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by GW150914 8y ago
That substitution was actually a result of printing text, and limiting the number of characters used. In the 13th century Scotland this was all going to be written by hand, so y was still an “i” or a “u” and thorn would have been its own ch
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Conversely, if you’re prohibited from censoring on something you own, a means of your free expression has actually been limited. This is not a simple thing, and people who would have you believe that there is a single dogmatic “always right
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This is my best, imperfect, translation. “It might fall so [come to pass] that the appealer dies before the day. His legal surety are bound under great pains, comes and enters his dead body within the barriers to free them of their duty...”
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I’ve worked some spectacularly shitty minimum wage jobs in my life, and never came close to the conditions of a Dollar Store. Being asked to come off the register and restock is normal, but the rest just sounds cruel and weird. 80 degrees i
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m getting sick of your walls of text that skirt the truth or outright lie, and never pay off with citations. You’re replying to someone who pretty much said the same and asked for citations, and you offe
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Reading is weird during dreams, lucid or otherwise. I recently had a very odd dream in which I thought I was awake, but lying in bed with my eyes closed. I was amazed that I could still see! I picked up a piece of clear plastic package an
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What a rich fantasy! “Slave” was a broad and diverse category in Rome, so let’s examine some of what you ignored. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome Unskilled slaves, or those sentenced to slavery
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Trial by Combat? Trial by Cake(daily.jstor.org)
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The Ups and Downs of Being a Canal Lockmaster(atlasobscura.com)
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Incredibly grim stories... the harshest one I recall is Wie Kinder Schlachtens miteinander gespielt haben or “Children Played Butcher Together” and it’s exactly as it sounds. From the second part of the tale... A man once slaughtered a p
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Is there any way to stop a substantive and interesting article like this, which has as it’s only failing that it’s critical of Musk, not be flagged off the front page?
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The SEC is no joke, and while it’s probably not the most likely outcome, prison time is on the table here. Elon Musk really, truly fucked up and I agree it’s hard to believe. Then again he called someone who just helped rescue over a dozen
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Iran does have a very open view of transgender rights, but there is a dark side. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690 They have no respect for homosexual rights, and so people are pushed to change genders.
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Holy shit. It’s incredible that someone could survive such extensive damage, never mind recover in any way. I’m impressed by her fortitude and the skills of her many doctors. At the same time, I would rather die than go through all of that
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Yes it was. Hiro Protagonist and Vitaly Chernobyl, roommates, are chilling out in their home, a spacious 20 by 30 in a U-Stor-It in Inglewood, California. The room has a concrete slab floor, corrugated steel walls separating it from the ne
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Would You Like Some Germs with Your Wheaties?(daily.jstor.org)
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I’d be fascinated to learn how many of those yelling were just bag holders looking for a chance to dump their “assets” and not be the last man standing when the music stopped.
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The Toadmen, Masters of Equine Magic(daily.jstor.org)
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I stopped eating potato chips by switching to salty pretzels. I don’t feel an urge to overeat pretzels, they’re low in fat, and still give me the salt-crunch I’m looking for. I also find vegan/vegetarian cooking a lot easy to accept if
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Maybe, but if we continue to build over what we don’t destroy outright, maybe not. Farmer’s fields used to be wild land, along with highways, cities, suburbs, clear cut forests, mines, office parks, etc. Those same birds also have to cope w
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You’re also reading a book, which is far more active than just passively watching stuff on a screen. A typical two year old has no trouble watching tv, but can’t read a book. Reading is a more cognitively taxing and attention-demanding acti
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Maybe not for the farmer, but how about the general region? What we don’t know about complex interconnects in ecosystems could fill volumes, but we still are happy to disrupt that system for profit. Sometimes we try to disrupt it for seemin
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The dynamics of Mutual Motion Camouflage(sciencedirect.com)
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I was under the impression that this is far from a new development in China? More broadly as we’ve seen in Myanmar and elsewhere, this is no comeback, it’s just... how people treat each other when they can get away with it.
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It can also be purely rehabilitation for the image, as in the case of Alfred Nobel and his prize. How many people know about the Nobel Prizes? How many know how Nobel made his money?
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Am I just grotesquely cynical that my first thought was “Pai liked this because it hurts AT&T and Comcast, not his paymasters at Verizon.”? Still, good news whatever the reason. Competition is desperately needed here, even if it’s only
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Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK(bbc.com)
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I was working in a movie theater when that was released, and watched it when I got off work one day. I love horror movies, but I agree it was a dud. Given that it inspired countless even less compelling imitators it has a lot to answer for
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The Bold Future of the Outer Space Treaty(daily.jstor.org)
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They don’t have to pretend to have a moral compass anymore, they’re already massive. Besides, people have seen through the lie of “don’t be evil” so why leave money on the table by living the lie? They just want money, lots and lots of mone

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