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Douglass was such a mind. I need to actually read through his various memoirs and essays/correspondence.
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The tagline "ending" wildfires is definitely misleading as of course they are a natural occurrence. But climate change has made them increasingly intense and frequent and although this may also be "natural" in a way it i
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How's NY mag to work with editorially?
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>3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil. I agree with this, but I also think the risk is less that lots of people will be "successfully" repla
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Heh, I started an article with the same metaphor was too busy to finish it. We'll see what the fossil record looks like in a few years though.
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Anyone who wants a great single-volume reference for this kind of thing should check out The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins. Extraordinary collection. You can browse a copy here: https://archive
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Of course there certainly arguments in both directions but as I understand it this and some other passages are intended to subvert ideas of and normalize the same-sex relationships that developed in the then entirely male seafaring world. I
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Came here to post this. Such a fun and mischievous passage, and of course one with deliberate and heavy homoerotic overtones.
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The way I see it as a worker you are making your abilities available and are entitled absolutely to the wages they give you. Kind of feels like robbing them sure, but they're robbing themselves. More of an indictment of capitalism and
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And Butler himself: https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/1066.html An interesting read if you haven't already read Erewhon.
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Thanks for this link, looks super interesting.
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This is a really interesting period, when what we think of as modern ideas about governance and human rights were coffee-house conversation and the seeds of revolution across Europe were being sown. Although I think appropriating the title
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Yeah, stuff like this was the most interesting use case for me but a company like Amazon doesn't want to market its new, supposedly cool device as a speaking clock for the elderly, or a weather app for blind folks, even though it'
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FYI, this is a long excerpt (prologue and first chapter) from a nonfiction book y the author of "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "Lost City of Z," David Grann. Fascinating. Built on a firsthand account by Lord Byron&#x27
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Wow, I learned a lot. I'd be curious to try out the Chinese equivalent of Final Fantasy VI - when storytelling, gameplay, and art achieved a sort of local triple maximum. No doubt opinions are divided but I wonder if there are a handfu
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What's the great instant you drank? Clearly you love and appreciate good fresh coffee so I wonder what it might be that met that bar when others didn't. I don't mind some instant coffee now and then but it has a certain quali
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Woah! I didn't realize MJT had a thing on him. I really need to go back there.
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Don't be an asshole.
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Such an interesting person. I know that there are numerous biographies and histories of him in Russian but none that I know of have been translated to English. I would gladly read one; the scattered stories and essays I've read by and
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The telegraph was an enormous change, especially laying the trans-Atlantic line.
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In one sense this is correct and why I personally stopped caring - what are they going to do with 5 years worth of my choice of cream cheese and apple varieties? But for other people it may be more revealing, of medical conditions, life cha
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by devindotcom 4y ago
GRIFFIN takes the cake for me: "General compliant aerial Robotic manipulation system Integrating Fixed and Flapping wings to INcrease range and safety" https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/this-autonomo
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This is nasty but these wasps and the fig trees that are their home are the subject of one of the best nature documentaries I've ever seen, The Queen of Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM If you can loc
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>Assuming a spherical isotropically radiating human ...in a vacuum, of course!
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This is the latest classic home version of that, I have one: https://us.moccamaster.com/products/kbgv-select Good coffee, compact, looks good, easily fixable if a piece breaks since the movable parts are all individual
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AFAIK only Lynk has demonstrated this capability so far. They're basically aiming for emergency two-way messaging and light downlink data like weather, emergency info, etc. The others are talking about high speed data but haven't
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Halloween Harry! Yes. The canister grenades and flamethrower were the best.
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Looks a lot like Abuse. I would have played it! The original Duke Nukem sidescrollers were fun. Them and Commander Keen, Dangerous Dave, Jazz Jackrabbit... what else?
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Love the Well-Tempered Clavier! I recommend listening to the harpsichord versions, which emphasize the individual notes and tempo, since (IMO) these were not really meant as expressive, emotional pieces to be interpreted liberally on pianof
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My guess is every three letter agency, the White House, members of Congress, everybody. Just like the current admin and previous admin. They would all be in conversation with all the major social platforms, for lots of reasons.

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