skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
@11112011 you live in an castle boyo
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@jk sorry, you said powerful
isn't that what they have the CIA for?
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@jk isn't that what they have the FBI for
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"Ended up Looking like a Full Stack Developer"
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@dhfir @vriska @Nudhul Thebes were the 3rd guy to the party once the War was over, the rest were in deep with either Athens or Sparta by that point and Thebes was the only one strong enough to stand up to Sparta (as I recall, it's been a while)
Check out Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas for an awesome story
@dhfir @vriska @Nudhul definitely Sparta, Thebes' Sacred Band was after the Peloponnesian (yes I had to look up how to spell that) War and Athens was on the downtrend after Sparta defeated them
they were all into it - in Sparta it was about martial discipline whereas in Athens it was about intellectual education of younger men via romantic (not necessarily sexual) relationships
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"I just lost the game"???
now what is that losers' mindset you got to bend the rules to your own will
i have been and will continue to win the game and there's nothing you can do about it
now what is that losers' mindset you got to bend the rules to your own will
i have been and will continue to win the game and there's nothing you can do about it
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As a bonus these libraries built of wood stone iron can last millennia. Very green. Very nourishing. A good investment. And they can even be used by lame tech start-ups in the future. Modern libraries? 30 years, then landfill.
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[RT @moveincircles]
Thinking today about the three classical muses: Aoide “song”), Melete (“practice”), & Mneme (“memory”). Compare this rich embedded understanding of creativity to the thin modern idea of inspiration as drawn ex nihilo from an individual self. No wonder modern art is so crap
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[RT @wrathofgnon]
Courtyards are fundamental in domestic #GoodUrbanism, and in institutional urban architecture: schools, libraries, hospitals, government etc. they are matched with the cloisters and the cloistered courtyards. Dietrich von Hildebrand:
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It's OK to dislike #Assange as a person, for traits of personality real or perceived (through lens part or not of years of smearing)
Yet one must be a fool not to acknowledge the achievements of WikiLeaks as:
* most massive releases of authenticated secret docs ever
* lessons to the press on datajournalism and courage
* lessons to the world in how to publish in non-censorable ways and protect sources.
Whether Assange should be called "journalist" is a distraction.
this book reads like it's target audience was readers of the huffington post and I'm developing a rash
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