alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
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)
feliz equinoccio a todes
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.
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:
- increases the likelihood of interpersonal conflicts
- 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.
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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.
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.
house really is a terrible doctor
we tried opening the window in the bedroom and it blew the comforter nearly off the bed
it's so wimdy
get out is a really good movie but it might also be the most pro-TSA movie ever made
my wife found out today that probably all senses of the english word "yen" are from languages that write with chinese characters. the currency from Japanese, of course. the desire being uncertain but probably from Cantonese (meaning "craving", because of yk, opium)
alyssa
boosted
women will literally have multiple spreadsheets open at once
historical nazi mention
«[British quiz show Mastermind's] creator, Bill Wright, drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II.»
why would you do that? do you really want to make more people feel like they're being interrogated by the gestapo.whyyyy
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