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Interesting article, easy read, but not containing anything mind -blowing. Basically the Romans did pottery, beer, and salt production in Britain on an industrial scale. Also mentions some significant sites associated with these finds.
Interesting article, easy read, but not containing anything mind -blowing. Basically the Romans did pottery, beer, and salt production in Britain on an industrial scale. Also mentions some significant sites associated with these finds.
Ehh, could be using it in the more original sense of a ‘kernel’, any kind of grain.
They used a drone to spy on the New Zealand women’s team. That violated fair play. The article mentions the coach (?) saying that drone use was not limited to the women’s team or soccer. I wonder what else will come out?
EDIT: I got a couple things wrong. Here’s the actual quote: The head of Canada soccer has acknowledged the drone use was not limited to the women’s team or to Paris.
I believe that “Indian Giving” is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there’s no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn’t returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their ‘offer’.
Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.
What do you mean by “signaling systems”? Not sure if you’re talking about disrupting communication, or subverting symbolism.
Ahhh … Clever lawyers. Put in a clause to prevent an Aussie from using rhyming slang.
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.
We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.
It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
Lots of good articles on Canadian brutality in WW1 if you do a search. As for war crimes in particular, here’s one of many articles mentioning how Canadians killed prisoners of war:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war
I mean, we’re kind of known for war crimes too. Was anyone in WW1 worse than the Canadians?
Oh man, this guy wrote a lot of hymns, many of my favorites! They’re singable and tuneful. I’ve seen his name so many times, and wondered about him. I learned he was Welsh, given his evident love of Welsh folk tunes and his last name.
IRC one of mushrooms’ main effects is to increase seratonin levels, so … Yeah, same basic thing.