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@endofhistory236 @FORTRESSMAXXING The early support at the founding was crucial, as well as up to the split with the KMT yet there were long periods where the support was near nonexistent.

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@allie__voss No, the public school food isn’t fit for animals much of the time.

[OscarMike @Nichola17893554]

@EnzoVerse7 Massive upgrade. Finally getting peak Cyclops

[Stelios Panagiotou @Panagiotou90St]

Presenting a goddess who wants Troy to burn to the ground as Odysseus’ guilty conscience for burning Troy to the ground isn’t exactly story-writing at its best.

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@ParvumPrincipi Homer meant either modern day Sudan or Ethiopia

[Nicolás Pacheco de Amor en Custodia @CheveDelOxxo]

Me acaba de llegar una multa a la casa. Debo pagar 850 mil millones de pesos argentinos por todos mis tweets durante el Mundial.

Al tipo de cambio: $10 pesos mexicanos.

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@RedKahina @Logo_Daedalus They are winning

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@MountainGenera Ming Dynasty attire, not Qing, would obviously be used.

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Apparently they damaged the ship used to make the Odyssey and won’t pay for the damage

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@EdbieLigerSmith Nolan mostly used CGI on a wooden blocky frame puppet if you see the behind the scenes.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Quite funny to see that 3 countries claim Fields Medal winner Hong Wang as theirs.

When in her case, as in the case of so many top researchers throughout history, the clear lesson is that greatness in science is almost always a collaborative product of multiple countries and cultures.

Even if you go back to Marie Curie: same thing, she wasn't originally French but Polish, studying first in Warsaw and then in Paris. Or Einstein who studied and worked in 4 countries. Or take Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal: she was born and educated in Iran, then did her PhD in the US.

There is obviously something special that opens the mind about being exposed to different scientific traditions and different ways of thinking.

Which all means that there is a special irony, at least in the case of France and the US, in both countries increasingly treating collaboration with China as a security threat while simultaneously celebrating a scientist whose brilliance is literally the product of that collaboration.

The US's National Science Foundation is even presently straight-up banning scientific collaboration with almost all Chinese scientists (https://t.co/a7tqA0fvN0) while Europe is doing the equivalent with its flagship Horizon Europe research program, barring Chinese institutions from its grants which, in effect, also bans scientific collaboration with China (https://t.co/LcR3GPsuHH).

In other words, both countries want to claim Hong Wang but both are actively fighting the scientific spirit of openness that produced her.

China is, somewhat ironically, moving in the opposite direction, continuing to "reform and opening up." China's NSFC, the Chinese equivalent of the US's NSF, continues to actively fund foreign researchers to come work in China across all fields (https://t.co/b33HD5KuxG).

Fields medals, as is the case of Nobel prizes, are very much lagging indicators, by 1 or 2 decades: Hong Wang left China in 2011, at a time when the situation was arguably the reverse of today - the West was open, China was relatively more closed.

Which means that 1 or 2 decades from now, don't be surprised if the Fields Medal goes to a French or American researcher who had to go to China to find the openness that produces the very best science.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

You need to earn $7320 per week

to equal the same spending power a full time gas station attendant had at minimum wage in July 1971

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@FORTRESSMAXXING The maps are too small.

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@QuestionStan23 RDJ as Doom is first shown in 2005…

[Rome @ConsulofRome_]

The throne in Constantinople rose up into the air and had mechanical golden lions and birds which moved by themselves and sang

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@HollywoodHandle Good. They needed a different actor. He was too old

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@IAmDouglasKim The incursion plot of this movie, is that their consequences mean everything.

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@IAmDouglasKim It is important to remember that the MCU and the First Iron Man Movie were fueled by American anger at the wars the country was forced into as part of the war on terror. In contrast, DC with Nolan’s Dark Knight was based on pro-bush, pro war on terror propaganda.

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@IAmDouglasKim The whole point of the Iron Man missile scene was that it was obviously bad and should never have been done. The protagonist stops and reverses while the villain of the film attempts to get him to go back to making weapons for the MIC. It’s front and center in the movie.