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If they’ve already proven they can steal and lie, of course they’ll get VC money.

You can find isolated examples from western cuisines (often rich people food) but mixing savoury and sweet is still an exception. You don’t get things like how palm sugar is used in so many savory staples from SE Asian. Applesauce or quince paste aren’t as ubiquitous in western food as chutney is in Indian.

I’ve also just met way more westerners who talk about salty/sweet mixes being gross. Raisins in rice, pineapple on pizza and fruit in salad are all things I’ve heard (mostly americans or australians) react strongly to.

You know that feeling you get when you look into your dog’s eyes? The same parts of your dog’s brain became active, so they’re probably feeling similar emotions at that moment.

I always think of white people as the ones complaining about raisins in food. So many delicious savory dishes with raisins from the Middle East or India provoke strong reactions from western pallets used to food that only does 1 thing, rather than combining multiple flavours.

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.

The real cycle is:

Rich people create hard times, hard times create more poor people, rich people create more hard times.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

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.

My high school girlfriend’s parents were catholic and they used to say: The only thing worse than a heretic is a protestant all the time. They meant it in jest, but the joke was that plenty of others didn’t say it and did mean it.

If you like animation you have to see Son of the White Mare. It’s a gorgeous and elegant retelling of traditional Hungarian fairy tales with clever nods to a modern psychedelic sensibility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sticking together is what good pastas do.

I just strongly doubt that. Firstly, heaps of people would be dressing as aliens for Halloween and thus talking about it.

Secondly, there’s just way too many follow up questions, about them, their culture, their home, their tech, their goals, their language, their biology, the impact they’ve already had in our history, who knew and who didn’t, etc.

So many fields would begin looking into it and throwing up new angles and facts for people to chew over.

Just think of how much time christians would devote to converting aliens to jeebus.

Trump didn’t want to win in 2016. His whole candidacy was basically a shit post gone awry, and that was so expensive that it may still cost us democracy in the US.

I’m not sure I understand your point so if I’m off base let me know.

Firstly, inheriting $200k - $1M doesn’t keep anyone poor. It doesn’t even stop wealth from concentrating at a level that harms others and warps society - it just prevents that level of wealth from passing down to people who did nothing.

Secondly, if everyone was poor who would be controlling them? You have to keep most people poor and a much smaller group of people unassailably wealthy to control them. That’s exactly the problem that high death taxes address.

Estate taxes is woefully small. There should be a 100% death tax on all assets after $1M, excluding a single home.