TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"
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    The pronunciation of Lebanon you called out may sound like it came from a hayseed, but it’s closer to the way people in the country of Lebanon pronounce it than the mainstream American pronunciation.

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  • TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all
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    That would be the laryngeal nerve. It’s been with us vertebrates for a long time.

    I take your, “for zero reason,” to indicate that it’s silly that it’s so long in a giraffe. And it is, because it connects the larynx and the brain, two bits that aren’t very far apart. You’d never design it that way from scratch.

    But the laryngeal nerve’s length has a reason: it loops around the heart and it developed in our fish-like ancestors. At that time, it wasn’t silly for the nerve to wrap around the heart, because fish don’t have necks and thus the nerve was about the same length whether it wrapped around the heart or not. As necks developed, evolution found it easier to lengthen the nerve than to reroute it. So here we and giraffes both exist, having much longer laryngeal nerves than you’d engineer if you were making us from scratch.

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  • What is your favorite though provoking movie?
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    except Noah; wtf was that

    I'm going to hazard a response to what you found wtf:

    Aronofsky's Noah is told with a Jewish perspective on the story. In Jewish tradition, Noah is a notable person, but he is not admirable. In Genesis it states that Noah was righteous in his generation. Rashi, a leading rabbi in the Middle Ages, said in regards to that statement: "Others, however, explain it to his discredit: in comparison with his own generation he was accounted righteous, but had he lived in the generation of Abraham he would have been accounted as of no importance." (https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.6.9?lang=bi&aliyot=0&p2=Rashi_on_Genesis.6.9.2&lang2=bi)

    Jewish sages, too, have long criticized Noah for accepting God's dictate that he will destroy all life on earth without argument. That's in contrast to Abraham who, when God said he would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, argued with God and got him to agree not to destroy the cities if there existed ten righteous people in the cities.

    So Aronofsky shows Noah as a religious extremist who does what God says without question. It's a sometimes ugly portrayal, but it fits with an interpretation of Noah that sees him as the best the world had on hand, but not the best that mankind can be.

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  • Subtle Differences
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    I thought Inc-El was a play on inconel and that this meme was about how extremely cool the Cybertruck is.

    I was confused.

    Then I thought about it.

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    Disable capitalization and spell-check in the login form fields.

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    https://i.imgur.com/YwEZRQR.png

    The term **link** refers to text that can be interacted with, usually in a web page and usually to take a user to somewhere else. Better to use a term like **domain** in place of **website link**.

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    I’d like to see you add post creation. I’m having to post to this community using apps other than Avelon.

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    https://i.imgur.com/MHE0iR6.png

    A few things in the Subscriptions view: - It appears to sort in descending order by community name; be nice if I could control this - No way to refresh; I have to restart the app if I subscribe to a new community

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    From one end of the street to the other. Nothing like the Western Kansas sky.

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    https://i.imgur.com/xHejD4M.jpg

    ![](https://i.imgur.com/5whIsEN.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/Xm40uBS.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/cOIbqp3.jpg) A few years ago (pre-pandemic), my wife and I participated in a dig at Tel Azekah. We uncovered stone walls, figurines, and had the good fortune to find a mostly-intact pot containing seeds.

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    Shavua tov/שבוע טוב

    What are you anticipating this week?

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