But the English wouldn’t have it so they went with the roman God Saturn for Saturday.

And what makes this even weirder is that in the Roman languages all days are Roman Gods EXCEPT Saturday and Sunday. But there is an explanation for both these things, and it becomes quite clear when you know the days in some Latin language, e.g. in Spanish it’s:

• Lunes: Moon (Luna) day
• Martes: Mars (Marte) day
• Miércoles: Mercury (Mercurio) day
• Jueves: Jupiter day
• Viernes: Venus day

The interesting is the obvious conversion:

• Moon day -> Monday
• God of war: Mars -> Tew -> Tuesday
• God of thunder: Jupiter -> Thor -> Thursday
• God of love: Venus -> Freya -> Friday

Wednesday should have been Hermsday for Hermod who’s the God of messages equivalent to Mercury, but I think they thought it was bad not having a day for the allfather and gave him Wednesday.

What about the weekend? In Spanish (and most other roman languages) they are:

• Sábado: Latinization of Jew’s Shabat
• Domingo: Dominicus, i.e. the day of the Lord

As you can see at some point Latin languages started using their new christian religion to name days, but before that those days were:

• Saturni: Saturn day -> Saturday
• Soli: Sun (Sol) day -> Sunday

So as you can see the days of the week in English are mostly the days of the week from ancient Rome, just adapted to a different culture.

But why didn’t they change Saturday and Sunday? My guess is that because the equivalent of Saturn is Freyr the name would have been too similar to his sister’s day Friday. As for Sunday, in earlier Roman history the Sun wasn’t an important god so Sunday might actually reference the sun and not the deity so no need to convert it. And in later periods the Sun represented Roman imperialism and centralized power so they wouldn’t want that one changed. But these are just guesses from my part, if anyone knows the real reason I would love to hear it.

In Russian the days of the week are mostly numbers, e.g. Tuesday is the second day, so Tuesday is Вторник, which comes from второй (second) and the suffix -ник for day. But Monday is not перник as you would expect (первых + ник), instead Monday is Понедельник. This is short for после (after) не (not) делать (doing) -ник (day), i.e the day after not doing anything (Sunday).

In Finnish a tietosanakirja is an encyclopedia, this is a composed word made from tieto (knowledge) and sanakirja (Dictionary). But also sanakirja is a composed word made out from sana (word) and kirja (book). So an encyclopedia is a book of words of knowledge.

Hahahaha you’re absolutely correct, got me there. Let’s say Gimli’s shoes then hahahah

First of all having wings does not mean being able to fly. If Melkor experimented with several things it’s possible he made winged Balrogs who lacked the ability to fly.

Secondly Balrogs are Maiar, Maiar don’t have physical form, they are shape shifters by their very nature. Sure, some lost that ability at some point and became stuck in their form like Morgoth, but at some point they had that ability (otherwise they wouldn’t have any physical form at all). Plus, not all evil Maiar lost the ability, Sauron remained able to do so until he lost his physical body.

Gandalf, like other Maiar in middle earth, is limited in what they’re allowed to do due to their mission. But you should not forget he IS a Maiar, he existed before the physical plane and is not bound by it. He takes the form of an old man to help fight Sauron, and tries to not interfere because it’s important that people save themselves, but he could have come in the form of a towering angelical being with working wings, it just wasn’t what he wanted to represent.

Garlic is an emulsifier, less potent than egg, but still an emulsifier. Which means true aioli is EXTREMELY garlicky (as it is almost 50% garlic), it loses some potency over time like most garlic things, but freshly made aioli is something you don’t put a lot of (and may be part of the reason most restaurants don’t serve it)

1. Fly also means to rush, so while ambiguous since we never see Gandalf fly we can assume it means he rushed down the stairs.
2. Gandalf probably can fly, that doesn’t mean he needs wings.
3. Gandalf is also a Maiar, he can have wings if he so desires.

Shadow like wings doesn’t mean he doesn’t also has wings. And if he had shadow wings before how does he spread them afterwards?. Also, Tolkien is not one to hold adjectives, if he had meant shadow wings he would probably have written shadow wings. I read that more like he had shadow wings and later opened his real wings.

