How does that work for the enslaved person? You owe 50% of your time to the person who hasn't emancipated their shares?

One wonders the extent to which this lies at the root of American war planners repeatedly underestimating the willingness of certain enemies to take casualties (in Vietnam and Afghanistan).

(IDF/Trump likely making the same mistake in Gaza now)

Right, "well funded cheap large public universities" are kind of...the only game in town in most of the world?

*My European colleagues may disagree on the "well funded" part.

Nearly every history class I TAed at Columbia was seriously under enrolled and made up of about 1/3 local community retirees who paid a fee to audit.

This is definitely not what is happening in the Ivy League today. The Ivies don't have pre-professional degrees per se, but the number of humanities majors is minuscule and the most popular majors are all pre-professional-adjacent (econ, government, computer science, etc)

The whole idea that one could pay a small fee for a blue check, then get paid by X based on the engagement your posts generate, was so hilariously bad that everything that came after was very predictable.

Plus the architecture of transformers is such that there's fundamentally no foolproof safeguard that isn't vulnerable to jailbreaking.

Dio (75.2) says that Severus filled the ranks of the Praetorians with soldiers from the border provinces, but did this continue throughout the third century or did the Guard revert to recruiting from Italy and other core provinces?

Wish I could be there! Hoped to make it to ASOR and SBL this year, but other plans intervened in past 9 mos 👶

Being unable to speak the language and therefore ignorant of internal Hungarian political debates might have something to do with this ability.