JohnnyEnzyme
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- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
Also I would say Atilla is usually called Atilla the Hun
Good point, and I think I whiffed a bit on that one. “Atilla” is actually a name still used sometimes today across Europe, so “the Hun” definitely adds some helpful context.
Also since Caesar became a position/title we still say Julius to specifically refer to him.
You mean, in Italy?
In the States, I feel like it’s pretty clear that “Caesar” without further context refers to either a leader / dictator / emperor of the Julio-Claudian line, or more commonly to Julius himself. The point being that if you’re referring to one of the emperors, it’s usually necessary to name them, i.e. “Caesar Tiberius,” etc.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I’m saying, above.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
Caesar, or Charlemagne or Attila.
Well, those are fairly uniquely-identifiable names in the scheme of things. “Caesar” isn’t just the guy at your local pizzeria, but THE Caesar of Caesars. “Charlemagne” is a combination of the common name “Charles” and <"great"> as with Alexander. “Attila” is a rarer name, already with a certain stigma, so quite unique in that sense.
“Alex” / “Alexander” is still a pretty common name today, so it makes some sense that there’d be a qualifier. Not unlike with Peter the Great , Catherine the Great, etc…
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found seven such words / phrases so far, which might be knit together in to: Future Common Logic– Why Prince’s Fun Weekend?
Oh well, it’s a start.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 2 weeks ago:
Lol… that’s too much. Pretty soon we’ll be able to construct ordinary sentences out of nothing but pop stars & rappers names, I guess.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, entschuldigen Sie bitte!
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 2 weeks ago:
Ariana Grande or The Weekend
Uhhh… the first one’s a pop singer I’ve still never heard a single song by, and the 2nd one’s how we spend our SAT & SUN’s?
Heh, am I close?
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
I suppose that’s an interesting point in general, Gandalf, but I was speaking to species-wide instances. If you have a more efficient method of framing such things, then please be my guest…
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
This is an excellent question IMO, and I’m sure you’ll receive plenty of excellent (and energetic) responses, but I do want to point out something which chronically gets overlooked, as part of these discussions. Ready?
Homo sapiens is traditionally a tribal, social, and clan-based animal, not unlike our cousin chimpanzees, and others such as wolf & dog packs, elephant herds, parrot flocks, and a couple other examples. Our organisation upon such likely goes back at least 2.4Myrs, when biologists and those in related fields first classified “Homo” as a distinct genus. But arguably, such goes back perhaps as long as our common ancestor of chimps, maybe 7Myrs ago or so. Or earlier!
My point is– modern humans’ natural state is to exist in smallish, commune-like situations, and that is a fact. That’s literally in our DNA upon a multitude of levels, and literally spans the entire length of H. sapiens ~300Kyr history.
Meaning? That we’re naturally communists of a kind, and my take on “socialism” is that it’s roughly an attempt to make our traditional style work, when organised upon regional and national levels.
THAT SAID: I think it’s good to also observe how things happen in the wild. For example, my mentors Robert Sapolski and Jane Goodall famously observed our fellow apes & monkeys being total assholes towards each other, amidst hierarchy-type situations. It’s a complicated discussion, anyway, and maybe not hard to imagine why so many of our fellow rich, needy, powerful human monkeys are such total, narcissistic assholes towards everyone else.
- Comment on Is there a way I can become Baptized a Catholic without going to school or memorizing all the saints I am 37? Always thought it would be an honor to be Catholic. Like being knighted. 2 weeks ago:
From some quick lookups, it seems that you can commonly do so after some months of guided preparation. No need to memorise a bunch of shizzle, but being baptised is more of a ‘participation award” in such cases, if I understand rightly.
Of course, YMMV when it comes to various Eastern Catholic churches, or even sect-like groups.
- Comment on When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle? 3 weeks ago:
America has never been “good” or moral.
Super-important major realisation.
- Comment on When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle? 3 weeks ago:
Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??
Natives, always…… please leave us alone?
- Comment on Galaxy Quest Live at STLV 3 weeks ago:
That’s a super-awesome graphic. oO
- Comment on Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions? 3 weeks ago:
women are physically weaker on average. there was a time when physical strength was hugely important
That’s only a small part of the equation, and is by no means the main reason for “subserviance,” altho I think @yesman@lemmy.world answers it pretty nicely, here.
