@NXanathar @GenStilicho Red is castles.
The central government in England was able to suppress private castles in a way that the continent’s governments weren’t. That’s why England shows more black.
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@GenStilicho Are the black bits meant to be the castles? That would be unintuitive, given that the sea is black, but is the only way to make sense of how rew dots are in Wales relative to the rest.
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Looking at this map, you can see how much more centralized England was than the continent. The precocious modernity of the English state helps explain how it fought the Hundred Years War so effectively for so long despite France having four times the wealth and population.
ThinkingWest@thinkingwest
You could spend a lifetime exploring all the castles in Europe and still only scratch the surface
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@WellBuiltStyle If i track, my diet, cardio, and strength seem get better as a matter of course.
If I fall off the wagon, tracking seems to help get me restarted.
Tracking is the step zero for health
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I'm still utterly baffled by folks who want to get in shape but refuse to track anything
Not their diet (cals/macros)
Their training (exercises/sets/reps)
Their weight or measurements
How in the hell do you expect to reach your goal without any data?
Makes zero sense.
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@yinyang_yo_ It should probably go the other way, it’s overwhelmingly the less mature drivers under 70 that are causing most of the traffic related deaths.
Or you know, just go for your target (deadly drivers of any age) and not punish good drivers for belonging to whatever group .
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There is zero justice if someone in their late 70s to early 80s could kill an entire family with their car and get their license back
Again, you cannot possibly gaslight me into thinking elderly people getting driving *PRIVILEGES* revoked for age-related impairments is ageist
Heather Knight@hknightsf
Nobody disputes that Mary Lau was driving 75 miles per hour on San Francisco streets when she struck and killed an entire family. On Friday, a judge is expected to give her probation. After that, she could get her license back. The case raises the question, what is justice?
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Yes! I’ve written about this some already, and I’m working an essay that tries to disentangle what I call misanthropic environmentalism from environmentalism that means something like “values nature in some form.” Misanthropic env. gets a lot of attention, but I think it’s actually a much smaller proportion of operators than most realize. Be an environmentalist, just not a crazy one!
grantmulligan.com/p/positive-sum…
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I want to get on board with conservation and environmental causes because I do disapprove, to some extent, of waste and gluttony, but the object always seems to be to reduce human impact on the world to zero with no definite utility to humans, current or future, as if the mere existence of humans is inherently a blight. Not only does the position seem to be that humans are a blight on the planet, it seems like they're saying humans are a harm to humans with no upside. My consumption of AI or almonds or polyester is somehow so horrible that it should be minimized, and if I eat almonds and go about my business having enjoyed a snack and consumed enough calories for the day, I'm not assumed to be doing anything worth the water consumption or carbon footprint for anybody else's benefit. "Oh no, you don't have to have no impact! Just minimize it! Just spend as much time as you can sorting your trash and thrifting for 100% cotton pants!" Why, am I achieving holiness if I do that? Prove to me it's worth it.
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@culture48863 @TheCinesthetic What’s up doc?
It’s one of my favorite movies 👍
m.imdb.com/title/tt006949…
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@TheCinesthetic Which film is this from?
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That classic gag where two guys carry a giant pane of glass across the street used to pop up in movies all the time. Did they ever actually manage to install it? 😅
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What used to be extra common in movies that you just don't see in movies anymore?
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@FeralPHunter She’s perpetually on a diet, and I don’t want to sabotage it.
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why do you as a man not have a list of her favorite treats in your notes app
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@Authw8 I figure we had inside help from the Venezuelan locals to help us get Maduro.
Absent that for Saddam, I figure any attempt to whack him would just be another American disaster like bay of pigs in Cuba, the son tay rescue attempt in Vietnam, and eagle claw in Iran
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i keep wondering what would have happened if gwb decided to just whack saddam instead of launching a whole-ass invasion
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@ry_mccabe @owenbroadcast Great phrasing, filing it for the future,this man can relate to women. 🫡
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@owenbroadcast Solstice itself. Every day after your wedding is a little bit brighter.
