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Liberty Mint

@Vigilance_Coin

↑ & Re-X ≠ E Polymath, Autodidact Art, Science, Technology, US & World Politics, Space, AI, Chess, Archaeology, Linguistics, Humor, Rap, EDM MAGA, #2A, #9A

Wichita, KS Katılım Aralık 2022
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
Dear real person, If you should find that I've blocked you despite never having interacted with me, the reason is: 99% of you: I've repeatedly told X that I'm not interested in your content but it keeps appearing in my TL anyway 1% of you: I think you're an asshat Cheers
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@KettlebellDan To let you observe nature while explicitly demarcating the area onto which it is frowned upon that one ought tread.
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Dan@KettlebellDan·
this feature is at my local park what is it actually for?
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The final paragraph here perhaps explains the tendency of punk fashionistas to affix zippers to their dress; it seems to me the practice may not have begun until after the advent of Velcro fasteners.
Archaeology & Art@archaeologyart

Joining two pieces of fabric is a basic physical need. Fastening heavy wool cloaks at the shoulder requires sturdy mechanisms. Before buttons or zippers existed, people fastened their clothes with metal pins. These sharp metal pieces weren't just functional tools. They were objects that clearly showed the wearer's place in society. Around 2100 BC in Mesopotamia, gold plaques were adorned with lapis lazuli. Mycenaean craftsmen cut gold into octopus shapes. In Egypt, winged scarabs made of faience were placed below the shoulders. Centuries later, workshops in the Roman Empire's provinces took a different path. Artisans forged bronze pins shaped like rabbits, owls, deer, and fish, decorating them with colorful enamel. These animal figures found their way into everyday wear from Britain to Gaul. Moving further north, the climate gets harsher. Thicker clothes demand heavier metals. In the 7th century, Anglo-Saxon and Frankish metalworkers filled gold disks with garnets and colored glass. In Scandinavia, interlocking dragon forms were engraved onto silver surfaces. Scotland's coarse fabrics were fastened with large, ringed brooches like the Hunterston. Across continents, production techniques adapted to local resources. Chinese masters created phoenix motifs by setting blue kingfisher feathers into metal frames. In India, real tiger claws were set into gold mounts. In 19th-century Algeria, mountain women secured their clothes with large coral and silver fibulae. As industrial production sped up in Europe, jewelers began directly copying forms found in nature. Art Nouveau designers crafted dragonflies, bats, and cicadas with translucent enamel. In England, human hair was woven into lapel pins to honor deceased loved ones. In America, miniature eye portraits were pinned inside gold frames. By the 20th century, Halley's Comet was modeled as a gold brooch in Australia. The standardization of buttons and zippers on clothing changed everything. The practical need to pin fabric together essentially vanished. Losing its function as a fastener, the brooch transformed into an aesthetic ornament. Craftsmen began adding marcasite-studded automobiles and tin sardine cans to jackets.

