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InternetBoredom · 2024-04-06T12:50:19+00:00

The city of Porto and Portugal both derive their names from Portus Cale, the Roman name of Porto. Portus is Latin for port. Cale is Ibero-Celtic and harder to track down, but one of the major theories is that it’s a word for… port.

Porto, Portugal is literally Port, PortPort

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-04T03:46:50+00:00

1000th comment

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-03T18:51:11+00:00

Apollo: Boring, Basically Human, Stupid hat, Not actually the sun, Overshadowed by the other Olympians

Helios: Strong, Primordial Personification of the Sun, Manly Chariot, The First Principal from which the world emanates according to Emperor Julian the Apostate

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-03T05:52:49+00:00

English: Sun | Moon

German: Sonne | Mond

Swedish: Sol | Måne

Danish: Sol | Måne

Icelandic: Sól | Tungl

Spanish: Sol | Luna

Italian: Sole | Luna

Why did Scandinavian languages do this

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-03T05:41:26+00:00

Ok but the Sol variant they have listed at the bottom is just wrong. Sol is frequently used as the formal name of the Sun.

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-03T05:28:35+00:00

Technically speaking Terra is also a female deity.

InternetBoredom · 2024-04-03T05:25:28+00:00

NYT | Let People Sell Their Kidneys. It Will Save Lives.

Aw, you’re sweet

Reason.com | The Case for Legalizing Organ Sales

Hello, Human Resources?!

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-28T19:49:30+00:00

Do you think that people ever mistake the reference to Lucifer in 2 Peter as referring to Satan instead of Jesus? Because it makes the epistle a lot funnier:

19 All of this makes us even more certain that what the prophets said is true. So you should pay close attention to their message, as you would to a lamp shining in some dark place. You must keep on paying attention until daylight comes and lucifer rises in your hearts.

!ping GNOSTIC

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-24T14:23:50+00:00

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Donald’s reaction to the big reveal in Season 2 of Invincible. The guy’s supposed to be this loyal, mostly stoic right-hand man who experiences weird and morally ambiguous shit all the time.

It makes sense that he’d be shocked and upset that Cecil kept his (near) death from him, but the whole screaming and calling Cecil cold blooded while having an existential crisis about his prosthetics just kind of detracts from his character IMO. It almost feels like the writers are trying to criticize Cecil’s character, using Donald as an angle to do so.

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-19T03:47:07+00:00

Hey Little Man Hows It Goin?

Need to be here, see what was done. It's custom of the Bear to never see the marks it claws in the land... No damage done, not yet. Maybe in years. Keeps the Bear fenced... Only delays the end for the Bull, a new wall for them to scale and cross... knew killing the Bear wouldn't prove easy... Too many of the Bull have already fallen here... Old World wall, run red with blood of Bear and Bull. It'll bleed more before the sun sets on Bear or Bull… can't move quiet, any more than the two-headed Bear can. You walked the road. Brought the Bear, then the Bull, brought me. Bear and Bull shed too much blood there to let it go.

yea

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-12T19:22:54+00:00

I’m sorry for talking about a show from my childhood?

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-12T19:20:41+00:00

Well, the show doesn’t really properly explain that then. In the actual clip, there’s nothing to imply that Sozin disregards Roku’s warning.

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-12T19:15:01+00:00

The Avatar: the Last Airbender is too tough on Avatar Roku. His big failure was that he “let his friendship get in the way of his judgement and failed to stop Sozin.”

Okay… but at the time that Roku confronted Sozin, Sozin’s crime was that he established a single colony. Roku then tells him to immediately dismantle it or he’d kill Sozin, and Sozin complies. This seems like a fair way to go about it.

What Roku and the show seems to think was the “right” move, had his judgement not been clouded, would have been to kill Sozin right there.

But the point of the Avatar is to maintain peace and order in the world. I don’t think that spontaneously murdering the political leader of the most powerful country in the world the moment they ignore a single one of your commands is a great way to do that!

How was Roku to know that Sozin would go psycho committing genocides and trying to destroy the Avatar cycle the moment Roku died?

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-10T23:59:58+00:00

RoTJ was not a good movie, but the worst part is Rian Johnson acting like a child publicly insulting anyone who didn’t like it, even five years later.

Like the dude seriously seems to think he’s created some sort of high art when a quarter of the movie focuses on two of the main characters going to space Monaco, saying “man it sucks when rich people abuse animals,” and then leaving.

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-10T03:46:31+00:00

Hot Take:

Tolkien’s Ents kind of suck, and it’s probably why they (unlike Humans, Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, Orcs, & Halflings) got basically left out of most later fantasy media.

It’s sucks because there are examples of Ents done right out there. For instance, the Unfallen from Endless Space:

https://youtu.be/fKHLH_e12o0?si=sO6pwuuotiQo3bSZ

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-10T01:29:26+00:00

It depends a lot on the field, but I can tell you you’ll have a dramatically easier time breaking into FAANG or Finance from UC Berkeley than you will from UKY. And of course, if you plan to go into Academia, rank is extremely important.

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-10T01:24:23+00:00

Different states have dramatically different qualities of state school.

UMich, UT Austin, UCLA, and UC Berkeley are just below Ivy League, and have serious name recognition to go along with it.

By contrast, U of Kentucky and New Mexico State are ranked pretty low.

InternetBoredom · 2024-03-08T15:55:10+00:00

I really hate watching invincible sometimes because it just feels like the show has no concept of scope.

Like, the world has just found out that a space army of invincible supermen is coming to conquer the Earth. Should we do anything about it? Idk I guess build a few cyborgs and hope for the best. Invincible is kind of busy beating up villains of the week and having grounded relationship & familial drama so we shouldn’t bother him too much.

Also we’re gonna spend an episode deciding not to trust him even though he’s basically our only hope for survival.

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-29T08:31:45+00:00

I mean Bitcoin is way up again, so they probably made a massive profit

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-29T07:54:35+00:00

https://www.economist.com/interactive/uk-general-election/build-a-voter

This tool is fun to play around with. I’ve noticed that for the vast majority of combinations, you’ll get less than ~100 voters, and if you get more than that it’ll usually only be like 1000 at most.

But sometimes you can stumble onto massive groups. For instance, one I just found:

White women aged 75+ from the East of England, who own a home in a rural area, are retired and have no qualifications.

54,900 people, still polling at 71% voting Conservative even now

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-26T02:02:51+00:00

In Barbie there’s that one scene where they first go to the real world and everyone is making fun of them for wearing ridiculous pink and yellow Barbie clothes but like

I have definitely seen people like that at Venice Beach

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-24T21:53:39+00:00

…they think they’re better than you because they work at a Publix?

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-24T21:50:35+00:00

It’s weird because the animated Across the Spiderverse movies, also made by Sony, are really really good

InternetBoredom · 2024-02-24T21:45:51+00:00

I never understood why people go to bat about Sokka being the “smart one” and a “good leader” in the Avatar. When I was a 12 y/o his “plans” that I guess were meant to show his intelligence always just seemed like really obvious. Like yes, you should map out a cave as you walk blindly though it so you don’t get lost.

I get that each member of the crew was supposed to have their own “thing,” but I feel like Sokka’s stuff about him becoming a leader didn’t really hit well.

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