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Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

Goriely, who assesses and dismisses other supposed “optical corrections” in his paper concedes he “fell into a bit of a rabbit hole” pulling all the evidence together. He suspects the Parthenon’s architects had other reasons for the architectural features.

The curve of the base may have prevented rain puddles forming and curved columns might simply have felt more organic and visually pleasing to the ancient Greeks, he writes in Royal Society Open Science.

Mutually Assured Destruction

Is Riker in danger?

I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.

en pissant

Artemis is just as horrible as the gang which is why she is immune. She spiked everyone on a plane’s drinks with ayahuasca!

She’s my favorite!

I spend most of my time alone and have such a strong internal dialogue going on that it does the same basic thing without me making a noise. My mother in law verbalizes all of her thoughts, and always has even when surrounded by people. It reminds me of my internal dialogue!

I don’t think it has anything to do with being lonely, just how someone processes their thoughts.

Since religious morality is made up by people it comes from the same source as atheist morality. Humans!

Religion tends to make it easy for people to insert shitty stuff and claim it is a divine mandate. Atheists have to make a case for why something is right or wrong.

And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.

Depends on conditions and traffic. On a sunny day on a clear road I aim for roughly centered and keep it consistent.

Bad weather changes this up. If there are puddles on the side of the road and no oncoming traffic I will hug that center line. Same in snowy conditions. When there is oncoming traffic I move over to leave more of a gap. Narrow roads are treated like bad weather.

Basically leave space for things that could cause accidents and stay centered if the road is clear.

I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.

An accurate title: Humans at the company iLands has chosen to use AI to scam people $20 at a time

“Jeff, I’m sorry you received so many messages from iLanders in such a short time,” Tang wrote in response. “Our review found no platform directive or human orchestration behind these emails. But the burden on recipients is just as real.”

B U L L S H I T

Stressful conditions of some kind!

Couldn’t really be higher on the list now could it?

And it won’t be surprising when the christofascist leaders are outed as sex pests because the loudest voiced against sexual expression are personal fans that want to donimate others for malicous reasons. Like all the anti gay religious leaders that turn out to be child molesters.

Such tight rings too!

he is likely to end up in prison or even executed

He will never face any consequences because society sucks.

Sewage treatment plants do a public service and are too good for his name.

Name dumps and waste hazards after him.