Hegar

I'm a hard determinist, so I'd disagree with the "you choose" part, but basically I agree.

You are whoever you are in the moment, there's no fake self to hide behind and no real self lurking unrealized.

There's no core real you, no true deep down self.

We're social mammals and the immediate social situation were in is one of the many factors that determine our behavior from moment to moment.

Go running.

You know when you build something up in your head to be really awful, then you try it and it's exactly that awful?

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don't understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I'm pretty sure if you're paying for it, that's not love.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

Yep! In my experience it's awful and it stays awful for ever.

But just like with going to work, over time you come to accept that existence is suffering.

That example does sound quite different, but Wiktionary has it as from the Proto-Slavic *(j)edinъ, which is "ultimately from *h₁óy(H)nos."

Finnish or Estonian are so wildly different

I know right?! I strongly remember the first Uralic language example I heard was the Finnish for merry christmas: hyvää joulua - it just sounded so different.

The asterisks mean that it's a reconstructed word, not an actually attested word. No PIE writing exists, so all these words are deduced from the descendant words across the vast IE family, not recorded as definitely existing.

The numbers are h1, h2 and h3. We know that PIE had three different h-like sounds (pharyngeals). But, funny thing, every single daughter language lost them, so it's hard to tell exactly what each one sounded like. If you see overlapping ripples in a pond, you can work out roughly where and how many things dropped, but you can't guess the exact weight or size.

In every language, most words that most people use are still used from a very long time ago, we just pronounce them a bit differently.

*(H)óynos, *dwó, *treyes for example aren't just uno, deux and tres, they are 1, 2 and 3 in English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Farsi, Kurdish, Tajik etc. Literally the same word, just spoken by different groups of descendent speakers.

Some languages have undergone sound changes that make certain words sound more or less similar to how we think they sounded in PIE.

So even though though four, vier, quattuor and tessera sound quite different to us, they are all basically just how we say *kʷetwóres.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don't understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?