Cats by Endre Penovác

MIT's "Statistics for Applications" Lecture Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Lecture Slides: ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-650…

Brain rot is real, hitting adults too. Two recent articles show that.... 1) When our phones got smart, we got dumber: ft.com/content/a8016c… 2) When people are randomly assigned to make their smartphones dumb, they get smarter academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Qing dynasty incense burner… remarkable

Warrior — Georges Barbier (1916)

The Medieval Machine Contrary to enduring misconceptions, during the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries), Western Europe was already one of the most technologically advanced regions of the world. Thread of extracts from Jean Gimpel’s classic study.

In 2016 Dems tried to whitewash Trump’s victory by pretending that voters were upset over the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Midwest instead of anger over the left’s immigration and social policies. Unfortunately this admin now believes that story was true.

We have massive Financial Deficits with Xiongnu, Goguryeo, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured it with TRIBUTE MISSIONS, which are now bringing Ten of Billions of Cash-Coins into QIN. They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold...

The political manifesto of Romania’s breakout presidential candidate, Calin Georgescu, features organic farming as a central theme. I haven’t commented on the situation in Romania because it is absolutely insane and unprecedented both in the content of the proposed "policies"

The plan? Crash the market and then negotiate 50 bilateral trade agreements simultaneously in one week to try and save the market

Proven correct

Chinese Catholic Tridentine altar concept designed by Dom Adelbert Gresnigt. Mid-to-late 20th century.

Traces of Magna Graecia. Percentage of Greek surnames in South Italy.

Letters from Pliny, Governor of Bithynia, to the Roman emperor, Trajan. Pliny: There is an open sewer running through the city. Should we cover it? Trajan: Yes.

communism is cruel. it demands the believer solve mankind; its strictness leads to cynical surrender, fanatical disavowal, or radical, endless self-harm. fascism, meanwhile, demands nothing - you are gone. you are the Volk. you are good. mother loves you. now take this rifle and

The question of why voters like Trump more than socialism can't always be answered in ways that santize tho. There are reasons that are unflattering (to 'classical left' sentiment) that voters like Trump; like their fickle and he's entertaining and shameless, etc.

The standard conservative line on academic freedom, that the university's purpose is truth and that academic freedom best serves truth, fails to explain the actual and desired policies of our institutions. Rather, academic freedom is a guild privilege justified by raw competence.

Thinking about the fact that in the movie "Barabbas" (1961) the scene of the crucifiction of Jesus happens during a real eclipse.

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