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🚫🛣️ 🚫🤴 Wet sidewalks cause rain. #1 fan of Cyrus the Great 👑🏺🐎🎁

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@MorlockP Announcing my next venture, a translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia for girls! I'll add descriptions of how beautiful Cyrus is, scenes where he gets tongue tied in front of his crush when he's a teenager, and a long discussion about if love is voluntary in the middle of a war

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While you were reading Hegel, I was reading Herodotus While you were listening to redscare, I was reading Herodotus While you were chatting with incels on twitter, I was reading Herodotus This book is quite long

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One of Xenophon's minor works, The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs, contains a list of dog names he recommends:

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@folmerkelly Another view

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@shemkalegal @ShannonKilpatri @RMFifthCircuit Judge: have you read the probable cause affidavit? Lawyer: it's not in the record Judge: I know but I mean you represent the city of Houston. Have you read it? Lawyer: no

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@bswud Edouard Lanteri gives a detailed explanation of building and using a pointing apparatus to scale up and transfer a clay or plaster models in this book teaching practical classical sculpture (though I have not tried it myself).

Modelling and Sculpting Animals book by Edouard Lanteri

Buy a cheap copy of Modelling and Sculpting Animals book by Edouard Lanteri. A joy to read, as well as a constant reference library. Thoroughly inspiring. -- WorkbenchThe republication of this highly...

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@arun_4_livpl @siriousbrown @JordanDeanWill1 @Here4theRatio2 @AWainwrightTV Qualified Immunity is why. A doctrine created by the courts to make officers immune from prosecution that is incredibly difficult to overcome in court. #AmberGuyger was prosecuted because she wasn't on duty and didn't have this defense. Learn more at

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Not sure why this is scheduled for 45 minutes. Everyone knows it's Vienna? #MisesU

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@IntractableLion I can corroborate this. McMaster being out of certain common machine screws was like the sky turning red with blood. Lots of simple parts like wire terminals (mfr in France) were unavailable & we made some swaps that drove up cost - invisible to the end user though

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@Invertible_Man I'd guess ballet or equestrian sports, but I've got no data. They are associated with type As though

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Antheus, meaning blossom in English, is the root of the word "anthology." A bouquet of written works.

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@acczibit Ht @anarchyinblack

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@owenbroadcast Same with petrified wood. Ghost stories are a good way to get outcomes when rules are hard to enforce. Reminds me of the robust nuclear waste hazard indication problem: someone recommends to breed glowing cats and write songs about them, bc they think memes last longer than signs

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@eigenrobot Don't worry she's not actually that into him

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It's too bad that the printing press was only invented in 1948. Imagine what we could learn if we had records from before 1948. I guess we will never know how this conflict originated or who is right 🤷‍♀️ There is simply no way to find out.

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Coming soon to a theater near you

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. @L0m3z has created something from nothing. Extremely substantial work by all entrants; thank you for submitting

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@cjciaramella @ThomasEWoods @ComicDaveSmith @aier His point about the soviets is true and also sequitur - the argument was about the narrative of good defeating evil. Does reason not support peaceful parenting? I don't even understand the angle here. These are fine

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John William Godward was an English painter in the neoclassical style who painted a lot of pretty girls in greek revival dresses leaning against marble architecture. I combined three of his paintings into a repeating pattern to print on fabric. Thanks to @GettyMuseum (see below)

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Asking strangers on the street if they really understand that the bad guy with the nose ring in 300 is the good king in the book of Esther.

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@eigenrobot "Hug an Asian to fight bigotry" -> "go to a gay orgy to fight bigotry" jfc They are telling people who suspect they have mpx to HIDE THEIR SYMPTOMS and attend a sex party

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Just read a summary of Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind and I'm shook: you guys have just been regurgitating a book from 1986 this whole time. None of you have original takes at all!

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As an American new to soccer, I'm excited to see USMNT go up against the best striker in the premier league! #WorldCup #USMNT #Pulisic #USAvNED

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@kitten_beloved Atwood might reference this with "you are your own voyeur"

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Finally we have what @urbit needs to takeoff: an official mascot to compete with the linux penguin, courtesy of one of assembly's younger attendees

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“For, more than any people in the world, [the Persians and Medes] devote themselves to pleasure and luxury, and yet at the same time they are the noblest and the bravest of the barbarians.”

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@ByrneHobart Yeah Facebook set the standard but when someone asks for a doctor on an airplane he'll be useless!

