@DailyGondor @realsonnenhund It is indeed a good thing but don't assume Lob's gender, because of Tolkien's outdated narrative.
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@realsonnenhund The Two Lamps were first, and The Two Trees came later: Melkor destroyed those with Shelob's grandmom after his release.
(Here's why it's a good thing)
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Fun fact: After Melkor destroyed the Two Lamps and ruined much of Middle-earth for the first time, the Valar eventually got fed up and actually imprisoned him, something they could've done right away but didn't want to "make a fuss" at first and thus left him to corrupt and despoil the continent while they retreated to the heavenly realm.
Anyway, they got him and after a period of captivity, Nienna, the Vala of sorrow and crying, spoke on Melkor's behalf and argued for his pardon because "he said he was sorry" and "keeping him chained would be very mean and it makes me feel bad".
So in essence: the release of the Great Satan, untold misery for countless beings and repeated devastation of the world which resulted its breaking and fading of magic was made possible because a liberal female judge who liked to cry all the time felt bad that the Vala were mean to the Great Satan.
Make of that information what you will.
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@escapefrommelos Could have been worse, imagine the horrors of Volapük.
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these Esperanto Freaks just won't let their twisted project die
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>they understand what it's like to be perceived and valued based only on what you look like
note how both “monsters” have chiseled features, sharp jawlines, defined muscle tone and are significantly taller than the w*men
Yves ౨ৎ@yvessirae
women long for kindness, morality, and goodness, and are capable of finding that inside a monster because they understand what it's like to be perceived and valued based only on what you look like
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Goddard was ridiculed in the New York Times, by a snarky journalist who did not have a good grasp of physics (glad we don't have those types anymore!)
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We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action.
A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵
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@generic_void @jjohnpotter Don't change the color, please. Or the length in any significant way.
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@CNviolations Aliens have successfully lobbied for those regulations, didn't they?
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Elon Musk: "Future aliens will make fun of us if we are unable to go on Mars because of regulations."
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My wife is now pregnant with #4 so this would be a great time for it
Joe Norman@normonics
No income tax for married couples with 4 or more kids with only one working spouse cc Trump
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Hmm, this graph looks strangely familiar! 🤔
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal
Since 1988, polarization in the US has been overwhelmingly due to the Left moving leftward, while the Right has basically stayed the same. This is according to a new analysis using k-means clustering, which measures actual positions instead of self-labels. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1…
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@Almost_Sure @grok Write a Guardian like paragraph about how algebraitc topology influencers are radicalising young men, please.
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His communicator pin doesn't look like standard starfleet issue in the 24th century.
Robert Bork III@BobbyBorkIII
Marco Rubio learning he’s being put in command of the Bajor Sector.
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@RealDianeYap Could be causal backward, no? Fit young men with lower CVD risk have sex more often.
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Today’s example of “things which, even if true, are unlikely to be causal”:
Dan Go@CoachDanGo
Men who have sex once a month are 45% more likely to have cardiovascular disease compared to those who had sex 2-3x a week.
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@ArthurMacwaters He can behave, if he wants to. He had to behave occasionally to get through JD and German Ph.D. and to became a CEO. He is now free not to.
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old interview of Karp where he actually does act perfectly normal and even calmly explains what palantir does
what is happening?!?
Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters
look i’m just saying that powerful men who act perfectly normal always turn out to be dirtbags - and the weird ones statistically turn out to be the good guys
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