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> Γραικοί, Graikoí were an ancient Hellenic tribe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graecians

This is a common fallacy. Criminals often turn to crime because they're not very good at honest endeavors. Having failed to succeed on a fair playing field (hard), they victimize t…

as others have speculated, the real money was probably in blackmail and rigged sports betting.

That relatively small in-person games would use rigged shuffling machines, cameras, see-through playing cards, lenses etc seems to all but guarantee that every manner of deception …

Fun game. Great work. I think schools are billed twice, once when you build and then again at the end of the month. Also there may be a bug with "lowest rent". It never seems to ch…

This is an absurd statement to make about a DOD program. Securing communication is communication in the most adversarial environment imaginable. There are thousands of problems tha…

Transit violence is not limited to outlier cases like the nyc immolation or Iryna's horrific slaughter. Women in particular may never feel safe on public transit and avoid it entir…

I believe this is the case and the wiki summary seems to agree. > Geoffrey K. Pullum's explanation in Language Log: The list of snow-referring roots to stick [suffixes] on isn't th…

this is a somewhat unique new yorker style habit https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-... Umlaut is a separate concept from diaeresis but shares the symbol

> Let’s focus on America’s strengths in high end manufacturing, agriculture, and innovation instead of applying tariffs to all countries and products blindly. We should be taxing a…