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Johnny Novgorod

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I knew phagein is a Greek suffix that means "eater, to eat". But I never put together that the word sarcophagus entailed that something was being eaten.

Sure enough, sarkos is Greek for flesh.

Sarcophagus = flesh eater.

Great name for a coffin.
 
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Johnny Novgorod said:
I knew phagein is a Greek suffix that means "eater, to eat". But I never put together that the word sarcophagus entailed that something was being eaten.

Sure enough, sarkos is Greek for flesh.

Sarcophagus = flesh eater.

Great name for a coffin.
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Also perhaps because the stone they used may have been very slightly corrosive and accelerated decay ("ate the flesh") of the body, though whether that was true or just a thing they believed I don't know.
 
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Thaluikhain said:
Also perhaps because the stone they used may have been very slightly corrosive and accelerated decay ("ate the flesh") of the body, though whether that was true or just a thing they believed I don't know.
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A bit more into that -
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Sarcophagus | Ancient Egypt, Burial, Funerary Art

Sarcophagus, stone coffin. The original term is of doubtful meaning. Pliny explains that the word denotes a coffin of limestone from the Troad (the region around Troy) which had the property of dissolving the body quickly (Greek sarx, “flesh,” and phagein, “to eat”), but this explanation is
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Lenghty and a bit meandering, but very interesting look into South Korean society using the 'gender war' as a framework
 
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Cant say I’ve run into this but apparently it’s a thing -

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The Peoples Platform on Instagram: "GO INSIDE!! [News & Educational awareness] BEWARE: California.— Gas pump technician discovers card skimmer while making a repair at a gas station in San Gabriel Valley Area. The pump was not working correctly so the gas station owner called a technician to repair the problem and thats when the device was discovered. TIPS TO STAY SAFE: How do you tell if there is a card skimmer? The stripe reader is at a funny angle. The buttons on the keypad are off-center or hard to push. The easiest way to detect a credit card skimmer is to yank, pull, and tug. Before you put your card into a point-of-sale terminal, wiggle a few parts of the machine to see if anything is loose. Credit : @ppv_tahoe"

31K likes, 76 comments - thesourcela on December 26, 2023: "GO INSIDE!! [News & Educational awareness] BEWARE: California.— Gas pump technician discovers card skimmer while making a repair at a g...".
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What the F next.
 
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hanselthecaretaker2 said:
Cant say I’ve run into this but apparently it’s a thing -

www.instagram.com

The Peoples Platform on Instagram: "GO INSIDE!! [News & Educational awareness] BEWARE: California.— Gas pump technician discovers card skimmer while making a repair at a gas station in San Gabriel Valley Area. The pump was not working correctly so the gas station owner called a technician to repair the problem and thats when the device was discovered. TIPS TO STAY SAFE: How do you tell if there is a card skimmer? The stripe reader is at a funny angle. The buttons on the keypad are off-center or hard to push. The easiest way to detect a credit card skimmer is to yank, pull, and tug. Before you put your card into a point-of-sale terminal, wiggle a few parts of the machine to see if anything is loose. Credit : @ppv_tahoe"

31K likes, 76 comments - thesourcela on December 26, 2023: "GO INSIDE!! [News & Educational awareness] BEWARE: California.— Gas pump technician discovers card skimmer while making a repair at a g...".
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What the F next.
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I don't find this happens as often here but that's mainly because of the way eftpos is handled. But its good advice regardless since a few petrol stations rolled these kinds of things out.
 
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Didn’t realize Japan has never launched a satellite. Try, try again I suppose. The excuse given is interesting though:

"The rocket terminated the flight after judging that the achievement of its mission would be difficult," company president Masakazu Toyoda said.

The company said that the launch is highly automated, requiring only about a dozen ground staff, and that the rocket self-destructs when it detects errors in its flight path, speed or control system that could cause a crash that endangers people on the ground.

"We don't use the world 'failure', because each trial brings us ... new data and experience for another challenge," Toyoda told a news conference.


Somewhere in the great beyond, Edison smiled.
 
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The 7 days of the week are associated with the 7 classical planets and their associated deities.

Sunday=Sun's day= Helios/Sol(God of the Sun)=The Sun
Monday= Moon's Day= Luna(Goddess of the Moon)=The Moon
Tuesday= Tyr's day= Tyr/Mars(God of War)= Mars
Wensday= Wodan's Day= Wodan/Mercury(God of Magic)= Mercury. Yeah, it's a wierd but that's the logic.
Thursday= Thor's Day= Thor/Jupiter(God of the sky/lightening)= Jupiter.
Friday= Frigg's Day= Frigg/Venus(Goddess of Love)= Venus.
Saturday= Saturn's Day= Saturn/Cronus(God of Wealth and Agriculture)=Saturn.
 
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Might be due to my age, but just realized "Martha" was way hotter than Lois in 2016.

 
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Dalisclock said:
The 7 days of the week are associated with the 7 classical planets and their associated deities.

Sunday=Sun's day= Helios/Sol(God of the Sun)=The Sun
Monday= Moon's Day= Luna(Goddess of the Moon)=The Moon
Tuesday= Tyr's day= Tyr/Mars(God of War)= Mars
Wensday= Wodan's Day= Wodan/Mercury(God of Magic)= Mercury. Yeah, it's a wierd but that's the logic.
Thursday= Thor's Day= Thor/Jupiter(God of the sky/lightening)= Jupiter.
Friday= Frigg's Day= Frigg/Venus(Goddess of Love)= Venus.
Saturday= Saturn's Day= Saturn/Cronus(God of Wealth and Agriculture)=Saturn.
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Is this why practically everyone loves Fridays?


*Badum tssss*
 
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What it's like being at the emergency department at the hospital.
 
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