Diego

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Diego
@Diego__Pasini
seeking truth
Palo AltoJoined April 2023

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I can't wait for our next generation of great statesmen to be the zoomers who grinded hoi4/eu4/vicky2.
The explosion of war games in the past thirty years will lead to substantially better diplomats. Imagine if a chronically online Bismarck was trained by replaying German unification thousands of times or if Richelieu could have better understood the long term effects of his
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Diego
@Diego__Pasini
I can't wait for our next generation of great statesmen to be the zoomers who grinded hoi4/eu4/vicky2.
On the first American diplomatic visit to China in 20 years, some of Henry Kissingerโ€™s first words to Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Premier were: > โ€œMany visitors have come to this beautiful and, to us, mysterious landโ€ฆโ€ Yeah ok broโ€ฆ Iโ€™m sure he loved that one
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"It seemed to men as if the laws of the universe were established for the first timeโ€ฆ when they recognized their own Reason in the Reason which pervades it. The human eye became clear, perception quick, thought active and interpretative." - Hegel on the Scientific Revolution
Just saying, a tiktok tax coulddd potentially cut the yearly fed deficit by 3%. $119,765,625,000 a year... 90 min * $35/hr * 50M users/day * 12.5% Avg TikTok user active seconds * US avg income * daily US TikTok users * nicotine tax rate. (Mostly Joking)
United Airlines ruined Rhapsody in Blue for me. I now can only think of seatbelts and exit rows when hearing the zeitgeist of the roaring 20's.
Sarah: "General Picton doesn't even know how to walk in a ballroom." The Duke of Wellington: "But he is very good when he is dancing with the French."