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If you teach at ecole polytechnique you are technically an employee of the french ministry of defense. That means if you don't publish enough Jester shows up at your mom's door and tells her that the department of defense regrets to inform her that her children missed tenure because he was stupid

I thought the shirt was an OLS thing

I thought Van Der Saar was the gaolie of Juventus for like a decade, but it was like two years, that happened to be the year I had to follow football because it's all my schoolmates ever talked about

I have a pretty good hunch from my aqueduct research that there's an undiscovered aqueduct tunnel section that was abandoned part way through the life of a Roman aqueduct. I would need to travel to inspect/confirm. Should I go?

If you set the field of economic history back fifty years it would be a tragedy, but if you could set it back five hundred it would actually be an interesting set of counterfactuals

One of the great things about visiting P*ris outskirts was seeing all the transportation infra that makes a city of twenty million possible.

My new bit is going to be randomly censoring various innocuous words

The United States is a vast constraint-based art collective whose medium is wealth creation

I hate mass tourism. I tried to organize a few days in Taormina, but after White Lotus every single cabal of murderous gays is booked solid until 2028

Well I have my reservations about the project, but I am also curious to see who he's going to cast as Young Odysseus. Franchising Homer?

Saw the Oddyssey but it wasn't very odd at all

That is a loss

It's crazy what you can get with selective breeding

I think aliens built the food pyramid

Shakira's association with football actually goes way back. Her famous song "My Hips Don't Lie" is about how you can tell if a ball carrier is doing a body feint by ignoring the feet and checking for hip rotation in the direction of true movement.

I was once told that in swiss families, children that are smart and honest get steered towards the family business, children that are honest but not smart get steered towards politics, and children which are smart but not honest are suggested to join FIFA

The shitfaced sea

Using Claude to reconstruct the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque dome and see if I can understand the geometry

Linkedin Park

let's face it, transforming a bunch of sailors on shore leave into pigs is not exactly the pinnacle of witchcraft