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   thx! Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it true that the Caucasus region is standing on the edge of an abyss?" Radio Yerevan answered: "No. It used to be true, but now we have taken a big step forward."
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   This would be interesting if it were using measures of intelligence, instead of skills for which both education and amount of practical application likely vary relatively proportionately to social status.
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   Re: map, yeah, I completely spaced on Azerbaijan (I'd been basing the IRI proximity based on flags seen in Kadyrov's VK feed; oops!). But last I saw the Жара festival is pretty much an ЕдРо-fest; in general should I be counting th
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   OK, I stand corrected ... but lezginka or zikr, what about the tempos? both seem "too fast". (and do you have any opinions on what opinions Kadyrov might hold on Nasruddin?)
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   Where much smarter includes not actually looking in a woman's mouth to count her teeth?
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   but isn't lezginka normally too fast? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962833 (also, the former rebel leader had CIA ties, so presumably Kadyrov is in the Venn intersection of people who explicitly know what offe
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   thanks for the relevant items. I've started in on https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm so it may be a while before I make it back to this thread... pedantry: 1P29 runs seriously afoul o
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   In some countries, violence is censored but sexual content is not.
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   pedantry: Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone are furies. Belle, Jessica Rabbit, and Spongebob are furries.
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    > So what does this author consider “psyops”, exactly? Linebarger was employed by the US Army during WWII with a Psychological Warfare MOS and wrote a textbook (with the obvious name, available in the obvious places) on the subject; af
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    Ian Millar (who represented Canada in the 10 Games of 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012) shows that unlike boxing and bull riding, most equestrian disciplines don't involve hoping to retire before the brain
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    ¿porque no los dos? https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/37431/trai... (I have heard that WWI era air bases had signs "no spurs in the cockpit" but am not sure that these aren&#x27
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    Sabre (the wrong decision now beats the right one later) would be more air cav? I think the Air Force would prefer epée (full court press: first mistake loses).
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    I think that's part of the point: US agricultural policy since at least the 1970s has been "get big or get out", so you'd expect remaining rural populations to be more marginal. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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    My bad: Confucius was the original, about 1'000 years earlier than the 3-character classic. So they took his formal 4-character chengyu and boiled it down to fit their format.
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    p 50 of the Tiger-Fibel shows how "swiping right" worked in the 1930s, with an upper right corner drawing of the table telephones from the "Femina Palast" Berlin nightclub. https://archive.org/details&#x2
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    not entirely coincidentally, Corb Lund also has a song about off-label use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5geefvMDjME
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    Looks like I'd misremembered and "General Eisenhower's personal signature" was the ticket, not having a form to fill out. Sorry! > British expert Lee Richards told me that the picture itself is propaganda. By 1943 th
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    Will Eisner and his studio made some US equivalents, which were similarly easy on the eyes. Motto: If you'd like that Joe remembers, draw a damsel's unclothed members Bei der Kaserne Vor dem grossen Tor Steht ′ne Laterne
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    That's a good point, but shouldn't it be temporary? I had thought at this point the whole world (including alcoholics, hooligans, and deadheads) was training up their own?
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    Linebarger is also the source of my anecdote about making it easier for german soldiers to surrender by giving them a "Surrender Form" to fill out and hand to Allied troops, with all the standard bureaucratic fields they were accu
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    > ...to persuade his fellow-countrymen that their customs and traditions were not the universal laws of reason, but only the peculiarly fine development of one civilization 坐井觀天。 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chine
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    Contrary to rumour, the Parisiennes and Parisiens are not obligate monoglots?
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    If there is a Creator with an inordinate fondness for beetles, their fondness for prokaryotes remains obviously superordinate.
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    According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_in_Islam even that overstates matters; sunni muslims are apparently like christian protestants in that only the most extreme deny human agency. (as far as the c
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    compare "The Last Bastion" (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8yh83jlXg
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    After a little cursory research (corrections welcome) 100 000 protestants believing in double predestination 1 700 000 sunni muslims Confucians are far more concerned with behaving properly in this life than in wondering what may
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    Some power fantasies have mostly been played out in the post-hortian world: When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the Gentleman?
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    Thanks! It turns out I should've known that, because it's almost the beginning of the 3-character classic, as a 6-character rather than an 8- chengyu: 性相近，習相遠。 Looks like Confucius basically used 也 as padding for alignment? (精益求精?
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    > ...done the entire Titans storyline again with Zeus, and humans don't even know? Ancient Mythology theorists suggest it has been done, with the advent of the "Age of Pisces", and humans have bumper stickers to attest t