Also, phalanx v short swords just lose as soon as the formation breaks a tiny bit, there's uneven terrain or open flanks. Up close long pikes don't do anything and the gladius goes stabby stabby.
"English is older than French" is a weird way to put it. "English spelling was standardised a century before French spelling" might be a better. After all, both languages existed the whole time but are named differently by periods in history for convenience. There's no way to say "Middle English ended in 1658" for example.
I think the reverse is "Homosexuality can almost always or always be justified". Then as a further "If yes, does homosexuality require justification?" can be added.
The opposite to yours would be "Homosexuality doesn't require justification" which would likely have different results.
That's a nice theory but the dodecahedron was found in across a wide region of the western side of the empire and primarily in military graves. There's also the rarer icosahedron which didn't have large holes on the sides which really jumbles up theories. I'll give some interesting ideas for it's use I've heard.
Cryptography, when combined with a disc-like key it could be used like "move clockwise after every word" like this guy speculate https://youtu.be/vBDgmE3d0aw. Notable issue with this is that it's waaaay more complex to manufacture than required. You could make the first key with a hexagonal hole and the second key that slots into it. No dodecahedron required.
Craftsman proof of expertise, since it's very hard to manufacture it can be used as a proof you can make it. But then why was it found a lot in military graves?
Artillery calibration, by using the holes you could put down rocks at 200m, 300m and 400m marks and see which rocks fits exactly inside inside the view when the two holes line up in size. Hard to prove and there's no need to have such an extensive number of knobs on it to fulfill that purpose. Could save a lot of expensive metal by having it made of wood for example.
Knitting fingers, it's not very convenient and suuuper expensive for its purpose.
Weaved metal, more plausible than knitting but if this was the case we would see scratches or signs of use along the holes.
Religious artifact or recreation, this is the archaeological "we don't have anything better" explanation. Can be used as a fancy dice or for asking the gods or something. It only sounds plausible because we don't have anything better.
This is why it's still a mystery even though so many people have guessed, the knobs on every corner, difficulty to manufacture, cost, varying hole sizes and that it's found in military graves is very hard to put together. It's looking like we're going to need to find a non-existing manual for it's use.
Disregarding the case where you are a Marmite supremacist I'll say why.
Vegemite and marmite can be thought of as a bitter spice to put on top of butter toast. Just like with salt you can put nothing, way too much and the just right amount. The just right amount is way more subjective than tomatoes or cheese on breat since it can vary by a factor of 20-50x.
I have converted some people to eating marmite and I do it by putting 2-3mm of a knifes tip on the toast and spreading it as thin as possible.
This is my impression also. Most people are just "Meh" about it since it's not that noticeable. A bit more ads, bit more bandwidth use, bit more ram use and a bit slower CPU when performance of websites sucks ass is not that noticeable.
That sounds like voter suppression. I'd suggest going the other way and making felons being able to vote.
Real issue is the playing field needs to be levelled. Overturn Citizens United will be a great start and limiting campaign donations to be only limited individual contributions and state sponsorship if a party gets over 2.5%. Any gifts, including whole airplanes and 250B ballrooms would be illegal.
Also stock trading while in office is an obvious conflict of interest. Ideally people in government shouldn't be allowed to hold stock as that would be a clear conflict of interest. Such as owning stock in Lockheed Martin would be an incentive for going to war.
Just pay reps 200k a year instead. It comes out as around 100M yearly.
For sure that's a thing, but I'd it's more related to sleep deprivation than neurodivergence. I have a 1 year old and get sufficient sleep so I'm not zoning out all more than around once a month.
On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also "semi-custom" which I think means it's not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.
I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.
We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There's still a lot we don't know and there's still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.
Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.
You're just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.
Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.
I think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it's optimal to put it on my mortgage but that's an amount I would use the excuse of "having to spend it" to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you're effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.
I really hope VR takes off. I haven't been able to play VR because of Linux support issues or needs a PS5 and not that many titles I'm interested in are available, there is No Man's Sky, Serious Sam, Skyrim and some others. But fuck, I imagine playing Armored Core 6 with VR would be bonkers. Like having strapping into a Mech with a HUD and rockets flying all over.
I imagine retrofitting games to provide two provide two camera views instead of one wouldn't be super crazy work so just having more people with VR would increase the title count by a lot.
I'm currently looking at it costing me a fair bit of money to actually get a setup. Probably $500 for a used GPU and another $1200 for the headset that I barely can use with a young baby at home but in 5 years I could see myself getting into it.
One other thing that is understated is that this time it's a buy once for a more than adequate system that has forward and backwards compatability with the Steam catalog of VR games.
Also, phalanx v short swords just lose as soon as the formation breaks a tiny bit, there's uneven terrain or open flanks. Up close long pikes don't do anything and the gladius goes stabby stabby.