suddenlybananas

7 ms·

91.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
There's accounts of Europeans encountering cities in the Amazon, people didn't take them seriously since they disappeared in the intervening time.
92.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Indigenous people aren't any more or less of the ecology than anyone else, unless you believe in blood and soil. Humans are part of the ecology, being indigenous has nothing to do with it.
93.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
The Iroquois had slaves, they weren't hyperegalitarian.
94.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>commercial nuclear generation is incompatible with a rapidly warming planet due to cooling demands Well it's good that Germans chose coal over nuclear!
95.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
I live in France, and the nuclear power is working perfectly fine. France has about half the carbon emissions of Germany per capita entirely because of German neuroses about nuclear power. While occasionally, they have to turn off one or tw
96.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
That kind of fatalism could apply to literally any idiotic policy. The German government knew what they were doing when they made that choice.
97.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
They could have done all this without dismantling nuclear power and emitting more carbon than they otherwise would have.
98.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Imagine how much better carbon emissions would be in Germany if they hadn't dismantled nuclear! https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/live/fifteen_min... Anyone is free to compare France and G
99.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Could someone explain this to me as someone who's never touched async Rust? What kind of useful patterns would this allow for?
100.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
But there is inconsistent use of the digamma, in some sections it's not used!
101.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Why not prove it though?
102.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
What tools?
103.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>the universe itself has a level of consciousness that we don’t understand and might, for instance, want to This is insane I'm sorry. Panpsychism is one thing, saying that the universe itself wants us to make AI is deluded.
104.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
I just don't like this kind of poorly thought out misanthropy.
105.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Your comment's first half was a kind of freshman nihilism backed up by vague gesturing at science (despite the fact that science can't really answer normative claims or value judgements). You then follow it up with a totally unsup
106.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>Building something that supersedes us may have always been our purpose. This is just religion, but without even any serious philosophical/theological grounding.
107.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
If those readers were always your target, you were always writing slop.
108.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
The digamma was never used in Homer's written form, but the poetic metre in some place is done such that there would be a digamma there and in some places, they don't modify the metre to adapt to the digamma.
109.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
There were artificial archaisms in Homer, like the inconsistent use of the digamma. It wasn't written in normal everyday language.
110.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Artifacts themselves can be just as misleading as written history, there's an enormous selection bias. The idea that archeology is more trustworthy than history is really mistaken, the two work best in tandem.
111.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
What is behind the psychology of Reddit mods? It's never something I've understood.
112.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Oh I totally agree there is a place for more accessible language, but my point is that Wilson argues that archaic language is no more faithful . Whether a translation should be faithful or not is another question. >“Mild stylistic arc
113.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>Do readers prefer archaic language? >Emily Wilson argues that readers may mistake archaic language for authority or authenticity [..] Among translations published since 1960, it nearly disappears. Readers were not simply choosing the
114.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>It's a retelling of Odyssey's return home after the Trojan war I think Odyssey is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills siutors and doesnt afraid of anything.
115.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Compared to all other figures from European history, she is kind of a random figure.
116.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Everyone on these banknotes are dead too?
117.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Plenty of high-profile cemeteries do, Highgate Cemetery in London for example charges a fee despite just being a normal (if high-profile) cemetery. The French don't charge for access to Père-Lachaise however, which is the rough equival
118.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
>Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture But Egyptians themselves weren't black either. There was one black dynasty from Kush, but "indigenous" Egyptians themselves weren&#
119.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
How is the Pantheon and the Invalides any different from a cemetery? Do you think the mere act of visiting a burial site is immoral?
120.
by suddenlybananas 3mo ago
Why?

More ›