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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Peep Show also has that joke - "Slaves, Jeremy" VS "Whips, Rimmer".

    But there's a good chance that the answer wasn't slaves, but well paid, hard-drinking work-units, organized along the lines of boat crews, all working together during a public festival and overseen by well trained specialists.

  • Is driving a car this awful all the time?

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  • Yep! In my experience it's awful and it stays awful for ever.

    But just like with going to work, over time you come to accept that existence is suffering.

  • Elon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’

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  • Exactly. So many peoplev still trying to analyze what the Democrats did wrong in an election they won 🙄.

  • Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?

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  • Personal trainers. Watching other people exercise is not a job.

    You may as well be a corporate tax accountant, a ghost writer for the rich or an email scammer in terms of the value you create for society.

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  • Graham Hancock is a racist grifter who definitely knows he's full of shit, is that what you mean?

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  • I love how often "we have no idea how they did it!" and "they couldn't possibly do something this sophisticated!" turns into "we know how, when, where they got the materials and the name of the project foreman" when you just ask an archeologist.

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  • He then exclaimed: "I have to look at such features as the shape of the teeth, the jaws, the shape of the gill rakers, as well as counts of the vertebrae [to determine what it is].

    "Now I have no idea what species this is.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/antarctica-scientists-find-bizarre-creature-3500m-under-ice-like-nothing-seen-before/ar-AA1qjVdA

    For anyone else who instantly needed to know more about this incredibly adorable little jiggler, it was found in the mud and no one seems to have a clue what it could be.

  • TIL American linguist Morris Swadesh compiled a list of words he deduced would be in a Proto-Indo-European language, the language that is the root of languages across Europe and Asia.

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  • That example does sound quite different, but Wiktionary has it as from the Proto-Slavic *(j)edinъ, which is "ultimately from *h₁óy(H)nos."

    Finnish or Estonian are so wildly different

    I know right?! I strongly remember the first Uralic language example I heard was the Finnish for merry christmas: hyvää joulua - it just sounded so different.

  • TIL American linguist Morris Swadesh compiled a list of words he deduced would be in a Proto-Indo-European language, the language that is the root of languages across Europe and Asia.

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  • The asterisks mean that it's a reconstructed word, not an actually attested word. No PIE writing exists, so all these words are deduced from the descendant words across the vast IE family, not recorded as definitely existing.

    The numbers are h1, h2 and h3. We know that PIE had three different h-like sounds (pharyngeals). But, funny thing, every single daughter language lost them, so it's hard to tell exactly what each one sounded like. If you see overlapping ripples in a pond, you can work out roughly where and how many things dropped, but you can't guess the exact weight or size.

  • TIL American linguist Morris Swadesh compiled a list of words he deduced would be in a Proto-Indo-European language, the language that is the root of languages across Europe and Asia.

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  • In every language, most words that most people use are still used from a very long time ago, we just pronounce them a bit differently.

    *(H)óynos, *dwó, *treyes for example aren't just uno, deux and tres, they are 1, 2 and 3 in English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Farsi, Kurdish, Tajik etc. Literally the same word, just spoken by different groups of descendent speakers.

    Some languages have undergone sound changes that make certain words sound more or less similar to how we think they sounded in PIE.

    So even though though four, vier, quattuor and tessera sound quite different to us, they are all basically just how we say *kʷetwóres.

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  • Sticking together is what good pastas do.

  • ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

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  • Proclaiming an idiotically edgy identity on a porn site is the kind of pathologically oblivious attention seeking that has been the hallmark of the far right since trump made everyone watch him descend a golden escalator.

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  • You mean the one getting laid and rejecting labels? That's the life.

  • Donald Trump Mistakenly Refers To Nicky Jam As A Woman While Introducing Reggaetón Singer At Campaign Rally

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  • Is this singer legit nuts, or did they wheel out a dump truck of money?

  • Don’t Fall for the Third-Party Trick

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  • I've been shocked by the amount of pushback I get when I talk about compulsory voting. I suspect it has less to do with freedom and more to do with how classist US society is.

    Many people here seem to have internalized the idea that it's better for the country if 'apathetic' and 'stupid' people don't vote. Of course the bulk of non voters are working people, the poor and those who benefit most from an increased voice in society.

  • Don’t Fall for the Third-Party Trick

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  • Voting absolutely should be compulsory, it would be such a moderating force on US politics if you couldn't get more votes just by stirring up your base.

  • That Debate Showed Why Dems Shouldn’t Tack Rightward—Ever

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  • per 538, the last two polls of "adults" (not likely voters or registered voters) showed trump support around 40%

    This feels to me like the best metric to judge 'right wing' by.

    Voting for right wingers or being a Republican is not quite the same as being right wing - many people register and vote strategically. My grandparents in Alaska were left wingers who knew Democrats didn't stand a chance. I'm sure there are plenty of right wingers registered as Dems here in the PNW. Voting can also be about identity more than ideals - I've known Republicans who have mostly leftish ideals as long as you don't call them that.

    But saying you personally support trump feels more unambiguously right wing to me. I've heard plenty of polls over the years putting trump's support at around 30-40%, so 40% right wing sounds believable to me.

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  • Almost half the country is right wing

    Where are you getting that stat?

    Of voters, almost half are registered or leaning Republicans.

    In 2020, only 22% of the country voted for trump, the most right wing 2 party candidate in the modern era.

    When you ask about specific policies that are seen as left or right wing, left wing policies poll much higher than dem votes at elections.

    The reason Democrat leadership keeps tacking right has less to do with Americans and more to do with money and support from key centers of power. Dems stay right because US aristocrats and large interests skew righter than Americans. The money would dry up if their policies matched what Americans want.

  • MAGA pastor claims Kamala Harris deployed "witchcraft" in Trump debate

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  • I will always hear that in Bart's voice.

  • Right-wing influencer spreads false claim Kamala Harris wore earpiece during debate

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  • I wonder how much of this stuff is open-eyed lying and how much is an instinctual identity defense mechanism. There's definitely a lot of both going on.

    The cult of personality around trump makes his perceived power and competence one of the most important parts of the identity of his followers. Trump being a pathetic incompetent loser is a threat to their entire perception of reality. Believing one more gross improbability is just less stressful to a human brain than demolishing your worldview and starting again. In this way, even trump's supporters number among his many victims.