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“Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.”
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François-Adrien Boieldieu
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François-Adrien Boieldieu
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Katılım Mayıs 2022
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@Ian_Dunn This suffering is what made us the greatest people in the world
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Glasgow gets less sunshine than any city of over 100k in the world. Every day a Glaswegian doesn’t kill themselves is a heroic triumph of the human spirit.
Hayduke ⏹️@GWHayduke97
It genuinely breaks my brain to imagine what 1400 hours of annual sunshine must be like to live in. When going to college in Chicago, I really struggled with the seemingly endless gray of the winters. Chicago gets 2500 sunshine hours!
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@georgecursor There was a Greek guy on an internet forum I used to post on who claimed that the Minoans built Stonehenge and sailed to Canada where they had copper mines.
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We have lots of greek pseudohistory too. It's insane.
It's also stupid because our real history is impressive enough.
n x d@nxd1979
pseudohistory is huge in serbia. here's a best selling book positing that the etruscans are actually serbs
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@CantEverDie I don't begrudge her a happy life in the slightest to be clear. But describing a typical power marriage of the global elite in NYC as "beautiful" is awkwardly like Kardashian worship but for leftists.
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@CantEverDie I mean she grew up in Dubai as the daughter of wealthy doctors who trust funded her way through a bunch of art residencies in Manhattan. She was always going to get what she wanted.
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it’s kind of beautiful she got everything she ever wanted in life
el barbudo@danker_hank
The kween of manifesting.
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@bryancsk I haven't thought of that before but it's an interesting point. Script is one of my pet theories to explain the later Great Divergence: the printing press simply more efficiently reproduced Latin script than it did Hanzi.
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The people with alphabets instead of ideograms were at a real disadvantage when it came to reading until they invented putting spaces between words in the 11th century CE
Guy BOOK IS LIVE! || CHECK BIO@nosilverv
Reminder that EVERYTHING is an achievement: St. Augustine was shocked to find St. Ambrose reading *silently* (reading was then social and aloud) and private silent reading only really took off 700 years after in the 12 century.
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@sipo6061 @SpaghettiKozak Mussolini had a prominent Jewish mistress, Margherita Sarfatti, who advised him to seize power in the March on Rome. In the 30s when there was still geopolitical conflict between Italy and Germany some Nazis even spread rumours about Mussolini being secretly Jewish, lmao.
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@SpaghettiKozak not all of them
the italians (until 1938), austrians and greeks didn't blame the jews
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@TPatbat Pretty sure the default English greeting before hello was some variation of “good day”, as preserved in Australian English.
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@estherzelda0514 The idea that men in the 1980s were better groomed than they are today is as silly as thinking that everyone in the 60s was a hippie dropping acid at Woodstock. Stop learning cultural history from movies.
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While American female beauty standards have only escalated in the last 40 to 50 years, male beauty standards have fallen off a cliff. Men in the 1980s were expected to daily do their hair, sometimes using even more products than women. If you went to a club, men wore elaborate, fashionable outfits, accessories, and layers. Today, women wear far more makeup, and far more types of makeup exist. But finding hairspray, mouse, or a blow-dryer in a man's bathroom is rare, nearly all his shirts will be black, the pants he wears to a club are likely not to fit properly, and he is likely to be called a slur for homosexual if he wears accessories and a leather jacket. He will show up to work with his hair brushed, at best, and an unkempt scruff or beard. If he joins the military or goes to a school with an uniform, the standards for personal hygiene will feel oppressive, but women will find them refreshingly simple.
The explanation is that men simply are not trying anymore, nor are they expected to. We evolved over millions of years by female-driven mate selection, like nearly all social mammals. The truth, recognized even by Darwin at the advent of the discovery of evolution, is that women typically serve as reproductive gatekeepers, because they bear much higher biological costs of reproduction than men.
The falling rates of people dating or marrying have many factors, but this likely is one of them. Many women find dating these days to be too costly with little reward. Why put on airs and break out hundreds of dollars worth of personal hygiene products and makeup to meet a man who shows up late, finds one to be an acceptable number of eyebrows, and will ask you, eyeing your breasts in a fetching push-up bra, what you bring to the table, as if he is the prize to be wooed?
Lee@AccordingToLee
There’s a conversation happening on TikTok where the girls are finally talking about how a lot of men aren’t actually attractive. Like you go to the grocery store and see a ton of stunning women, but men? You will remember how many months back you last saw a hot man.
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@emilykmay @InlandCaGuy Yes there will be many anecdotal situations like in that weird book where the man is being sleazy and taking advantage of his partner. But polyamory doesn't seem to systematically advantage men. Not any more than one could use anecdata to argue the same about monogamy anyway.
