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It is said the stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs. What's the joke here?

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How do we know "cave men" lived poor lives, almost entirely focused on subsistence and survival, if pre-Columbian hunter gatherers contacted with in the 16th century didn't?

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How realist is the "apolitical struggle" in House of the Dragon?

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It is said the stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs. What's the joke here?	3613
How do we know "cave men" lived poor lives, almost entirely focused on subsistence and survival, if pre-Columbian hunter gatherers contacted with in the 16th century didn't?	556
How realist is the "apolitical struggle" in House of the Dragon?	236