Folks, Twitter is awful and has been for a long time. It’s dumb people talking to dumb people, or people who -should- be smarter saying things that are too paper thin to be worth paying attention to at all. We’d all be a lot better off without Twitter. I welcome the demise. 

Dude, I don’t have to look far to know that you scraped that surface level knowledge from wikipedia without having a background in late egyptian history yourself. The Ptolemaic dynasty didn’t bother trying hard to get people to speak greek, nor did they bother to speak Egyptian (as you pointed out from the no doubt…

Depends on the type of work. Rote work that requires less mental acuity only tends to suffer margianaly, and the dropoff can be strongly mitigated by incorporating a few breaks and a meal. I’ve seen at least three experiments around the concept in a production environment and the trade-off seems net positive for…

I mean iPhones are mostly made in China, but they are sold by Apple and were designed in the US. So are they a Chinese cultural artifact? Are they -not- an American culture artifact? It’s just the thinking on this is so.... linear. And culture is NOT linear.

But the culture that created it was Hellenistic Egypt, in other words: GREEK Egypt under greek pharaohs. I’m not being flippant. I mean that’s literally the culture of the era and was distinct from pre Ptolemy influenced Egypt. So what’s important here? Geography? The person who cut the stone (we won’t know that)? The…

Reading this I’m just like 100% sure you aren’t actually aware of how it was found, by whom, in what condition, who it was made by, when, by what peoples during what era etc.

This is what drives me nuts about some of these articles on Gizmodo. They exist in this “surface level” understanding of issues where it’s super…

Shouldn’t it belong in Greece since it was produced during the Hellenistic Period in Egypt? History not so simple, bub. 

Well the regime matters about as much as the people. And the people matter too. I actually agree that the stone could and maybe should go back to Egypt, but it’s probably worth noting that Egypt isn’t a homogenous entity, nor are its people. As someone noted above, the stone hales from an era in which Egypt was…

Yeah, it would be crazy to move monuments and buildings from one location to another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)

Personally don’t care. The informational value of the stone is already harvested, doesn’t matter where it sits. Fine if it goes back to Egypt, fine if not. 

Uh oh, you whipped out Ptolemy to a group of people who don’t really understand that period of history (same people who think Cleopatra was Egyptian). Now you’re going to be called a lot of names. 

Cool. I like YouTube. Hope it works out. 

THIS IS THE ONE.

It’s weird to me that when a debate breaks out about free speech, there are always people who say “freedom of speech pertains to government interference not private ... blah blah” as though that’s not a generally understood fact. And someone always writes that as though they are offering some important new nuance,…

Well, that’s not actually true. Several platforms identified and suppressed content that they -deemed- untrue and damaging, some of which turned out to not be untrue or damaging so much as undesirable. Facebook did it, twitter did it, youtube did it. And unevenly at that.  

Maybe it’s just because It’s not my first rodeo, but that description is obvious to me and why I used ‘free speech” and expressed desire for “free speech absolutist” infrastructure. I think companies are well within their rights to control speech on their platforms, I simply wish there were more that were…

Ok, clue me in.... why was she “obviously” a lesbian? Didn’t she have a crush on Shaggy? 

You lost me at rom-com. 

I think the floating bowl of food in the sky / daydream is my favorite. 

Are you saying that no men are marginalized?