It's not racist to say that a theocracy scares a lot of smart people away. I know multiple Iranian families who all fled Iran after 1979 and came to Europe. All highly educated, all very opposed to the Islamic Republic that ruined their country.
Here, the effect is notable enough to have its own Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight_from_Iran
So can I subscribe to !nyaa@pt.nyaa.social from here? Because I know mastodon-lemmy is mostly one way, can't really subscribe to a masto tag or user from here, but if Piefed is structured similarly...
Edit: Jerboa opens the community for me at least, now I only need that subscription to process. Looks like it's working though.
The more obvious choice would be to make everyone go dark, instead of setting up nationwide voice mail to pretend everyone is alive. But maybe this way they can keep everyone's communications open while also fooling most of these intelligence gathering methods (someone answered, in the right language, mark it as active).
Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of "animal". It's only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).
My guess would be that the language gained the word "animal" from French and "deer" was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?
I can't see this hat without seeing
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Connections
Puzzle #740
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Found purple pretty quickly, but honestly couldn't think of blue's connection. Should've trusted my instinct, purple is always blank something.
I'm not an American either
I went ball-gloves-jackets and guessed that either "blocks" or "foils" could be some jargon I wasn't familiar with. I originally saw "stops" as in "short stop", but I needed that for green.
How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?
I'm on a losing streak
Connections
Puzzle #739
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Oh, I'm sorry, I thought the editors of the New York Times like baseball, but I forgot they're all old money European aristocracy...
The reverse image search spotted it well, but it isn't the same image. It's very likely the source where the image generator got its ideas from though: https://lemmy.world/post/31578519/17746077
Definitely watching City and Dandadan. And Yofukashi no Uta S2 snuck up on me, have to watch that too.
As for originals/newcomers, I put Bad Girl on my PTW ages ago and it's finally time! Just some silly yuri shenanigans, I don't expect too much of it.