Sameer Ahmed
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@lionel_trolling
I got into him after reading his stuff on tennis, he does a great job of saying the things you're thinking, but taking it a step farther
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@jachaseyoung
the sopranos had an interesting depiction of how something like that might unfold, at least in the case of a mobster
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@jeetsidhu_
@mattparlmer
I had this conversation with some of my professors in undergrad, they agreed
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@AlbertaNuclear
@jeetsidhu_
@mattparlmer
Stealing from Don Rumsfeld, there’s also probably a lot of moving prior unknown unknowns into the known unknowns category, where they can begin to be attacked and bear fruit. Whereas stuff that’s been in the “known unknown” category for a while probably is not low hanging fruit.
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@Peter_Nimitz
Fire in the Minds of men is an interesting book that discusses occult influences on the enlightenment. It’s a legit book, not woo woo, written by the dude who was the head librarian at the Library of Congress for a while
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@whatifalthist
You can’t really be a successful debater if you can’t answer these. At the collegiate/HS level
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@razibkhan
@Nate_Cohn
“So, I’m very proud that I don’t have a Ph.D. and I raised six children and none of them has a Ph.D., so that’s my contribution.”-Freeman Dyson
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@MarmotRespecter
the carotid body chemoreceptors detect "high CO2" by being sensitive to blood pH. they're sensitive to the partial pressure of O2 in the blood as well but much less so
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@BoyDadFarmer
@smod4real
People are really removed from the reality of contemporary agriculture tbh
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@cremieuxrecueil
Seems like there may be an element of “what might happen>what happened already” when it comes to that kind of thing. Sensitive to imminent threats but willing to get over things quickly.
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@whatifalthist
Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about the tech journalist who tried living a year without internet. His life improved measurably in many ways, but he realized there was a large FOMO that came with it, because everyone else was online.
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@gcochran99
I think it was in high school physics where my teacher started by teaching us how to think with “back of the envelope” calculations. You get that kind of thing down and it gets a lot harder to fall for crazy numbers
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@TheWorthyHouse
My dad works at the VA, and it's been sad noticing that he doesn't really have anymore WWII veteran stories to share nowadays, that chapter is coming to a close
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@lefineder
We're living in such a cool time where we're finally getting some solid answers to these questions
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Good example of an evolutionary arms race. Our innate immune system sequesters iron in the context of infection to keep it away from bacteria, this mechanism helps C. diff compete with that
Pathogenic bacteria build an iron-storage system for growth and survival in their hosts
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@IchorGrad
@richardhoangbui
This isn't great news for immigrants from the global south who live in higher latitudes
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@Steve_Sailer
@eyeslasho
You should read David Milch's memoir, you'd really dig it. He talks a lot about his time at Yale in that era.
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@holland_tom
I wonder how much Dominion played a role in the softening we've seen with the some of the 2000s New Atheists, specifically Dawkins' and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's recent relatively positive takes on Christianity or at least Christendom
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@kitten_beloved
I think w/ Judith Rich Harris's stuff, that was really what the main takeaway was supposed to be. It was trying to tell parents to not take all of it on themselves, which was a needed message at the time and still is apparently.
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@calmdownX0X0
I mean historically it was families getting married, not individuals. Maybe it’s a remnant of that mentality.
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You know you’re in a gerontocracy not when all your politicians are in their 70s and 80s, but when studios are willing to spend millions and millions of dollars de-aging stars from yesteryear
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@DCLocalDesign
@richardfuisz
@NickParkerPrint
I'd guess path dependence, even whales don't have gills
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@hollowearthterf
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
I thought this book was pretty interesting
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@Peter_Nimitz
I misspoke, I didn’t mean to say “enlightenment” lol. The “revolutionary faith” is what it talks about. It focuses on journalists and ideas men from the late 18th to the early 20th century
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@Scholars_Stage
honestly even when I was 8 years old the CVs sounded crazy to me, and I had no idea what half the stuff was
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@lyndonbajohnson
@Shane_maps
@anvilwalrusden
I always thought Caro, whose books I did enjoy a lot, definitely fell into the Edmund Morris trap of displacing political/ideological stuff with an emphasis on personality(not that they're mutually exclusive ofc)
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@lyndonbajohnson
@Shane_maps
@anvilwalrusden
With both TR and LBJ, while they had really big personalities, both were very political animals. So authors not particularly interested in that aspect end up missing stuff. Morris was a worse offender but Caro leaned that way too.
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@meghaverma_art
Dickens gets made fun of for his naming, but I’ve yet to see another author who captures his characters in their names the way he does.
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@robinhanson
I think another movie that does this very well is Barry Lyndon. If you read picaresques from the era it’s a perfect adaption of that people in that culture.
