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by robonerd 4y ago
I suppose I've been getting lucky, but I've flown probably two dozen times (domestic in the US) with safety razor + blades in my carry-on luggage and it's never been noticed. The first time was a mistake, but after their sca
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by robonerd 4y ago
> 2. Teflon is extremely hazardous when consumed and it flakes off of the pans over time (which is why they must be replaced often) or when incorrect utensils are used (common among unsophisticated users). It's very common to use
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It certainly can’t compare with safety razors I've been using a safety razor for years and figured I was getting a pretty good deal out of it. Then a few months ago I reached into my travel bag without looking and sliced my fi
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by robonerd 4y ago
I often pay with credit cards at food trucks and restaurants that accept either cash or credit cards. But if they don't take cash, then I won't give them either. If they refuse cash, I refuse to do business with them at all. Re
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by robonerd 4y ago
Walking through a red-light is illegal and so is driving through a green light when somebody is improperly walking through the intersection. There's no contradiction here.
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by robonerd 4y ago
We know of one instance of a civilization broadcasting radio waves. But a Dyson Swarm has never been seen, it's purely speculative at this point. Uncertainty that Dyson Swarms ever exist changes the expected outcome of searching
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by robonerd 4y ago
This is some dense stuff. Do I understand this correctly? > Whilst the ‘everyday’ is, of course, a temporal designator, connected to the chronology of human experience, in reality, ‘everyday life’ historians have often used a spatial f
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by robonerd 4y ago
Missing one in a hundred intersections? That's insane. Most human drivers are much better than that and wouldn't keep their license (or their life) for long if they weren't.
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by robonerd 4y ago
That might be the way it works in Israel, but it's not a safe way to drive even if the law permits it. In Washington state, every intersection is a crosswalk whether or not it's marked, and you have to stop for any pedestrian cro
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by robonerd 4y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The article doesn't say and I haven't been able to find any information about that online. However it seems likely that it was purchased in Italy by Ludwig I of Bavaria, sometime in the early 19th century. Ludwig I made the mus
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It didn't look like the famous one, at least to me. You're not alone in thinking that. The article says the sculpture might actually be Pompey, not Drusus Germanicus. Evidently there's no name written on it, so it wa
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by robonerd 4y ago
Per the article, she is an antiquities dealer who specializes in looking for treasures at thrift stores. So generally speaking she is absolutely looking for a payout. We don't know what terms she negotiated this time , per the art
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by robonerd 4y ago
Why do you think you know that? If an Italian noble finds a marble head when digging out a wine cellar on his own property and keeps it for himself, is that looting? That depends entirely on what the local laws said about such artifacts a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> germans were invading and pillaging Ludwig I of Bavaria never invaded Italy but he did frequently travel there for pleasure, and was known for purchasing antiquities and art. > so it is more likely than not that it was simply sto
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by robonerd 4y ago
> YouTube is perfect for 10 minutes of content without having to try to stretch it to an hour. 10 minutes has no relation to the complexity of the subject matter; 10 minutes is derived from the attention span of youtube viewers (and it
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by robonerd 4y ago
> I could not imagine that whatever this process must have looked like in the 1840s was completely bilateral for all parties Then let me help your imagination: A rich Bavarian king frequently goes on holiday in Italy, as was the fashi
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by robonerd 4y ago
Statements from articles should be considered, not absolutely trusted. > What else do we, armchair critics, have to go on? Everything outside of the article, the sum of our experience with the way the world works. Our experience with
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by robonerd 4y ago
If the statue is the Drusus Germanicus I think it is, he was a Roman general and politician who earned the agnomen Germanicus for leading successful military campaigns in Germania. See also: Scipio Africanus; he got that name for conqueri
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by robonerd 4y ago
The building itself has passed hands numerous times through questionable means. Should the Coup of 18 Brumaire count as Napoleon stealing the entire country, Louvre included? What of the subsequent Bourbon restoration; another crime or me
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by robonerd 4y ago
Oh okay, I'm in the clear then. I only visit the museums on the days they're open for free to the public.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you live by that maxim and never do good, you'll never see it refuted. Truth is, people do good things all the time and are frequently rewarded for it. Sometimes people get punished for doing a good thing, but it's scarcely
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even if we assume it rightfully belongs to people with Roman ancestry, that describes many modern Germans as well as it does modern Italians. People from these two regions were moving around and in near constant contact with each other for
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Because your enjoyment deprives the ancestors of the people who actually created it. My enjoyment itself is what does that? What if viewing the artifact bores me to tears? No moral crime then?
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How hard have you tried? Assuming antiquities.co.uk is legitimate, I see a Romana-British bronze brooch offered for sale at $44, circa mid 1st century BC to late 1st century AD. There seem to be many small Roman trinkets you could buy for
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by robonerd 4y ago
That wiki page and the article clearly state this museum was built in the 1840s. So what is your basis for asserting this sculpture was stolen by nazis?
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The article wasn't written by her, that isn't a statement from her. That is the journalist's statement, Matt Largey. It may or may not be completely accurate. What does "couldn't keep it" mean anyway? That
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No, Russian airlines cannot service even the planes they legally own outright, insofar as those planes depend on parts made by western companies that are no longer allowed to sell plane parts to Russian airlines.
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> I doubt the Germans paid anybody when they took it from Italy. Why? The museum was not built by nazis.
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by robonerd 4y ago
You don't know that. The German museum it was in was built in the 1840s, a hundred years before this sculpture was looted from it. It may well have been legally purchased a century or more before nazis existed.

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