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@archeohistories If you want to fascinate a woman, give her a piece of cheese…

Cheese is taken very seriously in France 🇫🇷 and is a core aspect of the country's culture and cuisine. One of Brillat-Savarin's most famous aphorisms, written in the early 19th Century, maintains that "a dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye." According to Cheese Connoisseur, there are about 1,600 cheese types produced nationwide — and just as wines are rigorously classified and legally protected based on region and traditional production methods via France's Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC), so too are cheeses. Roquefort was the first cheese 🧀 ever granted AOC status and this was not by accident. Roquefort has long been hailed as the king of French cheeses, explains Smithsonian, and each aspect of its creation is as strictly formalized as that of champagne, or first-growth Bordeaux. Roquefort, for example, can only be made in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, a municipality in southern France, per the Official Journal of the European Union.  Additionally, its raw ewe's milk can only be sourced from the local  Lacaune sheep, and the cheese must be aged for a minimum of three months in regional caves, where it is exposed to Penicillium roqueforti. The latter, Food & Wine observes, is the harmless mold that gives the blue cheese its distinctively colored veins and unmistakable taste and aroma. Brillat-Savarin wasn't the first to refer to cheese using the metaphor of a beautiful woman. Roquefort's origin story centers around a shepherd, who while enjoying a local cheese on rye, is diverted from his meal by the appearance of a beautiful woman. He follows her, as France Today relates, and completely forgets about his lunch, which he leaves in a cave for safekeeping. By the time he finds it again, a mold has formed. But he hungrily devours it anyway, and thus accidentally discovers the strange yet delicious secret to making Roquefort cheese. This romantic story is just that, of course. As Forbes notes, a recent genetic study has proven conclusively that Penicillium roqueforti did not originate from the regional caves in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, or from spoiled bread (although rye is the likely source). Ancient myth aside, Roquefort has been around for a very long time — over 1000 years, according to Cheese Connoisseur. The first historical evidence for its production, however, dates back to 1411, per Smithsonian. That's the year it first gained legal protection from King Charles VI of France. Its AOC status, meanwhile, was granted in 1925. 🎥© @Sarahhuniverse #archaeohistories

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Although Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia was my first big-screen crush, Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering was my first small-screen crush. Who was yours?

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

There’s live TV, and then there’s Beastie Boys tearing through “Sabotage” on Letterman in 1994 like they were trying to blow the roof off the place.

@ericmmatheny @DrunkRepub And a small part of that money went to pay her as well…

It makes me physically sick to think that when I pay the IRS tomorrow, I have to cover this asshole’s salary.

Wow 🤣🤣 Watch until the end.

@ClayTravis Cinema.

President Trump gets McDonald’s door dashed to him, gives her a $100 tip to focus on no tax on tips, and then has a press conference on Iran with the grandma door dasher standing beside him.

1-2 bowls of dog food a day for 6 straight months will have you looking and feeling your best ever I don’t make the rules

@Sparkysworkshop @DeanTTraining Lose weight=eat less Gain weight=eat more

@DeanTTraining What’s the portions

@FICMBondTrader How “cool” is your HR department?

We were looking up intern applicants social media (yes we do that) And this one girl, we are looking at hiring, had this as her most recent pic Should we hire ?

@watchdogalerts @TheMasters

@TheMasters Here I fixed it

The 2026 Champions Dinner portrait. #themasters

@BleacherReport @Rockies @brettforrestTV

Colorado Rockies have unveiled "The Glizzilla", a one-pound, 23-inch all-beef glizzy on a 19-inch sub roll 😳🔥 The Glizzilla ($45) is 'designed for sharing' 😋 (via @Rockies, @brettforrestTV)

Cooper Flagg (19 years, 103 days old) is the first teenager in NBA history with a 50-point game 😳

@dotsonc Baba-booey!!!!!

The way Eric Davis was so visibly irritated with the Mayor’s first pitch attempt always amuses me.

@djokes247 @TaraBull

@TaraBull I bet she got oils she claims are essential

Garry Lineham performs a 'hip release fascial maneuver' on LeAnn Rines

Shedeur had to pay Tim Couch $100,000 to allow his jersey # to be un-retired

One of the craziest Athletes in the country, Luke Almodovar, is transferring and fully expect a High Major to jump in If you haven’t seen him, watch this insane tape 🫣

@therealmcnair Pull up your shoes, young man…

@ClayTravis @TheWuhanClan Dude looks like Gorlock the Destroyer…

Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated in September. It’s March & a black comedian is putting on white face & mocking her in a video. Honest question, if a prominent black leader had been assassinated & a white comedian put on blackface & mocked his widow, what would happen?