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@emilykmay @InlandCaGuy That's not really true though. Very few women want to commit to a man who they have to share with another woman. If one browses polyamory subreddits it's full of men complaining that they opened the relationship and got nothing while their partner is enjoying suitor after suitor.
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I agree with this article but I also find it pretty strange the same author just wrote an article that claimed that any man trying to have a polyamorous relationship with a woman is taking advantage of her and trying to emotionally blackmail her into accepting infidenlity.
Emma Camp@emmma_camp_
I wrote about the weakest attempted MeToo-ing in recent history for @WSJFreeEx It's not 'grooming' for two 20-somethings to go on a few dates. And it is neither empowering nor particularly feminist to view women as perpetual schoolgirls, unable to consent to any romantic relationship that has a whiff of power imbalance.
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@meadandjuniper I mean everyone, both men and women, are shallow, if shallow means wanting to couple with someone you find physically attractive.
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Any way you cut it this also means that at least one gender is being dumb; either looksmaxxing is the wrong approach and young men somehow became massively out of touch with women, or looksmaxxing is on to something and young women just are that shallow
Whoever it is cut it out
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@Birdyword I feel it's correct that China sees itself as a rising power and prefers to wait. I also think that Chinese policymakers are paranoid that it's the United States who will provoke a war over Taiwan (encouraging them to declare independence e.g.) in order to constrain China's rise.
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I have no particular defence and intelligence insight here, I just always wonder: if you were a risk-averse Chinese policymaker who believed that the US was currently a decaying power, flailing both at home and abroad, would you lean towards rolling the dice, or waiting?
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
China isn’t planning to invade Taiwan in 2027 and would prefer to take control of the island without resorting to force., the U.S. concludes on.wsj.com/4lAedlA
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@onionfuture @MattZeitlin Norwegians do in fact sell gas on the open global market to maximise shareholder value. Absolute gibberish.
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@MattZeitlin No, I meant the capacity to not sell gas on the open global market to maximise shareholder value rather than run it as sovereign wealth fund like the Norwegians do, due to ideology
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how come norway is pumping oil and gas out of the north sea indefinitely while the british are convinced it's not even worth trying
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@glcarlstrom Yeah seems like the median outcome at the moment, both Iranian state collapse and an oil shock-induced global recession together.
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The Iranian theory of the war boils down to "everyone else has a lot more to lose than we do".
A question that should follow: what if that's true, but it doesn't end up mattering on a timetable that's helpful to the regime?
There's a scenario in which the world staggers out of this with a prolonged energy crisis that does enormous damage to the global economy *and* things end very, very badly for the regime and Iran as a whole.
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@endofanerajc @credenzaclear2 Tbh I find the counter signalling here rather humorous given afaict both you and Audrey seem to largely follow the boring and obvious advice of most of that article.
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@credenzaclear2 this would’ve hit stupid hard when i was 15 ngl
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tips for girls with no personality and/or bad vibes:
Aria Schrecker@Aria_Babu
Most women underrate how much men care about looks. And when they do try to get more attractive they waste time and effort on tanning, contouring their face, getting their nails done. Instead, almost everyone could be considered attractive if they lost weight, grew their hair long, and cleared up their skin. All these things are within your control. There's other basic advice that should be obvious. Wear makeup everyday and go for a youthful, dewy look. Remove your body hair. Ditch your glasses. For the extreme looksmaxxers, focus on your body. Your face is probably fine and hard to change. Get a boob job, precisely control your weight, and do hourglass-enhancing exercises. You are no longer stuck with the looks God gave you. ariababu.co.uk/p/get-sexier
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@Aria_Babu I think the problem with this article is that its advice is so simple (don't be overweight, have clear skin, wear natural-looking makeup) that you felt the need to tack on some dubious stuff like getting fake tits to make the article feel more insightful than necessary.
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Most women underrate how much men care about looks. And when they do try to get more attractive they waste time and effort on tanning, contouring their face, getting their nails done.
Instead, almost everyone could be considered attractive if they lost weight, grew their hair long, and cleared up their skin. All these things are within your control.
There's other basic advice that should be obvious. Wear makeup everyday and go for a youthful, dewy look. Remove your body hair. Ditch your glasses.
For the extreme looksmaxxers, focus on your body. Your face is probably fine and hard to change. Get a boob job, precisely control your weight, and do hourglass-enhancing exercises.
