Tim Lesinski

Latin teacher, learning Greek and Old English, among others.
Omnia disce: videbis postea nihil esse superfluum.

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@actualNico19009 @beergnome1st @_whydock @whittomd @keewa Most have havarti in very affordable sampler packs. This is $8.49 in a store near me.

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@actualNico19009 @beergnome1st @_whydock @whittomd @keewa Any mid-sized or above city has at least one specialty cheese shop with a wide range of cheeses from around the world. The better supermarkets generally have a wide range of international cheeses, too. And basically every supermarket, even the cheap ones, have havarti.

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@fiago7 Chicago is basically the same latitude as Rome. A lot of the other World Cup cities are the same latitude as Africa. AND we get a lot more sunlight. Plan accordingly.

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@MilesPerHoward The way to go would be Blue Heron, along the sidewalk of Great Plain Ave, take a left at St. Sebs, walk Greendale->Lyons, then get the end of the HSL trails

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@MilesPerHoward It would involve backtracking, but the Hebrew Senior Life trails can get you to Lyons St. in Needham

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@nikicaga There's the classic United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, which was actually a pretty significant First Amendment case

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@WeirdMedieval WWI was a Roman civil war (Russia vs. Ottomans, both third Rome, with the Habsburgs added in for fun)

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@KeenanPeachy Biggest Greek naval victory over Persians in 2500 years

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Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.

In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.

Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.

Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.

Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.

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Bad Bunny never the halftime show shall sing until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.

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@Charlesaf3 @rlove @mattyglesias October is usually pretty mild in MA. I’m still going to the beach around Columbus Day many years, sometimes even further. You can be outside with no jacket or just a light jacket the entire month most years.

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@mattyglesias And to add to that, there are a lot of coastal areas in New England where you get to escape the worst of the summer heat and have temperatures in the 70s-80s practically all summer.

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@mattyglesias The weather in New England gets way more hate than it deserves. April-November, it’s great. In southern NE, most Decembers are mild, and March is 50/50. The worst of winter is significantly better than the Midwest or upstate NY. Plus, fall is best here.

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@Nythis110929 @juliethardt @grok Ah yes, just the brand I want to trust won’t have their glass explode in my face: a string of random letters that means nothing

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@naturallyneve You’re correct, but not in the way you think. The wine in the time of the NT was MUCH stronger, to the point that the Greeks believed a person who drank unmixed wine was a barbarian and would go insane.

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@DreadfulBets @joonlee Traditional sports books get to have a house edge.

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@billsperos @Kalshi @bookies This is absurd. They allow DraftKings and other platforms that have unsavory business practices like banning players who win too much to take sports bets, but ban prediction markets that are the most fair form of wagering (every contract must have someone take the other side)

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@AndrewSolender The real hot take is that Springfield MA is culturally midwestern. A post-industrial inland city shaped by German and Eastern European immigration.

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@TimHenke9 @AntigoneJournal Augustine’s Latin is pretty Ciceronian, but the stat is about surviving Latin prior to 200 AD (8 million words)