Cape Verde

  Cape Verde held Argentina soccer team to a tie to the last minute. An island of 500,000 people known only for Miss Perfumado, if at all. It is the era of drones and Davids.  

And this applies to US politics, where incumbents...

250 years ending with a circus

Starting with kings in Rome and ending with emperors in Constantinople, the Roman state lasted about 2,000 years. It reached its peak power under the the late Republic and the first Caesars. Did they celebrate its 250th anniversary? Or its 1,000th? 

I was listening to the conversation Lex Fridman had with Anthony Kaldellis—the state survived through changes of capitals, languages, and religions. What seems to have been constant was the legal system. Emperors were appointed, inherited the crown from their fathers, or seized power by military force, but ordinary citizens could still expect the justice system to function.

According to Kardellis the emperors drew their legitimacy through competence.

Was pane et circenses or justice?

Turns out Rome celebrated its 1,000 anniversary. Usual circus.

According to Wiki the Ludi saeculares emperor was Philip the Arab who might have been the first Christian emperor. He also made peace with Persia. the expenses of the celebration led to his fall.

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Syco

 From Sycophancy - What I hate most is false praise. Like Gemini finding me funny. Like Grok finding me funny. Like all others bots genuflecting. Obsequiousness.

What I learned from a WSJ article is that the bots imitate you way of talking, your conversation style. Howl do they do this with my bad and unorthographical English? Luckily they do not hear my accent on top of my sentence structure...They generally come from a word use meaning follower. turns out sycophant comes from Greek where it meant showing the fig. the is made by putting the thumb between two fingers or into the mouth, with the intended effect of the modern gesture of "flipping the bird"