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@ClippyMagic beautiful!! what temperament is that? quarter comma?

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@unknownfield @writingenjoyer proto-writing, not proto-language, but yeah

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@paulreed00 @LiamSimard @jjvincent If Clark wants to put the development of language after humans left Africa, there is a lot of evidence to address — eg any baby human can learn any language, so we must have evolved the capability for language while in Africa.

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@paulreed00 @LiamSimard @jjvincent Scholarly consensus puts the evolution of language some time between the genus homo splitting off (2.5ish mya) and behavioral modernity (50-150kya). The evidence, scant though it is, supports that idea. The Cradle of Language (2009) is a good book on it.

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@Ian_Gay_briel 300 individuals driving to the post office and back is straightforwardly less efficient than 1 individual going to those 300 houses in one trip

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@santanasun1011 @teddy_xcx_ blocking is not locked behind a paywall lol

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@caro_irl I’d call it hoisting them on their own petard

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@CrewSaratoga @wachelreeks that just means she wins more often than the average player on the CZ. the percentages are “how often do you win when in this seat,” not “how often are you in this seat” (those would have to add up to 100%)

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@mooseofpluto @chaser_bait fly high lindsey 🕊️

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@mewgumi_ Looks like a solid German factory instrument, should be great to learn on! Not worth more than $1.5k, probably more like $300-500

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@Joe89683098 @CourtneyRigo @cremieuxrecueil That makes sense too — if someone asked me in December if the country was “one the right track,” and I knew people I supported would be in power a month later, I would probably say yes

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@nealfwilliams @ZoldenGames No, what we know is that the alien uses a base that goes 0123456789(squiggle)… for all we know there could be any number of squiggles before the alien reaches the number they call 10

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@waxrevolver @zalamingos obtrusive madonna ads

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@SASardonic @thefemiurge @ettingermentum yes, and that metaphor is much more compelling & poignant than the overt political conversations (which are good!)

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@dheerajchand @sentantiq It seems very likely to me that the rhapsode could select a mode based on the emotional content of the passage. Afaik there isn’t strong evidence that the phorminx always played in unison with the voice, so the poet could probably change modes without needing to retune

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@sccarlson Bc who has an incentive to create a translation of Homer via committee?

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@wzrdnx this is small but i did lose a game at LTR prerelease bc a judge ruled that “a creature with the greatest power” meant there could be no creatures with equal power

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@iosif_lazaridis @FlintDibble If not for culture war reasons, why are you concerned with Odysseus being made to “look bad”? He often looks bad in the Greek!

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i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

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@DramasAllowed @taxspendlib that guy was a troll & admitted it in the comments lol