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  • Norgur@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    7 months ago

    Let me break down the explanations given, because most of them boil down to this:

    As a noun, yes, because it’s mainly used in biology like that (“A hawk female”) and thus can come off as dehumanizing. As an adjective: No (“A female cashier”, “A male cashier”)


  • The crux with all of those “first calendars” (idk which one is meant here, but there are multiple who claim this) is that we don’t even know if it’s a calendar at all. I mean, if this professor’s approach serves as an eve-opeher for some, we should retell it whenever possible, yet it doesn’t reflect any of the questions we should ask ourselves when seeing 28 carvings in a bone. Assuming that htis can only be a calendar is just the hidden assumption that numbers 25 and up could not have played a role anywhere else, because ppl were to primitive for those numbers somehow.

    Perhaps they tracked how many calves in herd they had, or how many horses they had or how many bows they needed to make or how many children there were in the village. Perhaps they wanted to go higher and track something completely different and only got to 28 before they abandoned their approach to whatever they were doing.











  • Norgur@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlu mad, state?
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    7 months ago

    Agreed. If you’re not a citizen of a country and are not living in that country, why should you follow that countries laws and be obligated to keep that countrie’s secrets? That would be like prosecuting the journalists who published the Snowden documents in the UK. They never had anything to do with your laws, USA, so kindly fuck off, will ya?





  • Norgur@kbin.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSealioning
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    7 months ago

    Gosh don’t you hate it when this happens?! The last Sea lion I encountered blocked the elevator at work for four consecutive workdays because he “politely” refused to accept that “lions” without kitty paws are an abomination and should either not exist or strive to get a new name. The audacity!



  • This 1000 years thing is how (at least on paper) the main components of the medium can chemically stay intact and bonded together. You want this as stable as possible since more stability means more resistance to outside forces like moisture and such. Most discs suffering from disc rot today had a number between 5 years (baaaaad) and 200 years (still not great) and are decaying now.

    So don’t take things like this too literally.