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@psychoalpastor @inthehands both of those are private so no shareholders

@jgilbert @inthehands @atoponce maybe it’s time for a new computing product which specializes in rapid and accurate calculations. I’m thinking something like the Adding Machine

@inthehands yeah I’m kinda a language nerd and it took me five guesses. (Partially because I expected the arrow to scale with distance and it does not)

@inthehands a pretty significant part of the job is teaching people “how to adult” — navigating buying a car, paying bills, avoiding debt traps (if they listen), etc.

@inthehands I have a narrower view (“20 year old people who joined the US military”), and Society seems less interested in military folks than college students, but *even within my peers* I see some bizarre “kids these days” takes.

@imknotar0b0t @inthehands that doesn’t have “except when the content warning is X” that was OP’s question.

@inthehands @ian The Korean writing system was also created all at once, although it was a decision to switch from Chinese characters to a native system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul

It was “created” by King Sejong the Great, but I am somewhat skeptical that he did so truly alone—it’s easy for the boss to take credit for the team’s work, as it were. (I’m not trying to imply anything about Cherokee here, Sequoyah probably didn’t have a court of professional scholars on hand.)

@inthehands i just want to say that the lady next to him in that picture (sign language interpreter?) is making the same face i made when i read the headline