Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration"
@MichalYouDoing@realDrTT Alan Turing did not even “formally conceive a computer,” he produced an abstract metamathematical solution to a problem in the philosophy of mathematics posed by Hilbert
@DrRaisGhani1@MichalYouDoing He was never in danger of the death sentence. His house arrest was in his villa in Tuscany with servants to care for him and an amanuensis to assist him with his scientific work. He also continued to receive his very generous salary from the Grand Duke Ferdinando II
@DrRaisGhani1 Your tweet is ahistorical bullshit! Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Inquisition, which was commuted to house arrest by the pope twenty-four hours later
@ianfmusgrave@aten_ichnaten Could it be that that the Freemasons took the compasses and set square as symbols from the mathematicians and not the other way round? Just asking…
In 1982, Israel bombed the Beirut airport.
The Lebanese were trapped as the IDF marched into Beirut, massacring thousands of civilians.
Hezbollah didn’t exist.
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.