Magnets are created by running an electrical current through a material, so there is no need to have a ‘first magnet’. This is happening ‘naturally’ in the earth core, in the sun, and in other stars. (…stackexchange.com/…/how-was-the-first-magnet-mad…)
So you need to look around and find some magic rocks.
Maybe the sword with the stone was just a big lodestone with a sword sized hole in it. Just throwing that out there.
And one more cool fact…
Based on his discovery of an Olmec artifact (a shaped and grooved magnetic bar) in North America, astronomer John Carlson suggests that lodestone may have been used by the Olmec more than a thousand years prior to the Chinese discovery.[23] Carlson speculates that the Olmecs, for astrological or geomantic purposes, used similar artifacts as a directional device, or to orient their temples, the dwellings of the living, or the interments of the dead.[23] Detailed analysis of the Olmec artifact revealed that the “bar” was composed of hematite with titanium lamellae of Fe2–xTixO3 that accounted for the anomalous remanent magnetism of the artifact.[24] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestone)
Coil a lead wire around a big full metal cylinder (must be magnetizable) and attach one end to a big ass antenna and the other in the ground, then wait for lightning to strike the antenna. Although the amount of power will probably melt everything.
The best a human can do without the knowledge of how it fully works is be able to push them in the right direction. Depending how far back you go you’d either be considered a god or a witch 🤣. Humans man we are strange.
But first, you need all the guns (and other modern weaponry) to gun down anyone trying to kill you. Might be useful to make them listen to you as well.
Eh. Like 90%+ of everybody who ever lived in pre-Industrial civilization was a slave or a serf or something like that. What does that say about the other 1% that “owned” them? And if your goal is explicitly to bring lots of revolutionary technologies, you’re probably going to disrupt a lot of established power structures. People in power don’t tend to take kindly to that, and as the ultimate outsider, you’ll be the perfect scapegoat for anything that goes wrong.
It’s dumb to think only about fighting, and this specific scenario isn’t something that you’re ever going to be able to win through brute force alone. Also, using guns “to make them listen to you”, as the original comment said, sounds pretty evil depending on how it’s done. (E.G. Menace and threaten anyone questioning you: Evil. Gain favour with the royal army by providing guns, then ask for funding for medical research: Less evil.) But ultimately, it’s reasonable to be prepared for other people to act in bad faith.
I’m pretty sure it’s 3. I think the proof works by taking a 1 x 1 square and splitting into quarters (1/4 = 1/2^2). So we say we have 3 full quarters and then 1 remaining quarter which we then split up again. And if you keep doing that you will fill in the full square. 3/4 + 3/16 + 3/64 and so on
No, it’s a normal multiplication by 3, and it makes sense.
3 times the sum expands to: 3 * 1/4 + 3 * 1/16 + 3 * 1/64 + 3 * 1/256 + …
Which is essentially what the picture shows: The main meme is three quarters filled with whole pictures, the fourth quarter being the inset of the sub meme, which is made up of three sixteenths of whole pictures and the fourth sixteenth is made up of the next layer of inset meme etc.
I’m into nerdy shit, but idgaf about linux, programming, furry shit, porn, or locale communities. So i guess its just news, politics, technology, and memes for days, for me. not much nerdy shit that I’m into is actually actively represented here, but I’m thinking that will change with time. I already started my own image editing community, since thats a hobby that I enjoy quite a bit. Hasn’t exactly taken off yet haha but these things take time. I was enjoying the atheist meme community but the mod banned me and I can’t figure out why. Wont respond to my inquiries either. probably a former reddit mod who misses being a cunt for no reason.
I’m now wondering if my post would have also been drowned in downvotes if I went with “not interested in tech, anime and furry stuff”, which is what I actually meant.
By the way, what’s your image editing community? I’m interested in that, too.
Funny but English as a Lingua Franca is a thing. English has become a widely understood international language so its not just used to talk to native English speakers but also as a common language between non-native speakers.
Italians (Latin) and Greeks were salty before them. And the Anglo-Saxons will be salty when Chinese, Indian or an African language becomes the new lingua franca. That’s
Why would the lingua franca change again? No type of Chinese, Indian, nor any African language has even remotely the same spread as English does. I’d wager some proficiency in English exist in a sizeable part of the population in almost every country on earth, same can’t be said for most other languages (if any).
If history is anything to go by, the English speaking world runs into some trouble. Nothing much new comes out in English while somebody else becomes dominant in research and publishes in their language. That’s getting picked up in academia and politics and if anyone wants to be up to date, they learn that language. The other language now starts to distribute their movies exposing more people who pick up that language and spreading from there.
