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on our first date, she told me she wanted to see me again before the night was even over. no guessing games, just being honest about how she felt. i thought that was a pretty bold move, and i loved it.

and yep, she's my wife now.

the iphone duo launches october 23, and udictio will be ready from day one.

the champions league anthem was inspired by music originally written for the coronation of british monarchs. which explains why a football match sometimes sounds like someone's about to become king.

it was created in 1992, with lyrics in english, french, and german.

and those eight stars in the famous logo? they were inspired by the original eight team group stage in 1992: ac milan, marseille, rangers, porto, psv eindhoven, club brugge, cska moscow, and ifk göteborg.

they basically took football, gave it royal ceremony music and a logo full of stars, and turned tuesday nights into something that feels like a historical event. image

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alfred kantorowicz escaped nazi persecution and became one of the professors who helped modernize dentistry in turkey.

and there's another interesting detail: he was personally called to dolmabahçe palace in 1936 to help treat ataturk's dental problems.

he wasn't ataturk's regular dentist, but imagine escaping a concentration camp and a few years later being asked to treat the founder and president of turkey.

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n'golo kante is basically football's keanu reeves. world class at what he does, ridiculously successful, and somehow still known for being humble, quiet, and almost impossible to dislike.

hegel's master and slave dialectic gets interesting when you apply it to ai. the master depends on the slave to do the work, while the slave actually develops skills through doing it. now we're building ai to do our writing, thinking, coding, and problem solving. what if the more powerful ai becomes, the less capable we become without it?

“the palestinian problem is not a problem of terrorism, but a problem of dispossession.”

“exile is confirmed as a state of being.”

“no one today is purely one thing.”

“identity is not a given, it is a process.”

“the history of all cultures is the history of cultural borrowing.”

“every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires.”

“culture is a way of fighting against extinction.”

“i have no patience with the idea of a ‘pure’ culture.”

“the power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism.”

callicles is one of the most interesting characters in plato’s dialogues because he basically argues that morality is a tool the weak created to control the strong.

in the gorgias, he says that people naturally want power, wealth, and pleasure, and that laws telling us to be fair and restrained are mostly society’s way of keeping ambitious people in line.

plato obviously disagrees. but callicles raises a question that still feels pretty modern: are our ideas about right and wrong based on some universal truth, or did societies create them because they make civilization possible?

the bull fire is a pretty brutal reminder that reno’s wildfire season isn’t really over.

it started near verdi on october 2 and quickly spread through dry grass and brush, eventually burning into the hawk fire’s old burn scar.

what makes it especially crazy is that this is happening just weeks after the hawk fire devastated parts of northwest reno.

and now officials say bull fire was human-caused.

same landscape. same dry conditions. another fire. image

foreign direct investment is when a company or person puts money into a business in another country and actually owns or controls part of it.

like toyota building a factory in the u.s. or an american company buying a major stake in a company overseas.

for countries, it can mean jobs, factories, technology, and new money coming in.

the catch is that too much dependence on foreign investors can also mean profits, influence, and important decisions leave the country just as easily as the money came in.

persian lessons is next on my watchlist.

the premise already got me: a jewish prisoner survives by pretending to be persian, then has to invent an entire fake language to keep the lie alive.

going in knowing almost nothing else, which honestly feels like the best way to watch something like this. persion lesson - imdb 7.4/10

einstein’s biggest idea was basically this:

time and space are not fixed. they can stretch and bend.

really heavy things, like stars and planets, bend space around them. that bending is what we feel as gravity.

and if you move really, really fast, time can actually pass differently for you than for someone standing still.

he also showed that mass and energy are basically two forms of the same thing:

e = mc^2

isaac newton basically helped write the rules for how we understand motion, gravity, and light.