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Twitter is for lols and historical pedantry.

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Robbert Leusink
Robbert Leusink@robbertleusink·
Every spreadsheet on earth runs on a system published by a Franciscan friar in 1494 Luca Pacioli codified double-entry bookkeeping, turned a Venetian trade secret into a global standard, and wrote that a merchant cannot sleep until his debits and credits balance His mathematics student was Leonardo da Vinci The Vatican only hired external auditors for the first time in 2014 The friar who built the foundation of global finance belonged to the same order as the institution that took 520 years to use it
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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@Empty_America Owner has two other, similar hotels. La Castaneda in LV, NM, and La Posada in Winslow AZ.
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Memory Medieval
Memory Medieval@MemoryMedieval·
"Genghis Khan was just securing the Silk Road to make sure of the steady flow of goods and religious tolerance to Europe."
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Xiuying
Xiuying@Xiuying·
@_baldtires Yeah that makes sense. Basically they're charging you a fixed amount no matter how much you use . However it's not the power company you need to be mad about, it's the public utility commission that is approving the rates that can be passed on to you the customer.b
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Peter Holderith
Peter Holderith@_baldtires·
there's a nuclear powerplant 30 miles down the road from me and almost 90% of my power bill is still transmission
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Æðelberht
Æðelberht@renrubuk·
@QuetzalPhoenix WASP is an amorphous term because some mean only wealthy northeast Brahmin families and others mean any American white from a Northwestern European Protestant background. Taking the latter definition, it's over half of White Americans.
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Clint Warren-Davey
Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1·
The first time I came across a good priest character in fiction was in Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. It shocked me, I had never seen it before. There was a priest who stood up for the poor, showed courage and was an actual believing Catholic. Follett stopped doing that after his first book and now just does what everyone else does - horrible, evil clerics, no one actually religious, etc. But defying the trend just once was enough for me it to stick in my mind.
AntonioIII@AntoniumtheIII

So tired of this straw portraits in media... Where are our joyful, calm, smart, positive and humane Priests we see irl?

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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@HistoryBoomer I was amazed to learn that Germany was one of the safer countries for Jews in the Nazi era.
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Michael McGill 🏛
Michael McGill 🏛@mcgillmd921·
On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar walked into the Theatre of Pompey and never walked out. For 2,000 years, artists have tried to capture the event that changed Rome forever. Here are the most powerful paintings of Caesar’s final moments 🧵
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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@MemoryMedieval @nonregemesse I did have one question: how does William Marshall's reputation survive his long association with John? Morris' book implies that Marshall's biography helps him, but why wouldn't scholars discount this as self-serving?
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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@D3V0NTASM1TH We should send the prior year NCAA champs as our team. LSU this time.
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Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@Empty_America It's insane that in Southern California all beach stores/restaurants/etc. are separated from the beach by a six lane highway. When we do build straight on the beach it's only parking.
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CHLOÉ HAPPE
CHLOÉ HAPPE@bronzeageshawty·
My great grandpa was brick laying chimneys and was a bare-knuckle street fighter. No I am not impressed by your b2b saas job.
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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@jens_randolff @RnaudBertrand Chinese printing used full page wooden blocks, blurry ink, and hand presses. It was more like stamping. Gutenberg and his assistants used metal type, invented strong ink and mechanical presses.
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Jens Randolff
Jens Randolff@jens_randolff·
Lol. It is not the amount that was printed over the centuries but the speed at which each document or book could be printed. Not even the Chinese contest the fact that Gutenberg revolutionized printing. As a side note, the information I posted was gathered from Chinese sources, so I take their opinion over yours. I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong. Have a blessed evening, my friend.
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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
It's pretty unreal that people still believe Gutenberg invented the printing press, when it was invented a whole 7 centuries before in China. When Gutenberg painstakingly printed 300 bibles in 1450 and went bankrupt because of it (as that lady describes 👇), some texts in Asia were already printed at 1 million copies (!!!) as early as the 8th century! That's the case of the "One Million Pagodas and Dharani Prayers" commissioned by Empress Shōtoku of Japan around 764–770 AD (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%9Bu…), a series of one million small wooden pagodas each containing a printed Buddhist scroll, thousands of which survive to this day. Heck China had mass printed paper money - called jiaozi - during the Song Dynasty, around the 10th century AD, so roughly 400-500 years before Gutenberg (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi_(c…)! It's probably only in the 18th or 19th century that 1 million copies of *anything* got printed in Europe, meaning we were behind Asia by literally a whole millennium in that regard. Quite the testament of our incredibly parochial worldview that we turned a thousand-year technological lag into the founding myth of supposed Western intellectual superiority...
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

Gutenberg invented the most important technology of the millennium and immediately went bankrupt — and so did the bank that foreclosed on him, and so did his apprentices. Gutenberg could make a batch of 300 books for the cost of one, but there weren't enough buyers in his small, landlocked village in Germany. It it took the better part of a century of further innovations, social changes, and setting up of distribution networks before you could have a pamphlet like Luther's 95 thesis get from Wittenberg to London in 17 days.

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Samo Burja
Samo Burja@SamoBurja·
Greater Switzerland has never been tried.
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Logan Hall
Logan Hall@loganclarkhall·
@AmishMike01 Tons of stuff but here’s a particularly funny story about General Meade bullying a journalist lmao
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Logan Hall
Logan Hall@loganclarkhall·
Alright boys after several months, 3,000 pages, and 1.5 million words later, I have officially completed reading Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy cover to cover.
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JD Myers
JD Myers@JDMyers·
@Dostoevskyquot Plato. As Whitehead once said, all philosophy is a footnote to Plato.
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Red Cabbages
Red Cabbages@redcabbages·
@pegobry_en People wear pajamas everywhere in California. I've responded by dressing up, collar and slacks, even at home by myself.
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