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metamongoose t1_ja4z86p wrote

Reply to comment by thedefinitionofidiot in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

Uralic languages too - Finnish, Hungarian etc.

But Basque is the only language that has no surviving relatives.

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Limp_Distribution t1_ja4z7k2 wrote

Reply to TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

An amazing wordsmith who I thank profusely for providing access to such an incredible world called Middle Earth.

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FriendlyAndHelpfulP t1_ja4theg wrote

Reply to comment by Djidji5739291 in TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people. by 99-bottlesofbeer

>Clearly in need of help and pose no real threat…

…Right until they run out of money. Opiates in particular rise in cost at an exponential rate.

When you’re starting out, a $10 Vicodin pill can be broken up into a week of getting high.

Then you very quickly find yourself needing to rail a $60 Roxy 30 to feel a buzz.

Then you switch to H to save money, and get back down to 2-3 $10 bags a day to stay stable.

Until it doesn’t work anymore, and you start knowingly avoiding H in favor of that fetty, at which point your tolerance goes so fucking high you literally can’t get high on any amount of heroin anymore, and you’re banging $100 worth of fent a day just to stave off the withdrawals that make heroin withdrawal look like a cakewalk.

At which point your only two choices are “get into a detox program that will accept you and go through a literal month+ of hell,” or “start robbing.”

Guess what people tend to choose.

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faxanaduu t1_ja4t8dw wrote

Reply to comment by Youpunyhumans in Today I Learned that the moon distances itself from the Earth by about 3,78 cm(1.49 inches) every year. by LucasOIntoxicado

I guess they use the same points on the surface measuring this between length of time? Seems necessary because of changes in elevation. It's so interesting to me that it's moving away from the earth. On the scale of billions of years the distance between them seems like it has changed quite s bit. Thanks for posting this tidbit, learned something new today.

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TFOLLT t1_ja4qt22 wrote

Reply to comment by wdomon in TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown. by OccludedFug

Where do you see me saying it's proof of a magical skywizard? Didn't even mention the word God. All I'm saying is that the bible/Torah is a hell of a lot more historical than most people give it credit for - even christians themselves many times are too ignorant, too settled in 'its just a belief' to dare question it and search for ratio, logic, sense, and archeological proof.

Imo it wouldn't be more likely that people made up a migration of over a million people. What would be the sense of that. Outside of that, it's questionable if the people then had the same geographical/geological knowledge we have now. But that might be possible, and if that's true, your option might indeed be the truth. But I consider it unlikely that a story that crosses multiple religions, multiple nations and multiple extremely divided cultures about the migration of a nation that big, is made up. Especially considering the altar that is described is literally still standing there, over 4000 years old.

Also, Moshe should be a commonly known philosopher and rulegiver. He's basically the first lawmaker especially considering human rights in the entire human history. People don't want to research him, cause he's biblical. But he's amongst the greatest minds of the earth. You don't need to believe in God, you don't need to be a christian or a jew, to acknowledge Moshe for the pioneer of many, many things we consider normal now. He's also the inventor of quarantine btw.

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