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@Trav_A_22
Reminds me of something I read years ago about the maturity of kids in agrarian cultures who’ve been working as miniature adults by the age of 8 or 9. Interesting stuff
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@Peter_Nimitz
A lot of “dangerous ideas” spread between small occult clubs which had influential people involved
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@uncanny_eli
I didn't know about it until I saw your tweet. Munro is one of my favorites so it's a pretty unfortunate thing to learn.
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@ByrneHobart
@jachaseyoung
George W. Bush was a very prominent example too. Look up his daily routine
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@Ed_Realist
@charlesmurray
An underrated benefit of reducing train-ability is giving a lot of these Asian kids the opportunity to live fuller lives in their youth imho
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@LadyDoctorSays
In the Soviet Union they had to introduce quotas for men because most medical students were women. I think that was in the mid 70s but I could be wrong.
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@MysteryGrove
Saw the True Grit remake recently, phenomenal movie. The Coen’s have a special place for me, their outlook is just perfect for good movie making.
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@curiouswavefn
I might finally pull the trigger and find a copy of the new-ish biography of Rickover from Jewish Lives. Very interesting personality. Big institutions need guys like Rickover to drag them into doing all the things they ought to do but hardly ever want to do.
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@G_S_Bhogal
@paulg
Closely related to Gell-Mann Amnesia when it comes to why they keep getting away with it lol
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@wil_da_beast630
They're seeking asylum legally speaking, doesn't mean that refugee status has to be granted by the country. The question is what to do w/ these people in the interim. The system was born after WWII, it's not compatible w/ the modern era of mass transport and globalization.
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@cremieuxrecueil
I get the impression that's not really that unique to Japan though? In the John Richardson biography of Picasso, he discusses the culture of prostitution in Spain during Picasso's youth.
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@4thClassOfficer
@squirrelspcsuit
@Historycourses
@EricRichards22
I’ve asked him about it, he sort of moved the project around. Right now he’s finishing Lafayette’s Mission, to cap a trilogy former by it and the Washington and Revere books
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@hvssain_k
This isn’t new. It’s pretty impressive MSAs end up working at all because of the very real diversity of viewpoints with the students(as in, the religious viewpoints are translated into different behaviors/decisions that have to fall under one umbrella)
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@JoyceCarolOates
I don't really get the impression that the Coens really do tributes to eras, they use the settings/contexts to capture other things they're more interested in. It makes sense why people would dislike it, if they're expecting something like the former.
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@MungoManic
The Wikipedia doesn’t really talk about it working out like in this case, but even as recently as the 50s in the West if you broke a bone and didn’t set it properly you could see people walking around with similar things.
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@uncanny_eli
The kind of culpability depicted in the article is a very terrible reality of our social natures. Even the optimists who see most people as "good" have to come to terms with the fact that the "bad" will drag us down to their level time and time again if we choose to do nothing.
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@Peter_Nimitz
You could try do it the way
@razibkhan
has been updating some of his older pieces, the bold text helps ID what's changed without messing w/ the flow too much
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@lefineder
This brings up a memory from when I was young and trying to figure out what lapis lazuli was and having to look it up when I was going through my egyptology phase. Authors kept mentioning it as being used for all kinds of stuff.
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@dissproportion
My Life by Chekhov really gets at that. Worth a read. It's one of his novella-length stories.
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@sharghzadeh
Some people argue it was "germanized", James C. Russell wrote a somewhat controversial book on it
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@G_S_Bhogal
@paulg
The surfeit of podcasts has really improved this. Back in the day only major authors would get interviewed, and the more interesting ones would maybe get a CSPAN spot. Now all the niches are very easy to explore and get a sense of
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@AJA_Cortes
Pretty sure most of Adam Curtis’s stuff is on youtube. I’d recommend “The Century of the Self” and “Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone”
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@UsherShade
@TheLincoln
The series has some Dahl/Dickens running through some of the characters, I could see some people seeing that as too unforgiving or cruel
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@wil_da_beast630
"everyone going slower than me is an idiot, everyone going faster is a maniac"-George Carlin I think
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@EnriqueDiazAlva
The preface of the book expansion to his original essay does give a bit of a half-hearted apology, fwiw. Lol
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@whatifalthist
Have you read any James C. Scott? His earlier books talk about it a lot. He calls it "high modernism"
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@LadyDoctorSays
I did an MSF course for the first time last year, I’d never been on a motorcycle before. It was really fun. Definitely something I want to get into more when I have the time/money for it.
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@MazMHussain
The actually foundational issues facing the party haven’t really budged since 2012
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@whatifalthist
I’d recommend Peter Watson’s book comparing the New and Old Worlds. Toby Wilkinson is a good start for Egypt.
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