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Summary: The historical start of the year is March 1st. That's also why some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2.

The first part of Book 3 in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has this description of "dementia".

... If dementia sets in, there will be no failure of such faculties as breathing, feeding, imagination, desire: before these go, the earlier extinction is of one's proper use of oneself, one's accurate assessment of the gradations of duty, one's ability to analyse impressions, one's understanding of whether the time has come to leave this life - these and all other matters which wholly depend on trained calculation. So we must have a sense of urgency, not only for the ever closer approach of death, but also because our comprehension of the world and our ability to pay proper attention will fade before we do.

I wonder how easy it would be to construct something like this today.

Someone I worked with wanted to build a lookout tower on his house, imitating something he saw on another (very old) house elsewhere, and got into all sorts of disputes with the municipality regarding how to interpret zoning laws.

Which is paid for by an outflow of money in the form of taxes (of various types)

The genetics of color blindness is by nature unfairly biased against men. Hope we can dedicate ourselves to fix these things instead of financing more weapons and armies.

I mean, a CRISPR based cure has been successfully tested in monkeys as early as 2010, but there is still nothing on the market.

It's been nearly 10 years since this famous perspective on free speech was published and circulated.

How do you think it has aged?

You mean Lujan?

It reminds me of something I used to do against mosquito bites when I was younger and more sensitive to them. I dipped a spoon in boiling water, and gave the mosquito bite a few quick touches with the hot spoon.

Nowadays I just use anti-acne wipes with salicylic acid against mosquito bites, it reduces the inflammation for me.

10000 years ago, litter often contained seeds that could sprout into new plants. Perhaps this habit could be a vestige of those times?

It will fade away, preserve the information instead.

Make good copies in enameled brass or bronze, inscribe some words about their context, and sell them as souvernirs or collector's items to people that are interested in these things.

Not understood human languages are in general languages with a low amount of source material.

I don't understand what's controversial about this. "Rus" is the medieval East Slavic society.

Three of the four modern East Slavic cultures retain the word root in the name (Russians, Belarusians, Rusyns). One of them uses the expression "borderlands" for their identity (Ukrainians).

It's all just a matter of expectations. Today's Wikipedia has a quite difficult learning curve for making proper and lasting contributions.

The "Visual Editor" should be confined to the Talk: pages, so that the difficulty of editing can be higher, to match the difficulty of dealing with Wikipedia's internal bureaucracy.

Belarusians also call themselves a variation of "rus", obviously.

And "Little Russia" is an old name of a geographical region (which somewhat corresponds to the traditionally Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine).

Stealing? It's their shared East Slavic heritage.

So it's basically a new version of the "Freedom Fries" mania, but with higher popularity?

Try telling that to Sweden. Some societies are really stubborn about punishing it as a crime against society and a lack of character, despite the harm it causes.

>“You know old cat ladies?” she says to me. “It is my dream to be an old robot lady. And 50 years from now, I think it’ll be possible.”

Things like this give me an impression of "Hey, look at how cool we are fellow kids!"

And blankspaces, this invention is not to be underestimated

How about this?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Of course, this assumption is based on that the "k" sound was preserved here, instead of going through the shift to "h".

Some people seem to deliberately change the topic to war, whenever there is a thread about anything in the Balkans. This phenomenon also happens on Reddit and other places.

I know of an online music collection that would need to be archived. Maybe by these people?

There is an amateur enthusiast named Steven Kozobarich who restored some very early recordings of traditional Balkan music. His Youtube channel is the only remaining place where copies of the songs are still reachable.

He used to maintain a blog-like website the previous decade, and it still remains, but the links to the external hosting service (with the tracks) don't work anymore.

Link to his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenKozobarich/

You can do it by being an experienced non-admin user, too. Most edit-locked articles are actually semi-protected, a lower protection level.

It should also be noted that 99.9% of all wasabi in restaurants is the wrong species (horseradish), even in Japan.

Firefighters defend against fire, doing a regular job for a wage, employed under circumstances based on consent.

We need to stop this ritualization of the work that the military does. It is, after all, just a type of work.

From the perspective of Serbia's population, WWI was more of a catastrophe, even though it had a positive political outcome (the disappearance of the Habsburg Empire).

It's still a penalty based on what half of the population you were randomly born into.

Male lifespan is on average shorter, and this burden is yet another thing on the minus side.

Some of my colleagues discuss politics sometimes, and I have tried to discuss things like these.

I am stunned by the lack of interest to discuss male issues with the same kind of enthusiasm that women have when discussing women's issues.

Very few seem to be interested in even acknowledging that we men on average have a worse attitude to the concept of risk. I have tried to use a non-political topic such as extreme sports (just to try to carry the topic in a different way), with very few constructive discussions.

There are countless examples of wars were many have sacrificed themselves for nothing. WW1 is probably the prime example.

Of course, while it all was happening, it was commonly described as the most important thing to do.

Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.