Or my question may be way off, and it was just a weird Prairie thing that my mom's school did.
The dot "."
It has ended more sentences than anything else.
I just listened to an interview with Geoff Nunberg on the history of the word “asshole” - spoiler alert, using asshole to refer to a human who sucks is fairly recent.
Anyway, it got me thinking about the history of the n word. Not, mind you, the actual n word, but the term “the n word”.
As children, we learn to tattle tale by saying “ohhh he said the f word!” But, to the best of my knowledge no self respecting adults (not even extremely uptight ones) would report on spoken language this way.
My gut is that even a very square, conservative person would be okay with (at least not morally opposed to) reporting the use of “fuck” even if not using it in his own language. Ie “We must limit our children’s exposure to music where the word ‘fuck’ is used in the lyrics.”
The “n word” is the only one I can think of that (non black, non racist) people are nearly ALWAYS unable to utter in its full form.
As of late (perhaps less than a decade?) the f-word (used to describe a gay male) seems to have taken on a similar role.
I have a feeling this wasn’t always the case. And I am interested in what this says about this word’s role in our society. I wonder if all western cultures have similar taboos against the mere utterance of the word.
Any thoughts, links, historical context, etc?
I have to say it was absolutely riveting.
October 2019: Jenelle announces on IG she’s leaving David and then moves to Tennessee.
November 2019: Jenelle files a restraining order against David, claiming “Because of his recent threats, his history of violence, his erratic behavior and his large stockpile of weapons, I am scared for my life and my children’s well-being.”
-She details over eleven instances of abuse against her and the children, verbal and physical. Also claims David isn’t allowed to know their exact location because she’s so afraid of him.
-She claims he locked Kaiser in a running car to scare him. She claims David stole and hid her car to prevent her from leaving, and grabbed her arm hard enough to bruise her.
-She claims David sent her a text saying “This is your new boyfriend. I’m going to break his neck and feed you his head.’ He followed that text with another text: ‘My goal in life is to make sure you regret leaving me like this.'”
-During this time David says he never loved Jenelle and she doesn’t parent the children.
-David claims one of the dogs were randomly stolen from the property.
-David destroys the house and children’s rooms in a fit of rage.
December 2019: Jenelle takes off and flies to Boston to hook up with Herb, a guy she met on IG, leaving the kids behind in a brand new state with people they don’t even know.
-Didn’t make it past the first date. Jenelle claims he passed out drunk and kept making her talk to his friends on the phone, he claims she’s weird and socially awkward. Goes on to insult most aspects of her and her life.
January 2020: Jenelle drops the RO, begs David to take her back (her own words), and yanked the kids back to the Land.
Most of the timeline of events came from Jenelle’s own statements, and we can all be damn sure she’ll be changing her tune on most, if not all of the facts in this shitty new YouTube series.
BTC is now digital gold, store of value, new asset class, and that's fine! It wasn't always like this, though... it was supposed to be more than just that.
Did you know how easy it was to send BTC around before 2015? The fees were only a few cents so it was viable for tipping people on Reddit, paying for coffee and competing with the likes of VISA! It was advertised as "magic internet money", and magic internet money it was! Scan a QR code, click send, and look at your friend's face as it shows up instantly on his phone! Amazing! It took banks years to achieve that UX with their centralized payment systems. We had it, back in the day.
There was a problem, though. Transactions were rate limited, and this was fine when the community was small as this limit was never reached. Think of transactions as seats on a bus. If the bus is half-empty, there's no competition for the tickets. Well, now that it's full, everyone is jumping over each other to get in, and the ticket price goes up.
This led to a technical debate that lasted for years. The creator (Satoshi Nakamoto) meant to remove this limit one day but he disappeared, and the folks left in charge disagreed about how to continue. Some folks wanted to keep the same bus, some folks wanted to make a bigger bus, or a train of buses if you will. Here's what I mean, visualized: https://txstreet.com/v/bch-btc.
The small bus side argued against making buses larger as less bus makers could afford to build the new design, but they ignored that the ticket prices would prevent millions from riding the bus. Big bus side argued that anyone can try to build a bus but we shouldn't limit those who're good at it just so everyone can particiapte in bus making. We want everyone to ride the bus, not to be bus makers. Competing bus makers will always be free to join, but will have to up their game to current state of bus making, so - let buses be as big as people can make them, the free market will optimize the size and price of ticket.
