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@peterrhague 1. Beaches are in limited supply, and the best beaches are also the ones that you would have a coastal city on. 2. When you make off with the King of Sparta’s wife, it’s reasonable to assume that he and all his mates are going to come discuss the matter with you. 3. Lookouts.

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6 days ago

@Lucius_Gellius Hephaestus didn’t create Achilles’ shield until after Patroclus was killed.

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6 days ago

@richardkee61214 @stephXskystory My friend, the probable answer to that question will send you on a fascinating and terrifying journey. theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/23/mas…

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a week ago

@zpfTechnologies I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. open.substack.com/pub/matthewtho…

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a week ago

@zpfTechnologies At the accelerations that the quarks inside a proton experience, their Rindler horizons are basically identical to the proton radius.

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a week ago

@SunWeatherMan @HashZappa @EthicalSkeptic @Hurmanetar8 @YouTube @Kitsune_in_VA @zachariaspro @JasonWilde108 @EcdoPrep @junhoBTC @OMApproach @stephXskystory Could the gravity data be a misinterpretation? I know that with radio waves, it’s possible to use multiple antenna to make it appear as though the emission is coming from a single point in between them. Could the gravitational data be suffering from a similar interference?

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2 weeks ago

@planefag The battle of Binh Ba. Vietnamese foot soldier was too close to the Australian centurion tank, so the driver unbuttoned and shot him with his browning.

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2 weeks ago

@Jringo1508 Speaking as an Aussie, the weird thing to us is that they all seem to be the same model of yellow bus. Doesn’t seem to matter where in the States, we always get shown the same model and colour of bus. I haven’t been to a school that had a fleet of the same model bus.

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2 weeks ago

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea). We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World. The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated. The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise. A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention. That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care. Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it. The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

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2 weeks ago

@DefinitelyASpud @JeremiahDJohns The concentration of power is unavoidable. The best you can do is shape the incentives so that they align with keeping civilisation intact.

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2 weeks ago

@EcdoPrep @SunWeatherMan this looks right up your alley

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2 weeks ago

The Planck scale is variable in real-time. It relies on G, and G is derivable from the cosmic mass and size of the observable universe: G = c²Θ / M where Θ is the diameter of the relevant causal horizon and M is the mass within it. This relation has been empirically known to work at cosmic scales since Dirac (1937) and Sciama (1953); Michael McCulloch’s QI provides its theoretical basis. If G is horizon-dependent, the same formula applies at every scale with Θ being the appropriate causal horizon. You will find a different value for an inertial object than one accelerating fast enough that the Rindler horizon behind it obstructs the cosmic horizon.

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2 weeks ago

@JamesBryhan Australia 🇦🇺

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2 weeks ago

“People in hard times will value a cash infusion far more than the franchise” That applies to the aristocracy as well. There’s turnover. By keeping the required property small , and keeping the 1 person 1 vote, the yeomanry will still have a majority of political power as a whole.