🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

maybe theres someone versed in history and linguistics here:

is anyone aware of research to reconstruct/validate mythology using neighboring mythologies by representing them as ontologies like "persephone is the daughter of zeus and demeter" and searching for similar logical patterns?

to give an example, the similarity of some of the norse gods and the roman and greek gods is accepted. i wonder if there might be other hidden similarities to be found by comparing those things systematically. the _concepts_ these mythological systems had might be much more old than either of those specific myths. i'd venture that at least for the larger language families there should be similarities and basic concepts to view the world. would be pretty interesting to search for those concepts, not only discovering them by accident.

i have the feeling this is a rather low hanging fruit aside the leg work of doing the transfer of the source texts into a logical system. this must already have been done by someone :)

Damn, I cried at the end of The Orville S03E08 (Midnight Blue).

I can safely say that the 3rd season has a much larger emotional impact than the previous ones.
#TheOrville

Btw https://fedi.koyu.space is now open for registrations. The app will come later. Thought I'd surprise you with that.

@freemo ha, you did the image as profile picture! Nice :D

@trinsec @Pat @freemo As a facial recognition expert, it appears to be the sign of relief after a particularly severe bout of constipation has been surprisingly alleviated by an equally surprisingly painless treatment. (If only a German was here to christen my description with a ridiculously long compound word.)

Imagine it: you haven't pooped in a week and a half, you're bloated and miserable. Suddenly, after enjoying a delicious, laxative-laced stroopwafel, a stirring in your bowels begins that begets the smoothest pooping experience of your existence: a perfect log, a single clean wipe, and a feeling of contented ease unrivaled by anything you have or will ever experience. It's bittersweet, as you know it's all downhill from here.

It is **this** feeling of completely unexpected joy caused by the reversal of a (pun-intended) crappy experience by a stupid simple method, that I believe we are observing here. Truly, this expression exemplifies these circumstances, and only a few will have the joy of experiencing it for themselves.

P.S. In case it was non-obvious, the poop thing is just an (albeit gross) illustrative metaphor for the emotions behind the expression 😂

I'm not surprised that the first analyses of the first Webb data seem to indicate that galaxies in the early universe are more massive than the standard model of cosmology predicts.

#JamesWebTelescope #astronomy #astrophysics