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it's fun how with historical names, some of them are still in widespread use more or less unchanged and others are completely unfamiliar

for example: the brothers Harold, Gyrth, and Leofwine Godwinson (who all died in the Battle of Hasting)

you can argue that the inclusive counting thing is a legitimate convention but consider: after the introduction of the Julian calendar, for the next 34 years the priests in charge of the calendar got confused and added a leap day every third year instead of every fourth.

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it really is amazing just how bad the ancient romans were at counting.

confession: i am incapable of remembering that Tennessee Williams did not write Death of a Salesman

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big disadvantage of playing with strangers is that, compared to playing with friends, it both:

  1. increases the likelihood of interpersonal conflicts
  2. decreases the motivation for (+ increases the difficulty and emotional cost of) working through those conflicts

sofi and i have adopted a policy when we drink mate where we each pour for the other. it's nice :)

hacker grandma in this episode of murder she wrote was a great side character.

@xsssm good point. i should buy my wife some flowers

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entiendo cómo se puede disfrutar las batallas de D&D, pero no entiendo cómo se puede disfrutar mirando o escuchándolas

(esta queja es específica a D&D, hay muchos otros juegos con combate que parece más emocionante para escuchar)

parece que en la lista de países por número de hispanohablantes, estados unidos es el segundo (después de méxico)

muy gracioso que Cicerón escribió uno de los malos poemas más famosos de la literatura romana.

él quise que otra persona escriba algo celebrando sus logros pero nadie lo haría. tuvo que hacerlo él mismo y ni sus admiradores fingieron que era un buen poema.

@wallhackio "te voy a denunciar" (tuve que mirar como se tradujo "report")

oh that's why i always confuse Eric Hobsbawm and Benedict Anderson.

one's the invented traditions guy and the other's the imagined communities guy.

@aschmitz i'm going to have to assume that eventually he figures out a way to diagnose people that does not involve incorrectly diagnosing them and giving them treatments that make them worse multiple times for that last bit

we tried opening the window in the bedroom and it blew the comforter nearly off the bed

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