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    1. What I said is a quote. I thought it’s known enough to be recognized but apprehendly not. Sorry. Mark Fisher wrote a book about it: Capitalist Realism

    2. It’s difficult to imagine an alternative when every politician since Thatcher and Regan repeat some form of “there is no alternative” and media says the same in different ways.

    All the more important to talk about alternatives, so thanks for doing so. That’s what I love about authors like Graeber and Wengrow. It’s not that I want to live in every society explored in The Dawn Of Everything but it’s great to read about them.






  • There are many SOV languages, including Japanese and Turkish. In fact, SOV is the most common word order, followed by SVO and after a gap VSO.

    The thing about German is that it can be both but the word order isn’t free either, as it is in Latin, but there are rules that aren’t straightforward at first glance. So short sentences often have SVO with a 1:1 translation to English but the more complicated the sentence, the more often you have SOV, especially when you count the content word and not the auxiliary. I can go into more detail how this so called “verb second” works if you want. But I think that that’s where the frustration comes from: easy sentences are intuitive and then – boom – out of the blue it changes.

    Also: German is a Western European language so English native speakers are more likely to come into contact with it.







  • lugal@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzjust beat it
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    10 months ago

    It took me a while to think about what you are even implying and came to the conclusion that this is proof of a mars civilization. Either a human mars colony or a native species. Eitherway NASA is hiding it and I was complicit by suggesting an alternative explanation