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Guess I'll get to see all those screenshots of my lock screen one last time.

Yeah I read it as "Astmally pdrtable echesmtable". People shouldn't do this.

OK, sure, it is possible to imagine a culture in which the principle of free speech is above and supersedes all other principles. That culture would be terrible. Suppose I'm at tha…

You've edited this at least twice since I started to write so who knows what this will by the time I hit 'reply', but this is really weird. If I can't choose not to associate with …

I'm really, genuinely happy for you that the thing you're passionate about is something you're good at and is extremely lucrative, but if I tried to make a living doing what I'm pa…

> there's always room for optimism. Bold claim.

Is it italki ( https://www.italki.com/ )? You can hire tutors there for online lessons.

> The eastern mystery cults of the late B.C. era I'd hesitate to categorically lump all of the ancient mystery religions in with the rest of your list. Some of them were pretty str…

> Never before has crypto looked so criminal, wasteful and useless. That’s really saying something!

On the rare occasions when a friend will ask why I don't use Uber my reply is "Because I don't support organized crime."

> a new developer could hit the ground flying. Sounds like a plane crash. :)

I, for one, have embraced my negative partisanship. I'm not a Democrat. I'm an anti-Republican.

> Not everyone can take a year off, the world is unfair, and some people will live better lives than others. This is literally what privilege means. It's not an insult.

The work at Keep Silence is excellent.

Thank you for the recommendations.

Thank you for the recommendations. That's very helpful. I'm less bullish on bilingual editions (I know Ancient Greek well, and Latin a little less well, so I'm not totally uninform…

What are you using to study Akkadian?

High fives none the less.

"King" is derived from Old English "cyning". Some similar words (Tsar and Kaiser, for example) derive from "Caesar", but "king" isn't one of them.

It would be sweet if you could configure the forms and meters that it would accept.

It won't do what I want when I click it, So now I will open a ticket. It should do the right thing And not be a pain, Would you please help me out now and fix it?

> That doesn't mean they should write prose in their reports. I, too, would prefer bug reports written in verse.

> a classics degree is the easiest option You have clearly never studied Ancient Greek.

Serious question: You say that engaging with the least sophisticated form of the argument is beneath him, but if that's the form of the argument he chooses to engage in, is it?

That's fair, and I get the branding distinction. Maybe I just think it's played out and there needs some new way to communicate that. When I someone emails me about working at a st…