You know this administration could do the funniest thing ever and sell 170,000 hellfire missiles to Ukraine because it would be cheaper than going through all the bureaucratic red tape and environmental regulations to dispose of them in the United States

the ellipsis reads "if by decency & propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."

1) Excellent ancient Greek humour: a large bronze battering ram – one of very few to survive from the ancient world – dedicated as an offering to Zeus at Olympia ...and decorated with, well, it had to be..

55/ ...because Big Theory libertarians will insist on what they see as ideological purity ("borders don't real", "if you don't like a coal furnace next door just move", etc) that absolutely nuke the end goal of flourishing-with-liberty.

10/ "IP lasts too long" is orthogonal to "IP isn't real property and shouldn't exist". I agree that copyright lasts too long (and I think patents arguably last too short). These are knobs to be adjusted. x.com/ChMark161/status/19440…

Words matter.

Road workers set up a CCTV to uncover who was moving the safety traffic cones. It turns out a Kea parrot (considered one of the most intelligent bird in the world) moved them to get attention from humans, in the hopes to get fed or maybe just to mess with them - New Zealand

There’s a story that when Saladin besieged the Order of the Assassins, they sent an envoy to negotiate. The envoy requested to talk alone, but Saladin refused to meet without his most trusted bodyguard, a man whom he had known since he was a boy. The envoy accepted, and when the three of them were alone, made a small motion towards the bodyguard with his fingers — upon which the bodyguard drew his dagger and held it to Saladin’s throat. Upon another flick of the envoy’s wrist, he withdrew his dagger and then plunged it into his own chest and fell down dead. Saladin made peace with the Assassins. The Epstein files are never going to be released.

Why are they doing everything by hand?

wildest thing about elite sports to me is how you have to be born a freak, work insanely hard, get to the top of your profession, and only then get to find out if somebody else who did everything you did was born an even bigger freak

If the Air India crash was pilot murder-suicide like it appears to have been, that would make murder-suicide the probable cause of 781 deaths since 2014, likely more than any other cause in airline accidents. Weird to think that might be the most salient issue in aviation safety.

Unrealistic coastline. No one with a fifth grade education will believe it's real.

Reminder that Porn for women has not changed in 100 years

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Anon in the story: “It looks suspicious—but not as suspicious as the DOJ refusing to answer basic questions about it.”

The most interesting thing about the Epstein case is how every person who knows the truth is like "holy fuck, we can't tell the normies the truth" even if their entire public life before they learned the truth about Epstein was about how we need to tell the normies the truth

> In Sweden, approximately 24.1% of the population holds a post-secondary degree of 3 years or more > In the United States, approximately 37.7% ... have a bachelor's degree or higher

I am so old I was telling kids how to do this when it came out.

When magnetic compasses came to Europe in the 12th c., ship captains had to hide them from sailors who by and large thought magnets were a form of witchcraft and refused to sail in their presence. Ship captain, sailor, and magnet are always with us in new and different forms.

This kind of test generally doesn't tell me anything useful because I neither-agree-nor-disagree when I think an assertion is incoherent, so the model assumes I'm moderate where I'm an extremist.