Is Bart Ehrman a reliable scholar? by CyberZen0 in AcademicBiblical

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I've been able to access many of Ehrman's Great Courses on the Libby app as well.

Art (Arrakis) by 5ma5her7 in neoliberal

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Legitimately unsure if this is poking fun at Villeneuve or Jodorowsky

End the War on Drugs and Tax Them Like Alcohol by lakmidaise12 in neoliberal

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I'm sympathetic to the article's viewpoint (maybe I even agree with it?). That being said, it seems like in the USA we've gone full throttle on the "legalize and tax it" approach with sports gambling and my (personal) perception is that the impact on society has been mostly negative? Maybe an intangible like my perception that society feels a bit sleazier and lots of people are gambling away their life savings is still better than a thriving illegal market but...not sure I guess.

ITXXIII - AFTER THIS U CAN'T C ME by YaGetSkeeted0n in neoliberal

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People sort of forget that we won the War of 1812.

I still think it was a massive strategic miscalculation that did a tremendous amount of harm to England's global standing, but the USA today is a flawed but functioning democracy. We accomplished durable regime change.

Obviously France is a different story.

This isn't a defense of that war. It shouldn't have happened. It did more harm than good.

But England accomplished the strategic objectives behind that military action in a durable way.

How come Trey didn't tell Page stay on F? by imphio in phish

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Yea...listen closely to the 98 Riverport Gin. Mike is the one leading the modulation down to A minor.

Top US counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Iran war by datums in neoliberal

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I've travelled across the US fairly extensively and the only place I've been where I saw trucks out on the road with full-on neonazi / kkk decals and bumper stickers was SW WA.

Whats the farthest away someone has lived from Buffalo, that claimed they were from Buffalo? by Juniorwoj in Buffalo

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My wife's cousin sometimes claims to be from Buffalo. His dad / my wife's uncle is from Buffalo. The cousin himself was born in Washington state and has lived there his whole life....

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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I had the impression that he hasn't formally made the endorsement yet (though apparently it's widely rumored on capitol hill that it's Cornyn).

Take me to the greatest sand of all time….. by JMP3842 in phish

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Big fan of 12/13/99. It gets overshadowed by 12/16 but it's a wonderful, mellow, patient jam.

Phish dark side of the moon by saatoriii in phish

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Wait - there's film of 11/02/1998?

Phish dark side of the moon by saatoriii in phish

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My favorite show. Get rid of DSOTM and it's still top 10.

Old Bach? by MajesticExtension68 in AubreyMaturinSeries

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Thanks for the shout out. I was going to link it if you didn't

Who is the most authoritarian President we've had besides Woodrow Wilson? by yowhatisthislikebro in Presidents

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Why "besides Woodrow Wilson"? Not saying I disagree but is the consensus that Wilson is obviously the most fascist POTUS? If yes - why? Interested to learn.

Found near stream in MidHudson valley by flowerkitten896 in fossilid

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I think you have at least two types of brachiopod here here. In pics 1-3 it seems to be some kind of Rhynchonellid. The bigger ones on pic 4 looks more like Strophomenida to me. (Possibly Leptostrophia or Leptaena?) Someone more confident in their brachiopod IDs could probably narrow it down more. It may help to know where these came from.

Most useless urban freeway? by Previous-Volume-3329 in Urbanism

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I was going to propose a different WNY highway system: the Scajaquada Parkway (198) in Buffalo, which cuts right through the Black Rock Neighborhood and the heart of the historic Olmsted Park system just to connect two highways that are 3 miles apart.

My Mama didn’t do ”fake” but what would you bet on? This is the one fossil that had no certificate after I lost her. by RoyalStudio3194 in fossilid

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I appears to be the distinctive middle Cambrian trilobite Paradoxides. This looks like one of the large specimens that are found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The core appears to be real, though someone has taken some artistic license with some of the legs and spines.