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Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll(scrollprize.substack.com)
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>But far more remarkable than that it's simply a waste of time, and rarely articulated, is this psychological loss. The destruction of the self. That echoes through a person's life, to their relationships, their self-constructi
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Liberals valued truth's scarcity, freeing debate to meet the market's high demand. Today, truth is cheapened; free speech is abundant but ignored. Once, orthodoxy restricted discussion, preserving its value; now, "good taste&
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>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: th
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Cronus eats his children. In 1494, Johannes Trithemius printed De laude scriptorum , "In Praise of Scribes" assailing the development of the printing press. The same argument was made, but from the perspective of the manual scrib
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>Stalin was sent to Siberia by the czar, it was not an innovation of his. When he took power it was the turn of the car's supporters and Whites to go to Siberia The Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps and its work-to-death
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This is a good time to remind people of how naive Americans were of the reality of the Soviets. The best example being when in 1944 the sitting vice president of the United States literally visited multiple gulag camps that the NKVD dressed
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That the USSR was committing crimes against humanity were already known prior to Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. Lend-Lease with the USSR formally began in 1941, but knowledge of Stalin's show trials, Gulag, the Holodomor, t
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>Would you rather have a kid who ends up with the idea that reading is horrible because they were forced to go through Ulysses and who is never going to read a book again, or do you want a kid who thinks reading is fun because they read
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And a fun addendum: In the mid-1990s the patents expired on the vast majority of acid-reducing drugs which were, as you can probably guess, the first line "treatment" for PUD over antibiotics.
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>If you publish new evidence in favour of a popular theory, your paper gets published – sometimes in a prestigious journal. Whereas if you demonstrate compelling evidence overturning a high-profile scientific dogma of international impor
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>cell phones Well, as far as direct physical harms, yes, but as far as mental harms that translate to physical harms, the jury's still out: '“Given that the increase in mental health issues was sharpest after 2011, Twenge
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"We spent all our lives living the lives of others that we quite forgot to have our own."
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>They’re also not applying glyphosate to finished produce items; glyphosate is applied to plants early in the growth phase, well before the actual product (corn, soybean, etc) has been produced. It's hard to take this person serious
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The media and the party had many opportunities to deal with Biden's age. They didn't. And yes, they did shut out Dean Philips, on the basis of exactly this kind of "he's an unknown, therefore unelectable." Well, the
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Democracy is when you vote for the appointed candidate. Fascism is when the electorate decides the election.
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Dean Philips attempted to primary Biden on the basis of age and low favorability. The media shut him out.
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The point of preservatives is to prevent biotic life from consuming it. If the food is actively preserved--sugared or salted or what have you--it will be just as cytotoxic if not prepared in a way to dilute or remove the preservative.
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I've had the same thought and wonder if this is the likely long-term ticking time-bomb for GLP-1 agonists. Hunger is a check-engine light. Turning it off is a bad idea without a clear understanding of what is triggering it. If your bod
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Histrionic liar spends their time perving on the neighbor's children. Checks out.
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I spent last year in an off-grid home and had to care for three acres of unmaintained pasture filled with patchy and matted fescue. I used nothing but a European-style scythe to do so. I actually wished I had had more pasture to care for be
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Will do -- again. Hope that information helps. :)
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>As Žižek teaches us: everything happens twice -- first as tragedy, then as farce. That line actually originates from Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-histo
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Then why get upset about it?
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I agree it is a US-centric take, but I disagree that the expansion of NATO is not principally about expanding American power. John Bolton, in 1994, said about the UN: “There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international
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>I understand that historical references can definitely add depth to a conversation, but if they aren’t framed well or contextualized, they come off as pretentious. I don't think you did a good job contextualizing your references, s
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Your argument that Russia is solely responsible for destabilizing the region mirrors a familiar rhetorical pattern seen throughout history, where weaker powers are trapped in a Kafka trap[1]. Any resistance or reaction by the weaker side ju
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>[...] peppered with fancy latin idioms (for style I guess) [...] I honestly don't think you understand the thesis or have the historical understanding to do so. This accusation of using Latin for rhetorical purposes is an admission
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This is more of a you problem than a me problem. Perhaps you should try not to reduce arguments to less than 200 characters, but I suspect it's uncontrollable due to longterm Twitter usage given your particular patois.
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>The fact that you need to dial back to 1823 to make some kind of moral equivalence argument between the two powers should be telling you something. Libya was in 2011. Iraq was in 2003. Afghanistan in 2001. I can go backwards to 1823,

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