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by californiadreem 4y ago
I disagree that Caesar had total control over his soldiers. Labienus and Antony alone among his legates shows that loyalty to Caesar had very real limits that could either turn into antipathy or debauchery. The diadem incident showed that w
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Yet another entrant to the Roman whataboutism parade. Sure. You win. Whatever. Caesar was a ruthless plutocrat that so-everly unjustly denuded those poor, poor Roman Opimates of their fortunes and prestige to prevent them from opposing Rex
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Do you think that Caesar was unlimited de facto in what he could put forth whereas FDR was circumscribed?
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>You might argue that they're acting in the interests of the people (in their own judgement), but it would be indisputably undemocratic nonetheless. That's a fair assessment of my position. I view the criticism that the most su
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by californiadreem 4y ago
In May 1937, Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously been a reliable conservative vote on the Court, voted with the liberal wing of the Court in upholding a state minimum wage law. This unexpected switch gave the Court a 5-4 majo
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Name them and why they were removed according to the extant historians.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I'm being accurate . Mindlessly sending an antagonistic reply without giving due consideration to what was actually said is more antithetical to norms of good faith than stating that this is occurring.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Second the recommendation. Great book.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
If you've ever enjoyed the game Rogue or roguelikes, Macromedia Flash, or the famous Mahjong Solitaire (among countless other influences), PLATO's influences are at hand. You can also experience the wonders of PLATO through emulat
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Who do you mean? Do you mean Pompey (who was independently killed by Egyptians), Cato (killed himself rather than be pardoned), Ahenobarbus (was defeated, tried to kill himself, then was pardoned by Caesar only to fight again and be defeate
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>The question is not whether Caesar was popular. The question is whether he could have been removed from power by political means if the people had wanted to. This plays into the status games endemic to late Republics. To quote another m
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>The people fighting in Spain, Greece, and Africa were largely Italian Romans or non-Italian Romans or allies. Caesar and Pompey were Italian Romans. It was in every way a civil war of Romans. What difference does it make that, for logis
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Nobility implies sacrifice . Cassius, Brutus, et. al sacrificed nothing except the hard-fought stability and foundational reform that Caesar was in the process of providing. If honor can be accorded to jealous rentiers guarding latifundi
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>Compared to what? It was nearly two years just for the portion with Pompey. The period prior to Caesar (i.e. Marius, Sulla, and Catalinean period, etc.) and the post-Caesarian civil wars? >Of course it did involve a great many people
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by californiadreem 4y ago
If inability to remove the Consul (or Dictator) via from office via elections is what qualifies as the death of the Republic, then it died with Marius, Sulla, or Pompey. Laying the death at Caesar's feet is ridiculous. Caesar was popul
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by californiadreem 4y ago
The Founding Fathers of the United States were directly inspired by the Roman Republic. The notion that the Republic would ultimately devolve (or evolve, given your perspective) into Empire was not a foreign notion to them. I don't nec
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Long and protracted is possibly the salient phrase. Julius Caesar's civil war with Pompey was neither long nor protracted and never actually involved the populus of Italy, let alone Rome. Pompey abandoned Italy effectively as soon as C
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Lucretia, according to sources including Livy, explicitly wasn't killed. She specifically stayed alive so that she could live to tell Brutus et. al of Tarquinus's rape.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
>I do wonder though how did people deal with these problems in the past when neither ADHD or these drugs were recognized and available. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and again as an adult. I was medicated as a child and for part o
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by californiadreem 4y ago
"What makes the increase particularly mysterious is the fact that the overall incidence of colorectal cancer has dropped by 45% since the mid-1980s. While the cancer is still most frequently diagnosed in people over 55, the study found
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I think a meaningful question to ask is what other foods are also packaged in plastic or plasticized-paper that require anoxic environments for food safety purposes? These will be raw animal products like seafood, poultry, cheese, or ready-
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by californiadreem 4y ago
> I might chuckle at its replies but that's about it. Does HN really think this is the start of AI taking over? You are asking HN to update your priors for you regarding LLMs because you sense a disjunct in your figurative training
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by californiadreem 4y ago
This poem by Wordsworth comes to mind: "The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares
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by californiadreem 4y ago
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions.&quo
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by californiadreem 4y ago
That question was in response to a very specific claim: "We subject cows, pigs, sheep, etc. to the same horrors today" as recreational cat-burning. In principal, society does not legally allow nor condone the torture of cows, pigs
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I guess I'll talk to the people with "actual expertise" rather than their totally-sentient confabulating echo. Cheers.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
In short, you have no rational arguments, but ill-founded gut-feelings and an ignorance of many topics, including the history of jurisprudence concerning animal welfare. Yet, despite this now being demonstrable, you still feel confident eno
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by californiadreem 4y ago
What is then the motivation for increased horror at animal cruelty? How is recreational zoosadism equivalent to harvesting animals for resources? How are voluntary and compensated incidental injuries equivalent to collective recreational zo
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders doubted that Africans lacked intelligence for similar reasons as the original poster--when presented with evidence of intelligence, they said they were simply mimics and nothing else (e.g. a slave mim
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Thomas Jefferson, 1809, Virginia, USA: "Be assured that no person living wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a complete refutation of the doubts I have myself entertained and expressed on the grade of understanding allotted to them

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