Thank you. That was informative. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:54:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1752389770234216667
Reply addressees: @i_paramu @WarMonitors
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Please don’t take my words as criticism. I’m an advocate for india and always have been. I’m merely making a cultural observation about the “WIERD=ness” of western civ – which is a topic that is meaningful in the west at present, because it is difficult for westerners to comprehend just how different we are from the rest of the world, and how different we always have been. In other words, globalism in the sense of free trade has been beneficial to man, and human rights have been as well, but otherwise our ‘weird-ness” means we cannot spread our ways to others and it’s not clear we should be as lackadaisical with ourselves in some of those ways.
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Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:53:37 UTC
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(Etymology Fun)
filibuster (n.)
Filibuster is a term lately imported from the Spanish, yet destined, it would seem, to occupy an important place in our vocabulary. In its etymological import it is nearly synonymous with piracy. It is commonly employed, however, to denote an idea peculiar to the modern progress, and which may be defined as the right and practice of private war, or the claim of individuals to engage in foreign hostilities aside from, and even in opposition to the government with which they are in political membership.
filibuster (n.)
1580s, flibutor “pirate,” especially, in history, “West Indian buccaneer of the 17th century” (mainly French, Dutch, and English adventurers), probably ultimately from Dutch vrijbueter (now vrijbuiter) “freebooter,” a word which was used of pirates in the West Indies in Spanish (filibustero) and French (flibustier, earlier fribustier) forms. See freebooter.
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:49:51 UTC
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(Hugs. Thanks. 😉 )
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:40:12 UTC
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It’s not about what’s easy. It’s about why choose such stunts. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:39:52 UTC
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Um. That’s nonsense. Every single people had oral traditions. Jews didn’t even write down their religion until asked by the Greeks to do so. Chrsitianity had no written tradition until well after Jesus was dead. The sequence of the evolution of magical content in the four…
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:37:47 UTC
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Thang/Thing: Jury of some size: the governing assembly of free people, made up of the community’s chieftains and farmers. It was used for early forms of legislative and judicial governance in Germanic and other Northern European societies.
– From a PIE *tenk- (1), from root *ten- “stretch,” perhaps on notion of “stretch of time for a meeting or assembly.”
– The Germanic word is perhaps literally “appointed time,”
– From Proto-Germanic *thinga- “assembly”
– From Old Norse þing “public assembly”).
– Old High German ding “public assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit,” German Ding “affair, matter, thing,”
– From Old English þing “meeting, assembly, council, discussion,” later “entity, being, matter” (subject of deliberation in an assembly). Also “act, deed, event, material object, body, being, creature” .
– The sense “meeting, assembly” did not survive Old English.
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Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:33:15 UTC
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OK. Explain how. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:21:30 UTC
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–“Stoicism involves continuously minding the sunk cost fallacy.”– Martin Stepan (@AutistocratMS)
(The Sunk Cost Fallacy: People double down on previously invested time, money and effort, and continue to invest in failed projects, making irrational decisions when planning for… https://twitter.com/TabbyTeamster/status/1752377913855402457
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:21:00 UTC
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https://twitter.com/TabbyTeamster/status/1752377913855402457
RT @TabbyTeamster: @curtdoolittle Hence you see upper middle class people wearing Costco clothing and the low brows wearing Canada Goose.
Source date (UTC): 2024-01-30 17:15:35 UTC
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