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  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSuffering rule
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    14 days ago

    Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea.

    I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note ‘the second sleep’. He basically posited that it’s likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep. Article talking about it.

    Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven’t read much of homer or Virgil so i can’t personally confirm or deny that.


  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneruleform-rs
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    26 days ago

    No, they couldn’t pronounce the ‘th’ sound. The best they could do was a breathy ‘t’ sound. So in the original printing presses, mostly produced in France, thorn was omitted, and ‘th’ was used instead. That convention has continued all the way into modern type. At least that’s the story I’ve been told in the past.









  • Well there’s this case where Monsanto sued a farm for replanting seeds they had a patent on.

    And there’s several other cases similar to that where Monsanto has sued farmers. For instance in “David vs Monsanto”, when a farmer found out some canola plants were roundup-resistant and propogated them on his farm. Monsanto sued him for not having them removed, especially since Monsanto had a program where if they were informed, they’d removed them for farmers.

    So while it’s not exactly as deceived above, it’s not far off.





  • I view that aspect, the motive, as being added specifically to provide a reason for those who haven’t acquired empathy yet, Such as many children. If you simply say ‘don’t bully people for being different’ the immediate rebuttal will be ‘why not?’, and if you don’t give some concrete answer, then the lesson will potentially not stick.

    These tenets of kindness and goodwill are most powerful and propagateable when concrete, calculated explanations can be provided on top of reasons which rely on empathy, because empathy works for some, but when empathy is lacking logic must suffice.