In reality, the “subserviant” thing is probably an extremely recent development out of the ~300Kyrs of modern human history and ~2.4Myrs of genus Homo history. It’s certainly not universal across the history we do know, but AFAIK is indeed heavily tied to concepts of agriculture, property, and the accumulation of lucre.
For example, if you look at the other Great Apes, you won’t see anything resembling what humans have spiraled in to in terms of such control. Nor across most (or all) of the other observable animals.
So the idea that this “subserviance” idea is traditional for humans is technically true across a very short time period, and near-complete nonsense on the whole. It’s mainly the controllers and elitists who have always always been trying to push that idea, from what I can tell.
- Comment on Does anyone know about pope Leo's past in Chicago? Was he a little hell raiser who went straight? Kind of hard to believe someone from Chytown leaves without cause a little shannagans? 3 weeks ago:
He seems to love baseball, and has gone to a lot of games. Hard to believe he wasn’t doing the wave and making plenty of crowd noise at times, FWIW.
- Comment on How come they don't put out episodes of like Invincible, Simpsons, or whatever doing a side by side of the actor speaking into the microphone while watching what happens the cartoon? 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure there are already some examples of that on YT, etc, but I don’t really see why anybody would want to see a whole cartoon like that. Seems like it would get tiresome and distracting, pretty fast.
- Comment on Bought a bold Barbie Star Trek 50th anniversary head 4 weeks ago:
I love the 2nd pic, which goes right back to the original ST pilot (do you know what that is?), and I love the first pic, as a PEZ candy fan!
Dude, you’re super-PEZ! :D
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 5 weeks ago:
A couple things I know of related to her talk show: 1) She kind of ‘showed her true colors’ by being snarky and mean-spirited ("haha, it’s all just fun") towards many a guest, even making some cry or weirdly putting them on the spot when talking about a traumatic thing in their lives; 2) She was seemingly revealed to be a toxic a-hole behind the scenes to her staff and others. This is evidently not unique at all among talk show hosts, but paired with #1, it kind of sunk her reputation, it seemed to me.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, based on a quick lookup, it appears that the first (internal) egg was produced by sexually-reproducing animals over 600m yrs ago. Later, shelled (external) eggs seem to have appeared about ~315yrs ago.
So basically, the egg was a very ancient, fundamental innovation in complex life that appeared well before galliforms (chickens and relatives) did, ~85m yrs ago.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 month ago:
Well it’s all ‘shit’ from the moment we start eating, if that’s how you measure it.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 1 month ago:
The US has been drowning in assholes & idiots for the longest time. Now it’s official, from the top on down.
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 1 month ago:
*shrug*
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 1 month ago:
TBH, I’d be pretty shocked if the arrangement actually originated with The Tonight Show. In Western-languages cultures (and others), I’m thinking it probably goes back close to the origin of a guest & a host appearing in front of an audience, which could go back… many thousands of years, really.
All things being equal, I would suspect TV simply borrowed from a traditional arrangement that came long before.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 month ago:
Fun concept. Related to that, I understand that our gut bacteria have some actual influence on how our brains operate.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 month ago:
We’re all just borrowing recycled particles for a little while, before making them available for others, in future. Just that man started messing with that traditional equation when he came up with burials, and later coffins.
Not just that, but our living bodies are composed of something like ~50% bacteria and other organisms, and with mites living in our pores, eyelashes, etc. Fun stuff to think about, eh? :D
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 1 month ago:
Hmm… did the Tonight Show desk-format change from what Steve Allen originally set up, or the Jack Paar period, before Carson came along?
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 1 month ago:
Could be influenced by the way in English (and various Western languages), script flows from left to right, which has some influence in our scanning things left to right in general, such as imagery, comics, etc. In such a scenario, the host is like the familiar anchor at the end of the sentence.
Not saying this is the only or prime reason, but I imagine it plays a part.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
We’re continually being defunded
Well, that’s the disaster happening in the States, but the time-stamp here suggests maybe you’re… in Western Europe? Shit, so what’s the trouble with lawyers, in this case?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
Uhhhh…. they’ve been warning us for many decades, now? (and sounding alarms)
There’s also the fact that Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (and others) discovered key mechanisms of the Greenhouse Effect, and CO2’s key role in such, back in the 1800’s. So you know, want to know about a science issue? Maybe ask literal scientists?
It’s not the body of relevant scientists that are letting us down, Dafty…