fourtrees

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by fourtrees 4y ago
I think it's important to note that that contemporary language death at the hands of the major lingua francas (you know who you are) is wiping out great and possibly very old works of oral 'literature'. Quite a few of our sur
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by fourtrees 4y ago
No, seas are filled with salt water. I'm sure there are some more technical oceano-/limnogrpahical reasons to distinguish them too. Otherwise, they certainly seem like it especially when you're beyond the sight of land.
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by fourtrees 4y ago
I feel like I ought to note that there's no evidence of military activity (that I know of) in the IVC, but certainly evidence of violence: https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/G_Robbins_Schug_Peaceful_2...
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I agree, the EMR implementation/enhancements were a giant handout to consultancies, hospitals, maybe clinics that's now enshrined in law. It was a travesty and likely ended up costing more for lesser benefit. The effects were of c
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'm sure the legitimate justice system can be misused alongside the others in various unethical ways. A slippery slope: we've reached a point where, with some kickback, institutions like the media can nearly silence dissent from a
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'd be phenomenally more shocked if they they didn't. I wish the article cited its sources, but I guess the PCM will help fill in the gaps. More evidence in support of the open publication of scientific articles.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Yes, but that's the good propaganda, violence, erasure, and censorship though. Promoting it protects liberal westerners from the complicated tasks of basic research, historical knowledge, critical thinking, and the potentially complex
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by fourtrees 5y ago
If you get a chance, listen to Dubliners, Joyce's collection of short stories, too, the last story is probably one of the best of 20th century English if not of all time.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Yeah, these are really common experiences and called afterimages or one of the other terms motioned in the thread. Certain tricks like looking at a bright source of light before shutting you eyes or even meditating, in my experience, can in
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by fourtrees 5y ago
This is more to the general readership. Well, no, he's discovered the difference between non-logographic orthographies that map spoken sound to graphemes at a close to one-to-one ratio (like Spanish or German where 'a' usuall
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Davis' conclusions might be questionable here or there, but this seems like a decent guide to communicating science to the layperson especially in a lecture.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Discovering these rules and their exceptions have been what field linguists, and philologists before them like Champollion (who should be more widely known imo -- he was actually doing science to decipher hieroglyphics; a generation or two
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Historically, a liminal space was just a place a where two areas meet, like a doorway, a gate, a crossroads, or even death. Somewhere a journey ends and another begins. I think Hecate, who was the goddess of crossroads and magic/illusi
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Hwæt?! I think it's more than just modern Americans who love(d) heroic war stories. Look at J. Caesar, look at the knightly romances from the Middle Ages -- the latter are especially sanitized, the former were probably bloodied up a bi
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by fourtrees 5y ago
She and her co-workers did fuck up badly and were unlucky enough to be under attack from one of the most powerful countries in the world. But to attribute that failure to her having received masters in composing fourteen years before, years
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I agree and think the Jesuits are one of the best things to emerge from the Roman Church in ages. There are/have been problems with the Jesuits as with any other big, influential organization, but I think as a whole they deserve our re
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Nice article on human evolution, buy if I'm not mistaken, we'll be needing a time machine to answer that one.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Might a serial founder effect during the peopling of Eurasia result in low genetic diversity and the fact that diversity increases the closer you get to Africa? Is there a way to distinguish low diversity due to a serial founder effect and
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Penrose, who's probably my favorite living physicist, is far from the only person who's attempted to connect QM to everything mental from consciousness, free will, qualia to telepathy or the efficacy of prayer. QM is a god-of-the-
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by fourtrees 5y ago
People with (often) new age mystical beliefs justify them with unconventional, incompletely understood, or naïve views of QM. Like the belief in the healing effects of crystals due to some quantum effect or that consciousness is generated b
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Aw man, almost did this myself a few months ago when I was down with COVID. You make me reall want to revisit the idea! Grats on your success.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
This is one of my big take-aways from the article. My great-(great?-)-grandparents from Eastern Europe armed with nothing but excellent numeracy, some English, and the clothes on their backs. They could reliably expect to enter move out of
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Wow, Georgism is actually being discussed again. I guess cats do have nine lives. I for one hope it makes its way back into the political mainstream, as unlikely as that might be. It's really quite a brilliant and simple system of taxa
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I like this answer, and Krause's on my reading list now. I have to speculate that the development of the organizational/institutional capabilities to produce bronze on a large scale (especially the need for reliable long-distance
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I basically agree (he enjoyed the Eastern Front too!). But don't the flaws of the Tractaus put you (all) off Wittgenstein entirely. His later work -- what he wrote when he wasn't in the life-threating midst of unimaginable sufferi
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'm not sure exactly what constitutes a 'severe language impairment'; there are lots of aphasias out there that only affect very specific parts of the whole language/writing system in the brain. They could be comprehend
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Brutalism produced disasters and masterpieces like any other artistic trend. Let's do what we've been doing for thousands of years and keep the masterpieces and a few of the disasters to show the range of the style and move on. Ba
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Having missed your comment, I was about to post about this. One interesting fact I can add is that Hittite, the oldest written IE language, has the animate/inanimate gender system rather than the 3-way system. You can also see remnants
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Kirii? I don't mean to be pedantic, but do you mean kuru-kuru? Or is there another prion disease out there I'll be having nightmares about?
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Something like that concurrent with the Evergrande bs in China, the pandemic, ect. seems like a recipe for a financial disaster. I agree Facebook should be dealt with, but let's have a few quarters of normalcy beforehand.

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