Semjeza

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[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 3 points 4 hours ago

Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I'll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:

The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.

Learning and making use of novel materials.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 10 hours ago

I think you've focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.

Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.

Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you'll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.

There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn't hunger or homelessness.

Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 10 hours ago

The thousands of years old tradition from non-Abrahamic Persia, (in fact a proto-IE region with shared religious rites with Slavic, Celtic and Germanic Europe), predating not only the splits of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Other, but of Christianity actually existing, doesn't show it was a Pagan tradition?

What else do you call non-Abrahamic religious rites?

(And apparently new evidence has since backed up Bede's account of Pagan Oestra in the British Isles, too.)

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 11 hours ago

There have been more discoveries since Grimm boys, and despite earlier scepticism scholars are now mostly accepting that there was an Eostre diety worshipped in Europe around the Spring Equinox.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 0 points 11 hours ago

New findings and archeo-lingustics have supported Grimms and Bede, so the existence (culturally) and worship of Oestra (or however your 1000BC Celto-Germanic language spelt it) is now generally accepted by scholars (and anyone who isn't pushing an anti-intellectual, and often antisemitic, "war on Christianity" agenda).

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 4 days ago

Think of "memes" as condensed ideology.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 15 points 6 days ago

Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 1 week ago

You're not wrong, but I've also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.

But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 9 points 1 week ago

Existence of copyright hasn't even stopped that.

It is but a blugeon to control and limit the common people. And puts a slow on development and dissemination of culture.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 6 points 1 week ago

I always figured it was due to vulgar culture not usually leaving written records prior to that.

So we get 37 plays written as popular culture, it makes sense that we get a lot of newly attested words used in the popular culture of the day.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn't a stupid rule.

Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.

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