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by aestetix 4y ago
Maybe I misread what you were saying. I was asking specifically about the Catholic Bible. Naturally many denominations post-Reformation are going to disagree, and even the Eastern Orthodox don't agree. But you seem to be lumping them a
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by aestetix 4y ago
Hetzner also has a customer service phone number that you can call. I've never seen anything like that from Google.
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by aestetix 4y ago
> But the thing is, as the Catholics recognize, the Bible didn't come to us as an monolithic whole. Its composition has changed over the centuries as books have fallen in and out of favor. Can you give examples of books added and re
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Def Con banned a social engineering star – now he’s suing(theverge.com)
13 points by aestetix 4y ago|7 comments
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by aestetix 4y ago
Can existing customers "trade in" their old motherboards for the newer models, with credit applied to make it cheaper?
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by aestetix 4y ago
Is there an option for those of us who do not have a mobile phone?
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by aestetix 5y ago
I think this deserves a better response. I remain convinced that Thucydides remained siding with the Athenians, even after his exile. I have a few reasons. First, the question of why he even wrote the history in the first place. He starts t
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by aestetix 5y ago
My argument was that the Sicilian expedition would not have happened without Alcibiades. Also, the point of my original post was that a bias might color our views, but that's different from doing a character assassination like I be
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by aestetix 5y ago
I was hoping for a response like this! First, regarding Cleon. I think it's important to ask why Thycydides didn't like Cleon. I would argue that it had nothing to do with regret of Athenian Empire, and more to do with the fact
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by aestetix 5y ago
In my opinion the article seemed to agree with the book. So while I obviously disagree with the book, I also disagree with the book reviewer. And regarding the comment about how he kept emotions in check, are there other reasons he might ha
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by aestetix 5y ago
For those who have downvoted me, could you grant the courtesy of explaining why?
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by aestetix 5y ago
I don't agree with this article at all. If we cannot judge a work without knowing anything about the author, then how are we supposed to judge works like the Iliad and the Odyssey? Sometimes knowing the bias of an author can impact how
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by aestetix 5y ago
"Octavian subsequently became the Roman Emperor Augustus, thereby ushering in the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of peace and prosperity that lasted until 180 CE." Not sure I'd call the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero &
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by aestetix 5y ago
Does it stop being like that? I turned it off and stopped watching because I got tired of hearing about how great the "metaverse" will be.
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by aestetix 5y ago
What a loss :/
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by aestetix 5y ago
I'm starting book 3 right now. Due to being written over 200 years ago his work might be out of date, but is there anything he got wrong ? I could see scholars having issues with some of his opinions, but as far as I am aware, his fac
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by aestetix 5y ago
Would you also argue that TV shows like "The Search for Bigfoot" and whatnot should be banned? I can understand removing something because it contains personal information or something really obscene (like terrorists beheading som
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Why is Retro Gaming so Expensive?(youtube.com)
2 points by aestetix 5y ago|0 comments
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by aestetix 5y ago
Perhaps Moxie could think more about decentralizing Signal before thinking about how to decentralize the web ;)
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by aestetix 5y ago
The US tried banning alcohol with a constitutional amendment, and later repealed it with another amendment. In general, when the government tries to police what someone can do with their own body, it does not end well.
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by aestetix 5y ago
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. The Last Lion (Alone) by William Manchester.
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by aestetix 5y ago
Important question: is there a vim plugin? You know, for those of us who prefer to keep our text editor and operating system lives separate...
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by aestetix 5y ago
> I had one course where the reading assignment for the first meeting (as in the first time we’d met as a class; we hadn’t even gone over the syllabus yet) was an 30-page article, and the entire text of Thucydides (which to be clear, is
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by aestetix 5y ago
I had no idea this existed. Thanks so much for the recommendation.
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by aestetix 5y ago
No logo, cool name, or vanity url. Clearly not worthy of attention. /s
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by aestetix 5y ago
Had to check a few times to make sure it was published as news and not as an editorial...
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by aestetix 5y ago
There is only one correct response to these twitter mobs: say nothing.
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Journalist, Activist Kevin Gallagher Has Died(indybay.org)
3 points by aestetix 5y ago|0 comments
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by aestetix 5y ago
The question really should be renamed from "Select the design that is most correct" to "Select the design that is most adherent to the doctrines of the cult of Apple and Helvetica."
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by aestetix 5y ago
While I'm happy the NSA is being somewhat transparent about something, even if it happened in the 70s, this is alarming: FOIA request placed 25 November 2009 Final reply 30 April 2021 Did it really take them 11 years to go through and

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