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by Perceval 3y ago
The author is making a category error. Epic poets adopting, stitching, recycling, riffing, borrowing from other sources is appropriate for the medium of and vocation of poetry. It's appropriate for an oral tradition in oral societies.
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by Perceval 3y ago
Pratt & Whitney is a business unit of United Technologies Corporation. UTC merged with Raytheon a couple years ago. Raytheon was already a dysfunctional corporate culture, and what I hear is that the UTC management that took over is som
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by Perceval 3y ago
Becoming a furry does constitute irreparable damage.
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by Perceval 3y ago
Controlling for attrition, do IQ scores improve after 4 years of undergraduate education?
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by Perceval 3y ago
> Clausewitz lived in a world where wars were events that were declared between states Sort of. Born 1780, died 1831, the main wars in his life were the Napoleonic Wars. But he would not have been unfamiliar with the Wars of Religion tha
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by Perceval 3y ago
If you spend time with officers in the U.S. military, fewer than you might expect have been assigned Clausewitz in their professional military education or read it on their own (even just the first chapter). Many just know the soundbite, &
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by Perceval 3y ago
There was nothing for him to apologize for and his donation was not wrong.
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by Perceval 3y ago
What's our current predicament?
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by Perceval 3y ago
I just want equal opportunity to take testosterone to transition from male to alpha male.
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by Perceval 3y ago
I don't think it's an antidepressant, but it does increase testosterone, and that can improve mood: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24106072/
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by Perceval 3y ago
Fear is central to some of the most important and foundational works of political theory in Western history – Hobbes, Montesquieu, Tocqueville: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-History-Political-Corey-Robin/dp... What are t
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by Perceval 3y ago
I wonder if the childhood obesity trend and trend of younger and younger menses are connected
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by Perceval 3y ago
rusty shut k5 down 7.5 years ago after years and years of being a deadbeat dad to the site – wasn't even willing to keep a static archive of the site up
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by Perceval 3y ago
Maybe not as rarely as you might expect: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691134604/st...
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by Perceval 3y ago
I have been using Dr. Jen's Super Paste: https://drjennatural.com/products/dr-jen-super-paste-with-na... I landed on this one out of all the N-Ha brands because it also has flouride. Also, it doesn't have SL
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by Perceval 3y ago
These are not comparable scenarios. In the first, a massive multinational corporation is singling out an individual for punishment based on nothing more than accusation. In the second, individual consumers are punishing a multinational corp
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by Perceval 3y ago
Yes, it jumps out that a lot of the county-level, patchwork pattern exhibited in the firearm-suicide data may be an artifact of the very low populations in many of those Western counties: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surp
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by Perceval 3y ago
Yes, for years I would carry around an index card or a small notebook. I would jot down significant thoughts or events in bullet point format. Later, I would write out longform a blog post about the ideas and events of the week, trying to
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by Perceval 3y ago
There was a 20-year period of mild deflation during the Victorian Era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Deflation Broadly it was a time of sustained growth in both the United States and United Kingdom, despite t
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by Perceval 3y ago
The whole drama over blue checks was like a live action remake of Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches .
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by Perceval 3y ago
The President does not have power of the purse. The House proposes a budget. The President can't spend beyond what Congress approves, and can't really decline to spend anything that Congress has approved (i.e. "impoundment&q
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by Perceval 3y ago
Most of the pioneering modernist architects were socialists—not a lot of ideological overlap with individualism run amok.
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by Perceval 3y ago
While I don't think it's possible to write an article on a controversial subject that no one will take issue with, it is possible to write with a generally Neutral Point of View, which has been a guiding principle of Wikipedia sin
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by Perceval 3y ago
Despite the occasionally cringe lyrics and snare drum sound on St. Anger, the songs overall are much better and more memorable on St. Anger than on Death Magnetic, which was mostly unmemorable and sounded derivative. I'm sure hanging
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by Perceval 3y ago
Slayer had 4 albums before Reign in Blood: Show No Mercy (LP), Haunting the Chapel (EP), Live Undead (Live), Hell Awaits (LP). However, the production difference between the pre-Rubin albums and the Rubin albums is stark, and the value of R
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I worry that people are now so illiterate that they do not recognize that the "render unto Caesar…" quote is a historical basis for the division between church and state in the Christian world. Astonishingly, they view the Governm
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by Perceval 3y ago
Tucker made the claim that an internal USG whistleblower told him that his communications were being monitored by the NSA. Tucker stated that he sought the counsel of a Senator, and that the Senator told him that he should go public with th
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Sure. Raytheon Space also going through its Game of Thrones at the moment.
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It seems like Hossenfelder is arguing that a lot of theoretical physics is Lakatos degenerative: * https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ * https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-phi
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by Perceval 4y ago
> They didn't know why or what clandestine military purpose the shuttle had, but they knew that when they found out, they'd want the same capabilities. So they just copied it, not knowing why. This is the exact same thing that&

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