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Reminds me of the Sybilline books; Rome only ended up with one of the three but made great usage out of what they had!

You listed: > my death would be inconvenient for my employer _first?!_ I believe you have your priorities wrong. Most regret not spending enough time with their loved ones. You onl…

I know comments commending the previous post are also frowned upon but that is one of the funniest sketches I've ever seen. Hilarity ad absurdum

Interesting. This should also shed some light on the [Dispilio Tablet]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispilio_Tablet ) - which seems to feature some kind of archaic script (the …

10 year old me: who the hell is Spiro Agnew?!!?

Point taken, Mr. Devil. I even agree, up to a point - and I think this might be a major issue in the immediate introduction of a UBI. The reason why is that the incentives will cha…

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Whitney Webb's new book also has a lot of detail on BCCI https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51074723-one-nation-unde...

How very cromulent.

> My third remark introduces you to the Buxton Index, so named after its inventor, Professor John Buxton, at the time at Warwick University. The Buxton Index of an entity, i.e. per…

There is also another interesting unwritten rule of the English language at play here. The rule goes like this: In a series of words which differ only (or mostly) by the vowel used…

Which is Mutually Assured Destruction. I can't think of many occasions in which financial elites would destroy their own wealth in pursuit of political (?) goals. The one incident …

What you are stating was perhaps the previous orthodoxy, but in the last few years even major institutions[1] have come to agree that banks do indeed create money when they create …

Yes

> No one wants an imaginary Bowie album, because it's a glamour-free proposition - a curiosity at best, most likely irrelevant. They're all going mad for an imaginary Abba concert

Time it to finish when you get up and it will release a lot of warm (humid) air to help you warm up your house

Well if you're in the EU then no, unless you can overturn the legislation. > The Background: In 2019, the European Commission and the European Council jointly approved a regulation…

Its pretty old so maybe just useful for inspiration but the old Amiga/Atari game Dragon Lord / Dragon's Breath (Europe) has a very interesting custom magic system in which you can …

Doesn't Japan have a tradition of long surviving privately held companies? Perhaps there are some lessons there > Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies…

The linked wiki article doesnt go into the reasons why so many hybrid fission-fusion projects have been abandoned, this technology seems so promising that there must be good reason…

They mean short term financial gains vs long term economic success

There's no gold in fort knox

There has been some fascinating work on human canine coevolution over the past years - I read a paper (sorry can't locate it now) that claimed that humans developed such distinct p…

The Best Lack All Conviction While the Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity

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