Here's a question for the linguists.
Has English gained complexity in other ways to compensate?
My impression of English is that it's easy to speak at a basic level and quite hard to speak at native fluency.
@atlanticesque@TimTrytitle@AgroNationalism i remember an essay i read in highschool by an anarchist that said something along the lines of "keeping lots of people in cages is incompatible with my anarchist anti state values but murdering a few heinous troublemakers is not" or something like that. mightve been satire
Neolithic Venus figurine: one of the largest prehistoric figurines found in Serbia (15 inches).
Famously known as the "Red-Haired Goddess" (Crvenokosa boginja), this exceptional terracotta artifact dates back roughly 7,000 to 8,000 years (circa 6300–5500 BCE). It belongs to the Starčevo culture, one of the earliest agricultural societies in the Balkan Peninsula.
Sasha Shulgin created over 240 new psychedelics in his backyard.
His favorite? 2C-B.
It's described as a mix of MDMA & LSD, just 4–6 hours in length.
@somewheresy I made a joke 2 years ago about how only married people with kids should be allowed to conduct AI capability research, with the rest mandated by law to work only on alignment. Doesn’t seem like a joke now…you want these people to have a stake in the *human* future.
@policytensor i think if Iran fully closed off the straight & brought about $200 per barrel oil early on there wouldve been immense escalation. it might turn out that waiting until later when the US is tired of the war & running out of ammunition to fully close the strait was the move
before formula we needed wetnurses to keep the children of friends & family alive. having a pet to milk you was how you didnt go dry in case your production was needed in the future
Guys I can't stop thinking about this... The past is a foreign country, but it's even more than that. I genuinely don't know how one can confidently utter moral condemnations of things in the past when we literally have nooo idea what their internal states were like.