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@John_Cilantro

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Tarnished
Tarnished@SokumenTop·
@burgahmeister @CaptainJack4565 @XanderhalTV He wasn't evil because of the wish, but he selfishly kept going with it after he knew it was basically torture for the real Nikki showing that he was essentially evil/extremely selfish all along
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Jean-Paul Surtr
Jean-Paul Surtr@REPHVIM·
depends what you mean by unusual. Norwegian has a similar periphrastic tense/mood system (but not the -ing continuous aspect forms). Faroese has similarly weird archaic spelling. the <ð> and <θ> sounds are not actually that rare in world languages, the <ɚ> intervocalic R in certain rhotic dialects is much more unusual.
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(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★
(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★@Y40IFRQTTING·
English would be regarded like Icelandic as this fucked up unintelligible hard to learn language if it wasn't the global lingua franca. It's such a weird ass language when you compare its features with its relatives in mainland Europe.
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@JPEGMacDonald @Y40IFRQTTING Of course it's defined by what aspects we're comparing but the original post is clearly saying it is unusual overall. Would you say then that it is impossible for any language to be, on the whole, unusual when compared to several others?
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Thorfinn The Red
Thorfinn The Red@JPEGMacDonald·
@John_Cilantro @Y40IFRQTTING The issue is unusualness is defined by the things it's compared to, and what features you care about, English phonology isn't that unusual compared to Scandi, Low German & Dutch varieties. French also has a 'strange' TAM setup, especially compared to Spanish and Italian
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@JPEGMacDonald @Y40IFRQTTING Those are pretty significant differences, no? What's the most unusual indo european language in europe, if not English?
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Thorfinn The Red
Thorfinn The Red@JPEGMacDonald·
@Y40IFRQTTING English is not particularly unusual, sure it has an odd TAM setup compared to continental European languages, do periphrasis, and <th> but compared to world languages there's no real metric by which it's weird, Icelandic neither tbf
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@Will_Tanner_1 Most law school personal statement instructions that I've come across say your essay should reflect your personal experiences and how they led you to persue a legal career. Can I just ignore that and write a manifesto?
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Will Tanner
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1·
I wrote my college essay on the unique honor culture in the Sagas of the Icelanders For law school, I wrote on the poor quality of everyone in American public life now compared to the Virginia Dynasty (all lawyers) You can just ignore the humiliation rituals I got in pretty much everywhere I wanted, and got an essentially full scholarship for law school. They were probably tired of reading the self-flagellation essays. Just try to be more clever than your peers
Anand Sanwal@asanwal

The 4 types of college essays

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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@AgroNationalism Weren't eastern germany, hungary, and the baltic states all traditionally protestant?
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@ClickingSeason There are a lot of social ties between African Americans and second gen African immigrants
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Seasonal Clickfarm Worker
Seasonal Clickfarm Worker@ClickingSeason·
When asking myself “could it happen here?” I notice that there are social ties between American natives and Hispanic immigrants, there are social ties between natives and Indians, but there are zero social ties between natives and Africans/arabs.
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@Empty_America @RealJohnDios Idk does this honor code not also include prohibitions on "kicking a man while he's down"? The old man is in big trouble not for punching him but for drowning him
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VB Knives
VB Knives@Empty_America·
@RealJohnDios The zoomer mind is totally different, it lacks any idea of personal "honor." We would be embarrassed at talking shit and getting beaten up by an old man. They just think they were "victims of a violent assault" and find it totally admirable to be such and sue/tattle.
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🇺🇸⚜️ Jean Chefmandieu ⚜️🇺🇲
🇺🇸⚜️ Jean Chefmandieu ⚜️🇺🇲@RealJohnDios·
If I was that kid you could not have made me confess that this occurred with a gun to my head. Insane move to tattle to the cops and post the video. We are live through history's greatest shortage of dignity
LASHY BILLS@LASHYBILLS

A 70-year-old man was charged with attempted murder after he tried to drown a 21-year-old man on crutches at a residents-only lake in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, over a dispute about access to the lake. According to a Hopkinton police report, Dana shouted at a group of young men that it was "time to go," referring to the group riding a jet ski on the lake The group and Dana shout back and forth, with Dana eventually walking up to the group to confront them, according to officials "Are you going to beat up a cripple?" one of Duffy's friends reportedly asked Dana. "I don't care, I'll take a cripple." Dana responded, according to the report. Speaking with NewsCenter 5, the victim, Matthew Duffy, said he feared for his life. "I was so scared for my life because I can't fight back, I broke practically everything and this guy's on top of me under the water, I can't see what's going on, I can't fight back," Duffy said Steven Dana was charged with an attempt to murder, two counts of strangulation/suffocation, and assault and battery on a disabled person.