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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
@simonsarris Some new distilleries will offer an investment opportunity to buy a barrel. Then over several years, the return is bottles of finished product. A nice alternative way to think about futures. In theory, you could do something similar with software: Free license to future code?
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
@DrHughT Iirc, it was bone collectors who first stumbled across the ancient Shang dynasty Oracle bone script. Presumably, however, the demand for TCM doesn't extend that far across Asia!
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Hugh Thomas@DrHughT·
@Vigilance_Coin There is a bit of damage, but farming is probably the main impact factor as sites. Most tombs are badly disturbed in antiquity anyway, and the mustatil have nothing in them that would be worth money- unless people like 7000 year old cattle bones.
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Hugh Thomas@DrHughT·
The Harrat Khaybar has to be one of the densest archaeological landscapes in the world. It has tens of thousands of ancient structures! In my new video, I am going to share the research of archaeologists working in this region, including the projects I co-direct! Stay tuned👀
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Zhai Xiang@ZhaiXiang5·
@mega_san Seriously! I have tried a number of mess halls with the Chinese navy, but none of them looks this fancy😌
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
@IterIntellectus Despair or hope? These are the only two choices, by which one believes Intelligence may be tested? It is just one statistic & univariate analyses are virtually useless. Add infant mortality rate, average lifespan, population density, relative affluence, %age below poverty level.
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The Khalili Collections@KhaliliOnline·
#May long weekend —whether you’re away or tackling DIY, here’s some inspiration: Early 16th-c Sultanate brackets, likely from Agra, carved in mottled pink sandstone with interlacing strapwork and scrolling borders. Look closely—the inner edges form a stylised makara, a mythical water creature.
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Jordan Taylor@Jordan_W_Taylor·
“Let's fix the problems on Earth before we go to space.” “We don't need more power. We need to use what we already have more efficiently.” “We’ve got enough already. We don't need another.” Fuck these shallow-minded cretins, who claim to speak for everyone but instead see only the short horizons inside their own head. Their lack of vision doesn't justify them freezing the world in aspic. Instead let's realise that we're not a monkey tribe in an autumn valley, teetering on the edge of wintery oblivion. We're a civilization with billions of brains that's figured out how to create force & energy at will and is on the verge of learning how to infinitely multiply intelligence itself. And for something that big the best bet is not to procrastinate too much. Instead reach out with hydraulic hands and electric blood and try a million things all at the same time, until you find what works. And then multiply that a million times until it's everywhere. Do that enough and the lives of our children and grandchildren will be unrecognizable from our troglodyte slouching towards progress. Ignore the naysayers. Try Everything!
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
Let's test your edict with a hypothetical: An acclaimed anime studio employs only accomplished Japanese anime production specialists. Their HQ, where all production occurs, is located on an island claimed by Japan. Their first product is a masterpiece | par excellence |, achieves global success, and goes on to be THE | prima causa | anime by which all others are then judged. Then, unexpectedly, a nascent rebellion occurs, and the islanders declare themselves a new nation, independent of Japanese hegemony. Moreover, the leaders of this revolutionary movement declare that this nation has | always | been free and independent of Japan -- never actually Japanese, but merely involuntary subjects of foreign imperialism. The National Diet officially recognizes the new geopolitical reality, including the retroactive declaration. So now, the acclaimed studio is no longer in Japan. It no longer employs Japanese anime mavens. The company becomes, both in law and in fact, Gaijin. The question then becomes, what shall their most sublime, unparalleled, & exquisite creation be now called?
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@CDoombeard @lmkwhenurhome In terms of the scale involved with evolutionary psychology, photography is bleeding edge technology. It will take us some time yet before we incorporate these aspects into our collective psyche.
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@lmkwhenurhome I have never at any time attached such meaning to my hands. I DO put a lot of stock in my skill WITH my hands, but I've never considered my hands themselves to be a symbol of that skill. So... I mean, ok, this is interesting and cool but I'm not sure men think this way.
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one of the cutest things men do is send you a picture that purports some inane subject material -- seashell, energy beverage -- but is really, and quite obviously, about their hand holding it. men dont have breasts or meaningful leg curvature. they have their hands, and canonically derive great purpose from using them for work. so for the things they use to touch and manipulate the world to be the very things they peacock out to us is really quite intimate and sweet. we are primates after all. and we do primate things. in the zoo enclosure our predecessor shows his love by picking her nits.
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Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo@dvassallo·
How they started: Nintendo → playing cards Nokia → paper pulp Samsung → dried fish Suzuki → weaving looms Tiffany & Co. → stationery store YouTube → video dating site Slack → video game Sharp → belt buckles Raytheon → refrigerators DuPont → gunpowder Berkshire Hathaway → textiles LG → toothpaste Hyundai → construction Toyota → automatic looms Lamborghini → tractors Colgate → candles 3M → mining Hasbro → textiles Instagram → location check-in PayPal → crypto for Palm Pilots Shopify → snowboard shop
Tracy Alloway@tracyalloway

Allbirds, the shoe brand, now says it's an AI compute company.

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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
I disagree with the architectural form suggested. I feel as though the Triumphal Arch better represents victory over a specific existential threat rather than temporal perseverance. A better choice would be a monumental staircase, with each step representing a year, and key moments in US history marked by landings, such spaces perhaps punctuated with public benches, statuary, reliefs, inscriptions, plaques, and the like.
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Bunburyōdō (文武両道) (Bun)@bunburyoudoujp·
I have no idea what people are on about with this "otokonoko" bullshit. 男の子 (otokonoko) literally just means "boy child." The VAST majority of people in Japan likely just think it means boy. This 男の娘 (also pronounced 'otokonoko') is something that non-Japanese weebs seem to know far more about than anyone else. Talk about this seems to have sprung up in the past few years.
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
It totally depends on which way the other showerers are facing. As an experiment, you can try this out in your own shower: Enter your shower when it is good and packed with plenty of people showering.. You may note that they're all facing the same direction, even if that direction is away from the curtain/door/head. Patently shower facing 180° in the other direction. By the time you finish, everyone will have gotten so uncomfortable that they're now facing the same way as you! [If you don't have showerpals, you can try it in an elevator instead.]
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
@eigenrobot The footbone is connected to the anklebone, the anklebone's connected to the calfbone, the calfbone's connected to the kneebone, the kneebone's connected to the thighbone... Them bones, them bones gon' walk around!
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
are foot guys divided into like "big feet" vs "small feet" tribes or whatever or is it just "any feet will do" that doesnt seem right to me but what do i know
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
question for foot guys how do you know whether feet are attractive or not
eigenrobot@eigenrobot

@willhsmit i DON'T KNOW and i haven't the slightest idea what they were thinking are those attractive feet? unattractive feet? impossible to say

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@TaliaGraceSable Preference: Definitely a fraction, though where exactly I would draw the line and how many decimals points are needed for accuracy is a mite bit much for me to elucidate so simply as <voila!>. Closer to 1/1 than 10/100, though! Actual: N/A
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Talia 🌿@TaliaGraceSable·
What's your preferred (and actual) codependence index in a relationship? 1 = fully overlapping. All non-work activities done together. Same friends + hobbies 0 = fully independent. If you happen to do the same things, it's bc you coincidentally wanted to do it at the same time
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Liberty Mint@Vigilance_Coin·
@KordingLab Not everyone! Even with my interest in Dataviz, I'm not in the slightest bit familiar with this plotmap. That said, your colorization/modernization makes it much easier to interpret! Yet still I crave a simple visual cue showcasing grouping means, standard deviation, etc..
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Kording Lab 🦖@KordingLab·
There are some images that are so iconic everyone knows them. Like the one below. It is a bit of a shame that the corresponding data does not seem to be available.
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