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My father-in-law is a social scientist. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at a functioning civilization together and I asked him what it would cost to build those tacit social norms today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

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there were lots of tacit social norms that allowed for a liberal society to exist in the US for a while. a lot of those norms were broken the last generation. most ppl want to go back...but now that the norm is broken, no one knows how to put Humpty Dumpty back together

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@y_modulus @eigenrobot I've seen a lot of horrible examples of chat gpt bias and this is The worst one I think. Thanks for sharing

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@ByrneHobart Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for project managers or senior software engineers, let me know. I was the PM responsible for making the super follow button cover up the unfollow button

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@arun_4_livpl @siriousbrown @JordanDeanWill1 @Here4theRatio2 @AWainwrightTV Absolutely. I hate QI. The 2 solutions I see is for the SCOTUS (who created it) to abolish it or for Congress to pass another civil rights law like S1983 that overwrites it. The other prong is making cops personally liable for damages a la @ConLawWarrior

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@michaelmalice "which of these numbers is bigger: 1,2,3, or 4?" "20 is the biggest number, idiot!"

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@moonboi_ What new materials did they develop? The page says the bearings are ceramic

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@bkavoussi It was actually Xenophon who got me into it! Herodotus is great but he has this kind of... fatalistic vibe that I kinda dislike. Very clearly a wordcel iykwim

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@kitten_beloved So many adjacent accounts are doing this I feel like there should be a hashtag so we can compare results later. 'tpotiodine" or something

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I posted a post to the unamable-place where posters post with an FAQ about Herodotus, link in bio

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I designed these and definitely did not make 100k. If you do want to get into this though (relay/ladder logic is fun, hardware is fun, electricity is fun), the search term you want is "UL508A panel shop"

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If you want to make over $100,000/year before you turn 20 then learn how to build, maintain, and program a control cabinet like the ones below. There is a huge gap in knowledge on these and every tech I work with is 60+ years old. I work with a tech who is flown across the

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@finmoorhouse Here's an intermediate step if you're having trouble with 1->2

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"Before I came to #MisesU I had never met another living Austrian" naturally implies that you've met dead Austrians, which makes total sense with me since I became an Austrian after being given a bowtie from Rothbard's ghost.

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TIL the word anthology comes from the Greek word for a collection of flowers. a bouquet of knowledge!

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New @urbit OTA looks great

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Book 3 of The Histories was such a page turner I didn't tweet much yesterday If, after sex, a woman tell you to go to war, it is a trap. 100% of the time. Maybe other times you can trust her, but "ask him to go to war after sex" is a classic move.

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@evelyngfrick One million dollars to someone who comes up with a joke about her name that she hasn't heard before

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@MorlockP @jeremykauffman People who have never done it have no idea how arduous it is to use the legal system and how much time it takes. There are countless nooks and crannies for for the government to hide it, and all the other players speak in a strange language you've never been taught

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@St_Rev @MorlockP > new Lochner era

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@JoshuaAtLarge @AkbarSAhmed What anti-war folks is he taking to?! 4 months turns into a year, a year into a decade, a decade into forever.

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@sonyasupposedly Yeah. Biden said 'depositors will be protected, shareholders will not' so instead of/in addition to bank runs there is a stock market crash.

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@elonmusk @thesheetztweetz

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@logic_denier Sitting outside the museum handing out fat stacks of fill-in-the-name adhesive backed cards to visitors

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Purge from your mind the idea the the constitution is real. You are doing exegesis on smoke. You are interpreting the Talmud for apostates. The words only bind you; everyone else knows that's just a story. That's why invoking the words of power doesn't give you power.

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Gas prices are getting so high I need to move my car to L2

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Video games are bad because the sort of person who would have said this 2,000 years ago is now making a 28 part series on how to get all of sonic's rings on youtube

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@razibkhan the white in Strunk & WHITE stands for white supremacy

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@kitten_beloved I like the idea that oral exams will begin to happen bc increasing the caliber of oration in the Anglosphere would be extremely good. Make speeches great again. Oral arguments are extremely lindy, as is real time feedback. Slightly harder to bullshit and name-drop out loud?

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@nrken19 Does this article exist somewhere that does not try to give my phone a virus?

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The point of the specification is to exclude all other products. The specification is *written by the company that makes the product* and the government requests it. I know because I've written these (different industry)

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Incredible grift

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Most podcasts are bad because of low information density and casualness, but it's convenient. I've been squaring this by downloading blog posts (print to PDF in browser) and using an e-reader with decent text to speech. *highly recommend* Are there any AI tts apps yet?

