Is there anywhere we can find a translation yet or is it too early?
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Looks like it's the 2015 discovery:
It was a handful of extra lines that described the Cedar Forest being much more lively and noisy, acting like a whole royal court, than previous versions. It also showed that the whole tablet was much more recent than previously thought.
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I really have how screenshots have replaced actual articles. I want to know more.
because modern online articles are filled with 800+ words of literally no meaning other than getting the viewer to see the 2,000 ads plastered on the website
New Thing Found By Scientists
Scientists at the Science Lab for Sciencey Science this Thursday have found a thing. The thing is a science thing found by scientists at the Science Lab for Sciencey Science.
Nobody doesn't like molten boron Nobody doesn't like molten boron Nobody doesn't like molten boron Nobody doesn't like molten boron Nobody doesn't like molten boron Nobody doesn't like molten boron
"Some people misspell it 'seance';" reports Fleeg Fleegerson of the Science Lab "But there's two C's and an I in it."
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Omg this is the very first moment in my life that I might start to look forward to AI writing articles.
And... it's already over. Bc such articles may be shorter, but they will find their own way to become enshittified for the sake of profits.
My god I wish we didn’t put getting resources into every aspect of everything we do. “Well, this is neat, but we can’t buy that new 400k TV with it so, garbage can it is. The next one will get us the luxury that finally makes us happy. Did you see my new collectible? It’s valuable!”
When we create artificial life, honest to god actual artificial life that can run on sunlight alone, then and only then can we step outside of this resource collecting, bullshit reality.
Well, that or Star Trek replicators that run on something like grass and weeds. No need to compete then, just grow and learn. That is if we can escape our evolutionarily need to collect and hoard resources.
Gettin’ yo shit and bangin’ yo bitch needs to be meaningless for us to really become something special. I know that sounds silly, but I can’t survive without yo money, thrive without yo protection, or reproduce without yo bitch. So what am I gonna do?
Haha. Please don’t take me too seriously. I’m a comeenuhnun. Comeeduhnun. Comedian.
Allow me to disagree - but only if we both find this digression fun to be clear:-).
The likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have already escaped the grind. They don't seem all that happy.
Americans have had an extremely high standard of living, in the global sense. Yet we are some of the angriest people in existence.
Studies show that while you need enough to live, anything beyond that increases stress (someone else wanting what you have), and disconnectedness.
Anyway, people being dicks to one another seems to have little to do with resources and a lot to do with psychology. Which may have been input into our genes due to limited resources, but now that it's there... it won't so easily be ignored, and the pathway to curing it seems like it will have to be different from how we got to here.
Well, I hope this thought was fun to read and think about!:-)
Kids these days can't even read Standard Babylonian 😔
can't answer definitely, but if you look up Irving Finkelstein on YouTube, he is a really interesting fellow who I believe can read it all fluently.
I want to like my job as much as Dr. Finkel does his. Also I think it's just Irving Finkel.
yes. I've been watching too much Norman Finkelstein.
I'll let you off with a warning this time.
The TV show has ruined any chance of that series ever being completed. The man is old and now has fuck you HBO money. He should just tell people he's not going to finish it and hand it off to someone else.
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Gilgamesh, a king. Gilgamesh, a king, at Uruk. He tormented his subjects. He made them angry. They cried out aloud, send us a companion for our king. Spare us from his madness. Enkidu, a wild man from the forest, entered the city. They fought in the temple. They fought in the street. Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu. They became great friends. Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
The new friends went out into the desert together, where the great bull of heaven was killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the bull by the tail. Gilgamesh struck it with his sword.
They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, 'he who was my companion through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.
Given that the Epic of Gilgamesh was something copy pasted to train scholars and stonemasons for centuries if not millennium, how can we be sure this is canon?
Because it was around long before cannons.
Behold my comment, unedited, with the correct number of n's and shirk away in your ill natured unsophistry.
Part of it was also the lack of canon. The ancient world didn't have "one true version" of anything, it had the version at hand. Which was usually the version that the current (local) king wanted.
Dang kids and their tablets ...
It's no secret that the "i" in "Gilgamesh" stands for "ipad".
And the G stands for Galaxy Tab.
L for Lemmy
Open source king
Oh good, another chance for people to casually talk about how they expect a person to die soon.
I don't think it's so much that people expect GRRM to die soon -- nevermind the fact that he's well into his 70s and rumors about his health are irrepressible -- as it is that the most recent book in the series was released thirteen years ago.
Between the first two books, there were two years, then another two years for book 3, then five years, then six. It's simply a matter of an unfavorable mathematical progression. Even if by some miracle he drops Winds of Winter tomorrow, the planned final book would seemingly take at least as long again to finish, and given the difficulty of endings, probably much longer than that. GRRM could live to 100 and we would be lucky to see him complete this series.
"Soon" doesn't even come into it.
A Dance With Dragons took him 6 years to write. It's been 13 years since then. Even if Winds of Winter came out tomorrow, it would take him 26 years to write A Dream of Spring given that each book takes twice the time the previous one did. Sadly it's vaporware at this point.
that shit looks like it's written in size 4 font. were Babylonians ant-sized?
Clay tends to be heavy as shit, so writing tiny means that you don't nead a mule team to bring the reciept for the bad copper.
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