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by samirillian 2y ago
Xenophon's Cyropedia talks about Persians becoming centaurs when they get horses but Strauss has some esoteric reading about the centaur being some flawed creature, meant to symbolize a combination of the medes and persians i don'
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by samirillian 2y ago
Doesn't Strauss like centaurs?
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by samirillian 2y ago
1) inconsistent argument: Frodo is just as mediocre as Rincewind. 2) I don’t respect the bald claim that all chosen ones are bad, or the implicit claim that we can somehow avoid them. Universals always have exceptions. If we’re being “real”
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by samirillian 2y ago
It’s greed not national interests unless you know something I don’t about greedy people.
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The Futility of the NLRB(nlrbedge.com)
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by samirillian 2y ago
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/will-trump-doge-sink... I agree with this commentary
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by samirillian 2y ago
there are certainly some parallels with what's happening today but analogies are always difficult. i could be wrong but i really don't think of this administration as murderous in the way that Nazi Germany was. Of course, the bigg
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by samirillian 2y ago
The “problem” with youth isn’t intelligence, it’s that early twenties you are at your most confidently ideological and you’re most willing to break things. I bet the average age of a terrorist is pretty low too. The danger of the vision is
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by samirillian 2y ago
I thought it was going to be like the origins of corn syrup where we actually learn some history but no it's just this guy's ramblings.
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by samirillian 2y ago
It’s funny because right after Trump was elected there was an ft article about all the metrics that showed that poor people were doing worse in real terms. One ft author uses one index to prove one point another uses others to prove another
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by samirillian 2y ago
Okay dumb question, why are the images they generate nightmarish nonsense. Why can’t they procedurally construct a diagram
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by samirillian 2y ago
Once again an entirely backwards, upside down perspective. On Twitter he called politics the easiest job in the world. Xenophon said that man is the hardest animal to tame. And the author’s “make AI great again” mentality is a perfect examp
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by samirillian 2y ago
Might have to check that out.
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by samirillian 2y ago
I just really liked this. There’s a lot of wisdom in Aristotle even if you don’t accept his entire system. For example, in his politics he says mechanics are not capable of practicing virtue. An interesting claim!
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by samirillian 2y ago
well i'm from chicago so to me pizza is a tureen of tomato sauce
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by samirillian 2y ago
Yeah I can agree with you that perhaps many countries have cuisine we consider bad because countries just do their best and they can't all be Italy or the Szechuan Province. I don't agree that because of the British Empire their f
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by samirillian 2y ago
Have you actually tasted their food or just looked at pictures of it on the internet.
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by samirillian 2y ago
> breaking down the humor patterns of comedians and memes This guy does sound funny but I doubt he can write a joke
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by samirillian 2y ago
Can someone speculate on/explain this curvature? Is it just parabolic?
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by samirillian 2y ago
https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/social-media-copies-gambling-met... Don’t forget all these
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by samirillian 2y ago
Trying the same thing and expecting different results
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by samirillian 2y ago
trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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by samirillian 2y ago
Nietzsche Schopenhauer and others reference Samkhya. It’s definitely had an influence but it’s definitely subterranean. Western philosophers all want to sound scientific and using old eastern phenomenology somehow undermines that. So much e
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by samirillian 2y ago
I think you might be bringing our mindset a little too much into a different context. Religion served a lot of purposes for the ancients.
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by samirillian 2y ago
Yeah, seems like they’re all scholars of music, they need some real musicians/composers.
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by samirillian 2y ago
For example when you're on a group chat and somebody sends a video and the quality gets degraded and so somebody makes funny of the guy who shared the video but the guy is like "somebody on the group chat has android". and th
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by samirillian 2y ago
I recently bought an iPhone due to peer pressure after using pixel for years. I think the ux is better on android, every common function takes more gestures on iPhone. Typing this comment reminds me of how annoying it is to edit text with a
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by samirillian 2y ago
Really. Show me one single source other than this page that uses a meander key lengthening joint.
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by samirillian 2y ago
Yeah, intuitively I doubt that these will work the way they’re supposed to because well you’re trying to reinvent the joint. It’s true that the tools are different but I think there has been a steep decline in general joint know-how, so bei
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by samirillian 2y ago
I don’t like NPR but I also don’t like this guy. He lacks loyalty.

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