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incidentally, Anna Bruegel (one of those no-disambiguation-required painters, a daughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder) married a different painter referred to as [name] the Younger.

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the Bruegel family sure had a lot of painters

turns out "Bruegel the Elder" and "Bruegel the Younger" are actually ambiguous. because there was a Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Pieter Bruegel the Younger, a Jan Bruegel the Elder, and a Jan Bruegel the Younger. not counting all the other painters in the Bruegel family that aren't called "the Elder" or "the Younger"

food 

i may have posted about this before but it's just such an amazing, wonderful thing.

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food 

i love the ubiquity and cheapness of bakeries here

you can get a kilo of french bread for the equivalent of like 3 US dollars. also there's bakeries every couple blocks

it is sometimes surprising which words with similar forms in germanic and romance languages are romance -> germanic borrowings versus germanic -> romance borrowings versus both separately inherited from PIE

@Lady dunno. could be they just don't care that much when it comes to the cheapo downloadable games? i do kinda wonder if the games actually live up to the names

the number of games that nintendo will sell you with "hentai" in the title is surprising to me

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@wallhackio there’s a swap function in the standard library.

@aescling @wallhackio you both have a tendency to adopt terms and phrases i used to refer to you, yr catness.

a notable shared trait between @aescling and @wallhackio is that they both really respond to manners in which i address them

poképosting 

is mareep named after Mary (the one with the little lamb)?

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@wallhackio yes that’s why i asked

@aescling this podcast episode i'm listening to is interviewing somebody who's receiving a fellowship named after walter benjamin

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@wallhackio @aescling executing without obvious problems is a perfectly acceptable way to handle undefined behavior.

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