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Diving In The Philippines & S.E. Asia/World Dive Gear Post #062- Akuana - SCUBA 🤿
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🤿 "Something wicked this way comes"
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This quote hits because Kafka isn’t talking about comfort. He’s talking about the kind of book that breaks numbness, shatters denial, and forces us to feel what we’ve buried.
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Across Asia sticky rice is never just a simple dessert ingredient. It carries a massive cultural weight.
The signature sticky texture physically represents family bonds and the idea of keeping loved ones tightly connected.
This is exactly why these specific treats are absolutely mandatory during lunar festivals weddings and major family reunions.
Notice how almost all of them are perfectly round. That shape is completely intentional. It mimics the full moon and universally symbolizes a complete unbroken family circle.
As the graphic shows the local fillings change completely depending on where you are but the deep cultural meaning behind the dough remains exactly the same everywhere.
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Chase the thrill of Boracay! 🪂 
Besides the famous white sand, endless adventures will turn your vacation into unforgettable bliss. Sail the clear waters on a paraw, feel the rush of the waves on a jet ski, and touch the sky while parasailing.
These adrenaline-fueled experiences will be your priceless souvenirs of Boracay.
📍Fly to Caticlan or Kalibo and take a ferry to Boracay Island.
Follow The Philippines to discover various adventures in the country.
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St. Patrick's Day ☘️
What began as a quiet religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has evolved into a massive global celebration of Irish culture heritage and incredible food.
The mass emigration of Irish people over the centuries carried these traditions across the oceans creating entirely new culinary customs along the way.
While millions in the USA and Canada celebrate the biggest diaspora with Corned Beef and Cabbage or iconic Green Beer the original celebration in Ireland looks quite different. Traditional Irish tables are filled with deeply comforting rustic dishes like hearty Irish Stew Boiled Bacon and Cabbage buttery Colcannon and freshly baked Soda Bread all washed down with a perfect pint of Guinness.
The celebration reaches far beyond North America. Argentina hosts the largest Irish diaspora in Latin America where locals honor the day with Empanadas Picada and Irish Red Ale. Perhaps most fascinating is the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat. It remains the only place outside of Ireland where the day is an official national holiday celebrated with a unique fusion of cultures featuring Goat Water Saltfish and Rum Punch.
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Beautiful french design.
1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Coupe by Jacques Saoutchik.
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Ranked: The Companies Shipping the Most Humanoid Robots.
Bar chart showing the top companies by humanoid robot shipments in 2025.
Ranked: The Companies Shipping the Most Humanoid Robots.
Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global humanoid robot shipments in 2025.
Unitree and AgiBot shipped more than 10,000 robots combined, far ahead of every other manufacturer.
Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics each shipped about 150 units, showing how early the U.S. market still is.
Global humanoid robot shipments surpassed 14,500 in 2025. By 2030, they could reach mass adoption.
By far, China dominated global sales last year, covering 90% of total sales. While early deployments are largely for research and industrial purposes, their applications could soon break into wider retail uses and household tasks.
Based on data from multiple sources via Rest of World, this graphic ranks the companies shipping the world’s humanoid robots as the industry expands.
The Top Companies by Humanoid Robot Sales in 2025.
The table ranks humanoid robot shipments by company in 2025, highlighting which firms are leading the early commercialization of this emerging technology.
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Imagine reaching for oil at a symposium and pulling out this—a 2,500-year-old terracotta vase shaped like a lobster claw.
(P1 and P2) This 460 BCE Attic terracotta red-figure vase, attributed to the Class of Seven Lobster-Claws and housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, represents an intriguing example of Greek "plastic" vases—vessels molded into figurative shapes.
Scholars classify it as a variant of the askos, a bag-shaped container typically used for oil. The marine-inspired form reflects the centrality of the sea to Greek life, though such shaped vases remained exceptional rather than commonplace.
The vessel's Dionysiac iconography suggests it functioned as a novelty item at symposia—elite all-male drinking gatherings central to Greek social culture . This interpretation finds support in a related example from the Royal Ontario Museum, attributed to the same workshop, which bears a red-figure decoration depicting a reclining youth at a symposium holding a drinking cup.
Both the Met and the ROM examples bear an inscribed graffito reading "ho pais kalos" ("the boy is fair" or "the boy is beautiful" )—a standard expression of admiration commonly found on sympotic vessels. Notably, most known examples from this class are left-handed claws; a right-handed variant appeared at Christie’s auction in 2002.
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Ely Cathedral, one of England’s great medieval monuments, is best known for its extraordinary Octagon and lantern — a masterpiece of medieval engineering built after the original central tower collapsed in 1322.
The new octagonal crossing was developed in the 14th century under the patronage of Alan of Walsingham, creating one of the most remarkable interior spaces in European Gothic architecture.
At about 161 metres (528 ft) long, Ely is also among the longest medieval cathedrals in England.
Photographer: India Wright - @indiaswright
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher to Whitesand ⛱️ 
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Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa and the oldest city in the country. 
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The Wave is one of the world's most famous and unique geological formations. 
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Why Plato Lost Faith in Athenian Politics
To understand the philosophy of Plato, we must first understand the world that shaped him.
Plato did not begin his life as a philosopher who distrusted politics. In fact, as a young man in Athens, he expected to enter public life.
