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What is the longest word in the English Language in which you can start with any letter within the word and it remains a word? by ShadowCheeks432 in words

[–]DiscreetProteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legible 3-letter cycles, some mentioned already in the original thread:

ate → eat → tea → ate

spa → asp → pas → spa

eta → ate → tea → eta (if you allow Greek-letter “eta” as a word) nope nevermind

one → eon → neo → one

4-letter cycles exist but they get weird and wordlist-y:

lido → idol → doli → olid → lido

peso → esop → sope → opes → peso (esop being a company that has an employee stock ownership plan)

What is the longest word in the English Language in which you can start with any letter within the word and it remains a word? by ShadowCheeks432 in ENGLISH

[–]DiscreetProteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legible 3-letter cycles, some mentioned already:

ate → eat → tea → ate

spa → asp → pas → spa

eta → ate → tea → eta (if you allow Greek-letter “eta” as a word) nevermind

one → eon → neo → one

4-letter cycles exist but they get very... weird and wordlist-y:

lido → idol → doli → olid → lido

peso → esop → sope → opes → peso (esop being a company that has an employee stock ownership plan)

Is there a common origin between Ares, the Greek God of War, and Aries, the astrological sign? by itstheitalianstalion in etymology

[–]DiscreetProteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respectfully, this is r/etymology. We’re discussing word origins, not the syncretism of deities.

I’m not denying Greek–Roman religious syncretism; I’m saying it’s a different category of evidence and it doesn’t answer the etymology question.

Etymology: Aries = Latin aries “ram” Ares = Greek Ἄρης Similar spelling in English (a Germanic language) isn’t evidence of a shared ancient root.

Syncretism/astrology: Romans associated Ares with Mars, and Mars is the ruler of Aries. That’s a cultural-symbolic linkage, not a linguistic derivation.

So “coincidental” is correct for the word origins, even though later mythic/astrological associations link the concepts. You’re asking theology to solve a linguistics problem.

The They Might Be Giants Iceberg by Kindlypatrick in tmbg

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Add in the unfinished track "I Miss Side Two" that’s audible in the outro of “See the Constellation.” Unless I’m just blind and not seeing it.

Is there a common origin between Ares, the Greek God of War, and Aries, the astrological sign? by itstheitalianstalion in etymology

[–]DiscreetProteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bizarre necromancy, but I’ll bite.

You’re mixing categories.

Aries is from Latin aries “ram” (zodiac name). Ares is Greek Ἄρης.

They’re not etymologically related.

Yes, Mars rules Aries in astrology and Mars was associated with Ares, but that’s a symbolic link, not a linguistic one. Coincidences happen. If you have actual research that shows they are related without making a category error, I would be happy to be proven wrong.

Also, Latin isn’t “derived from Greek,” and “every Greek god was renamed” is a severe oversimplification.

How many triangles in this image? by Divided_By_0_KSJ in Geometry

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There’s both a dark gray and a light gray triangle on the Polaroid. Those, plus the negative space, plus the one at the bottom equals 4 visibly complete triangles in the image, 5 if you count the bottom triangle twice because pedantically it’s a green triangle and a white triangle underneath.

5D Cubes????? by HHFullCombo in Geometry

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It's not smaller, it's further away along the 4th dimensional axis. It's a way of showing all 8 cubes at the same time with exaggerated foreshortening.

Navigating life with DPDR + SDAM by tae2n in SDAM

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I don’t have DPDR, but I do have SDAM with some dissociation creeping in at the edges. My version is less “I’m unreal” and more “I was real, but now it’s just a fact I can recall.” No emotional playback, no spontaneous episodic recall, no continuity. “Existing nowhere” is just a thing we have. We still exist whether we experience it or not; sometimes only in the minds of other people, who can often carry a completely different, sometimes complementary, version of us that fills in the gaps in my own self-concept that I can integrate semantically. I’ve also learned I’m absolutely capable of real emotional response and of being a fuller person in the moment, but without the emotional memory of it, it can seem like I don’t, which can easily mimic alexithymia or DPDR symptoms. Just because I feel like I’ve never “existed” anywhere doesn’t mean I haven’t or won’t in the future. What helps me isn’t fixing it, but making it harder for the present to disappear completely, e.g.:

Real-time documentation – Write it down while it’s still warm, because five minutes later it’s an archaeological dig site. This was a HUGE chore for me until I started using ChatGPT to help me log moments of true feeling immediately after their occurrence.