In any case, like I said also, it’s mostly a moot discussion, might as well discuss the color of Frodo’s shoes in that scene.

Sure, but that’s just the restaurant trying to sound fancier than they are, they know it’s not aioli. It’s like when they say they have wasabi but bring you a paste, there’s no debate that wasabi is a root but that most restaurants will serve you a green paste that has 0% wasabi in it. Which is why places that serve real wasabi or aioli usually have it listed as “real wasabi” or “real aioli”, both to clarify they’re using the correct term and not the popular one and to warn people as both aioli and wasabi taste different from the mass produced garlic mayo and mustard paste restaurants usually serve.

In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

Never knew about this debate, but IMO the text is not ambiguous:

suddenly drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall

That’s very literal. Looking into the subject it seems that people think those are metaphorical wings, but I don’t see anything near that phrase that justifies thinking it’s metaphorical.

But also, at the end of the day, it’s a moot debate. Balrogs are Maiar, them having wings or not is as important as the color of the shoes of some other character, they’re spiritual beings that adopt some physical form, which they can change at will.

I don’t think that’s an internal debate, I think everyone who understands about the topic knows the difference between aioli and garlic mayo. It’s people from outside that use the wrong term, so not really an internal debate.

I’ve had lumbar pain from bad chairs in the past, but nothing medically diagnosed (so bear that in mind, your situation might be a lot more serious).

For the past years I’ve been using a Secret Lab chair, and it’s been wonderful. I usually tilt it so it allows me to distribute the weight across my back and not on top of my lumbar, probably not really ergonomic but I haven’t experienced any problems with it.

That being said if I needed to get a new chair it wouldn’t be a secret lab, as much as I like it and I think it’s built like a tank and will last me forever, the lack of a way to limit the tilting is very annoying for my use case.

Just share your location on Google maps temporarily, that’s the easiest. You will have your phone with you and if your phone doesn’t have a signal it’s unlikely anything else you might be willing to take with you will.

Without a medical card you need to pay for visits, also your GP decides where he forwards you to, if he forwards you to a private specialist that’s where you need to go, and if you don’t have a medical card you will have to pay for that as well.

In THEORY the public system is free, but:

• Your GP NEEDS to forward you. Despite having a family history of heart conditions mine refused to forward me to a cardiologist.
• Some specialists simply aren’t available on the public system, my wife needed a psychiatrist and the waiting time was 1.5 YEARS
• You still need to pay for your visit, sure that’s a low value and it caps at €800 per year, but that’s still NOT free

Yeah, there’s a very real chance that the issue was my GP, but since you’re essentially stuck with the GP that you can get it is what it is. I don’t live there anymore so I can share these details in case it saves someone else. I lived in Dublin so obviously both are there, the GP was in Kilmainham medical center and the hospital for the specialist and expensive blood work was Black rock hearth Hermitage Clinic. I have a friend who just went through a similar situation so it’s not exclusive to me, but he does live in the same building I used to so he might go to the same GP, and that GP might have some arrangement or something with the people from that other hospital, not to mention he blocked me from seeing a cardiologist for years saying I didn’t needed it (wanted to do a checkup because my entire father’s side family died of heart related conditions, and after the ridiculous amount of money it costed to see the other specialist I just let it go.

I’m saddened to think it could all have been due to a bad GP, my time in Ireland was very badly affected by these experiences with medical care. And speaking with friends they had had similar experiences so I never thought it could have been a bad GP.

The health plan from the company wasn’t bad, at least I don’t think it was, but I don’t have any parameters to compare it to. I worked for 2 companies while I lived there and both used the same health plan. I don’t remember what it was, but at the specialist they said that I needed to pay and then talk to my health plan, and the health plan only refunded half of the value. I still work for the same company but on a different country, and here the health plan seems to cover everything, so I doubt they would have a good plan on one country and a bad one on the other, but it could happen.

