@NebsGoodTakes Is he trying to patent a lightbulb or something?
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Nicholas Miles
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the fuck is your problem dude
James - JGOD@JGODYT
Elements in Crimson Desert are a Game Changer
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@Emptier_America @Anarseldain I'm not sure I'd describe millennials as a generation famous for taking the middle ground on the issue of racism
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Something about this millennial style of writing wherein there’s a sort of ersatz of wisdom and an aspiration toward the platitudinous
Delicious Tacos@Delicious_Tacos
Racism is like salt. You need a little to survive. A little more to enjoy life. Too much makes you sick.
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@AerithGarden @SandyofCthulhu The saga mentions that people who openly practiced paganism would be punished, but that there would be no punishment for practicing it "in secret"
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@SandyofCthulhu If I remember correctly, there was a threat 🤔And one part of the story was that people were allowed to still cling to paganism. Basically, all Icelanders just said they were Christian to avoid repercussions, but internally, they carried on as before.
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Vikings didn't have Christianity forced on them. They chose it because Odin betrayed them.
The Icelandic sagas are mostly concerned with bloody feuds (they're great by the way - read some). In one of them, the Icelanders noticed that some of the murders were not starting to be about whether people were Christian or Pagan. So they got together at a Thing (look it up) and decided they had to get rid of this cause of dissension. Either they ALL had to go back to Pagan or they ALL had to become Christian.
They went to the wisest man in Iceland, who was a Pagan, and said he had to decide for the whole island. He went off on his own to ponder the question for three days. When he returned, he said everyone had to be Christian, and he was baptized too.
From then on, the Icelandic sagas only recorded murders for more important reasons than religion. (Illo from Njall's saga which is amazeballs.)
G. K. Chesterton@GKCdaily
Neo-Pagans have sometimes forgotten, when they set out to do everything that the old pagans did, that the final thing the old pagans did was to get christened.
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@Plinz Surely the proper methodology must be to test the *concept* of individual treatments, along with trustworthiness of the research software and medical manufacturers. Like, when you test bottled water you test the purity of the source, not (I assume) every individual water bottle.
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Fascinating thread wherein a cancer researcher basically says "sure, we could probably cure your cancer with an individualized mRNA vaccine, but like 100k sounds too expensive for saving you, and it would be unethical to save your life because the ethics committee won't like it"
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer
Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.
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@poolback @hannahchrstina This just isn't true. It would be trivially easy for the person in the QT to adapt: If he often arrives 5m late, he should wake up earlier so he can aim to arrive 10m early; or he can simply get a job that permits flexibility in when you start, which is common among office jobs
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@NicholasLMiles @hannahchrstina I'm saying people with ADHD almost can't do it, and that in an adult life, it's impacting everything you do, except the one thing you want to do. For a lot of people, simply "adapting" means living a miserable life, constantly draining their willpower just to do basic things.
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@poolback @hannahchrstina All people can do this to greater or lesser extents. You are simply medicalising being below average at something to avoid facing the fact that you are below average at something and adapting your life accordingly.
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@NicholasLMiles @hannahchrstina That's right, however most people can chose to focus on things even when they don't particularly like it.
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@ummagine @hannahchrstina You have a below average ability to context-switch, this is not a real medical diagnosis
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@hannahchrstina this is almost exactly me and i can tell you it's 100% accurate. once i get going i blow everyone else at my job out of the water, genuinely. it just takes me too long to get started.
it affects my job in smaller ways too, sure, but they're negated by how efficient i can be
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@poolback @hannahchrstina Literally every human in the world can focus more on some things than on other things.
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@hannahchrstina I guess you need to understand more about ADHD. A lot of things with ADHD seem paradoxical. "How can my son not be able to focus on this one thing, yet is able to focus incredibly on that other thing that he loves?". ADHD is a messed up reward system.
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@TheUnjournaling @sociologyWV Mercifully, the new millennium allows us to keep using "turn of the century" for late 1880s/early 1900s for another 70 years.
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@sociologyWV I was writing a short comment on some archive work I'm doing the other day and used "the 20's" briefly before realizing I had to say the 1920's or it would invite immediate confusion.
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Much like people my age perpetually thinking "20 years ago" means 1980, it's going to be hard to adjust to "100-year-old movie" not referring to some obscure silent short but actual films I grew up watching on tv.
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@real_lord_miles Give us a hint. Is it the one where the President is from the Czech Republic?
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I’m not going to say what micro-nation, there are many in Europe, and I fully support them and wish them the best
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I know of a unrecognized micronation in Europe that makes millions a year
They put up ads across India & Bangladesh talking about getting a European passport for like $20k.
Family saves for years, buys someone a passport from said micronation. They go to the airport
“Sir this country or passport isn’t recognized. No flight for you”
Happens to hundreds a year, leading to millions in sales.
They never promised entry into the EU or claimed UN recognition or anything, people just don’t do any research.
Turns out it’s just a bunch of boys who claimed a piece of land, disputed its sovereignty, created a website, flag etc and advertised heavily.
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@AC_Marshy I'd say that ties into a broader theme of lineage. Aragorn better than Isildur, Boromir finding redemption while Denethor could not, Frodo "returning" the ring his great-uncle Bilbo took, Gimli befriending elves when Gandalf is gone compared to Gloin siding with Thorin etc
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@NicholasLMiles Aragorn's journey to stop messing around in the woods and meet the heavy expectations placed on him also casts a ray at Frodo; someone born with far less expectation on his shoulders, but who did what he could at great personal cost anyway. The connections are dense!
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1. We’re in the middle of The Return of the King in my speculative fiction class and one of my students pointed out the way Tolkien pairs his characters a foil or counterpart: Gandalf/Saruman, Boromir/Faramir, Frodo/Gollum, Éomer/Éowyn, Legolas/Gimli, Merry/Pippin, etc.
