HaveAtThee
6mo ago
I also learned it from Civ IV when I was a kid. The game has a lot of interesting quotes read by Leonard Nimoy when you unlock new techs and I still have many of them memorized. However, the Ozymandias quote was one that I instantly loved even as a 9 year old and I still have the poem memorized nearly 20 years later.
We also "analyzed" the poem in high school AP lit (I'm sure I went overboard being a know-it-all about it).
HaveAtThee
7mo ago
In a roundabout way, that is a win for Silver since he's been promoting prediction markets for years (even when they were much less popular; he used to get scoffed at routinely by his 538 podcast co-hosts when he brought up prediction markets), he's an advisor to Polymarket, he acts as a spokesman for Polymarket in some capacities, his new podcast focuses heavily on prediction markets, etc.
HaveAtThee
8mo ago
https://news.sky.com/story/captain-rebecca-lobach-third-helicopter-pilot-who-died-in-washington-crash-was-former-white-house-aide-13301558
She's clearly not trans.
I wouldn't make much of the fact that she was a woman either, at least not unless we get some actual hard evidence that DEI was relevant. The white male pilot supervising her, who we hear on the voice recordings, does not seem like he saw the plane either (he was probably looking at the wrong plane when ATC asked him if he had the CRJ in sight). And surely he's equally culpable for the fact that they were flying 100 feet too high.
Plus just the fact they "merely" needed to be a little bit lower while crossing the final approach of a civilian plane says a lot about the situation quite apart from the individual helo pilots.
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