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"I'm assembling a team"

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I have failed to be moderate.... 3 Strauss and 3 more Xenophon being shipped to me.

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I love to listening to an interview about the tech problem and the guest reinvents @urbit . "If only such a thing was possible," "Someone needs to make..." The future is already here and it's bright :)

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. @NewmanJ_R explaining the structure of production #MisesU

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@amelapay Naming a thing allow Experts and Institutions to talk about it so we can have Validation.

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@eigenrobot Which institutes? After reading a 1 sentence summary of the Jones act I endorse repeal

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@jessesingal @tylercowen It's not a mistake. Lucy moves the football every time. You are playing football and she is playing a game where she makes you fall over. It's not a mistake.

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@fire__exit @extradeadjcb Scanning from right to left instead of L->R can make you look more effectively. Your L->R eye motion is more habitual bc reading; you can look without actually engaging your brain. R->L breaks habit. I find this helps when looking for something I know is right infront of me.

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Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant on the maligning of Xerxes compared to other Achaemenid rulers. "His hostile reputation is based on a weak reading of the XPh inscription". She pointed out that, "the invasion was a much bigger deal to the Greeks than the Persians."

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Ladies PSA to never wear a hair tie on your wrist because photos of me from Mises U 2021 are still being used and the hair tie on my wrist is immortalized forever (hair looks great tho)

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@moonbeamdreams_ Finally, someone pointing out that pockets in dresses are not good

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To be completely consistent with the Blue Alert, I believe the entire state should be notified for every crime that's committed. Wouldn't want anyone to feel left out! 🚨🤳BIKE STOLEN IN TRAVIS COUNTY 🚨🤳JAY WALKER IN SAN ANTONIO 🚨🤳SHOP LIFTER IN GALVESTON

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@paul_hundred Boys will be boys

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@solaryanization She's the perfect trad gf but he won't marry her; she has no security. He could die or leave at any time.

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@kendrictonn "I have an eye" I can do one better

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Reading Xenophon's On Horsemanship, written more than 2k years ago. It's delightful how similar this all sounds to the lessons my mom gave me (minus the javelins of course)

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@eigenrobot I like the idea of intimidating someone by attaching an intimidating gif to your message. Like the internet version of a ransome note made of letters cut out of several documents except lacking the underlying utility

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@kendrictonn As an expert in watching painting restoration videos on YouTube, I am thinking that it will be possible to remove the vandal's paint and restore the painting. Do you think so?

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@michellemalkin @ComicDaveSmith 7 days in jail where she is in more danger of coronavirus. It's not about safety it's about flexing power just because you can.

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@vocalcry Lol she is wearing makeup in those photos

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@SCHIZO_FREQ The one thing holding back findom was the lack of a man's organizational talent

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@eigenrobot Am I put in a zoo with another human or do the aliens really not get how this works? It sounds like they are kind of clueless so sure I'll put on a show but at the end of it they'll think humans bud via interpretive dance.

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@kendrictonn Had this happen with AliExpress once. Sent them a picture of my table "this is where my package would be, if it had arrived" (also sent tracking).

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Perform the same class of cynical arguments that your opponents use to twist & pervert the law as written to help you instead of harm. But you first have to realize that all legal arguments are rhetoric, it's a game. Kill hope that law will return pure & *use* it as it really is.

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Do I know anyone with a strong grasp of greek that can Hellenize a name for me? Just needs to sound reasonable.

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@razibkhan Razib why are you trying to generate images of Greek bears

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@eigenrobot Mfw he does not have diamond hands

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@Newsweek Puritanical Newsweek editor has never made a joke about sex nor touched a woman

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@dieworkwear @themoneyghost I feel the same way about learning this as some people feel about fraudulent calorie counts

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Stop telling people the world works in peculiar ways. The world does not work in peculiar ways; it works in particular ways and it's our task to figure them out!

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@savbrads Is it actually made of cotton?

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Ancient man conquered cities with fire and sword, but ancient man also had a deep kink to dress his wife up in his dead twink eunuch's clothes to have sex with her

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@MorlockP Something is wrong here

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Out of context #MisesU day 1 "I will briefly defend Marx" Prof Herbener "It doesn't matter that we don't have any money" @petergklein "You can sleep through this." @DrPatrickNewman

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