We celebrate John Mastodon Day because on this day, John Mastodon made Mastodon visible to the mainstream media. He will protect us as long as he exists.
1. Relativity of motion: He had already the famous “ship argument” that #Galileo used to show that physics in a moving object must be the same as in a standing one — the only difference is that Oresme, living in Paris, used a ship on a river and not on the sea. (https://todayinsci.com/O/Oresme_Nicole/OresmeNicole-Forerunner.htm)
@smallpatatas Thanks for highlighting the “social” aspects of social media, and of the unwritten conventions that make the Fediverse work. Federating between different actors of the Fediverse does include more than just following the ActivityPub protocol — what really defines the character of the network is the way it users act, its posts are moderated, and similar things.
@legumancer When a word is used very often, it simplifies and becomes shorter. In your world, “eight” could become something like “et”, so that 16 would be called “two-ets”, and 63 would be “sevenets-seven“.
8 × 8, as new “bundle word”, could have a new root, but something like “etets” would also be possible.
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