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I'm a hockey player. UB Alum. BS Biological sciences.

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@kdot89_ There really isn't any casual gaming anymore

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What is Vegas going to try and retain Cassidy now? Didn't let him talk to other teams and now let Torts walk

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Some guy passing by yelled gay at me during golf today during my backswing and it made me giggle. Proceeded to hit a nice shot too

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OMG Montreal fans leaving the game early, what fake ass fans blah blah blah

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The hockey gods had no choice but to step in

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@Kimmick86 "These announcers"

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Can't have no Canadian teams in the conference finals

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My cat is an apex predator, but sometimes he acts like a real apex derpator

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Can this broadcast suck Montreals dick any harder my god

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@BENKSY_1 Lmao after all the shots that I purposely stepped out of the way for you, and thats how I'm treated

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

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"Your password expires in 12 days, would you like to change it now?" No I will wait till the twelfth day thanks

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Quinn #bucciovertimechallenge

[Pete Guelli @PeteGuelli]

So who needs to be at Game 5?#LetsGoBuffalo #sabrehood

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Evans/Point #bucciovertimechallenge

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Aho #bucciovertimechallenge

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Sheesh Trenin got rocked

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@FPS_Reese Honestly you could probably build your own pretty easily with Claude and Replit