history History Flexible Glass - Lost Ancient Roman Invention Because Glassmaker Was Beheaded By Emperor Tiberius - Ancient Pages
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    It’s possible. Roman concrete is still superior to modern concrete in some ways and we haven’t rediscovered the formula.

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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    Infinite work glitch

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  • stoicism Stoicism What is Stoicism?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    This is one of my favorite channels on YT. A good contribution in giving an overview of all of Stoicism, not just the part that people tend to focus on these days. I do have to dock him some points for mixing up Academic “Skepticism” and actual Pyrrhonian Skepticism, tho.

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  • humanities Humanities & Cultures Debunking the “sex drive” | Emily Nagoski
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    “That is not how biological scientists define the word ‘drive’.”

    Her argument basic boils down to semantics.

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  • reddit Reddit What are your honest opinions about fake reddit stories?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    Many years ago I posted a true story on r/nosleep or r/letsnotmeet (forget which) bc I didn’t realize most of those stories are fake. It was frustrating to realize my weird situation that I wanted other people to know about and empathize with me about (bc the cops did nothing) was largely ignored.

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  • climate Climate Why ‘birth strikes’ aren’t the right way to end the climate crisis
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    I hate it when articles undercut their own clickbait titles.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAS
    Do you derive intrinsic satisfaction from your job or see it as just a means to end?

    Obviously it can be a bit of both. I’m sure a lot of those guys on Wall Street get off on the high stakes, competitive environment along with all of the benefits to being wealthy. On the other hand, some people choose jobs that don’t pay much but give them a high degree of satisfaction. But I surmise that most people, particularly men, are mainly motivated extrinsically in their jobs to provide for their families, to maintain a certain lifestyle, or simply to survive.

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    AskMen AskMen - Get a male perspective What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    In humid climates, shorts should be acceptable work attite.

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  • atheistmemes Atheist Memes *Permanently Deleted*
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    This is a pretty fun rabbit hole to dive down. The para-biblical book Jubilees retells a lot of the Hebrew Bible stories with added details including naming the patriarchs’ wives. A more interesting reading is that because they are omitted in the Genesis account, quite possibly a lot more people were also not mentioned. This led to the “pre-Adamite” doctrine, that Adam and Eve were not the first humans. Of course there’s also the Talmudic account of Lilith which has gained a lot of popularity recently.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta When searching for magazines/communities, is there any way to set the default to “local and federated” instead of local?
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    @CarlsIII Is there a way to set defaults at all? I always want subscribed + newest

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  • climate Climate Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for 6-2 because of climate change, University of Oxford study says
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    I worked a 6-2 shift once. Quite liked it as I am a morning person. Had to go to bed around 9:00 though.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What does an ideal world look like to you?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    Networked, autonomous local communities.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Vanishing Comments?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    I noticed posting from lemmy.world is really buggy. I started composing in another app as a failsafe. Kbin doesn’t seem to have this issue, and maybe other Lemmy instances don’t either.

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  • unsolvedmysteries Unsolved Mysteries The Story Of The Max Headroom Incident, America’s Creepiest Unsolved TV Hack
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    Given how ruthless the FCC is, the best we can hope for at this point is a deathbed confession.

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  • reddit Reddit People who still use Reddit, how is it?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    @Aityz

    The main subs I follow are more or less back to normal or never protested to begin with. Two tiny subs I mod have been getting hammered with Temu spam and because the built-in moderation tools don’t seem to help I set them to restricted.

    The big difference is on /all. Some popular subs have been largely replaced like r/AITA -> r/AITAH & r/TwoHotTakes. But a lot of the usual content is completely missing and in their place are the food delivery and selfie subs.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions What if a Reddit admin participated here?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 100%

    Everyone would ask them about what was going on behind the scenes and if Spez is as short-sighted as he seems. They’d reply they signed NDAs about most of the questions being asked and quickly regret creating a spontaneous AMA and then never log in under that username again.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearDE
    DebateReligion metic 1 year ago 100%
    No metaphysical model is more convincing than any other

    Over the history of philosophy and religion numerous works of metaphysical speculation have been written. Many of these metaphysical models are mutually exclusive. This bewildering variety of metaphysics naturally induces a skepticism of *all* metaphysical systems. No particular metaphysics can be be proven empirically. Metaphysicians must recourse to either theophany or reasoning; in practice usually a combination of the two. Others cannot access the same theophany or may dispute their logic. Materialism cannot escape this skepticism. Materialism (or physicalism) is the current prestige metaphysics in the modern world, but it has not earned this position on the basis of its veracity. Science as the study of physical or social phenomena, does not concern itself with non-physical phenomena. It is instrumentally materialist, regardless of the individual scientist’s metaphysical views. Although science uses materialism as a working assumption, it does not and cannot attempt to prove it, nor any other metaphysical model. The prestige materialism currently enjoys is a result of people mistaking this instrumentality for veracity.

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    technology Technology How much of your life have you degoogled?
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  • metic metic 1 year ago 0%

    I tried to as much as possible years ago. It’s unfortunately hard to avoid Capcha. And since the pandemic I got into watching YouTube again.

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