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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
I can actually read Ancient Greek. LLMS are really bad at it. > * ἐκ- = “out,” “thoroughly,” “to the end” ἐκ is more motion away from something. It's often an intensifier in verb compounds but not really as a standalone preposition.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
There's also the Telegony. Odysseus has a son through Circe who winds up killing him and marrying Penelope. Odysseus son through Penelope, Telemachus, marries Circe. There's some wild stuff that doesn't survive.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
Jesus doesn't say anything very explicit about homosexuality but he's pretty clear that no one should be rich and it's never ok to kill. I've been seeing a lot of hot reinterpretations on that front.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
The amount of people who wade into this fight without knowing a single thing about HRT baffles me.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
I think he means don't be trans. Fits with the rest of the rant.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
I love the irony that her notebooks are something to be feared.
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
> And what level of risk is worth saving $1,450 per dose on an injection? 1/100? 1/1000? I've have plenty of friends that would struggle to afford that. I have friends that buy black market drugs because they can't ge
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
Cicero was so obnoxiously pompous and vain. Maybe go further back to Solon?
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
> But your local public library should be a way to make reading accessible to the average middle to lower class family. And that means providing the materials they want to read - not what you think they should. It's pretty classicis
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
You say that but the author mentioned On Grammatology getting purged. That's a pretty important and influential book. It's a very difficult read which probably contributes to it not being checked out very often and it should defin
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by sapphicsnail 4mo ago
The land has changed hands a few times since it was deeded to the county. They're sueing the entity that sold it to the people developing the data center.
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by sapphicsnail 5mo ago
I think their point was that lots of media is easily piratable but still makes money and companies continue to produce more of it.
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by sapphicsnail 5mo ago
I think the parent meant church. Most people aren't aware of the different functions of LDS churches, temples, and wards.
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by sapphicsnail 5mo ago
I don't think you should take what the NBER says at face value.
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by sapphicsnail 5mo ago
> For example, theft is bad because it deprives you of your possessions. No need to invoke morality. This assertion also hinges on morality. Why is being deprived of your possessions bad. You ultimately have to reach for an ethical frame
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by sapphicsnail 5mo ago
Maybe in a normal world where a company's valuation is based in some sort of material reality.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
How do you interpret, "Females are valuable just for their ... personal assets ..."
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
I've been told men are intimidated by successful women my whole life. Women aren't being tricked into having careers. The whole framing of "women are only valuable for their personal assets" only makes sense from the per
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
> Females are valuable just for their ... personal assets ... Women can pretty much do anything men can do. How is a wealthy, financially successful woman less valuable than a man?
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Definitely worth shooting innocent bystanders over https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/brooklyn-subway-shooti...
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
It's literally been documented that it works. No need to be transphobic.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
You would be too if you got priced out of your apartment and didn't have family to support you. When I was living in Oakland, the vast majority of homeless people I met use to live nearby. Happy people don't get addicted to drugs.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Because this isn't about helping people. This is about punishing the homeless.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Men and trans women actually can feed babies. It's just a matter of hormones. The line between genders is more blurry than you'd think.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Civilization is violent. The Roman Empire maintained it's economy through slavery. The Catholic Church started the crusades. This is article is the usual dumb reductionist thinking that people have been spewing every year I've bee
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Why ν -> n?
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Empedocles wrote in verse. Greek scientific writings used to be written entirely in verse instead of prose. He wrote in Latin, but a cool example of something like this that survived is Lucretius' On the Nature of things (De Rerum Natu
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
It's not Koine and it's in verse.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
Papyrologists are amazing. It takes a ton of training to be able to make sense of all those fragments.
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by sapphicsnail 6mo ago
How does this work? I read the wikipedia article but I don't understand how Lightning enforces the transaction.

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