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Cake day: November 18th, 2023

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  • It’s wild that Marcus Aurelius had so many kids in part to help the empire when he was the last of the five good emperors who were all adopted into the family. I’ve always thought that they were the good emperors because they actually were selected for the job. I don’t know if there is scholarship to back that up or just an assumption I’ve made. But it seems like the empire would have been better served by adopting someone with talent.