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Wishbone killed eight confederate traitors when he held the line at Cemetary Ridge with XI Corps

Overpaid Email job liberals want you to know the economy is actually great, you’re just stupid, and if you can’t afford the basics of life and a few small luxuries, you should just learn to have wealthy parents too

Which religion should Sam Altman and OpenAI team up with to defeat Anthropic and the Pope’s new partnership?

There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.

Homer is the original Great Man Theorist of history. He’s not telling you the Trojans lost the war because of climate change. He’s telling you the tale of Hector, Odysseus, and Achilles.

Les mecs de droite quand tu leur dis que les gens ont moins de chances de tomber dans la criminalité quand leurs besoins vitaux sont assurés

Part of what's silly about the Emily Wilson fuss is people on twitter talk as if her Homer translations have the Greeks all go to therapy and work out their differences over cups of soy ambrosia and then you actually read her verse and it's metal as hell

It's a joke, but it's also true: the United States of America has existed in its present form for longer than most other countries in the world. The U.S. formed in 1789 with the ratification of the Constitution. Here is a list of younger countries: U.K.: 1801 France: 1946 Germany: 1871 Italy: 1861 Russia: 1991 China: 1949 Iran: 1979 Mexico: 1821 Turkey: 1923 India: 1947 One of the most absurd things about modern geopolitics is how we're supposed to treat retarded modern regimes like the People's Republic or Islamic Republic as representatives of an unbroken line of cultural continuity going back millennia. Nobody does that with European states. Nobody regards Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire, not even Italians. It's a society DESCENDED from Rome and influenced by it, but it's very clearly a different civilization, a different people. Similarly, the idea that the DEI mullah state of Iran has any continuity with the Persians of antiquity is absurd. We're supposed to pretend that millennia of cultural drift and repeated invasions from Arabs, Mongols etc. didn't transform the people there into something different. Same with China; the middle management communists of the People's Republic are skinsuiting the past empires of China after deliberately expelling the descendants of that empire. America endures because we've figured out something most of the turd world and about half of Europe has failed to: how to maintain the same government, society, and basic structure over time without devolving into revolution or savagery.

Under my regime toronto remains a city of immigrants, our doors are open to all except people from elsewhere in ontario, gotta stay in moncton or whatever the fuck sorry you make this city worse

the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!

It's hard to believe this animation was made 90 years ago in 1934.

NEW - Pope LEO XIV apologizes for the church's role in slavery, in his encyclical letter, calling it a "wound in Christian memory," and also warns about "new forms of colonialism," including the collection and control of health data.

China literally has trees in Xi Jinping’s garden that are older than the United States! 🤣