Don't forget that there's a difference between anatomically modern humans and behaviorally modern humans. It's debated when the modern behavior began, but it is sometimes thought to be as recent as 40k years ago.

Still a long time, just not quite as long as 300k years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity?wprov=sfla1

So many get this backwards.

The languages (there are multiple, including historical languages that explain the transition into the modern languages) came first - by about 40 years.

He did not invent languages for his world. He invented a world to explain how his languages would come to exist.

The developers who created Lemmy are leftists, and they run the lemmy.ml instance. The lemmy.ml (.ml is for Mali, btw) domain was allegedly chosen because ML can also stand for Marxist-Leninist.

I'm not an expert on the subject, but lemmy.ml users are known for being tankies. People don't like that.

However, some of you whipper snappers don't know that those of us with really old accounts joined back when lemmy.ml was the most popular instance. I just like FOSS things.

Edit: added "allegedly"

If they're US American, a plane is likely the only public transportation they've ever taken. If they live anywhere remotely rural, it's likely the only one available to them.

Signed, -An American

He's a great manager, I'd imagine. He doesn't need to punish anyone for poor performance. He can just give them his signature look of disappointment, and they know.

This is the "Lagrangian standard model" - the mathematical formula explaining basically all physics as we know it.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-standard-model-equation?language_content_entity=und

When you DON'T assume spherical chickens in a vacuum, this is what you gotta calculate.

Even if it did work, why would you do it? You'd still be playing League of Legends.

Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: "dick" is the German word for "thick."

You may now resume your laughter.

Before you get excited, it's an IndieGoGo project.

Selling drugs? Because, we've all been dealers before... I guess?

It's a type of fish, and they are making word plays with the name of the fish. Why? I'm not sure of the origin of this one. I imagine it's like the beans or the beef stroganoff memes - the origin doesn't matter much at this point.

No, they didn't. If they did it would be huge news.