Maybe the bus analogy doesn't hold well here, e-mail is better. E-mail is decentralized, permissionless, uncensorable and cheap for the user but it wouldn't be if you artificially limited the capacity of e-mail servers so anyone can be in the e-mail server business. No ordinary user runs an e-mail server to use the e-mail system, but as users we can freely choose which server to use, and we can freely raise capital and start an e-mail provider business if
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Wilt to the 76ers, 1965
Big Move: The San Francisco Warriors traded Wilt Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers. He was a walking video game cheat, but I guess the OG SF Dubs wanted to save money.
The Return: Paul Neumann, Connie Dierking, Lee Shaffer. Paul Neumann went on to star in such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Good Move?: The 76ers did win a title so I would call that a solid investment. As for the Warriors, forty years later they won the title with Steph Curry and co. I don’t think they were related, however.
Wilt to the Lakers, 1968
Big Move: After just 4 seasons, the 76ers moved Wilt to the Lakers. He was still considered the dominant player in the league.
The Return: Darrell Imhoff, Archie Clark, and Jerry Chambers. No, I’ve never heard of any of those people either.
Good Move?: The Lakers did eventually win the NBA title with Wilt in 1972. They also made the finals a bunch. So yeah, I’d call it a good move for them. The 76ers had got what they could from Wilt. Didn’t get the best return for him though. People aren’t named Archie anymore.
Earl Monroe to the Knicks, 1971
Big Move: The Baltimore Bullets—RIP to a great nickname—traded Earl Monroe to the Knicks just two years removed from being an All-NBA selection.
The Return: Mike Riordan, Dave Stallworth
Good Move?: The Knicks and Monroe made the finals in back-to-back years and won the second one. That’s a good move. It was also the last good move the knicks would make.
Kareem to the Lakers, 1975
Big Move: Kareem Abdul-Jabar (and Walt Wesley) got sent to the Lakers. He was 27 and averaging a 30 and 14.
The Return: Elmore Smith, Brian Winters, Dave Meyers, and Junior Bridgeman
Good Move?: 5 titles is a pretty good haul for the Lakers. The Bucks... not so much, but Kareem had asked for the trade and they had already won 1 chip in two trips with him. The Bucks had to get something for him before he walked.
Moses Malone to the 76ers, 1982
Big Move: The Houston Rockets traded the reigning MVP to the 76ers. Because they didn’t want to pay him. Ouch.
The Return: Caldwell Jones and a future first-round draft pick (Rodney McCrae).
Good Move?: As with most of these so far, it worked out for the receiving team. Malone won a third MVP and the Sixers won the championship the very next season. Makes sense since he was only 26 at the time.
Barkley to the Suns, 1992
Big Move: The 76ers dump Sir Charles to the Phoenix Suns. The Suns had some of
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Unlucky meaning something totally out of the team’s control which badly impacted them
I’m Dr. Kirk Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Here, I oversee the nation’s natural history collection: more than 146 million specimens and artifacts that together comprise the largest collection of its kind in the world. Each year, the museum hosts more than 5 million visitors and its scientists publish more than 800 scientific research papers and name more than 300 new species.
On June 8, 2019, we opened The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils-Deep Time, a 31,000 square-foot exhibition that interprets the history of life on Earth and its relevance to the future of humanity. The exhibit is packed with real fossils and skeletons including a Tyrannosaurus rex from Montana, an elephant-sized EremotheriumGround Sloth from Panama, a Diplodocus from Utah, a Stegosaurus from Colorado, a 50-million-year-old palm frond from Alaska and hundreds more. The museum also houses a 52-foot-long model of the extinct Carcharocles megalodon shark.
Before my arrival to the Smithsonian in 2012, I worked as a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science where I led expeditions in 18 states and 11 countries. My research focuses on fossil plants and the extinction of the dinosaurs, and has taken me from the polar regions to the equatorial rainforests. In 2011, I led an ice age excavation near Snowmass Village in Colorado that recovered parts of more than 50 mastodon skeletons.
I’m known for my scientific articles, popular books, museum exhibitions, documentaries, and collaborations with artists. My recent documentaries include Ice Age Death Trap (2012), Making North America (2015), The Great Yellowstone Thaw (2017), and The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017). My current show, NOVA’S Polar Extremes, which premiered on PBS on Feb. 5, uses the fossil record from the Arctic and the Antarctic to show that the polar regions were ice-free and forested for much of Earth’s history.
My recent book, Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, The Travels of an Artist and a Scientist along the Shores of the Prehistoric Pacific (2018) explores the deep history of the West Coast from California to Alaska. And my upcoming book, Trees are made of Gas, The Story of Carbon and Climate, will be published this fall.
I’m originally from Bellevue, Washington and have a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in
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