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my friend had his wedding a few years ago on the winter solstice. now he got in a fight with his wife about if their anniversary is the date the solstice was that year, or the solstice itself (which moves). this is like a 3000 BC ‘our civilization just got a new calendar’ problem
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@Steve_Sailer @SidKhurana3607 I believe involuntary annexation in Texas bwas disallowed by house fill 347 in m Houston and other Texas cities.
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@SidKhurana3607 One thing to keep in mind is that the state of Texas allows big cities to involuntarily incorporate suburban municipalities, so it's big municipalities are really big. That law is more common in the south than the north: Boston can't seize Cambridge or Lexington.
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The rise of Houston in the list of most populous US cities over time:
1900: 85, pop. 45K
1920: 45
1940: 21
1960: 7
1980: 5
2000: 4
2020: 4, pop. 2.3M
GIF
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@adesertdryad AI (artificial intelligence) is the one that comes up the most.
AI has been less than 5 years away from taking over for more than 60 years now.
Occasionally the people who work on AI produce something useful.
But mostly it exposes the intellectual shortcomings of rich people
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@basilYam Probably need to start wearing a mouth guard at night, replacing teeth can be pricey. A custom made guard from dentist is best, but cheaper options can work fine.
Maybe get a sleep study done in case it’s sleep apnea.
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@LukasHozda I’m pleased to hear that Knuth is still alive, I enjoyed reading some of his books 👍👍
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Who will finish his series first?
G. R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire
Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming
Place your bets
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@thdxr I believe he’s included himself in the self taught category, he’s a genius who’s being modest and honest
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at some point you gotta grow out of judging everyone on whether or not they know pieces of information you are proud of knowing
WalterBright@WalterBright
Degree vs Self-Taught: In my experience, people who are self-taught or who learned by experience tend to have odd gaps in their knowledge. For example, the Shazam app. I knew right away it must be using Fourier analysis. But if one was self-taught, one might have never understood what the point of FA was, or even have been aware of its existence, and instead used kludgy, inept methods. For a personal example, I was once given the job of taking the graphic display on a CRT and mapping it onto a printer page. The addressing was different, the axes were different, the pixels/per inch were different. I knew what the tool was - a transformation matrix. Had it ginned up in an hour and it worked first try. A co-worker was completely baffled at this. He didn't know what a transformation matrix was, and likely would have otherwise spent a couple weeks on the problem and done a crappy job. I.e. one doesn't know what one doesn't know. The advantage of an accredited degree program is the curriculum is selected by people who know what you need to know, and the order in which information is best presented.
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@Empty_America A lot of things suck.
Being weak and sick and chronically tired and overweight are a bunch of them.
All my health efforts are to try and push as much of the suck to the end of my life as possible. After, end will suck anyway.
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At a certain point, we must ask what these guys are optimizing and training themselves for.
Is there some great work they are planning to do once they reach perfection at age 62?
jay plemons@jayplemons
Alcohol is Poison @hubermanlab “Zero alcohol is better than any. Two drinks maximum for an adult, non-alcoholic, per week is upper threshold …there’s yet another study this week that shows that even moderate drinking is bad.”
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@BestMovieMom In context with atomic warfare ending mankind, the Vietnam war, political turmoil, racism, social revolution, and kissing a girl for the first time it seemed… ok, mildly clever, an announcement that the movie makers definitely considered themselves more clever than
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People who discovered the plot twist of Planet of the Apes back in 1968 must have lost their minds.
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@0xTriboulet Depends on the person I guess.
I feel like for most people the decision with the highest probability of success is a career cooking for restaurants.
Some people might prefer the highest lifetime economic returns or greatest chance of happiness though.
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@frawaurhts @JustDeezGuy Hmm, if we put today’s LLM AI up against 90’s UML, I wonder which one will prove to be more useful 🤔
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