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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

Idk dawg nuclear war sounds pretty bleak

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 20h

(to be clear I found out about this battle yesterday and am no expert)

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 20h

But 6 vs 55, and centuries of improvement in ships and crew ahead vs millenia the other ways for the trimes

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very literally and immediately www.baen.com/Chapters/978...

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I thought it was a dumb paramount to the sky reference

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remember when "one candidate will send you into a war with Iran" was a popular message among the young all the way back two years ago?

Headline FT: Trump says US 'will not be attacking Iran's before midterm elections

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One thing they cover is the theoretical max of satellites in leo, which with multiple starlink style networks we might get close to, and you need a lot of satellites to match a mid sized date center

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is not true, that stat is about individual ownership, which is about 40% of equity ownership. The rest includes pension funds but also hedge funds, retirement accounts but also sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, etc, so much more muddled.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This, almost two centuries before the Napoleonic age, really feels like it answers it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

en.wikipedia.org

Battle of Cape Gelidonya - Wikipedia

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was thinking of the galleasses, which were rowable but showed what high decks and lots of guns could do

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Doesn't Lepanto sort of answer this?

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huh apparently she gives that list at the start because Florida is an outlier in how constrained grandparent visitation rights (a real thing?) are attorney.elderlawanswers.com/do-i-have-th...

attorney.elderlawanswers.com

Do I Have the Right to Visit My Grandchildren?

Today, all 50 states have some type of grandparent visitation law. These statutes allow grandparents to ask a court to give them the legal right to main...

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was surprised to learn recently many states have filial responsibility bills, where even completely estranged children can be forced to cover medical bills unless they were abandoned for long periods during childhood.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Difference I think is an enemy governing with the lawlessness of the current president is a threat to them, women not being equal is a plus to them. 22nd amendment type.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just throwing my single voice out there, titans good but would read about these two watching paint dry.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have a dem treat pardons the way the current guy is going to or at least threaten to and I think something could pass.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are a lot more important fixes that require an amendment (no pardon for things that occured before most recent election) and so many like this and court reform that do not.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also additionally inflates electoral college advantage for smaller states

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Disclosure: long Private Equity but happy to lose some money.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do you think your hospitals and life insurance providers and dentists and vets and everything should be levered up and stripped for parts feels like a good message.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remember when Barack Obama made vilifying Private Equity a key part of the last successful Dem re-election campaign?

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Never heard a word about it before tonight but Rye Lane is a gem of a film

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Might not work but just ask the store staff if you can have the fish. Once watched a guy go up to a house where they were mistreating a dog and say "can I have your dog" and after a minute the owner said "fine" and he kept her happy and healthy for fifteen years.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They do a lot of stuff to make it seem like the person doing it isn't the one doing it

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also dislike on tv apps. How did you end up with that over a Roku (which works similarly). Higher quality image? Better ui? Are you gaming on it? Something else?

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have never understood who uses those. Or what it's like working in that part of the world's most valuable company.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But have you considered the burden it would put on people who act as the state if they had to do the things the state has decided to do?

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This book is about a very white and often exclusively white are

Cover of hook
Killings
Folk Justice in the Upper South
by William Lynwood Montell

Back of book: The “State Line Country” of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Historically the area has had a homicide rate more than ten times the national average.
In this gripping and penetrating study of violence and death in the State Line Country, Lynwood Montell examines the local historical and social conditions, as well as the prevailing attitudes and values, that gave rise and support to rowdy behavior and homicidal acts from the Civil War to the 1930s. The area fostered, he thinks, a culture of violence.
Drawing from vivid oral accounts, which he recorded from present-day residents, Montell describes more than fifty killings that took place in the area, locating them against a background of farming, moonshining, and sawmilling activities common in that country. In addition to reconstructing the homicides, he analyzes their key features, including the circumstances under which they took place, the relationships of the persons involved, the presence of precipitating factors (such as deadly weapons and alcohol) in the culture, and attitudes toward law enforcement officers and the courts.
This close examination of homicide in the State Line Country, which views the tradition from regional and national perspectives, adds a significant dimension to the study of homicide in the South. Students from various disciplines will find here a source of deeper understanding of southern violence.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feel like "Mark Whatney can't get tenure" would resonate with some guys

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think it's sort of like the prevalence of scam calls and early ubiquitous gambling. Much opposition, some financial beneficiaries with some lobbying power, but mostly Congress just doesn't think it's their job.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I might have missed it but I have never heard any politician call for a new social security number system or new verification requirements

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We lost the entire database of government employee background checks several months before OpenAI was founded. We lost maybe every ss number when we had chatgpt4. It never really seems to move things.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only way it makes sense to me if real and yet bail is if it's like the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, but even there the unwitting assassins were held for a time.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do a quick karaoke stop after the show, do Freak on a Leash, problem solved

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I am not putting it out there because I am going to report it two days from now" - Matt Belloni, one day ago

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I am not putting it out there because I am going to report it two days from now" - Matt Belloni, one day ago

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This makes more sense due to the medium but there are also the public intellectuals and commentators. Hitchens was seemingly everywhere but is rarely mentioned, going back further a Winchell or a Mencken. Seem like titans then just gone.

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Thucydides Thirst Trap @charlerk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this small diner 20 miles outside Atlanta, folks disagree about where Atlanta is

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 29/09/2026

In the future, the human's comparative advantage vs machines will our ability to self-heal small wounds, and our resistance to ionising radiation

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