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Thomas Beatty @tgbeatty.bsky.social · 8h

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 9h

wondo

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 9h

wuggery

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 9h

wugatorium

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 10h

(which incidentally leads to the regular plural "vipilefti," because nouns in ki- in Swahili have their plural in vi-, which I think is a very fun Swahili Fact)

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 10h

there's a reason they call a roundabout a "kipilefti" in Swahili and not a "keepleft"

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 10h

i guess what i mean is "the overwhelming number of english speakers do not have pt- as a permitted initial consonant cluster in their idiolect." you are free to pronounce words however you like, but it's normal for borrowings to be altered to conform to the phonology of the target language

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 10h

i mean. in english the p is absolutely silent. "pt" is not a permitted initial consonant cluster in english, unlike in ancient greek.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

“Helicopter” often gets misanalyzed as being made up of “heli-copter” rather than the actual roots “helico-pter”

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

There are some pretty deep investigations about the Aztec worldview actually! We have a fair amount of data is my impression—a lot was lost in the conquest but a lot survived the transition, too, and there were generations of Mexica raised in the pre-conquest milieu who lived alongside the Spanish

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

wait how else would you bracket it? “the ophite “?

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not just an extension of like the instinct to punish wrongdoers.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

And even very violent societies have rarely practiced human sacrifice at that kind of scale. Many very violent societies didn’t have it at all. That to me indicates it occupies an unusual social context.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 11h

I think the comparison between human sacrifice and other forms of state sanctioned violence is kind of misleading actually? It’s one I’ve seen ppl make before but the social function really is very different

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 13h

bonkers way to run a society tbh. one strongly suspects it was not long for this world even if the spanish had not shown up

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 13h

yeah the high end of the reported number is definitely an exaggeration (deleted my other posts bc theo had the more reasonable estimate to hand)

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 13h

When the Templo Mayor was reconsecrated, Aztec sources report that around eighty thousand people were killed as part of the sacrifices.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 1d

Bulimia is more about binge-restriction cycles. self-induced vomiting is a common response to binging though

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 1d

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 1d

Not more than 1e30 bits I don’t think. Possibly much less but that strikes me as a reasonable upper bound. Depends on how compressible the trivia of bulk biology prove to be I guess.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 1d

But then I feel like my autobiographical memory isn’t very detailed so it wouldn’t take up a lot of space.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 1d

And I think that kind of trivia would be super annoying to specify exactly. Unique representations of personality and memory maybe a lot shorter tho.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 1d

I think this could be surprisingly high? depending on how detailed you wanna get bc stuff like your fingerprints or the exact position of your hair follicles isn’t really genetic. It’s the outcome of complex interplay btw genes and environment and chance.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite as poetic as "O soul, be chang'd into small water-drops,/And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!" but it has the same energy

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Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 2d

So the trick to being a Linux person is wanting a computer to satisfy the same niche in your life that other people fill with lovably neurotic pets.