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Catagélastos
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ποταμῷ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ
Katılım Haziran 2024
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The 2,700 year history of the United States begins with Romulus killing Remus on the banks of the Tiber; China was still ruled by steppe nomads when the Wright Brothers invented the airplane.
Michelle@D162Michele
China literally has trees in Xi Jinping’s garden that are older than the United States! 🤣
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the Armenian word for stork likely originates from Sumerian
Hov Nazaretyan@HovhanNaz
looking up etymologies of Armenian words is cool because it occasionally blows your mind. like just now I learned that the word for "translator/interpreter" is ultimately of Akkadian origin
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The Hebrew Bible describes strong trade relations between the Phoenician city of Tyre and the kingdom of Israel. Later, the two kingdoms also formed a marriage alliance of Ahab of Israel and Jezebel, daughter of king of Tyre.
The two groups would've had little problem communicating as Ancient Hebrew and Phoenician—two Iron Age West Semitic languages—were largely mutually intelligible.
In fact, the 6th-century BC Phoenician inscription below, taken from a sarcophagus of a Sidonian king, when transcribed in a modern style, is still somewhat legible to a modern Hebrew speaker.
It says:
"I, Tabnit, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, the son of Eshmunazar, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, am lying in this sarcophagus.
Whoever you are, any man that might find this sarcophagus, don't, don't open it and don't disturb me, for no silver is gathered with me, no gold is gathered with me, nor anything of value whatsoever, only I am lying in this sarcophagus.
Don't, don't open it and don't disturb me, for this thing is an abomination to Astarte.
And if you do indeed open it and do indeed disturb me, may you not have any seed among the living under the sun, nor a resting-place with the Rephaites.
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@hekwoys An annoying one I hear often is pronouncing "woman" and "women" identically as /wʌmən/ and I haven’t been able to figure out if it's a weird regional thing or generational
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It is mildly infuriating that you used to be able to just google "sunset" and it would tell you the forecasted sunset time in your location. It now gives you an AI explanation of what a sunset is. I don't see why this would ever be an expected use case
aria 🍓@ariadotwav
oh my fucking god bruh
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When I lived in Ukraine an old guy demanded that I tell him what food Americans eat nearly every night (looking for borscht equivalent).
He was convinced I was lying.
Eventually he stood up and said, “You mean to tell me your mother prepares a different meal every day?”
Brien Jackson@Brien_Jackson
I can stop you right at the first one: This idea that you just HAVE to have completely different cuisines every single meal is in fact a sign that you have a serious problem with dopamine addiction and social media induced psychosis
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Sing to me, Muse, the twisty-turny bloke
Whose epic once was chad and now is woke
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While this is being dunked on, the actual trvthnuke is instead of wasting away on PB&J or eating plain chicken and rice every meal, is to retvrn to stews and soups.
You get the maximum amount of nutrition, easy to cook, and you get more mileage out of your ingredients.
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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It's honestly a massive market failure if a person producing their own food at home can achieve a lower marginal cost than a competative market of firms solely dedicated to producing hot meals. Can't understand why you would support free markets if they can't even deliver lunch.
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México, desde La Conquista (+500 años) ha tenido 130 jefes de estado. Solamente UNO de ellos sabía hablar náhuatl, el idioma indígena dominante:
Maximiliano de Habsburgo.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Anti-natalism aside, you have to ask yourself if this kind of millennial traveloor actually makes any meaningful connection to these cultures. The autist who sits in his basement reading history books and learning languages is likely more cosmopolitan.
INTERIOR PORN@INTERIORPORN1
OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭
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The Oracle Bone pictographs are younger than Linear B and the earliest phonetic writing
anii 🇷🇸🇲🇽@aniiTweets
At the dawn of Chinese civilization: Uruk was 3400 years old Cuneiform was 2000 years old Egypt was unified for 1500 years Pyramid of Giza was 1000 years old Hamurabi’s code and Epic of Gilgamesh were both written down Let’s be serious for a moment
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Ugly slaves fill my cup with yoghurt
Emperor Shun@EmperorShun1
The Happy Life of Slave Owners in the Tang Dynasty
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