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We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

We’ve had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?

Burning down your house doesn’t poison people thousands of years later, so it’s not a perfect analogy.

Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.

First time I quit i was sick and cigarettes tasted awful for a week, so I figured if I had already gone a week without I might as well quit. Whenever I got a craving I thought about how disgusting they tasted with a cold, and imagined spongey lungs filling with black tar till I gave myself a shiver of disgust.

I started up again years later while traveling, then quit for good while visiting my parents for 2 months - I know I’m too embarrassed to smoke around my parents.

When I worked in a mall, there were no staff toilets. So I was subjected to a slightly less extreme version of that maybe 2-3 times a week.

I call that symphony “ringing the taco bells”.

Rebury the disarticulated ochre-painted bones of an important deceased community member!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çatalhöyük

“Edomite!”

I was getting onto a bus, someone looked me over and spat out the word. It was clear from the tone that it was an insult, but it also sounded suspiciously bronze age, so I was very excited to find out what it meant.

Turns out it’s a biblical reference used by some black nationalist groups in the US to refer to white people as unclean or diseased. Edom was one of several late bronze age Canaanite kingdoms. At one point the torah describes them as slightly paler and dirty, hence the insult.

I really love seeing a well curated list, and that’s a well curated list.

Oh doh yes I do! Once again I got tautonym and autonym mixed up. Autonym is within a species - like homo sapiens sapiens to distinguish from homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

Species named like this are called “autonymous”. Like rattus rattus or puffinus puffinus.

According to someone who worked in marketing for pringles in taiwan, pringles consumers are more likely to be “type a” sorts - controlling, finicky, prefer heavily structured environments, highly value neatness, etc.

There are many contributing factors. Part of it is russian and american oligarchs spending heaps of cash to amplify any and every message that could help trump win.

Children pick up language at different rates. But also, while most kids learn words and build up, some learn to deploy whole chunks.

My cousin could say “Excuse me daddy could I please have a cookie?” at like 2 iirc. It sounds very advanced when you hear it, but she couldn’t, for example, replace ‘a cookie’ with ‘that’ or direct the request to me rather than her dad.

Once kids have learned more and more chunks they can sound very proficient, but it’s still just normal child language acquisition. Of course people gifted in language can happen too.

Baby-talk is a universal human phenomenal and almost certainly plays an important role in helping kids learn language.

The implication that not using baby talk somehow unlocks rapid development of language is simply not true.

Nations. As in centralized hierarchical states. Brutal killing machines all. It’s been what maybe 4-8k years of their bullshit and I for one am fucking sick of it.

When I was an undergraduate, a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible for the student newspaper.

The opening sentence was: “Not since Naked Lunch has such a boring book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography.”

The sookie stackhouse books that got turned into true blood have such a fun premise but are appallingly written. A friend and I used to play the audiobooks at parties for laughs.

Just because they have different amplexus preferences from you doesn’t mean they’re misdirected.

That sounds like depression, executive dysfunction or some other brain dopamine issue. No amount of lists or “trying harder” (😂🙄) is going to help. Speak to a doctor about it.

My favorite genre is what I can screechy women singing weirdly. I can’t decide whether my favorite part is the screeching or the weirdness.

I’d most recommend that other people listen to gamelan orchestras though. It’s like the sound of dancing rain.

Peep Show also has that joke - “Slaves, Jeremy” VS “Whips, Rimmer”.

But there’s a good chance that the answer wasn’t slaves, but well paid, hard-drinking work-units, organized along the lines of boat crews, all working together during a public festival and overseen by well trained specialists.