You are no longer stuck with the looks God gave you.
ariababu.co.uk/p/get-sexier
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@MazMHussain The last bit is clearly untrue. It's US-provided THAAD and Patriot batteries that have been intercepting Iranian missiles launched at them. Which illustrates why GCC have US bases, because if the US military didn't exist then Iran would have attacked and imperalised them long ago
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It is unfortunate what is happening. But if you are hosting military bases of a country that engages in an attack on its neighbor you either have an option to condemn the attack and expel the bases or you inevitably become party to the conflict. There is nothing to be surprised about and only the Omani government has been honest enough to acknowledge this. The GCC states and Iran are destined by geography to need to have a relationship whereas the U.S. presence is clearly what triggered this war while providing no protection once it ensued.
Clash Report@clashreport
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud slams Iran: They continue to attack their neighbors, their brothers, while calling for Islamic solidarity. How can they expect solidarity and support while attacking Islamic countries, harming their interests, and targeting their civilians? How can they call for diplomatic solutions while attacking nations that have no connection to the ongoing conflict? If Iran believes that the Gulf states are incapable of resilience or response, then its calculations are wrong. Political responses are available, and non-political responses are also on the table. Iran must review its intentions. If it is sincere in extending a hand of friendship and brotherhood, it must first uphold the principles of Islam, which do not allow a true Muslim to attack their neighbors—especially Muslim neighbors, civilians, and the interests of Muslim nations. It appears that Iran has not taken these considerations into account, and all of this comes at a price.
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@razibkhan Pakistani Shias seem to be the most fanatical pro-IRI demographic on the site, lol.
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i'm not excited about the iran war. but subcontinental muslims seem to be motivated in caring about civilian casualties mostly because it is israelis and americans doing it; did they care when the iranian regime mowed down protestors and killed doctors?
this is an evil regime
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@TiltingatM3 Huh? The vast majority of trans-Eurasian trade was maritime. And the Great Bullion Famine occurred in the mid-15th century after the collapse of Pax Mongolica.
Seems recent scholarship argues that Mongol conquests *increased* silver circulation in Europe.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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The trade integration from Pax Mongolica led to such a large balance of payments deficit in Europe—Europeans didn’t make much Asians wanted, so silver flowed east to pay for net imports—that it caused a “silver famine.” The resulting monetary crisis led to the credit money system that forms the basis for modern capitalism.
Memory Medieval@MemoryMedieval
People will hate this but it has to be said.. Genghis Khan is vastly overrated. Yeah, the Mongols conquered a lot of stuff. They were good at war. But that's it. They didn't contribute to human society in any measurable way that affects anyone today. I will bet money you've never eaten a buuz dumpling or listen to throat singing. A large part of the Mongol's success comes from their sheer brutality towards common folk. And brutalize the common folk they did. Sack a castle and kill everyone. Come back two weeks later when people are rummaging through the wreckage and kill everyone again. Capture a bunch of men, women, and children, and make them march at the head of the army's assault, taking the casualties and filling up moats with their corpses. So sure, the war machine was impressive but the slaughter of millions of peasants is (aside from kind of sickening to consider) entirely unimpressive. And in exchange for the slaughter of so many the world got.... ? Mid asian food and terrible music? Weird horse products? "They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron... bulky, strong, invincible, untiring... They are without human laws, know no comforts, are more ferocious than lions or bears." - Matthew Paris (English Benedictine monk in the 1240s) "They should be called monsters rather than human beings, thirsting after and drinking blood, tearing apart and devouring the corpses of dogs and humans... Devoid of human laws, they have no knowledge of clemency.." "They are extremely arrogant toward other people, [and] tend to anger... easily... They are the greatest liars in the world in dealing with other people... They are crafty and sly... [and] have an admirable ability to keep their intentions secret... They are messy in their eating and drinking and in their whole way of life, [and] cling fiercely to what they have. They have no conscience about killing other people..." -John of Plano Carpini (1240s) "One cannot sufficiently defame the cruelty and artful ability for deception of that people... a certain ill-bred breed of inhuman humans, whose law is lawlessness, whose wrath is furious... overrunning countless lands, which it is dreadfully devastating, killing and horribly exterminating by fire all who stand in their way." -Ivo of Narbonne (1240s) A disgusting people who happen to get very, very good at warfare but highly overrated by people who value martial excellence.
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@bryancsk I mean that's kind of like asking why the PLA as a branch of the Chinese Communist Party follows the nerds in the Central Committee. Because that's the organisational and ideological structure.
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I need an expert in Iranian politics to explain to me why the IRGC stays obedient to a cadre of absolute nerds who all seem to have PhDs
Lily Lynch@lilyslynch
Ali Larijani's daughter, Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, was an assistant professor in the department of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University in Atlanta until January. emorywheel.com/article/emory-…
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