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@martin_downes @AmericanGwyn The Witch King seems a fitting mirror to Aragorn, since one succumbed to the corruption of Sauron and the other resists it. Come to think of it, was the Fellowship not explicitly set up as nine people because that was the number of ringwraiths?
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@AmericanGwyn Should the WitchKing be added for consideration?
Tom Bombadil/Treebeard, the oldest beings in Middle-earth but with contrasting involvement in the War of the Ring.
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@PanickedFoodie Do you think their entire claims department is just one guy, who also personally handles court cases? Are you retarded?
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Fidelis out here with amnesia 😅
And I've got even more support for my case, now that I've been diagnosed and treated for nutcracker syndrome. 🤣
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Fidelis: "We don't want to pay for this specialist care for this rare disease, because it's out of network and you don't have out of network benefits."
Me: "You want to send me that denial in writing, please?"
Fidelis: "Sure."
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@JReubenCIark These are the type of people who boast about teaching their kids how to use a dishwasher or washing machine, as if these weren't lessons that take all of ten minutes. The pride they feel over doing less than the bare minimum is both illuminating and alarming.
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Boomers love this genre of stories about a dad who waits to start parenting until his kid is already off the rails, and then expects credit for being such a hardass.
Julian Molano@Cd_Julian_
Mi hijo de 18 años reprobó 3 materias porque se la pasó jugando videojuegos todo el semestre. Mi esposa quería pagarle un profesor privado y 'ayudarlo' para que no perdiera el año, diciendo que 'es solo un adolescente'. Yo hice algo diferente: cancelé el internet de la casa y vendí su PlayStation. Con ese dinero, no pagué un tutor, sino que le compré un equipo de limpieza profesional. Le dije que, si no quería estudiar, entonces ya era un adulto trabajador. Lo obligué a levantarse todos los días a las 5:00 AM para limpiar los vidrios de mi oficina y los baños del taller de un amigo durante todas sus vacaciones. Mi hijo me gritó que me odiaba y que soy un dictador. Mi suegra me dejó de hablar porque dice que estoy 'explotando' a mi propio hijo y que lo voy a traumar de por vida. Ayer, después de un mes de trabajo duro, mi hijo vino a mi habitación llorando. Me dio el dinero que ganó y me pidió que por favor lo inscribiera en las clases de regularización, que ya entendió que prefiere estudiar 10 horas que limpiar baños 8 horas bajo el sol. ¿Soy un padre cruel que le robó su adolescencia, o soy el único que le está enseñando que en la vida real nadie te regala nada si no te esfuerzas?
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@cornu__copia @bronzeagemantis Your negative net migration figure is confusing, because in your quoted screenshot there are twice as many immigrants as emigrants. I realise you mean compared to last year, but easy to mistake this number for net emigration.
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@favelaoverlord They should remake that Star Trek episode with the cryogenic sleepers, but instead of "where is my money" it should be "where are my grievances, I was expecting compound interest"
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There is no 'overcoming' you are a hero because your parents believed in Asian grindset culture but you were a burnout. This is, for some reason, a story worth telling. There is no light here - there is nothing that tells man to keep the hearth of humanity alive. Just vapidity.
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The least endearing part of 'wokeness' to me has always been the way it provides immense cover for the narcissism of an endless legion of 'artists' incapable of conceiving of a world where their very boring identities don't matter that much to others.
ToonHive@ToonHive
First look at ‘DANG!’ Andrew Law, Stephanie Hsu, and Poppy Liu star in the new adult animated comedy about two chaotic siblings whose lives are upended when their overachieving older sister suddenly returns. Premiering later this year on Netflix.
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@KidClair @svegfinne @AlviGunilla None of those pictures look like alphabets. Drawing a snake every time you kill a serpent or marking notches to keep a tally is not the same thing as having letters that can form words
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@svegfinne @AlviGunilla That's an arbitrary restriction of what a writing system is. It's obvious they encoded information within the symbols, looks like writing to me.
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This is the biggest breakthrough in European Archeology in decades! The oldest evidence of written language, previously believed to be from Mesopotamia, had now been discovered in Germany 📜
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@Babygravy9 Sorry, but this looks like some sort of proto-script at best. Some of those pictures look more like tally marks or even just pictograms. None of those things look like alphabets
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@Sagnamadr Is this a new find? I didn't know there were even any surviving prayers/incantations apart from that one "hail aesir" poem in the Edda
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A runic amulet from Högstena, Sweden, utilizes a charm written in galdralag metre, consisting of a series of short alliterations followed by a long, binding final line, and 108 runes in total, adding a sacred number.
The inscription reads;
(Continued below)
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@FromKulak @StetsWachsam @TomWoods @PeterRQuinones I've followed him on X for a while and have been pleasantly surprised. On that subject I would also recommend following Austrian economist Bob Murphy who, it turns out, has become a rather entertaining shitposter
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No this one was Tom's most recent epsisode. Just came up in my feed.
It wasn't anything earth shaking... But like the way Tom actually engaged with the current moment and a lot of stuff I had previously thought was completely taboo for his show and branding just completely changed how I mentally categorized him.
With most thinkers you get a feel for "oh they're paid off by X" and you can sense where the guardrails are that they'll never cross, and basically they're their to frustrate your quest to see real power, or the real issues... and this just completely changed my estimation of Tom specifically
tomwoods.com/ep-2734-theres…
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Listening to @tomwoods recent podcast with @PeterRQuinones and I need to take back things I've said or implied about him
There's a constant struggle on the right to tell who's purposefully pulling their punches or has an agenda, And I couldn't have been more wrong about Woods.
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