Peter Brown
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sciences, etc) while kind of just not really paying attention to the humanities. The specific form and nature of the Islamic World received Greek texts was set by the attitudes of the Nestorian Syrian Translators, pragmatists first before anything.
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I think we all have a strong idea on how this happened and it wasn't very pleasant or consensual
A western European ‘water world’ was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years https://t.co/iv3mTnhhmg
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This is interesting but also a helpful reminder that the norm for human societies everywhere except a small cluster of cultures from northwestern Europe is a hellish prison ringed about by the echoing, insane decrees of dead tyrants from which one can never escape
Sicilians of lore – until the mid-to-late 20th century! – followed a naming system often called by English authors the “Sicilian Naming Convention” (SNC). This was an extremely strong, almost ritualistic custom in Sicily and much of the Italian Mezzogiorno. My elders universally
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@asglidden @tedfrank The market participants do not influence whether Jesus christ of Nazareth returns to the earth by the end of 2027.
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I think part of the answer is that this is actually the content America C wants, but no one would make it for them. Even our worst slop, up til now, has been made by artists, or aspiring artists! That biases the output towards what artists, as a group, want to make. Even the
I know about ai videos and how they are made to make money, but has anyone figured out why they are so gouche and macabre? like why is it always like south park meets precious moments???
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información muy importante para la comunidad de lobos malos
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🇲🇰🇺🇸🧠 North Macedonia’s health minister told the media the government has formed a working group to review the situation after the country was mentioned in the Epstein emails as a source of human brains sent to the US for experiments.
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The Tierra del Fuego electronics assembly stuff is, in a very competitive field, one of the dumber cases of protectionism in today's world. Destroying it is a positive good and destroying everyone who defends it is also probably a positive good.
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"Workers assemble air conditioners at a factory in ... Tierra del Fuego."
Javier Milei's libertarian, "anarcho-capitalist" project keeps failing in Argentina. The economy is shrinking, just a few months after a massive bailout with tens of billions of dollars from the US government and IMF. Argentina is de-industrializing rapidly. Local manufacturing
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So true, very good data set and methodology
Since 2018, despite the brutal economic sanctions enforced by the “free world”, the death rate from malnutrition in the DPRK is lower than in the United States.
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Hanlon's Razor applies to user car dealers more than most appreciate, especially today.
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I can sit in a warm, gasoline-powered vehicle idling in my garage for the rest of my life.
If my power goes out during the storm, I can sit in my Tesla for over 24 hours straight with the heat set to 70° in my garage if needed. Can you do that in a gasoline vehicle?
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There is no plausible mechanism by which 20 hours of cycling differs dramatically from 20 hours of running.
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The bizzarro relationships really should just make you think that there are complex confounding patterns that you don't understand and not that there are mysterious sport specific non-linear relationships.
Physical activity and the reduction of all-cause mortality, from 2 very large prospective cohorts 1. The relationship is non-linear, suggesting a threshold effect for many types of exercise as seen below
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@PeterBrownPhD @realLPBeria Might explain Portuguese underperformance
@jbarro Azoreans got special expedited immigration status after a major volcanic eruption there in the late 50s, so they're the one large group of Portuguese immigrants between 1920 and the 1965 immigration law.
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My humble solution for Greenland: stick to the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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Here it is. Returning GIs complain about out of control hoeflation, American women get jealous of European war brides. Hilarious stuff. Nothing new under the sun
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