Taniwha420

Lol! This is pretty well the cycle for dismissive-avoidant attachment style.

Ivy League schools were never about education. They've always about making connections with other elites.

I love how they're like, "Alright, Zhīfùbǎo, I'm so fucking tired of you losing the lids to our tea pots!"

Ok, but seriously. Why exactly was a ninja turtle hanging out with Vanilla Ice at a Republican rally? That's like some fever dream shit and I don't get how they all fit together.

Ok. Thanks for confirming that, and answering my second unasked question. I'd wondered if it was a legacy of Alexander's conquests, but doubted because I didn't think he made it as far as Bengal, though I wondered if it was a Greek linguistic relic that got naturalised into Hindi/Bengali. It's Sanskrit; makes more sense.

Means, "is the city", yeah? Like, the Greeks just referred to it as The City?

Pretty unrelated, but I always wondered if the -pur ending for Indian cities was a cognate of -polis.

They discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. ... And there's reason Uranium and Plutonium weren't discovered until Bruce Willis went to space.

You know what, it's something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn't really hold water.

IIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium ... but Alumnia isn't a place, so they're wrong.

I can't remember where I read this, but IIRC it IS a Japanese thing. I mean, anyone can draw a conversation deeper by asking questions, but the Japanese do have a thing for picking one word and making it a question.

If I recall correctly?

I watched a few documentaries on the 100 Years' War recently; I'm convinced we're still living out THAT trauma ... and that was just one crazy time out of many. It's one of the ways I cope with climate change and the degradation of the global environment: reminding myself that living in really fucked up times is more the norm than anything. I do believe that modern technology and the absolute privilege we live with has given many of us in the developed world the illusion that we're in control of the world. I have a suspicion that the awareness of how little we can do to stop the sheer randomness and brutality of life and human callousness is why religion has been so prevalent for most of history, it's people having some solidarity in, "Holy shit, this is fucked. God, save us, you're obviously our only hope."

Yeah, that seems to be the most likely explanation for how the coins got to India too. Egypt was the entry point into the Roman Empire, and there were maritime trade routes from the Red Sea to India.

Withhold validation.