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willsoon
3y ago
Social contract. Every year I pay its passive. Can anyone tell me when the profits will be distributed?
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You don't read too much history, do you? Of course I can understand the confusion. Caligula was the guy who started running from sea to sea until he came back with a very long and unrecognisable beard. Also: that was the decline of the
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Well, you know. The emperor who fancies himself a music hall singer. What's her name again? There are some things that are common to a decline in an important understanding of history. There are 99, this is one of them.
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3y ago
I have learnt from a historian that when the elites adopt the modes of the plebeians, things go badly wrong.
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3y ago
Well, you know these things, and like the ban on eating pork (pork doesn't walk in the sand, so you have to buy it from somewhere) and morals in general, are a bit opportunistic. There are 28 days in a lunar month, easy to divide by 2,
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3y ago
Almost adopted, or almost back to it. I remember reading in Toynbee that the solar calendar was an effect of the hard transition from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal one. I also remember reading Works and Days and how the Boreas impr
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3y ago
No if you have reading well your Machiavelli.
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Sorry, I replied before reading the whole thread. Well. I have none of those good accouts on good sites like google or 365ish like everyone else. So yes. Sometimes I don't know how to send large files. Sure I can make a page on github,
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3y ago
It's not that 99% of people are crazy or stupid, but you're bound to attract the remaining 1%. But why? That's the question. The site is not even on the dark web, I think these guys have a lot of resources to hide their files
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3y ago
I dont have a Gmail account. Is there any hope for me?
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3y ago
Yes! And the shorts are very entertaining too! And, can you believe it, my wife watches them for recipes!
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3y ago
Now IPNS is a thing. Months ago it just didn't work, at least for me, now something is happening in the way IPNS works.
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3y ago
No, you are actually accessing the web. But you have to download using torrent, so to some extent it is true what you note.
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3y ago
But now, I dont know why, theres a lot of IPFS pinning service I got HUGO hosting in GH and deploying in FTPS from fleek.com. It has nothing on it but it works like a charm.
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4y ago
People often use punctuation in very creative ways... this makes for better communication. Some writers use the semicolon to add an alternative explanation or to reinforce what they have written. Others don't use it at all: there are t
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4y ago
<<I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile—some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.>> V. Nabokov
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4y ago
Mme. Bovary. First it just was an exercise to show to my wife how _descriptions_ are _action_. I was trying to improved her everyday writing, you know, memos from work, informal/formal letters. I'm reading French just a little as
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4y ago
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This. Who kill by capitalism will be killed by capitalism. What's that noise (tik tok reference) about that "creating and Ethical A.I." and I'm a God you not you trust. Nonsense. ¿What that noise?
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5y ago
Here's another lyrics: >They only want you when you are seventeen >When you are twenty-one >You are not fun
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5y ago
I am lawyer and a writer (mostly unedited), a math fanboy --and sort a script-kiddie. English' not my native language. There's no other site in the entire net most interesting than that. True is that 80% of the posts I can't
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5y ago
Like many other Borges' stories they reach a point where it is no other thing but a different way to tell about the world. The Lottery finds that deliver money it's not enough, it will deliver joy, pain, enlightenment, suffering,
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I read in some Nabokov's interview back in my time. At some point the questions goes like how do you would rank yourself among other contemporaries writers or something along that. He responds that it should be a typography sign, like
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5y ago
Uhu. April is the cruelest month.