Matt M

My great deeds speak for themselves. I vetoed the Reconstruction acts; I vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau; I vetoed civil liberty; I vetoed Stanton; I vetoed everything & everybody that the malignant Northern hordes approved; I hugged traitors to my bosom; I pardoned them by regiments & brigades... I smiled upon the Ku-Klux, I delivered the Uni... See more

Frank kings had rule over the other free men through detaining a magical power called Mund. That’s one point : Roman Emperors at least in the early times got power through law (though Augustus was divinised). Franks got theirs through intangible magic ; blood here is naturally important whereas adoption there was enough legally.

My taste often deviates from many. I am not a willing contrarian. I’m just kind of weird. I possess no real frustration over this because art is something subjective, but it scares me. It scares me that I’m missing something, that everyone else is on a wavelength that I can’t harmonize with, that for all the books I have in me, none of them will ev... See more

bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) {

return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976;

}

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse.

... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious

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If you are riffing out loud, show that you’re not 100% sure either. Be explicit and invite others to point out where they see things differently.