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The information has been available for a long time. And the method to get it was done by sanding down each layer and making scans, and tracing each line.

Without looking to much into this, apperantly the main new thing here is the way this information is compiled. Which may be quite the improvement in accessibility

Favourite kind of american by ziggurat in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Free education for all, teachers who are paid enough to care

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[Fluff] Balders Gate is the name of a street in Oslo, Norway (no.wikipedia.org)

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I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings by ziggurat in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I'm opposed to burning the Quran, but I am even more opposed to making it illegal to do so.

The wording quoted from the Danish politician by OP, assuming it is correctly quoted and translated sounds horrible and dystopian. Imaging making a law to make it illegal to do something that offends other people, or even offends other people from other countries. Now you have other people deciding on tummy feeling what is legal in your country. Absolutely disgusting.

Burning the Quran should continue to be legal, I just don't see why you would do that, or other books for that matter. There are way more price efficient ways to produce heat than book burning

Conservatism in 2023 by ziggurat in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

The planet doesn't have a problem, the planet doesn't give a shit about a little plastic. Species die and come for all sorts of reasons, new materials pollute and become sources of growth for a new species.

It's not the planet that has a problem, its our fucking civilization that has a problem. We depend on things being stabel... The planet doesn't give a fuck, our civilization can go the way of the sumer civilization, just increase the average temperature a couple of degrees more and see what happens