All I’m seeing is that somehow a lab was trained not to eat. Doubt.

Ivy League schools were never about education. They’ve always about making connections with other elites.

Ok, but seriously. Why exactly was a ninja turtle hanging out with Vanilla Ice at a Republican rally? That’s like some fever dream shit and I don’t get how they all fit together.

Ok. Thanks for confirming that, and answering my second unasked question. I’d wondered if it was a legacy of Alexander’s conquests, but doubted because I didn’t think he made it as far as Bengal, though I wondered if it was a Greek linguistic relic that got naturalised into Hindi/Bengali. It’s Sanskrit; makes more sense.

Means, “is the city”, yeah? Like, the Greeks just referred to it as The City?

Pretty unrelated, but I always wondered if the -pur ending for Indian cities was a cognate of -polis.

They discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. … And there’s reason Uranium and Plutonium weren’t discovered until Bruce Willis went to space.

You know what, it’s something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn’t really hold water.

IIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium … but Alumnia isn’t a place, so they’re wrong.

You know, it’s kind of like this with land. Laws around Adverse Possession (Squatter’s Rights) are basically the legal framework for taking possession of land when someone has so much land or are so absentee that you can use it without them noticing. Generally, if you you can use their land openly and they don’t challenge you, after a set period it’s yours.

Don’t know how this would work with money, but it’s interesting that you can legally take someone’s property if they have too much to manage it properly and you need it.