@ArthurBoreman I've long had some mild annoyance at Feser (I probably agree with him on other stuff but got miffed enough to stop reading him). This is still not what I expected from him.
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Tim Hamilton
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Tim Hamilton
@TSHamiltonAstro
🇺🇸 Mild-mannered professor by day. Astrophysicist by night. Methodist, Smoky Mountain hillbilly. Observational research on active galaxies & galaxy evolution.
Katılım Kasım 2014
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not some kind of punishment for Pearl Harbor, they were a very successful attempt to shorten the war and save lives with an overwhelming show of force.
More Chinese, American, and—yes—Japanese people are alive today because of them.
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.
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@EAshleyHowell I wonder what you could do with the native rock as construction material. Strength and so on.
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@TSHamiltonAstro There have to be some really unique designs that would be possible.
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First Martian Church should be a giant cathedral, larger than any on Earth.
Owen Lewis@is_OwenLewis
There will be no need to feel claustrophobic on Mars. Wide open spaces can be the norm.
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@BuffaloByGodDan Right smack dab in the heart of it. At least, home in the Smokies is. Plenty of them on the property, and they're Tennessee's state tree. I knew they weren't related to "true" poplars, but I only learned they're in the magnolia family this year. Now I see the flower similarity.
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@app_life_ On the Tennessee side of the Smokies, we have both Curry-He Mountain and Curry-She Mountain right next to each other. Curry-He is Anglicized from the Cherokee, and it got reanalyzed with "he" at the end, so the "she" companion was natural.
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I'd been mispronouncing my wife's maiden name for many years before I discovered my error. She'd never corrected me.
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee
Introvert Decides To Finally Tell Husband Of Ten Years He's Been Mispronouncing Her Name buff.ly/XkaSnlI
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@booksandbbq I did this some times when visiting my grandparents in Charlotte.
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The sleeping porch was the apex of Western civilization
Hamilton 🇺🇸@Watchman_motto
Sleeping porch for a good nights sleep. And twin beds? A rare sight nowadays.
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I didn’t realize Missouri was tied with us for first place, but I knew no state had more neighbors than we did.
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Which U.S. State Has the Most Neighbors?
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@TSHamiltonAstro @GetOnTap Frequent stop for refueling and they use MEA as training for touch and gos
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@AstorAaron @VoteHub We went to Chicago to visit our eldest over the weekend, and I filled up the car for $6.39 a gallon, I think.
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@VoteHub I say this, BTW, bc if Hormuz remains closed and prices keep elevating, there could be some gigantic shifts in many districts, especially in the Midwest.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the new 7R-1D congressional map, which will be used in the 2026 midterms.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Democratic-leaning Kansas City district has been dismantled and replaced with a Republican-leaning seat.
MO-05 RVI
Before: 🔵 D +12
After: 🔴 R +8.2
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@TSHamiltonAstro I can tell I've been in Texas for a while now when I want to point out that we'd touch more states if we still had all our original territory. We also neighbor 4 Mexican states.
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@dww13495527 I like that. I hadn’t seen the architectural styles of the South broken down like that before, but it broadly makes sense. Of course, we’re used to the Appalachian architecture he describes as far as houses, but I wonder if we have anything distinctive about our store buildings
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@bethanyshondark I’m glad to see the effort, but I had no idea there were *Federal* child welfare standards in the first place. How are they Constitutional? Surely they don’t fall under any enumerated power.
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My latest
Peter Laffin@petermlaffin
READ: When letting children walk to the park takes an act of Congress "A child trusted to walk to a store alone internalizes a sense of competence in a way no television show or therapy session can replicate." - @bethanyshondark washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/45637…
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Scientists should seize on the chance to help the UN design indicators of progress that go beyond GDP
go.nature.com/48Vc2UI
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@grahamscheper Huh! And apparently the two words are not related, despite the similarity in the first two letters. I had no idea.
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“icicle” is a compound word: an ice + icle. But what is an “icle”?
It comes from Old English ġiċel, which literally means “piece of ice” (this is where Icelandic gets “jaki”) but also icicle per se.
So, funnily enough, the ancestor of icicle (īs+ġiċel) meant “icy icicle”
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@AmericanPresby @markdtooley My apologies. I got you mixed up with the account you quoted. Nevertheless, I disagree.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @markdtooley I’m not a monarchist, nor a pastor
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@TSHamiltonAstro I am always amused at all the different spellings and pronunciation of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette.
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I read a post mocking his misspellings, and in the post they misspelled Tazewell as Tazwell.
It's epidemick.
Jay Bee@TheRealJBx
Marco Rubio realizing he has to be Attoney General Jay Jones spell check in Virgina.
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