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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@UnsureKris @jmhorp This is part of it, but many of the areas growing rapidly actually have fairly low housing costs and vice versa. For example the population of NYC is actually declining while Nashville and Austin have growing populations. If you allow housing to be built prices will be stable
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Kris
Kris@UnsureKris·
@jmhorp Concentration. Money has been concentrating in a dozen metros since the 80s and most of those metros aren't building fast enough to meet demand from people moving to them for work. There are actually plenty of houses but not where people need them.
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@stevenixnvd @jmhorp Population is older now (40 versus 30) so it's no surprise more Americans own homes and have paid off mortgages. Also, rental market is much, much more expensive now
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@vhenanshiral @theromaul @twink_death By this logic, would you say Ethiopian cities are 200,000 years old because they've been occupied by people for that long? Or are they even older because of other hominids?
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entwife wyrtweard
entwife wyrtweard@vhenanshiral·
@theromaul @twink_death Hmm. No. All of our major cities are built on land that was occupied by indigenous for thousands of years. The fact that their buildings were not made of stone, unobtanium, steel, or everlasting gobstoppers is irrelevant.
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🦴 blossom 🦴
🦴 blossom 🦴@twink_death·
europeans dont believe native american history is actual history so they can say american cities are only 200 years old (they have been continously inhabited for thousands of years)
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@SDUnitedComm @Peter_Nimitz The Founders didn't imagine the enormous welfare programs/housing supply restrictions we have today. If you restricted voting to property owners social security and medicare would immediately take up the entire budget
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Nemets@Peter_Nimitz·
Capping voting age at 65 or restricting suffrage to net-taxpayers will probably be necessary at some point to prevent pensioners from completely crushing workers & businessmen (by their nature 18-65). Inverted age pyramids were not something contemplated by democracy theorists.
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@misshapenident1 @armstrong96001 @BCWallin I think the point of the movie is how the different jurors come to their not guilty votes, which depends on their backgrounds/views. This is itself a sort of analogy for how American society at large accepts social liberalism during the mid 20th century
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B.C. Wallin@BCWallin·
This is the funniest possible takeaway to have from watching 12 Angry Men
B.C. Wallin tweet media
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@Empty_America @theramblingfool To the extent that there is a plan, the complaining is the "concrete action". Anti-boomers hope to raise a sort of generational consciousness in the hopes that Zoomers will become a voting block with clear interests which politicians can pander to
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VB Knives
VB Knives@Empty_America·
@theramblingfool Yeah they very specifically aren't revolutionary communists or the like. It's pure emoting and "discussion of the problem" with no consideration of any concrete action.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
Lamest thing about the "boomer whiners" is they never have a plan to expropriate and redistribute the boomer's assets. Their minds just blank at that point and they go back on an endless loop of emoting about how houses were 20K in 1980. OK, what are you actually going to DO?
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@atlanticesque Yeah people on here seem to think GG&S is about the West's dominance since 1500 when it's really about Eurasia's dominance since 10,000 BC
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
GG&S is at its most compelling when talking about New World vs Old World (that is, Americas vs Afro-Eurasia) Less so for tracing developments within the Old World
daeveningglow@InlandCaGuy

People's dislike of this book is suspect. Diamond gets a little lost in the weeds at time talking about things like how zebras can duck lassos, but the idea that agriculture only flourishes in some geographies and that not having horses is a big problem are obviously right.

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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@ghostworldsteps @molina_hec25336 @BillTheKid1603 I read them in college. Is it not discussing the problem faced by would-be capitalists in the periphery? ie that because land was plentiful it was difficult to get natives to work on plantations in order to accumulate capital, thus violence was necessary to create a labor market?
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Ghost World
Ghost World@ghostworldsteps·
@John_Cilantro @molina_hec25336 @BillTheKid1603 You have not read these chapters very obviously. I’d suggest reading them. You’re assuming they are all about capitalism. They are not. In fact, that quote I gave you isn’t even about capitalism.
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🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror
🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror@BillTheKid1603·
Jared Diamond was the first person to attempt to give a comprehensive multi disciplinary explanation for how the west became dominant that wasn't just aryan mysticism. He got things wrong and people have done better since but he undoubtedly elevated our historical understanding
isaac Samuel@rhaplord

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@ghostworldsteps @molina_hec25336 @BillTheKid1603 Europe was more advanced than the Americas BEFORE the development of the capitalist mode of production, and before feudalism as well. Marx's descriptions of post 1492 imperialism are irrelevant to answering "Yali's question"
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Ghost World
Ghost World@ghostworldsteps·
“Where land is very cheap and all men are free, where every one who so pleases can easily obtain a piece of land for himself, not only is labour very dear, as respects the labourer’s share of the produce, but the difficulty is to obtain combined labour at any price.” You’re missing the wood for the trees. It’s all about the transitioning between the modes of production.
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cilantro@John_Cilantro·
@ghostworldsteps @molina_hec25336 @BillTheKid1603 There's like 3 chapters which focus almost entirely on England. Marx says prim accu was completed in Western Europe and imperialism was about finding new opportunities to engage in it. But he doesn't ever describe WHY euros completed prim accu before e.g. native americans
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