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by w0de0 1y ago
“Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does it matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from
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by w0de0 1y ago
Bad for our present (grotesque?) ecology - not bad for the Earth, nor bad for her resident life. (If humanity decimated itself via overpopulation, Earth & her life - likely even class Mammalia - would be rather better for it, by any me
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by w0de0 1y ago
This is treated as a whimsical absurdity, but it has a practical purpose that’s hardly obviated by the antiquity of the law. I’m a sailor myself - I’d certainly want a warning that a bridge is lower than its charted height. The signal is cl
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by w0de0 1y ago
There is no shortage of the downtrodden and dispossessed in the USA, if you seek them. The problem in this hypothetical would rather be that acknowledging and prioritizing such people in America is likely to be, for many fellow first worlde
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by w0de0 1y ago
Give Twitter another 24 hours to stew over his past ministry and his Peruvian citizenship, and one will find our modern Know Nothings making similar hullabaloo.
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by w0de0 1y ago
To the other respondent’s point about Noriega, a central american autocrat cannot “shakedown” the American government. The balance of force is entirely in the gringos’ favor - if they choose to use it. If Bukele refuses, it’s simply because
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by w0de0 2y ago
It seems to me that “refugia” would be more apposite word for this phenomenon than “oases.”
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by w0de0 2y ago
The Victorians found it very hard to see contemporary humans as anything other than archetypes or moral exemplars. In this way they are quite similar to us moderns.
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by w0de0 2y ago
With the right photo, this could be an Onion headline poking fun at lonely math nerds.
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by w0de0 2y ago
The only functioning large-scale Odonian syndic, after all the promise of the early valley. It provides immense value to dispossessed peoples across our world. Of course the propertarians wish to discredit and destroy it!
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by w0de0 2y ago
> the UK's is very clustered (I've forgotten the right term) on the median. Normal (Gaussian) distribution?
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by w0de0 2y ago
> Constitutional stasis Tickles me to see “stasis” so used - not incorrectly, ofc, but nonetheless as a perfect contranym of the original Greek. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(ancient_Greece) ]
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by w0de0 2y ago
That’s one hypothesis for one component of the Sea Peoples. Like all the hypotheses, it’s very weakly evidenced - iirc correctly (from Eric Cline), in this case, there’s a possible philological link with the Egyptian exonym ‘Sherden’ and on
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by w0de0 2y ago
There’s also a ‘Carthage of the Indies’ (Cartagena de Indias) in Colombia.
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by w0de0 2y ago
In some sense it never died. Lebanese people are largely their descendants, and their diaspora is extremely mercantile. Tyre is yet inhabited, as are many of the ancient metropoles of Phoenicia.
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by w0de0 2y ago
Hundreds of years! A feat for a nation only 250 years old. Particularly considering the panic about Chinese immigration - the first real anti-China event in US history - dates to the latter half of the 1800s. Also, the “yellow” in “yellow j
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by w0de0 2y ago
You perhaps overestimate the utility of writing outside urban civilization - and underestimate the immense difficulty of its invention. Not only is symbolic thought required, but so too a cultural substrate which can find use for, agree upo
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by w0de0 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve
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by w0de0 2y ago
Arabic is an adjad, so of course not. The "combination" you're thinking of is akin to cursive - stylistic.
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by w0de0 2y ago
I believe you mean the Ugarites, Phoenicians, & other northwest Semitic peoples. They developed from cuneiform syllabaries the abjad which the Greeks subsequently adopted (being their language's second written form, preceded by Lin
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by w0de0 2y ago
Yeah - let’s give the moronic narcissist a second chance, since he was stymied by entrenched republican institutions and own incompetence the first time. It is only fair!
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by w0de0 2y ago
While we’re at it, let’s do away with voting. Much less polarizing if we stop asking the demos to endorse a government.
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by w0de0 2y ago
Perhaps one wants to be told what they - the paper as institution, to include both owners and editorial staff - think. What values do they hold, and why? These inform their reporting content and choices. Moreover, no one thinks well in isol
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by w0de0 2y ago
“Spell backwards, forwards.”
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by w0de0 2y ago
Few people know that the first president was Peyton Randolph.
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by w0de0 2y ago
There are no other phenomena which we accept as real - where “accept as real” is an ability to correctly predict and manipulate, ie, create technology - based purely on qualia. This is the essence of physicalism. The hard problem of conscio
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by w0de0 2y ago
The stock market has no house. Every winner is an investor. Granted, retail investors lose more often than they win - but there’s no incentive of the market that ensures this - merely asymmetry of information. In contrast, commercial gambli
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by w0de0 2y ago
Women also, statistically, commit fewer crimes and far fewer violent crimes. One might reasonably suppose that the statistical output matches the input. (I would also be unsurprised if they were more likely to cooperate, and to plead guilty
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by w0de0 2y ago
As a rule, I avoid any text which, on the internet, purports to explicate the meaning of some work of art, high or low. Even before large language models began remixing this drivel, it was drivel. There is no part of youtube more accursed t
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by w0de0 2y ago
Exceptional parties on this and the other village islands of San Blas. The Kuna are a short and welcoming people. Fishing (some of them can free dive to great depths), coconuts, cocaine, and tourism are their income. Though communities exis

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