He was born into an influential aristocratic family, connected to several political figures of the city. For someone of his background, participating in government was not unusual. It was almost expected.
Athens at that time was famous for its democracy. Citizens debated laws in public assemblies. Decisions were made through voting. Political speeches filled the city’s squares.
To many people, Athens represented the height of political freedom.
But Plato’s generation lived through a period when that system was under intense strain.
Athens had recently suffered a devastating defeat in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta.
The long conflict had exhausted the city, weakened its institutions, and created deep divisions among citizens. In the years that followed, Athens experienced dramatic political instability. Governments rose and collapsed quickly. Rival factions struggled for control.
For a young Plato observing all this, politics did not appear as a noble pursuit of justice. It often looked like a chaotic competition for power.
Then something happened that changed his life forever.
His teacher, Socrates, was put on trial.
Socrates was not a politician. He did not hold office or command armies. He spent his days in conversation, questioning citizens about justice, virtue, and wisdom.
His method was simple but unsettling. By asking careful questions, he exposed how often people spoke confidently about ideas they did not truly understand.
Many young Athenians admired him for this. They saw him as a guide to deeper thinking.
But others felt humiliated by his questioning. Powerful men who had been publicly challenged by Socrates did not forget those moments.
Over time, resentment grew.
Eventually Socrates was formally accused of corrupting the youth and disrespecting the gods of Athens.
At the age of seventy, he was brought before a jury of hundreds of citizens.
Plato witnessed the entire event.
During the trial, Socrates refused to flatter the jury or beg for mercy. Instead, he calmly defended the value of philosophy. He argued that questioning assumptions was a service to the city, not a crime.
But the jury voted against him.
Socrates was sentenced to death.
According to Athenian law, he was required to drink a cup of poison hemlock.
Plato watched as the man he admired most accepted the sentence with remarkable calmness. Surrounded by his students, Socrates drank the poison and died.
For Plato, this moment shattered any remaining faith he had in the political system of Athens.
How could a society that claimed to value wisdom condemn one of its wisest citizens?
How could a democratic jury mistake philosophical questioning for a threat to the state?
The trial revealed something troubling about public decision making. Large groups of citizens could be influenced by emotion, persuasion, and reputation rather than careful reasoning.
From that moment onward, Plato began to question whether political power should really belong to the majority.
His later writings explore this problem again and again. In works like The Republic, Plato imagines a different kind of society. Instead of power resting on popularity, leadership would be entrusted to those who had spent their lives studying truth, justice, and wisdom.
These leaders would be philosophers.
Plato called them philosopher kings.
Whether or not one agrees with his solution, the experience that shaped his thinking is impossible to ignore.
Plato’s political philosophy was not created in isolation. It was born from witnessing a democracy that executed a man whose greatest crime was asking people to think more deeply about their lives.
Perhaps that is why Plato’s reflections on politics still feel so relevant today.
Because his central question remains unsettling.
If wisdom and popularity do not always align, who should truly guide the direction of society?
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Frisbee competion on Whitesand beach this weekend.
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The Apology of Socrates.
In the year 399 BCE, the city of Athens put an old philosopher on trial.
His name was Socrates.
He was not accused of theft, violence, or betrayal.
His crime was something far stranger.
He was accused of asking too many questions.
According to the charges, Socrates was guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens and refusing to respect the gods of the city.
Many powerful people believed that his constant questioning was dangerous. By exposing ignorance in politicians, poets, and teachers, Socrates had made many enemies.
But what makes this story extraordinary is how Socrates chose to respond.
His defense speech, preserved by his student Plato in the dialogue Apology, is not an apology in the modern sense.
He never begged for forgiveness.
Instead, he defended philosophy itself.
Standing before hundreds of Athenian jurors, Socrates calmly explained that he had spent his life searching for truth.
According to him, the Oracle of Delphi once declared that no man was wiser than Socrates. Confused by this statement, he began questioning politicians, poets, and craftsmen to see if anyone was truly wise.
What he discovered was unsettling.
Many people believed they possessed wisdom, but when questioned closely, their knowledge collapsed.
Socrates realized something that became one of the most famous insights in philosophy:
True wisdom begins when a person understands how little they truly know.
“I know that I know nothing.”
This realization did not make Socrates arrogant. Instead, it made him devoted to questioning life, encouraging others to think more deeply about justice, virtue, and truth.
For Socrates, philosophy was not a hobby.
It was a moral duty.
When the jury found him guilty, he was given the opportunity to propose his own punishment. Many expected him to suggest exile or a fine.
Instead, he said something astonishing.
He claimed that Athens should reward him, because he had spent his life awakening the citizens of the city from ignorance.
Unsurprisingly, the jury was not amused.
They sentenced him to death.
Socrates accepted the verdict calmly. Rather than escaping or begging for mercy, he drank a cup of poison hemlock, remaining faithful to his principles until the very end.
Through Plato’s writings, this moment became one of the most powerful episodes in intellectual history.
The trial of Socrates was not simply the story of one man.
It was the story of a society confronting the uncomfortable power of questions.
And more than two thousand years later, the challenge Socrates presented still echoes through philosophy:
Is a life without questioning truly worth living?
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This 1971 Star Streak MotorHome is a one-of-a-kind RV built by an Air Force officer. 
Based on a 1971 Oldsmobile Toronado chassis with Cadillac trim, it is designed to fit in a standard garage.
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