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Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9052.html 【2022-02-07】 @whigzhou: The term “jus primae noctis” is a “privilege” fabricated by some Enlightenment thinkers (such as Voltaire and Montesquieu) from literary works and folklore, specifically to discredit the Middle Ages, Feudalism and the so-called *dark ages*, this statement was later adopted by Engels, and then entered the orthodoxy of commie, understand […]

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9049.html 【2022-02-06】 @whigzhou: I watched Don’t Look Up two days ago. Not only was the movie not well shot (my comment on Petal: All the points I wanted to show were enlarged ten times, I’m afraid the audience won’t get it. Use acting The method of making a movie with a sketch, scratching

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9047.html 【2022-01-30】 @新浪财经【Prices are soaring! #美国turkey bacon up 30%# #美国一个苹果卖9元#] @InquilineX: The per capita GDP and median disposable income of the United States are about 6 times that of China, so it makes sense to divide the nominal price of American goods by 6 and compare the price with similar domestic goods. For

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9040.html 【2022-01-21】 @whigzhou: Looking through the local newspapers, I found that the city’s high school publishes the list of students with ATAR scores above 90 in the newspaper before the annual university admissions season. It’s part of their admissions advertisement, which I suspect only the good middle schools advertise, The ATAR score is

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9038.html 【2022-01-19】 @whigzhou: When I was brushing my teeth and listening to music in the morning, I remembered an old question I thought about when I was in middle school but never discussed it with anyone, that is, I can understand some people’s fear of hell, but I have never been able to

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9036.html 【2022-01-17】 @whigzhou: When you find a sudden increase in the records of a certain type of bad things in a certain period of time in the historical records, don’t take it for granted that the frequency of such things has suddenly increased. The actual situation is often the opposite. The situation in

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9034.html 【2022-01-14】 @whigzhou: There is a situation that seems to have not received enough attention, In medieval England, the servants who took care of various affairs for the nobles were usually only a little lower than the masters. For example, the queen’s maids were often the daughters of the duke’s family, and many

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9029.html 【2022-01-13】 @tertio #英语学习之道# There are three important time nodes in the origin of language and characters: 1 The production of vocal language is generally estimated to be 100,000 years ago 2 Origin of writing, Sumerian cuneiform writing about 5,000 years ago 3 The popularization of writing, the progress of different regions is

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9026.html God’s New Ranch #19: The Broken Ladder Whig December 7, 2019 As discussed in previous chapters, the demographic transition has weakened the status competition of the middle and upper classes and cut off the downward flow waterfall, while the welfare system has provided a safe haven for the losers or abandoners of

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9023.html God’s New Pasture #7: Expansion and Conquest Whig December 24, 2018 Imagine that you are watching such an animation in front of a large screen with a resolution of hundreds of millions of pixels: the background is the entire surface of the earth, and there are some small dots scattered on it.

Original link: https://headsalon.org/archives/9019.html God’s New Pasture #6: Barrier Varieties Whig December 9, 2018 In the living world, without isolation, there will be no structure, and there will be no complexity and diversity. Only when various biomembranes divide the organism into multiple parts with different components can there be organelles, which are highly Differentiated cells, organs

Original link: http://headsalon.org/archives/9007.html God’s New Pasture #3: The Divide of Classes Whig November 19, 2018 Class differences are not just inequalities in economic status and political power (although these two always get the most attention), in a mature hierarchical society, different classes of people live, dress, behave, talk, socialize, There are stark differences in entertainment

Original link: http://headsalon.org/archives/9003.html Artificial Intelligence and Mental Representation Whig June 19, 2022 Continuing the topic from last week, in the last article, I discussed the limitations that AI will face on the current development path. So, what is the way out of this limitation? Or let me change to a more operational question: What kind