This reminds me of a bit from James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State" where he describes the customary property arrangements developed over generations by rural communities in Southeast Asia. I love it because it kind of shows how wherever you find human beings, you will also find Tree Law (1/ )
Academician Prokhor Zakharov@shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 19h agoYes, the early Roman Republic had begun to develop Tree Law.
The real Scylla and Charybdis are people who can't read and people who don't.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoMatt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
(finger to ear) sorry I'm hearing it's VARgentina
Matt Ufford@mattufford.bsky.social · 2w agothe 10-year-old boy cohort is calling them "ArgenFIFA"
making public proclamations about manly warrior ethos while your navy is on the losing side of an attritional fight for a strategic sea route you really really need open for your vague and almost undefined war goals is giving pure uncut imperial japan
USS Radiant Glory of Scoop Jackson vs. six hundred fiberglass In The Name of Tupac class drones supported by a cave base network who’s sole job is to calligraphy scathing poetry references on other fiberglass drones.
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
I just want to walk into a law office as fun as the McDonald's in Mac and Me.
I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com
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Agreement between Patriarch of Constantinople and Bishop of Rome 95% complete - all that remains is a single word in the Nicene Creed about the Holy Spirit.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood thing Iran giving up uranium and opening the Strait is only 5% or I might be pessimistic about this situation.
I feel like we need three or four filioques to figure out the relationships in this particular trinity.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 3mo agoElon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online
This movie just started and it has already built a fortified compound in the Uncanny Valley.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
Drinking cocktails because my credit card incentivizes me to do so.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" #lotr Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
How can this score bug be so fucking massive and yet be completely unreadable?
Last time Hofstra made the tournament, they had to shut down the entire global economy to stop them from winning it all. Nothing like that could possibly happen again.
My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999). Criminally underrated game.
Well I've had my free burrito and now I'm ready to judge the second round of a mock trial competition.
I honestly can't imagine talking about any colleague like this.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 6mo agoLawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
The Aeneid declares that the Roman's arts will be to 'crown peace with laws, to spare in war the humbled and to war down the proud' and yet at the end of the poem, when Turnus is humbled, Aeneas murders him in the last line of the poem - a stark comment on Roman self-perception.
