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ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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ketman hetman
2hr ago
I don't have any Australian context, but today I learned there is apparently an "Aboriginal tent embassy" across the street from the Australian Parliament house. Now, it seems to me that a country cannot have an embassy of itself within itself, so this is a little awkward when combined with the idea of the land never having been ceded; however, that appears to be the point.
Williams suggested calling the tiny protest, at that point just a camp with a few placards, an embassy.[9] The term "embassy" was deliberately chosen to draw attention to the fact Aboriginal people had never ceded sovereignty, and that there had never been any kind of treaty process with the Crown; they were the only cultural group in Australia who did not have an embassy to represent them.[10] Dr Gary Foley later wrote in his 2014 book about the embassy that the term "tent embassy" was intended to serve as a reminder that Aboriginal people were living in substandard conditions, and treated "like aliens in their own land".[11]
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ketman hetman
3hr ago
- PI HARD - trailer length, but amusing
- The Patchwright - short film, not clear how much is AI generated though.
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ketman hetman
6hr ago
Maybe if you limit your definition of "the elite" to just the czar. Not every boyar could afford a setup like that, but not sequestering your woman is low status, so solve for the equilibrium.
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ketman hetman
8hr ago
In no culture do elite level men keep the mothers of their kids in basements.
Well, it wasn't a basement, it was an attic, but the Russians basically did.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
The way Aquinas dealt with this was by the exposition that “sin” and “evil” are products of disorderly desire within the creatively will and so it’s a privation. Will’s are properly oriented toward God. When our will is directed towards ‘other’ goods that take us away from our purpose, that directs us towards the paths of evil.
This might work for man's inhumanity to man, but it's a hard sell for e.g. children getting leukemia.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Why did women get into F1 racing all of a sudden in the past ten years? Feels like a psyop but if you asked me if you could psyop women into give a shit about dudes driving around in circles for an hour and a half I'd say no. I could at least understand if they got women driving the cars, but they don't.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
To be honest I didn't find it scary. It was suspenseful, sure, but I was pretty certain that he was
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ketman hetman
3d ago
The cable periscope kills me.
How much did this whole thing set you back (minus the cost of the land)?
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Boomers aren't working - check prime age lfpr: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
Nearly at an all time high, and higher than pre covid.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Of course it makes grammatical sense. You've got a verb acting on an object and a preposition. There's plenty of verbs that work this way ("to butter Israelis up"). The question of whether you can use "reign" in this way is one of semantics, not grammar.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
How is transforming the 3D surface of the sphere that Google Earth internally manipulates into a 2D image that can be rendered on a planar phone screen not a map projection?
- The Vanishing (ridiculously titled Spoorloos in their absurd meme language): gripping Dutch crime movie. Ending may or may not be somewhat frustrating, but it's grown on me.
- Force Majeure: a fascinating study of women getting the ick.
- No Other Choice: hilarious Korean movie about getting ahead in the lucrative field of paper manufacturing.
- Caché: Kind of a mixed recommendation. Emotionally impactful, but overall slow paced and takes for granted that you agree with the woke premise.
- A Separation: Iranian divorce movie. "Things can always get worse."
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Certainly there are cities near nature areas, and NY is quite bad in this sense. But multiple parks comparable to central park within walking distance beggars belief.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
The sphere of Google Earth is projected onto the rectangular plane of your phone screen.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Maps should not attempt to show two sides of a sphere at once!
You gotta choose a projection long before you try to show both sides of the earth at once.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Central Park is fine. But my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance
You have multiple 800 acre parks within walking distance of your house? How does that work?
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ketman hetman
3d ago
We are talking 70% of government workforce being women
Source? I'm seeing 45% of federal employees are women. https://ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/a-profile-of-the-2023-federal-workforce/
sarker
ketman hetman
4d ago
the phrase 'to reign in' makes no grammatical sense.
Anon, I...
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Paying informants to stay in an organization, continue rousing for it, and report back is fungible with just paying the organization to exist.
Maybe on some scales. Was the USG paying the USSR to exist since some KGB guys were on the American payroll?
Were they? I mean, maybe, but I don't know if I can take ESR's word for it.
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