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by wl 4y ago
Age.
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by wl 4y ago
30,000 years veers well into the realm of pre-history.
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by wl 4y ago
The secret society vs. society with secrets distinction is what Anglo-American Freemasonry has historically highlighted to disclaim the label "secret society." Agree with it or not, that usage does have some currency.
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by wl 4y ago
That piece just uncritically reiterates the precise things the McDaniel piece I linked rebuts. Specifically: * The similarities in how western Christians celebrate Christmas and Saturnalia was celebrated aren't that numerous. In additi
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by wl 4y ago
Christmas as rebranded Saturnalia is also a myth: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-...
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by wl 4y ago
The pagan origin of Christmas is a myth. Something that specifically deals with alleged Northern European origins: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.ht...
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by wl 4y ago
I do this. I missed a hospital calling about a family member. They should have left a voicemail, but they didn't.
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by wl 4y ago
They claim they use the phrase "special military operation" because the law requires them to. https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1503384498402119690
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by wl 4y ago
OIL being a comment on the real motivation for the operation.
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by wl 4y ago
The Narmer Palette (Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Kushim Tablet (cuneiform) date to the late fourth millennium BCE.
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by wl 4y ago
This is not true. The civilizations in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia invented writing around the same time. Sure, hieratic or cursive hieroglyphs in ink on papyrus is less durable than cuneiform impressed in clay (which more often than not,
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by wl 4y ago
3/4 examples given were participles, so that's what I dealt with. The fact remains there's no future participles in English.
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by wl 4y ago
go = infinitive going = present gone = preterite No future tense there. You're using "will" as an auxiliary verb to talk about the future. It accomplishes the same thing as a present tense, but it is not the same thing.
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by wl 4y ago
English lacking a future tense hasn't stopped it from becoming the international language.
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by wl 4y ago
Plaintiffs allege that the combination of quick release axels and disc brakes is a technical fault that lead directly to this accident because the axel loosened under braking load.
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by wl 4y ago
Through the system of surgical residencies, surgery is still something one mostly learns on the job rather than out of books.
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by wl 4y ago
If its stolen property, the original owner still has superior title to the person who bought it after it was stolen. Might need to be hashed out in court if the second-hand buyer won't relinquish it, but it's not illegal to ask.
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by wl 4y ago
LabVIEW and Simulink are pretty easy if your problem makes sense as data flow.
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by wl 4y ago
Grand theft auto is a felony. Drawn guns is standard procedure for “felony stops.” Your quarrel in this case is with the training, not the cops.
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by wl 4y ago
The Violinist Argument is not without its caveats and flaws. I'm just highlighting it as an example of a pro-abortion position that does not need to concede that the fetus is not a child.
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by wl 4y ago
That's certainly one pro-abortion position, but not the only one. The more general position is that whatever interests a fetus may or may not have to continued life is outweighed by the bodily autonomy interests of the mother in a give
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by wl 4y ago
Those missed unknown callers still result in a missed call, a voicemail notification, and increase that red badged number, mixed in with missed calls from friends and family I actually care about. It solves the issue of spam callers immedia
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by wl 4y ago
There's a lot of military conquest in Egyptian history. The Hyksos, the Kushites, the Saites, the Persians, the Ptolemies, and finally the Romans.
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by wl 4y ago
The FCC has screwed up this exact thing (repurposing satellite frequencies for terrestrial 5G) before, see Ligado né LightSquared.
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by wl 4y ago
Citibank also tries to regulate the firearms industry: https://www.wsj.com/articles/citigroup-tried-and-failed-to-r...
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by wl 4y ago
* The New Testament is written in Koinē Greek, not Aramaic. * Even if we consider the portions of the Bible written in Aramaic (i.e. parts of the Old Testament), speakers 2,000+ years after the fact are speaking a different form of the lang
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by wl 4y ago
>> Grow some crops? An invading army will come and steal and trample them. > That actually didn't happen the waste majority of cases. It happened in many prominent cases. Egypt, for example, was called "the breadbasket of
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by wl 4y ago
Written languages had cursive and print forms from the very beginning. Egyptian had hieroglyphs (carvings, monumental inscriptions, painting on walls and objects) and Hieratic (ink on papyrus) emerge at essentially the same time. Cuneiform
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by wl 4y ago
That is a egregious misrepresentation of the law struck down in NYSRPA v. Bruen. In New York City, it was effectively impossible to get a permit to carry a concealed firearm in public unless one had connections and influence in the police d
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by wl 4y ago
The most painful one for me: https://wxtoimgrestored.xyz

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