It’s best and highest use.
A big and well deserved fuck you to Lee.
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Ahhh the Age of Reason.
Blame Jefferson.
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Gotta get cultured too, and learn that Greek! I guess.
It’s in the Greek letters used for fraternities and sororities too, seems like. And what remaning “Classics” programs colleges still have.
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And… the old Greeks and Romans didn’t only kick off civilisation as such1), they also kept slaves. So that was cool to emulate, right? Right? Live in something evoking a classical temple, give your slaves classical names, fancy yourself as something like a successor of a Roman aristocrat… Cultured, sophisticated and in charge because that is the natural order of things.
1) Not really, but that was - is - the narrative. White, western, patriarchal civilisation. Never mind what not-so-pale people achieved; surely they must have had help from aliens or something because reasons.
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That’s a bingo!
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Well, look at the buildings in the US capitol that are greek revival… the early republic fancied themselves the direct intellectual descendants of greek and roman thinkers, so they embraced that style of architectural opulence. So it appears in the ruling classes of the antebellum south, and eventually was found in places looking to imitate the supposed splendor of the antebellum south…
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I do hope there are more just alternate universes in which physicians take an Imhotepic Oath…or to credit the earliest known Egyptian physician, a Djeric* Oath.
*King Djer was the third king of the First Dynasty, ca. 3000 BCE, and the medical treatise he wrote is mentioned, quoted, and copied in later works. Like today’s medical books, his begins with the head and works its way down.
Imhotep lived during the Third Dynasty, the late 27th century BCE.
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Thanks all, makes more sense now.
Well sure. And just look at their lack of white (supremacist) statuary!
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Litigation-to-get-enforcement-of-existing-laws-n-regs is exactly the way the State of Texas and most cities in Texas operate. Environental laws particularly, even federal law, here in U.S. EPA Region 6.
Texans who have paid lawyers to get our legally entitled relief have definitely found interesting things in discovery but often need professionals (scientists, engineers) to tell us just how interesting–and deadly–those things are.
May the fates choose well in that lawsuit against Meta/Facebook and Alphabet/Google, because the complainants nailed it: mental health is at stake. And future voters or lack thereof.
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An odd news in three acts.
Someone spots a wild cat, a jaguar puppy or an ocelot, in a building and call the firefighters. The brave men rescue the poor animal and release It in a jungle. Hours late, a man wakes up and notices His pet cat is missing. The man, a veterinarian, learns that his expensive Bengal cat (he paid US$ 1,400.00 for the kitten) was mistaken for a wild beast and gets desperated.
After looking for two days in the middle of the jungle, His daughter finally found the cat when She called the name of the feline.
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So, not chipped or they didn’t bother to check. 
Next invention idea… Kitty LoJack ®
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According to another newspaper, the cat was already chipped, but the firefighters lacked the proper equipment. They really thought the cat was a wild animal, then learning it as a domestic cat, the firefighters made a search operation the very same day… Probably some resident that hates animals, especially wild ones and was terrified by the possibility of an animal living for free in their condominium, called the authorites to get rid of the menace.
maybe they could sell this project to the government agencies.
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Wow.
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Wow… really…
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Hey, Finland has the Airport Carpet Pissing Guy! Wait, or is it Sweden? (Listed twice)
There really is no accounting for taste is there?
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One of Seven.
Come the book stay for the dance.
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Helsinki
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