BS detected

It's so funny when people use term "theoretical, academic argument" when their BS is exposed. Here's Derschowitz, claiming that politicians could do whatever they want as long as they believe they are acting in the public interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRlgvJmTFBE&feature=youtu.be&t=148

Now when people called him on his blatant BS: "I did not talk about the facts," Dershowitz said of his argument. "I deliberately did not talk about the facts. I talked about the Constitution and I was making an abstract hypothetical, theoretical, academic argument in response to their argument that if a president even has a minor motive."

Perfect call

China if you are listening, find Trump's tax returns [and we will cut you a great trade deal].

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Зайцев-кроликов во дворе теперь двое, а не один, как раньше. А еще на днях видел, как утром на рассвете большой ястреб сидел на верхушке дерева и чирикал. Из глубины того же дерева ему отвечал другой ястреб. Там, по-моему, был еще один, третий, ястребиный голос. Да. Совсем они сов выгнали из парка.

Чирикание у ястребов очень специфическое. Ему очень подходит английское слово "screeching." Я, когда слушал, даже подумал, что русское название птицы "кречет" можно использовать в глагольной форме. - Что делает кречет? - Кречет.

TIL: Кречет

В русском языке слово «кречет» зафиксировано уже с XII века (в «Слове о полку Игореве»). Происходит от праслав. *krečetъ, которое, в свою очередь, восходит к звукоподражательному глаголу *krekati[2]

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82.

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The point is that, just as it is impossible for someone who lacks military experience to write well about warfare, it is impossible for someone who has never acted in the political sphere or faced a political crisis to write good political history. Nothing written by authors who rely on mere book-learning has the clarity that comes from personal experience, and so nothing is gained by reading their work. For without its educational element, history is altogether uninspiring and useless. Moreover, when such authors decide, despite their lack of relevant experience, to give detailed accounts of cities and terrains, obviously the same thing happens: they omit a great deal that is worth mentioning, and linger over things that do not deserve it.

--- Polybius, The Histories.

Note also his use of the term "education" that implies practical experience in a specific field of study.

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TIL: Why musical melody is usually in high range.

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Also, the invention of the western notation in the 9th century CE.