Jacob Dickinson

Thinking about the circus Republicans invented regarding Benghazi, nails digging into the palm of my fist

The History of Wealth Throughout History YouTube video by Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper's comic skit "The history of wealth through history" worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJ1...

Okay. The people have spoken.

For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).

Let the games begin.

Are these a thing? Got a Bob Ross fan over here. Thanks.

Damn! North Wave News and its ad blizzard got me again! Like an old refrigerator for the kids to play in.

So trashed with ads, attempting to make content visible only took me to another article. Look elsewhere? Or take it as the cue I needed to put down my phone?!

Which countries? Source?

Healthy clump of oyster mushrooms on the trunk of a dead liquidambar tree. Large, irregularly curved caps spread more or less perpendicularly from the trunk, with prominent gills underneath.

Morel mushroom found in Southern California, where it shouldn’t exist. Mulch from Northern California or Oregon. The reticulated structure makes it difficult to confuse the morel with anything else.

Yours are cuddlier. Great names! I wouldn’t have thought of those!

Found it: www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsS...

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Oh, my. Good find. I’d almost forgotten about Eiseley.

Brings back some memories. It’s been awhile since I heard that one!

But does Noem get to keep all her cosplay costumes?

and, when the chastity of a queen of France was suspected, three hundred gallant nobles swore, without hesitation, that the infant prince had been actually begotten by her deceased husband.
(1194-1195) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

According to the weight of the charge, this legal number of _compurgators_ was multiplied; seventy-two voices were required to absolve an incendiary or assassin:

The party accused might justify his innocence by producing before their tribunal a number of friendly witnesses, who solemnly declared their belief, or assurance, that he was not guilty. [Or by deposing a past political opponent and ex-president’s wife?]

In every religion, the Deity has been invoked to confirm the truth, or to punish the falsehood, of human testimony; but this powerful instrument was misapplied and abused by the simplicity of the German legislators.

Under the empire of Charlemagne, murder was universally punished with death; and the use of capital punishments has been liberally multiplied in the jurisprudence of modern Europe.
(1194) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall
Capital punishment as contagious innovation.

As is so often the case, this begs the question: “What’s our excuse?”

The captive monarch, with his wife and two children, was transported to Orleans, and buried alive in a deep well, by the stern command of the sons of Clovis; whose cruelty might derive some excuse from the maxims and examples of their barbarous age.
(1186) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

これを見ると、時々、辛いラーメンを食べたくてたまらなくなり、サーモンが添えられた辛いラーメンを食べるために、

This reminds me how every so often the craving builds up and I have to run, not walk, to the nearest Hokkaido Ramen Santouka for the spicy ramen with salmon on the side.

The diligence and affability of their judge rendered him popular, the impartial wisdom of his decrees obtained their voluntary obedience, and the reign of Syagrius over the Franks and Burgundians seemed to revive the original institution of civil society.
(1179) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

(1177) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but, as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

Your imaginary freedom would be insulted and oppressed by a savage master; and the expulsion of the Romans would be succeeded by the eternal hostilities of the Barbarian conquerors.
(1176) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall #tacitus
Tacitus, paraphrased by Gibbon.

The fall of Rome would be fatal to the provinces; and you would be buried in the ruins of that mighty fabric which has been raised by the valour and wisdom of eight hundred years.

“Congress will not be needed”

GOP Congress claps like obedient seals

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

You know, it's funny. Earlier this week I had started to write a follow up to my "Fascism For First Time Founders" post that tried to explain to Silicon Valley how embracing fascists would destroy innovation... but now I need to spend the weekend rewriting the whole thing with a new Exhibit A.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.