Propitiate

regain the favor of someone else (person, god, or spirit)

Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel

@orzelc.bsky.social

Typo of the Morning: "Office Horus," which is of course describing when you visit a faculty member's home base to make offerings to propitiate the falcon-headed god of the sky before handing in your homework.

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Thiago Carvalho

Thiago Carvalho

@cyrilpedia.bsky.social

"(...)Trump’s mix of nativism & protectionism is the reality that India & non-western countries more generally will have to contend with for the foreseeable future. (One of the revelations of Trump’s second term has been the willingness of European leaders to abase themselves to propitiate the US.)'

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@nilskongshaug.bsky.social

Are we nearing the end of the Age of Reason? It gave us the understanding that we could shape the future ourselves. No more propitiating gods and hoping for the best.
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