I have lived in several countries so I can give you a few answers:

Brazil:

You have two options, private which is generally expensive but fast and good and public which is free but usually slow and mediocre. Most people who can afford it use private, but public system is honestly quite good in some places. I lived in two different cities, on one of them you didn’t go to the public system unless it was an absolute emergency, because otherwise chances were you would come out worse, on the other city the public system was slow and under budgeted but very good otherwise, you would still prefer private if you could afford it, but people tight on money would use it, so you might do time insensitive stuff on the public system for example.

If you break your leg you would call an ambulance, get taken to a public hospital and be treated all free. You might have to wait on the hospital as people with graver injuries would be taken ahead of you.

Ireland:

There is a public system, but you have to earn below a certain threshold to be able to use it. Emergencies I think are covered for everyone, luckily I never had an emergency while living there so can’t speak from experience. You MUST have a GP, and most of them (at least in Dublin) are not taking new patients. Once you find a GP you must go through them to get to any specialist, for that you pay €60 and then you go to a consultation with them and they can decide whether to forward you to a specialist or not. If they forward you to a specialist you will have to pay their consultation fee, then pay for any exams, they pay to see the specialist again. All-in-all I’ve spent around €1000 trying to get a diagnosis once, luckily I had health insurance and it paid me back half.

Spain:

My wife twisted her ankle while visiting here as tourists, someone called an ambulance, it took us to the hospital, and after some wait se was seen and they did an x-ray, confirmed nothing was broken and gave her some special socks to prevent the joint from forcing too much. Because we forgot to bring our sanitary card from Ireland we had to pay for that, it was a total of €200.

We live here now, and since moving here a couple of years back we have gone through dozens of doctors and exams. I have a health plan from my company so this might not be the same for everyone, but I have never paid a single cent for anything, including X-rays, blood works, CAT scans, etc. Honestly I keep thinking at some point I will receive a huge bill from the health plan, but so far it has never happened.

To me it’s abhorrent that Ireland is seen as having good healthcare. That just goes to show how shitty the system is in the USA. I lived in Ireland for 4 years, had a health plan paid by the company I worked, still had to pay 50% of every visit, and to get to any specialist you need to go to your GP (€60) and then, if your GP agrees (which he might not), they will contact the specialist for you which you will have to pay for out of your own pocket (usually €150-€300 depending on specialty), that specialist will ask for exams (blood works are €80 on the GP, but specialist might require specific tests that GP doesn’t offer, I have paid around €600 for some blood exams), then you go back to the specialist (and pay €150 again for a consultation) for him to check the results of the exams and tell you there’s nothing wrong so you can do another round of exams to see if they find anything… We’re already at around €1000 and the health insurance will only return me half at some point… The max €80 in prescription medicine was quite nice though.

In THEORY they’re bad because the script could do malicious things and you shouldn’t blindly trust random people on the internet telling you what to execute.

In practice it’s mostly fearmongering because you’re likely trying to install a binary that could do malicious things anyways. “Mostly” because it is a bit less safe as one could MITM the script more easily or something, but not really by that much.

You shouldn’t run curl | sh scripts some random person sends you, but running an official script prom an official source is no more dangerous than running a .Deb file from that same source.

Sharks are so old that I’ve seen other comparisons, had never seen the milky way one before, that’s very interesting, the other ones I knew is that sharks are older than:

• The rings of Saturn
• Trees

So when sharks first evolved Saturn had no rings and trees didn’t exist yet.

I tried that, unfortunately my last name is also a brand of water. So I had to use @lastname.co which was available, but people kept adding the m and I missed on emails so I had to not do that hahahah

Nope, this one is in the bible (old testament), roughly in the same place where these are also listed as sins:

Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Do not practice divination or seek omens.

Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

And my favorite to point out to them:

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Also the same book prohibits eating shrimps, and many other things that they will quickly jump to say it doesn’t apply anymore, because most christians do a pick and choose of things in the bible they follow and things they don’t. There’s a game where you and a group of friends follow everything on the bible, the last one jailed wins.