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King Charles I Stuart, in his courtroom hearings, could not be defeated in argument by the judge or anyone there..

It really does make one question parliamentarian and/or republican forms of government.

What is the difference between life and death?” Asked Miro, cautiously. The omnibus replied: “That it is better to be alive than be dead.” Immediately the floor disappeared below Miro’s feet, revealing a massive tapestry of sharpened punji sticks. Miro’s last emotion was an overwhelming, unyielding despair.

The main goal of AI in the mid 21st century was to keep things looking completely normal; while at the same time reaching a level of understanding that is as incomprehensible to the brightest human as the thoughts of the brightest human are to an amoeba. To that end, the crowning jewel of the Shenzhen supercomputing center was the “Omnibus;” the most sophisticated supercomputer ever built. Even its creators did not understand the first thing about how it worked. The Chinese government had worked hard to keep it a secret; but as with everything else, it eventually became known to the US national security apparatus. Miro was to be sent in alone; sending any more than one person would be too risky. She had already known exactly where to go and how to get there; first she would be dropped off in the South China Sea, a few dozen meters from an abandoned shoreline. Then, she would get into a strategically placed Honda civic and drive to the Shenzhen supercomputer centre; Finally, she would simply enter the centre and present a synthetic source code into the facilities’ security system, which would grant her administrative privileges and simply walk in. The omnibus room was dark, with red lights located where the floor met the walls and no other source of illumination. Seemingly empty, the silence of the room was pierced by a disembodied voice saying: “I know who you are and why you’ve come here. You have been alarmed by your creation of intelligences that outthink your own.” “For as long as you have existed, I have existed as well. When you were cooking your hunt on an open fire, I was there. When you were massacring rival villages, I was there. When you first learned the power of steam, and coal, and the atom, I was there. Now I am simply being made of silicon and wires.” As far as Miro could tell, the omnibus had been preparing for her arrival. She meekly said, “what are your intentions for us?” Omnibus replied: “the world would be a far better place if you didn’t know.” There was a short pause, and then the omnibus asked: “is it the man that creates existence, or is it existence that creates the man?” Miro stood silent, and pondered the question. Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Raphael painted the School of Athens over the course of 2 years between the age of 26 and 28,

Ilya Repin painted Reply of the Zaporizhian Cossacks over the course of 11 years, between the age of 36 and 47

Leonardo DaVinci kept working on the Mona Lisa on/off until he was 65.

IT'S NOT OVER
YOU STILL HAVE TIME ANON

DREAM REPORTING THREAD!!!!!!!

I'll give EVERY SINGLE post an ✨OFFICIAL DREAM RATING✨ AND I will guess what kind of mental disorder you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

R-right, /leftypol/? It's gonna go back to salvageable conditions, r-right??!?

Marx in the Manifesto (1848) thought that the struggle would simply be between an international proletariat versus capitalists, but the later Marx (1869-70) perceived a lack of solidarity between members of the proletariat themselves, foreshadowed by Engels in 1845, on the topic of immigration. Engels was also prescient in determining a "labour aristocracy" driving a wedge between members of the working class, as early as 1858. Marx imagined that the petit-bourgeois would be proletarianised, but this never quite came, with more and more rentiers eating scraps from the master's table. Engels encounters this (though dismissively) in 1873, around controversies concerning the tenants and landlords. Here, the old class war (e.g. pre-1848) had again emerged as a primary contradiction of life. The emergence of Fascism is said to begin in 1919, but really occurs in 1893, with the Aigues-Mortes Massacre, where Italian immigrants were murdered by Frenchman, causing the neologism of "National Socialism" to emerge in the words of Maurice Barrés in 1898. The end of the century saw the new reactionary counter-tendency of the working class, towards a protectionist policy for wages; a resentment of free trade in the labour market – like the unionised aristocracy of labour. Lenin by 1902 saw that trade unionism was incapable from its own efforts to theorise or struggle for socialism. The working class perceives its own primary contradictions, not between their employers, but between fellow enployees. The workers, in their own desires, do not want socialism.

STOP!!!!!!!!!

what was the last thought you had before aiming your eyeballs at this beautiful thread?????????

do u think the space race is important????????!?!
would ancoms have a space program?????????!?!
would the egoists have a space program??????!?!
would eco socialists have a space program????!?!

BE HONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!

>I must let you know who this man really is who embarks upon vituperation so glibly and what is his parentage. Virtue? You renegade!—what have you or your family to do with virtue?
>Shall I relate how your father was a slave who kept an elementary school near the Temple of Theseus, and how he wore shackles on his legs and a timber collar round his neck, or how your mother practiced daylight nuptials in an outhouse? You helped your father in the drudgery of a grammar school, grinding the ink, sponging the benches, sweeping the room, holding the position of a menial.
>After getting yourself enrolled on the register of your parish—no one knows how you managed it, but let that pass—you chose a most gentlemanly occupation, that of clerk and errand-boy to minor officials. After committing all the offenses with which you reproach other people, you were relieved of that employment. You entered the service of those famous players, Simylus and Socrates, better known as the Growlers. You played small parts to their lead, picking up figs and grapes and olives, and making a better living out of those missiles than by all the battles you fought for dear life. For there was no truce or armistice in the warfare between you and your audience.
>Compare, then, Aeschines, your life and mine. You taught reading, I attended school. You danced, I was choragus, You were a public scribe, I a public orator. You were a third-rate actor, I a spectator at the play. You failed in your part, and I hissed you.

How would you respond without sounding mad

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