The Squeaking Pips

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The Squeaking Pips

The Squeaking Pips

@squeakingpips

I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@bipedleek @EPM106 Master of laws might have been intended to rule on disputes between lords paramount, given they had primacy in their own domains. So a more specialised role vs the Hand ending up as something more akin to a regent, with a more generalist purview.
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@bipedleek @EPM106 It is a small council position. GRRM probably messed up a bit by also calling Master of Laws "Justiciars" which was historically basically the role the Hand of the King. Maybe explicable by the fact that Aegon I didn't enforce a legal code on all kingdoms so (cont.)
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Thel 🏳️‍⚧️🦌
Thel 🏳️‍⚧️🦌@EPM106·
The small council is a mickey mouse institution. the masters of law and ships serve seemingly no function, and no one is concerned about their vacancy through the war of the five kings
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Egg¹
Egg¹@Egglikesf1·
@EPM106 historically master of ships was held by the Velaryons (only known non Velaryon pre Robert is a Peake cousin during the regency), and the royal fleet was basically just the Velaryon fleet so it makes sense
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
This Nottingham inquiry is quite something. Glad the families kept pushing in the face of tremendous institutional failure. The guy seems to have just been rampaging around for years.
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@SaysSimulation Europe is poor and doesn't make anything but actually it's where America has offshored all industry for the past 75 years because of lax labour laws and plentiful human capital but really its full of freeloading immigrants. Clears it up, thanks.
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Labrador Skeptic
Labrador Skeptic@SaysSimulation·
The trade relationship needs to be redefined to the benefit of American workers, where many jobs and industries are on-shored again. At that point, we'll be free to be best buds with our European cousins, as we should be. It's for the best, for both sides. 5/
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Labrador Skeptic
Labrador Skeptic@SaysSimulation·
First level. The RW base tends to view Europe as military freeloaders who insult us & see themselves as being more sophisticated. Bad combination. Second level. The European people didn't do this to us, rather, our own "elites" did. Part of the trans-Atlantic elite alliance 1/
eugyppius@eugyppius1

MAGA accounts on here routinely express more hatred, rejection, and vilification of Europeans than they do of their country’s genuine geopolitical rivals and enemies. It’s amazing but true.

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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
Not liking the look of this Iran war business
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Officer Frenly (High IQ)
Officer Frenly (High IQ)@FrenlyOfficer·
Reminder that canonically there are no blacks in the Bridgerton novels.
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@WergildBlake @0rang3youglad Your mental model is about 100 years out of date. Go and look at the price of Scottish Opera tickets and compare with what you'd pay to a gig by a well-established pop musician.
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LJD
LJD@WergildBlake·
@0rang3youglad They’re often very very expensive as well, which makes their audience smaller & only those who can pay.
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Jaimee@0rang3youglad·
have to be incredibly immature to not grasp that ballet and opera are very old world arts with very niche followings and that's exactly what he fears happening to movies, not because it says anything about the quality of the art, but about the interest people have in it.
Allison Floyd@AllisonRFloyd

I said he fucking sucks and I stand by it.

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Rhiannon
Rhiannon@RhiannonH79632·
@squeakingpips I’m not educated enough to tell you if he was pre or post Set demonization. They actually used to love Set.
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Rhiannon@RhiannonH79632·
Happy I was born now and not in ancient Egypt so I could avoid being sacrificed to Osiris due to my evil association with Set (being a redhead).
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
Tunc acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae, oblationes, et holocausta: tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos (in a MacMillianly manner)
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@royllovians Some HIPsters push it i.e. this recording of a 16th century Requiem where the gospel chant is given a distinctly microtonal twist based on the argument that the composer spent a year in Spain and might have been influenced by hearing the call to prayer youtube.com/watch?v=1YF8AX…
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The Squeaking Pips
The Squeaking Pips@squeakingpips·
@royllovians unlikely to be solved one way or another - I find people pick the aesthetic they prefer and work backwards from that. But there's enough continuity in the classical tradition at least that I don't think it would sound too alien. Different, but recognisable.
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Roy
Roy@royllovians·
Although we should go further—even modern Western music before audio recording may have sounded alien to us. Listening to early audio recordings of popular and classical singing, they seemed to use an insane amount of vibrato, as if the vibrato was the entire point of it
Roy@royllovians

I have a strong suspicion that until late medieval and renaissance Europeans invented happy-sounding string and wind instruments, all music throughout all of history had the wailing, nasally, caterwauling quality that many global music traditions have to the modern Western ear

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Keşfet

@bipedleek @EPM106 @Egglikesf1 @BovrilG @SaysSimulation @helpfulfella @FrenlyOfficer @WergildBlake