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by wl 4y ago
You might want to talk with some of the healthcare workers that are performing these treatments. Most of them will say things along the lines of, "I don't want the last moments of my life to be someone breaking my ribs" or &q
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In some sense, the Roman Catholic Church is the last vestige of the Roman empire. The Pope is sometimes floated as someone who might have a claim to the title of Roman Emperor. (Personally, I think the Ottomans have the best claim here, but
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Israel and Judea were vassal states more often than not. Independent sometimes. Empires never.
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The appropriation of pagan holidays by Christianity is a myth, originally pushed by Protestants to discredit extra-biblical Catholic traditions but later uncritically accepted by atheist activists who didn't know any better. https:&#x
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Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar as part of his role as Pontifex Maximus. Popes continue to hold that title today, so the Pope updating the calendar is weirdly appropriate.
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I've seen three scenarios where most of a class has low numerical scores 1. The instructor has difficulty calibrating the difficulty of the assignments because it's all so easy to them now. 2. The instructor is interested in havin
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The big pain, historically, has been network device drivers.
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Soma Shades used to have a "Soma Connect" device whose sole purpose in the world was to communicate with their shade controllers via Bluetooth and make them controllable over WiFi or ethernet. Just checking their website just now,
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There's a pretty big difference between doing an FBI fingerprint card to show kids the process and send home vs. submitting that card to a database. With the advent of live scan, that distinction may have disappeared, though.
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If you're interested in the brewing of Egyptian beer, I've got a few references you might want to check out. http://ancientgrains.org/samuel1995beer.pdf http://ancientgrains.org/samuel1996beer.pdf
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The Hymn to Ninkasi[0] provides a recipe for Sumerian beer. Instead of milling grain and steeping it, they baked bappir bread, crumbled it, and steeped that. The final product still had chunks of bread in it, so they drank it through stra
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I rather like it. In particular, I'd recommend Benjamin Foster's translation as one that is based off of an up-to-date critical text and is very faithful to the original language (or so I've been told). Caveats: * There are s
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I'm not talking about "tunnel tombs." I'm talking about the mortuary chapel probably used during the Sed festival in life and where offerings were made after death. In earlier royal mastaba burials, there was a unsealed
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> You're talking of the Giza ones I assume, which were indeed surprisingly text-free. Might have been a 5th dynasty "invention"? Exactly. Think of the purpose the inscriptions inside a tomb. Nobody is going to see them, so
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Pyramid texts, inscribed inside a pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burial_chamber_in_Unas%27...
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Generally, the people who are well aware of this situation are techies who have seen coverage of the issue in specialist media or who have been burnt by it personally.
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The terms of service here are too intricate and contain provisions contrary to the average "purchaser's" expectations. There was no agreement here.
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That's the conclusion most people with the relevant knowledge (hieroglyphs and Demotic) and no dog in the fight come to. On the other hand, there's plenty of apologetics arguing that the extant Joseph Smith papyri aren't actu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosford_petroglyphs.jpg ꜥnḫ ḏt n ḫꜣt... I mean, I'd need more context to do a real translation, but there's the "living forever" thing (ꜥnḫ ḏt) that comes after th
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Knowledge of Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic didn't completely disappear until a few centuries into the Christian era, evidenced by priests producing new texts in these scripts. They even produced texts in Middle Egyptian—t
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Thomas Young, who made many important contributions to the decipherment, was an influential physicist and mathematician. He's largely responsible for the wave theory of light. Young's modulus is named for him.
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If you copy signs from a Greco-Roman period inscription, chances are good you'll copy a sign that's missing from some Greco-Roman sign lists. There are just so many more signs used in that period than the earlier periods—and the w
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Richard Carrier is a crank who somehow got popular among New Atheists who didn’t know any better. His work enjoys no support in academia.
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You violated our trust and still are seemingly refusing to admit that. You dismissed any criticism of your choices that didn't come from a maintainer, calling such criticism abusive and stemming from entitlement. It's relevant con
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While the Trek Émonda is as weight weenie as Trek gets, it can provide an apples-to-apples comparison between aluminum and carbon with basically the same geometry, wheels, bars, tires etc. My experience is that the carbon version feels sign
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There's a difference between weight weenie carbon and using carbon to improve ride feel and aerodynamics. I've got an old bike made out of Reynolds 853 steel that's lighter than my recent vintage full carbon bike.
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You cut off right before it got interesting. It's more than scholars chafing at the notion that their work might be flawed. It's that nobody other than the reviewers had grappled with the paper yet, making this talk of debate ent
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The authors of the paper in question take issue with this article: https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/the-deci...
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Abusing emergency alerts so people want to turn them off is a bad idea. If there's a wildfire or tornado that requires people to immediately evacuate/shelter at 3 AM, people very well might die if they don't receive these ale
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The Jesters are less a secret society and more a group for Shriners with clout who don't think the rest of the Shriners party nearly hard enough.

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