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- When Did English Conflate Kids (Baby Goats) and Kids (Human Children . . .
I’m going to guess, based on no evidence or research whatsoever, that English-speakers were calling youthful goats “kids” centuries before we applied the same term (colloquially) to the young of H sapiens I’m also going to guess that the colloquialism for (human) children started c 1750, again, based on no evidence or research
- 1970s BankAmericard Christmas commercial - Straight Dope
In the '70s there was a BankAmericard commercial that used Jingle Bells as the theme music I don’t remember the lyrics, so I’ll make some up: Shoes and socks Radio clocks BankAmericard! I always conflate this one with the Norelco commercial with Santa Claus riding a Norelco shaver Does anyone remember the BankAmericard commercial?
- What do Gazan civilians have to do to qualify for greater support from . . .
What more could the Gazans do, or need to do, in order to “qualify”? Do they need to suffer certain types of death to gain greater sympathy (for instance, being killed by bombs may be dismissed as just being battle-type deaths, but deaths from chemical weapons or torture would cross the line?) Do they need to reach a certain threshold of deaths - i e , 200,000 civilians killed instead of
- Nancy Pelosi, first woman to serve as US House speaker, to retire from . . .
Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful Speaker of the U S House of Representatives, said on Thursday that she will not run for re-election to Congress in 2026, ending a four-decade career of a progressive Democratic icon often vilified by the right
- Wow, Kelsey Grammer is a Trump supporter? I thought he was intelligent
Mr brown told me about the article discussing it, and here’s a link Without having thought about it beforehand, I would have guessed the actor was a liberal Democrat I shouldn’t conflate the guy with his Frasier character, I guess
- Alpine divorce—experience anybody? - Straight Dope
The term “alpine divorce” comes from a story by Robert Barr published in 1893, in which a hike by a couple who hate each other in the Alps takes an unexpected turn Since then, the meaning has shifted somewhat; people now refer to an “alpine divorce” when one partner (often a woman, either alone or with children) is left helpless by their partner (usually a man) during a mountain tour
- I pit the New York Times, specifically their science reporting
And they rarely actually link to studies, making it harder to track down the original And I’ve seen them conflate correlation with causation too often Anyway, i distrust New York Times science reporting, and recommend that you do so, too
- Could consciousness be a fundamental field? (Physics related. )
Maria Strømme published a paper three months ago where she hypothesizes that consciousness is a fundamental “field,” and that everything else in the universe (matter, spacetime) emerges from this field Which I think means that, if her hypothesis is correct, the universe would not exist if humans (and just to be safe, all living organisms) did not exist I am not a physicist or
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