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The best time to start learning a language was 10 years ago. The second best time was last year, unfortunately you missed them both and will have to wait until the next scheduled best time.

Laundromats are minimal-involvement small businesses, so not communal in a strict sense of the word.

In a more social-oriented society, I could imagine a communal laundry being part of a social hub, people could meet up and play games, watch movies, etc while waiting for laundry.

Tracking dead people to do “baptisms for the dead”, they call it, is legit one of their favorite pastimes.

Idk the exact numbers but iirc Hitler got baptized like 40 times before they put his name on the no-go list.

And it’s like 14 year olds that they have getting baptized over and over for the dead names.

And while they’re waiting they get to watch Johnny Lingo and similar garbage.

But yeah if you know any Mormons their databases are probably a good place to start

To be fair, it’s slightly more nuanced than I stated lol. But still incorrect.

Pretty much everything in The Dawn of Everything tbh. The diversity of social organization going back thousands of years, regardless of means of subsistence. The range of conceptions of property, ethics, hierarchy, power, rights, etc.

Particularly interesting in American societies pre-colonization, since it seems the implicit image of them in the popular consciousness is a homogeneous series of small, isolated tribes, consisting of either noble savages or primitive barbarians, entirely ignorant of agriculture. When in reality a good many of them practiced agriculture in various ways, some of which colonizers simply didn’t notice because they weren’t as invasive as European methods.

Also that agriculture isn’t necessary for the development of complex, large social structures, nor does the advent of agriculture necessitate the development of rigid hierarchies and exploitation.

Turns out the agricultural revolution and its consequences weren’t a disaster for the human race. Sorry David Quinn.

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Human civilization is a lot longer than history and a lot more complex than specific normative behaviors blipping into existence at some defined point in time. Check out The Dawn of Everything for a recent anthropological perspective.

Various cultures approach gender and sex (and thus sexuality) differently. Homophobia as we understand it can’t exist universally because sexuality as a static individual trait isn’t a universal conception. Though that doesn’t mean there aren’t other norms and deviations and whatnot.

Caliban and the Witch is adjacent to this topic and discusses how sex and gender norms developed out of middle age Europe.

Think you mean to respond to the other comment fyi

as long as your banks engineers are at least somewhat competent

Let’s be realistic here lol

The best is when it fails to verify, offers no backup option, and you’re simply blocked from accessing your own bank account or government website. Fuck cloudflare

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There’s a degree to which this is a supply that creates demand, I feel. Maybe there’s a better way to put it.

When I had a 720p laptop, it was perfectly fine. I played games and watched movies and never felt like I was viewing things in low quality. Once I got 1080p, I could tell things were better, but they weren’t like shockingly, orgasmicly better. 720p, though, became significantly worse once I got used to 1080p.

The same thing happened prior to this with old box tvs/monitors, and with older video games. I played the shit out of FNV and the graphics and gameplay seemed fine. Having played modern games, though, FNV feels janky and LQ (despite having better than average writing).

I’m consciously avoiding 4K for this reason.

I’m coming around on audio to some degree, but still prefer to hit the “80% of perfect” before diminished returns start curving up, wrt earphones and such

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