lugal
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- Comment on You are undecided on buying a house. But this convinces you to buy it 3 days ago:
I didn’t notice because it wasn’t red
- Comment on Go ahead. You know you want it 3 days ago:
Admit it: you just offered it because you knew he would reject
- Comment on Logical 1 week ago:
- Comment on Life comes at you fast! 1 week ago:
If you want a linguistic deep dive how this isn’t correct:
- Comment on Hopefully you haven't 1 week ago:
I saw a drawing of that tree. Does that count?
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
Now you want our opinion on garlic bread?
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 1 week ago:
That doesn’t answer the question because all roses belong to the genus “Rosa”. So there is a common ancestor of all roses and every plant descendent of that ancestor is a rose by definition. I ask you for a definition of Roman that exists independent of the word and you have me an example that does have a definition that exists independent of people using the word. Romans, on the other hand are biologically indistinguishable from other humans. They look, smell and taste the same (allegedly).
The difference is that Roman is an identity marker and therefore a social construct. That doesn’t mean it’s not real. It’s like asking for a home no one ever lived in. Before construction, there is no house, just stone or wood or what ever. You could point to a cave and say “that could be a home” but it’s not a home unless someone lives there. A home doesn’t exist outside social reality. It might have different names but it needs humans it identity it as such.
For identity markers, the name is much more tied to the construct. The name can change tho. The first Christians didn’t identify as such. In fact, the word started as an insult and was later reclaimed. But you can trace back a social group that later grew to identity as Christians.
It’s not that a social group came to decide they need a city and than built Rome and live there happily ever after. I’m not sure but I guess it was a settlement that grew or sever settlements that merged or something but at no point was there a social group that meaningfully preexisted the city.
Same with modern nationalities. There is nothing biological that differentiates Germans from its neighbors. Just a nation state that invented German identity and everything distinctly German came later.
- Comment on Post it to socials 1 week ago:
That’s what I thought but apparently “shit” is metaphorical, I still don’t really get it
- Comment on Post it to socials 1 week ago:
Please don’t post the screenshot in this community. Worst mistake of my life
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 1 week ago:
What does that mean to you? What is the essence of being Roman that preexisted the name?
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 1 week ago:
The question is if they were considered and/or identified as Romans before there was a city called Rome
- Comment on WHAT? 2 weeks ago:
Gen Alpha slang is beyond me
- Comment on Insensitive 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, I was the Uber driver
- Comment on No use denying it when they have a witness 2 weeks ago:
Finally found him
- Comment on 180 Degree Rule 2 weeks ago:
I’m a bit faceblind so this might be a stupid question: Is the same character speaking in every frame? Which is which? I’m confuse
- Comment on .🤨. 2 weeks ago:
Can you cite these passages? Because from my memory, when he’s praying alone, the content of his prayer isn’t recorded and that barely happens at all. There are other things that show that the gospels aren’t historical but please stick to the facts
- Comment on I say both. 2 weeks ago:
Even with gills, the mouth is where they breath in
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
I might be wrong but you are mean and that’s worse!
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
That’s shifting the burden of proof. You have to prove it’s not a repost. You can’t? That’s because it is
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
Repost
- Comment on Never forget 2 weeks ago:
Oh sorry, I forgot
- Comment on hmmmm 3 weeks ago:
When you turn your hobby into a job, you don’t have a hobby anymore
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The APA is famous for spreading fake news. Don’t let them fool you, wake up
- Comment on Oh Ofcourse... 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of my last job interview. They said I could ask anything…
- Comment on Genius idea. Somehody should share this with the antivaxxers 3 weeks ago:
Orphans would be best
- Comment on It's not even Wednesday, my dudes, move it along 4 weeks ago:
It’s not Wednesday but Thursday. Source:
- Comment on Video games 4 weeks ago:
The absence of evidence is no evidence of absence
- Comment on perhaps 4 weeks ago:
Robin Hood or something
- Comment on The cylinder must remain unharmed 4 weeks ago:
When topologists say, a mug is a donut, this is not what they mean
- Comment on Pygmy hippo calls out your bullshit 5 weeks ago:
!reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
