Masters in classics here. They literally are, even the number 4. Look at a watch with Roman numerals and notice that the 4 is “IIII”.

I = 1 finger

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V = open hand

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X = two open hands next to each other

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Why do you get “L” for 50 and “C” for 100? The C “centum” was written with two reversed “L” shapes. Take away half of that, and you are left with L.

Why do you get “M” for 1,000 and “D” for 500? Same reason–doubled up reversed D shapes. Take away half and you’re left with a D.

Money. Someone was making money off of it somehow, and was willing to do terrible things to get more.

I agree with you. The cultural export is fine. If you were rich, being there would be fine. If you are a worker in an office, it sounds awful.

Keep repeating to yourself: they have an “external locus of identity”. This is why they are angry, because an attack on Trump is an attack at their personal identities.

Note that “kids these days” is the flipside to “old people are out of touch”.

I’m sure it will be. This is a government funded thing in the early stages so I can see how they would set it up that way.

Really cool. I tried to sign up but you have to be part of an officially recognized organization in France and input their registration number as part of the process.

lol what did the French do to you?

Why does Sam keep threatening us with a good time?

Oh you have to block a few key instances and life is rosy. Stay away from Tankies and ultra Libertarians and you’re fine.

At least unlike reddit people aren’t directly insulting you.

Shame on the AP for not using the proper spelling.

TLDR; these had built in musical synthesizers. Same sorts of chips you’d find in electronic keyboards. You don’t have to record the sound, just the instruction for the chip to play the sound you want.

I do think you’re right. Friendster and MySpace were pretty much the peak, then when real social media took over, it all went to shit. Since then, tech exists not to perform some function but to justify its existence specifically to earn money.

I am surprised that you had to point that out, if I am honest. I’d have expected people who have reasoned opinions on China to understand that basic part of Chinese (or possibly Asian-at-large) culture.

The US suffers deeply from cultural narcissism where a significant number of people believe that their needs are more important than the needs of others.

It’s not that there don’t care as much as they don’t believe it will affect them personally. They believe they their wealth will protect them.

It’s always been that way

I was saying that US and European airlines are not likely to purchase them.

Part of it is also capacity. Every order to Boeing or Airbus takes years to fulfill because there is a giant backlog.