Sure, that can take a few generations. It’s not like everybody just decided to switch right now
The thing is, we can’t exactly go by history since we’ve never been as interconnected as we are now. Intercontinental travel could potentially be seen as “just” a huge step up in transportation compared to the past but the internet has fundamentally changed how we communicate. When it comes to technology and science, English is the de facto standard and it’s gonna take something pretty huge to disrupt that.
Disruptions are in the near future. Energy systems are changing, climate change is going to wreck things, wannabe dictators starting wars and others. Usually one of those isn’t a problem but a lot of those at the same time wrecked past civilizations. But you can’t predict how it’ll all turn out.
Yes, but the prerequisite is kind of that they will wreck the west (which is the main region keeping English as the lingua franca) but not the other regions when the west is likely going to be less impacted by a lot of issues than other parts of the world, for example just due to geography.
The key difference is that 200 years ago they couldn’t easily instantly speak to someone across the globe. And, they didn’t get news quickly when something happened halfway across the world.
Never in history though has there already been a language this dominant across the world, has there? I look at it this way, two things need to happen for a new language to become dominant – there needs to be both an impetus and a strong candidate.
I’m not entirely sure what impetus there would be. What we’ve had so far is everyone else using the language. What would cause that to happen? You’d need a sizable number of people who simultaneously have global influence and don’t typically use English. Right now one precludes the other. It’s why there isn’t a strong candidate either – the language would need to have widespread use and honestly be the preferred language in some fields globally.
I can think of two possible candidates, but it’s still a stretch. Latin is probably the most widely used, but no one uses it conversationally. Japanese goes along with your comment about movies – the anime industry has been successful on a global level to the point that people prefer to listen to it in Japanese even if they don’t understand it.
I think that’s the bellwether we need to look for. Whatever the successor language is, it will need to be adopted by people who don’t understand it but still prefer it. It faces the challenge of supplanting the dominant language for the entire globe, not just a region of the world.
Right now there is no reason to believe that will change but we cannot predict the future. Thus far no language has remained the common one permanently.
The term lingua franca derives from Mediterranean Lingua Franca (also known as Sabir), the pidgin language that people around the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean Sea used as the main language of commerce and diplomacy from late medieval times to the 18th century, most notably during the Renaissance era. During that period, a simplified version of mainly Italian in the eastern and Spanish in the western Mediterranean that incorporated many loan words from Greek, the Slavic languages, Arabic, and Turkish came to be widely used as the “lingua franca” of the region, although some scholars claim that the Mediterranean Lingua Franca was just poorly used Italian.
I know. Joke is that frenchies see their language on the highest pedestal possible. And additional joke is in similarity of words “French” and “franca”.
Erm. English is the world language. In science and all international bodies. Why wouldn’t we use English to communicate with people from other countries when not at least one person speaks the native language of the other (yes, that happens, and then we don’t speak English)?
For a lot of african countries english and french are more administrative languages. More and more people learn them as they’re used in schools, but in everyday life other languages dominate. Calling them english speaking countries may be correct as english is the “official” language, but that’s not the whole picture.
To cut Anglophones some slack, quite a lot of people are bilingual by knowing their native language + english because it’s pretty much the de facto international language, especially in Europe. For Anglophones it just happens that their native language is english, so they don’t bother with learning a new one since realistically they don’t need to, whereas for others knowing english is often mandatory for jobs.
Besides that it’s much easier to learn english than any other language because media and culture in english is unavoidable unless you live without internet and TV.
Yeah, but what I meant is that for English you don’t need to look for it. You’ll see English on every social media. At least in Serbia, most, if not all popular foreign songs are in english, and most younger people listen to music with english lyrics, on TV you’ll find mostly american series, movies and shows, technology uses english by default, and everyone learns english in school here since year 1 of primary school.
My point is that Anlophones who want to learn, say, French, have to actively seek it out and motivate themselves for the sole purpose of being able to engage in French culture, while here (but I imagine it’s very similar in the rest of europe) people are bombarded with english everywhere they look, whether they want to or not.
And this reach really makes it insanely easy to learn english. I’ve been listening to so much Swedish metal that I’ve learned a handful of words, and if I had immediate access to Swedish like I do to English, I’d probably be talaring svenska by now, but I do not, so I don’t. So to make a fair comparisson, I’d say it would be better to see how many people speak 3+ languages, and compare that to the number of bilingual Anglophones.
About that, why do Germans dub so much? Here we only dub children’s shows. Netflix has tried to dub a few normal movies and they got mocked by pretty much everyone.
I guess the immigrants appreciated it though. It’s probably a good way to learn our language.
older people (but also quite a lot of young people) don’t speak english that well, they would have problems understanding and dubbing has been done for so long that they expect it
there are enough german speakers that it’s worth dubbing instead of just subtitling
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