now wondering if capitalists - say, merchants or ship captains, or something, ever looked into this, bc in ye old days ships had low but > 0 chance of sinking. There might have been some sort of scheme for spreading risk to lower pain. Might have happened in London, if anywherehttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1239289351634182144 …
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8/ If Neal Stephenson's Seveneve's played out, 5,000 years from now humans could watch 20th century sitcoms and dramas - in translation - and while some aspects would be weird and culturally dependent, most would make perfect sense.
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That is just one of the tellings of Hephaestus. In another, he marries one of the Graces....which I like better since he is the broken god. (He deserved a little happiness.)
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1:Actually he's my favourite Greek god, I love the motif of him constantly being rejected by people, his mother, his father, his brethren, Athena, Aphrodite and the irony in him being "ugly" but being the one to come up with so many beautiful pieces of work. How would you go back
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