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Americans are the indigenous inhabitants of the moon.
delian@zebulgar
i have only one simple policy priority for the next 4 years the moon should be a state
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Peter Banks
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Peter Banks
@PeterIBanks
Husband | American | Post-Post-Pre-Modernist | President of @boydinst
Ashburn Virginia Katılım Mayıs 2022
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You WON'T live in a pod and you will COMPLAIN about it.
Ramez Naam@ramez
Indoor living area per person has roughly tripled in the US since 1950.
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This, from @PeterIBanks, is a good summary of what it’s like to attempt to get the news from social media:
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@SinghJyotirmai So to understand this I think you need to compare their relative states.
A big difference was that in 1815 the Allies saw themselves as restoring the monarchy and the pre 1789 French regime. That included their old borders. In 1920 when they were setting terms it was different
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Maybe a silly question but the Congress of Vienna was quite thoughtful in how it dealt with France in 1815 by not trying to completely humiliate it, which averted major war for a long time
Why wasn't this same thoughtfulness extended for Germany at the Treaty of Versailles?
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@SinghJyotirmai @alz_zyd_ @FangYi11101 Used to be. Market is bad now. A decade ago it was golden. Five years ago still great. Now meh.
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An example of "lagging prestige" is that econ PhDs are still, for some reason, viewed as much higher prestige than other business school PhDs (finance, mkting, accounting, etc.). However, the econ PhD job market is collapsing, and PhD admissions are getting much harder
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"Let's do nanotech."
Don't we already have DNA?
"No, DNA is too complicated, we can't figure out how it works."
Oh, ok, start from scratch then, that should be easier...
Andrew Côté@Andercot
It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.
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India probably has one of the biggest gaps in cleanliness inside the home vs dirty public spaces.
I asked Gemini to estimate the gap for various countries and it came up with this... Seems about right, no?
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Dont care about modern agendas when it comes to the existence of queer people (which have been documented to exist for 100s of years), meanwhile your love interest for your medieval game strictly adheres to MODERN beauty standards & not medieval ones. Lol
Knight's Path@Knights_Path
@man0m4n We care about gaming and fun not modern agendas
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Just did a livestream on whether the US has lost its capacity to solve problems with @PeterIBanks of the Boyd Institute. Watch here. substack.com/inbox/post/185…
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Visited the Golden Gate Cemetery today, where Admiral Nimitz - allied commander in the Pacific in WW2 - is buried
My grandpa and his truck ran supplies for the Americans in Burma during the Pacific War, so this was a special visit for me. Kind of a wild full circle moment
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@SinghJyotirmai More Macedonian. The Persians never conquered all of Greece!
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The Achaemenid Empire lives on in mysterious ways
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Countries mentioned in Wikipedia’s entry for “Baklava”
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It’s funny/sad that with betting markets we have created a mechanism for super AGI to instantly accumulate unlimited wealth.
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If you want to know more about
open.substack.com/pub/boydinstit…
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I might kms.
Institutional investors have been net home sellers for years and this is fundamentally a non issue. All this will accomplish is further strangle supply elasticity, pushing up prices when we experience another demand shock.
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Churchill got a doctor’s note before a 1932 visit to the U.S. so he could drink alcohol during Prohibition.
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There’s an arbys at Istanbul airport - cultural victory but at what cost
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@thomaschattwill Never used it do you have any recommendations?
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2025 was the year I fully fell in love with the kettlebell. I just wish these tools and this knowledge was available when I was in high school (same with calisthenics).
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