I’m only human after rule

US urged to consider developing NGI (natural general intelligence) before starting another war it can’t win

Petra Parker

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Atheism isn’t really a belief system by itself. It can refer to a lot of things, including positive atheism (the claim that there is not/cannot be a god/supernatural entity), negative atheism (the lack of belief in a deity due to lack of evidence), the absence of religion and many other things. Militant atheism, on the other hand, definitely counts and is susceptible to all the failings you mentioned.

they knew

In this economy?

I’ve never measured my weight in stone. It’s not really a thing anymore

I hope the author manages to fix their space key

Should’ve said “Oh thank you, your dad would never forgive me if I lost it”

You are not young… but with age comes wisdom

Now this is an epic space fact

As everyone knows, it’s the horn that beeps

I feel like I might be getting whooshed here, I can’t tell if you’re being serious

And rocks are toys, so science is toys

Definitely not if we’re talking about recorded words. Lax and its cognates are attested in branches of Proto Indo European which aren’t written until the first millennium CE at the earliest. The oldest attestation of a cognate of lax (lax is the native English firm of the word, lox is borrowed from Yiddish which is in turn borrowed from German Lachs) would be from Tocharian, in which laks meant fish. There are so many words which are attested thousands of years earlier with consistent meaning over time across more branches of the Indo European tree like words denoting family relations, food and drink and other basic vocabulary. (Of course that’s not to say there’s no semantic shift in individual branches, like Ancient Greek φρατηρ meaning ‘brother’ in the sense of a fellow member of a community).

The reason why linguists were interested in lax was because of its consistent form over time and across branches of Indo European and the role it played in the question of the Indo-European homeland - the proposed PIE reconstruction *laks- is pretty much identical to Modern English lax and other cognates, although earlier forms of the word such as Old English leax (ea being pronounced like General American English a in cat followed by the first vowel in father) show that the pronunciation isn’t entirely unchanged.

But thanks for your comment, it prompted some research to make my morning more interesting!

Drinking lemon > drinking lemon with sugar

Fog of woman

Also realised I used the same map seed as last time, I promise it’s procedurally generated…

In a way, the demise of the dinosaurs is kind of like the fall of Rome (the 5th century one), in that the conditions created by the impact wiped out many of the dinosaurs, but birds survived and are only not considered (by some) to be dinosaurs because of our categorisation, in the same way that the fall of Rome which was completed by Germanic invaders left the Eastern Roman Empire to survive long after that, and despite denial from some, has direct descendance from the Roman Empire.