the thing that he actually did, is a subjective opinion, and one I do not agree with. That Carter did not change course is Carter's failing.
January 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The belief that an American president is "locked in" to a position adopted by his predecessor, and therefore cannot be held responsible for the thing that he actually did, is a subjective opinion, and one I do not agree with. That Carter did not change course is Carter's failing.
El Salvador was about more than just Iran-Contra: www.usccb.org/resources/le...
The whole reason that Iran-Contra even happened was that Congress prohibited the provision of direct aid to the Contras, which was previously happening... under Carter!
The whole reason that Iran-Contra even happened was that Congress prohibited the provision of direct aid to the Contras, which was previously happening... under Carter!
January 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
El Salvador was about more than just Iran-Contra: www.usccb.org/resources/le...
The whole reason that Iran-Contra even happened was that Congress prohibited the provision of direct aid to the Contras, which was previously happening... under Carter!
The whole reason that Iran-Contra even happened was that Congress prohibited the provision of direct aid to the Contras, which was previously happening... under Carter!
How hard did you search?
January 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
How hard did you search?
Supporting Indonesia's genocide of East Timor, supporting South Korea's repression of the Gwanju uprising, supporting China's invasion of Vietnam (and contra Vietnam's Kampuchean intervention), and supporting the rightists in El Salvador.
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Supporting Indonesia's genocide of East Timor, supporting South Korea's repression of the Gwanju uprising, supporting China's invasion of Vietnam (and contra Vietnam's Kampuchean intervention), and supporting the rightists in El Salvador.
"Sophie's Dice" made it into my top 5 played games on Steam this year because I was using it as a dice roller for Advanced Squad Leader for the first three months of this year.
December 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
"Sophie's Dice" made it into my top 5 played games on Steam this year because I was using it as a dice roller for Advanced Squad Leader for the first three months of this year.