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by paleotrope 11mo ago
The romans called the area Germania after the germani that lived there. Germani is believed to be a celtic word though. So it's possible that the original Germani were actual celtic speakers. Which is another branch of old indo-europea
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by paleotrope 11mo ago
Last I heard was that the German tribe the language group was named after weren't even germanic soeakers. Like the fact that the Franks were a germanic speaking tribe who abandoned their language for the local dialect of latin which be
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Why would prices go down? That's what no one wants to tell people. We have have 30 years of low inflation. Nothing becomes cheaper in a fiat money system.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Work on your social skills. Practice your banter. Strategic interjections in meetings that temporarily defuse tension. Have interesting hobbies that you can talk about with other employees.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Historically it's not uncommon. An easy example is Nguyen. The British isles are another great example, of nobility and upward movers, adapting the most advantageous surname, hence all those long lived Norman names. Also, all the the a
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Not sure what you mean here, but you know, you can change your last name if you want to. It's not uncommon to change your surname to a prestige name if you want.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
That's unfortunate.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
There were internal state security reasons for that.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
I have a 1-2 second rule. I pick up I say hello, if someone doesn't respond in 1-2 seconds, I hang up. They have the scammers working off phone queues, it takes a little bit of time to get the call to the scammer, who has to start off
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by paleotrope 1y ago
There's a signaled crossing right at the intersection? https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2348779,-81.2052672,3a,75y,2...
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Newburyport was the main one. Many of the Clippers came from there. You could float lumber down the Merrimack after a canal was built at Lowell to bypass the falls there.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Stone walls were built because of deforestation caused by clearcutting land to make sheep pastures, made wood for fences unavailable. Hmm I had always thought that the deforestation was caused by demand for wood for heating and cooking. Som
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Hard to square the fall with lead poisoning when the leadership after the 3rd century hardly even bothered to go to Rome at all. It's too easy to point at the Claudians as the beginning of the fall. In a way, the "Real" Roman
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Politics and money.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
CLARK There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities especially of
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by paleotrope 1y ago
It's so recent that Good Will Hunting used it back in 1997.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
They said ~40 million. And that seems crazy high for a theme restaurant. I think they just don't know how to manage money.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Apparently they needed to refinance a 600 million loan from 2021. "The loan would be made through Carlyle’s credit arm and would refinance an existing $600 million debt facility provided by HPS Investment Partners in 2021, according to
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by paleotrope 1y ago
"One possible factor in the negotiations: an $800 million loan that Park County took in 2023 from private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Parker and Stone could be squeezed for cash to repay roughly $80 million in interest per year, acc
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by paleotrope 1y ago
How can they be so expensive? Unless you mean in relation to ad revenue. It's one host, maybe a band, they don't pay the guests cause their there to pitch their show/music/book/film. Maybe all the extra staff they n
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Maybe it was used in some sort of ritual
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by paleotrope 1y ago
The eggs need some chickens first.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
I suppose the reason that city schools are dangerous for children is mostly because of the children in those schools. That's not a vox appropriate conversation.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Enforced when corrupt politicos wanted to squeeze medallion owners.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
I can't recall the app but it was a similar toggle with a label, when you flipped the toggle the label lit up green indicating it was turned on. But the default state was off but how would you know?
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by paleotrope 1y ago
"It gives a "remarkable insight" into human behaviour, she said, particularly how Homo sapiens living as long as 42,000 years ago could shape "such a perfect object" with the knowledge it could be used to hunt anima
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Douglas MacArthur though.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
Divorced from a religious context, it doesn't make any difference.
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by paleotrope 1y ago
The steam engine took along time to develop for exactly that reason. You needed something that was big and strong enough for it. https://technicshistory.com/the-age-of-steam/
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by paleotrope 1y ago
A larger black hole

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