mithril mine safety inspector
@bolemene
He/him, American of Ukrainian Jewish background.
Btw, I know we are all supposed to be anti AI on this site but Gemini is actually pretty good at explaining these things.
I’d argue that it’s still less strange than writing Romanian in Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic!
In modern Ukrainian the word хата means home/house and other Slavic languages borrowed it from Ukrainian, in russian it originally meant a hut or a peasant dwelling but us undergoing a similar semantic shift as in Latin casa to colloquially mean home
LinkedIn is really a parody of itself, it seems to be an earnest posting, no joking
The mystery deepens, Gemini told me that it's Helen Hokinson's cartoon and gave me October 25, 1941 as the published date but it's not there, there are several bangers though in that issue that highlight how much sense of humor changed in the last 90 years
Eliminationist genocidal rhetoric - every Israeli town in their language is "settlement" and every single person - whether wearing uniform or not is a "soldier"
Why were three daughters of Job named in the book and the seven sons were no? seems that some tannaim thought the story was completely made up
contrastof justice in UK vs USA. Russification of America
One of the victims of russian war on Ukraine is the political prisoner Pavel Kushnir who died in 2024 from hunger strike while detained for protesting the war. He was a soloist performer at the Birobidzhan Philharmonic. Documentary about him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxN... (in russian) 2/2