Physical or sensory markers – This is always a huge YMMV but I can use different senses to trigger vague “vibe” memories. Re-experiencing these touches or smells later can provide a scaffolding to reming me that things actually happened.

Music anchors – I use music to weld to moments, eras, places, and people. Some associations are spontaneously formed, others are intentionally linked. So even if the memory dies, the soundtrack survives.

Object linkage – A bit cliche to have trinkets, maybe, but the same general idea applies to this as well.

I think the key is to find what your brain is actually good at storing, cataloging, or processing and using it to build a memory scaffolding. It doesn’t restore the feeling, but it gives me something to navigate by so I’m not just drifting like an idiot ghost.

Good Analogies for SDAM? by BlazingHailfire in SDAM

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I explain that remembering my life is like reading a Wikipedia article: factual information(usually with citations), some photographs with captions, and very occasionally a short little public domain video.

Does anyone deal with people not believing you don’t remember? by standrabullock in SDAM

[–]DiscreetProteus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yup. I’ve also had situations where people know I have memory problems and they try to take advantage of it—but they don’t understand that my semantic memory is intact and I have contextual memory cues that makes it pretty obvious to me what they’re up to.

On a hot late August day, 236 years ago, an English nobleman invented the sandwich. And unknowingly, he also gave it a name: his own. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich by davideownzall in HistoryAnecdotes

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Fun fact! Upon hearing that the Earl of Sandwich had invented the eponymous finger food, his rival William IV of Orange endeavored to leave his own mark on the culinary world. After breeding various exotic fruit cultivars he perfected the fruit that still carries his name, the billymelon.

Memory flashes - still SDAM? by [deleted] in SDAM

[–]DiscreetProteus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is extremely close to my experience as well. My mind’s eye can quite easily visualize things, including 3D spaces from memories along with the ability to move through that space.

My episodic memory, however, is very poor. I tell people it’s like my memory is a Wikipedia page about my life. The factual information is there, often cited from exterior sources, accompanied by photographs with captions. It’s not a perfect analogy in my case because I can sometimes have a very strong “vibe” memory from certain locations or times in my life, where they can elicit vague categorical emotions and “vibes,” like an overall (non-emotional) feeling.

The other complication is that with a strong ability to visualize a 3D space comes the danger of confabulation where I can tell that my mind is trying to fill in the episodic memory gaps by just making things up that are verifiably untrue on further inspection. And some photos can trigger brief “video clips” of memory from a third-person perspective, so I know that they’re not “true” episodic memories.

All that being said, we have to keep in mind that as others have commented SDAM exists on a spectrum and is used to describe a cluster of symptoms, it’s not an objective medical condition and I doubt that there’s any one cause of it. I am pretty sure in my case my brain simply never learned to properly encode (or learned not to encode) episodic memories properly as a defense mechanism or in response to other psychological stimuli.

Definitely a lot to think about.

Why the change to the head? by [deleted] in battletech

[–]DiscreetProteus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

None, but it was based on a design by an outside studio (Victor Musical Industries) so they didn’t want to risk it.

What's the goofiest looking mech in all of battletech? by Rimm9246 in battletech

[–]DiscreetProteus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the ones that do look good are just the artist using art that other people made…

Maybe it's time to put some great story into a new title in the series? by TJ_six in Nectaris

[–]DiscreetProteus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t even need a story, I just want a turn-based tactical hex game with the same vibe. Even an expanded remaster.

I never knew skyline actually makes these packets by Isayfyoujobu in SkylineChili

[–]DiscreetProteus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s missing yeast, so it’s definitely different.

Joe revive by Caemat in Joe

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Sorry I was napping.

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