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Debunking "ලෝකේ තියෙනවා අකුරු සහිත..."
The post I am talking about here has been going around the Internet since 2020 or so. And it is mostly … untrue. I wrote a long explanation of this on Twitter in 2020 [1]. But since this also comes up from time to time like that Shah Jahan post, I thought of putting it up as a blog post that I can easily refer to later. POST/CLAIM ලෝකේ තියෙනවා අකුරු සහිත හා රහිත කියලා භාෂාවන් 2ක්.ජර්මන් භාෂාවට…
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King Vijaya and Roman concrete
King Vijaya and Roman concrete
This is more or less what Hela Hawla of Kumarathunga Munidasa and Arisen Ahubudu raised. They pointed out that no matter what, 700 people on a ship would not be able to take and hold a country. As such, the viable explanation is that they took over the ruling and superimposed their structure. However, they argue that, even without the explicit mention, the culture as a whole is and was an…
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Government vs Mafia
Let’s look at cosa nostra or The Sicilian Mafia. Now, the mafia families have designated territories. They guard them with their enforcers. People in these territories pay the protection money to safeguard their person and property.
The mafia sets arbitrary rules for the people to follow. If you do not follow them or do not pay the protection money, the local capo would judge you and send…
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What is your two cents on Scar Jo being picked to play Dante Gill? or non-trans actors, in general, playing trans roles?
Scarlett Johansson has a history of taking roles that pisses the PC crowd off (eg: Ghost in the Shell)
I, personally, do think that each character should be portrayed by people that are most suitable for the role. As such, here, yes, it would have made more sense to have an actual trans actor play this.
However, this opinion is true for ALL castings, unlike the SJW crowd. The same people who are…
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The king and the master sculptor There was a king that criticized everything. Nothing is ever to his satisfaction. He commissioned a master sculptor to make a statue of himself.
Why do all alternate universes have zeppelins Because it was a single event that brought the downfall of zeppelins in this universe; Hindenburg disaster.
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නමඃ ශ්රී ගණාය
දීපඞ්කරාහ්වය මුනීශ්වර පාදමූලෙ සන්ත්යජ්ය ලබ්ධමමෘතං කරුණාං විධාය අත්යාහිතං පරහිතං සුකෘතං විශෙෂාත් සිද්ධං නමොස්තු සුගතාය ජගද්ධිතාය
අප තථාගතයන් සංසිද්ධාශෙෂ සම්භාර විශෙෂ සාක්ෂාත්කරණීය සර්වපාපමලප්රක්ෂාලනක්ෂම ආත්මමොක්ෂ නිරපෙක්ෂ වැ – උදයව්යය – භඞ්ග භයාදීනවාදි නවමහා විදර්ශනඥාන පරම්පරාධිගත නිර්වාණ මහා සරසට පරිධාවමාන සමස්ත සත්ත්ව මාතඞ්ගයා මහා කරුණාංකුශයෙන් හම්නා –…
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To keep or break promises… “In dealing with people, a prince must break his promises when they put him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made the promises no longer exist…
Would you get into a relationship with yourself? Assuming that “other you” is a gender you are attracted to. On the pro side, life would never be boring. On the con side, there will be a lot of conflicts.
Religious Superstition as a War Tactic
Religious Superstition as a War Tactic
Religions are collections of superstition cherry-picked according to each individual’s worldview.
The society is not at war with you, it is at war with them. As such, it is not what you believe, it is about what they believe.
These tactics have been used in many wars throughout history.
Pausanias of Sparta [1] hid in the Temple of Athena because the people hunting him we afraid to kill him on…
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As an Artificial Intelligence scientist, do you think AI will kill us all?
As an Artificial Intelligence scientist, do you think AI will kill us all?
LoL.
First of all, I am not sure, I can claim to be an “Artificial Intelligence scientist”. I hope I am. But there is much to be…achieved to that end. Now to answer your question, AI, as it is today, are not capable of doing any Hollywood level harm to you. Unless and until we make several great leaps in the direction of both computing power and artificial general intelligence (AGI), it will not…
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Marcus Licinius Crassus
Okay. So … A long time ago Rome had kings for a while and then they got rid of the kings and made itself a republic.
However, as usual, when there are hundreds of politicians arguing nothing gets done. So the First Triumvirate was appointed. Three powerful men to rule over the Senate. Both rich and powerful.
The most famous among them is Julius Caesar then his friend later turns enemy Pompey the…
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Why have apocalyptic games, movies, shows, and books become so popular in the past few years? What does it say about our culture or society? That society sometimes gets caught in trends. We are not in an English literature class. Stop trying to read stuff into everything. Not everything has to have a hidden underline grandiose meaning. Link:
The tale of Wadakaha Sudiya (වදකහ සුදිය)
The tale of Wadakaha Sudiya (වදකහ සුදිය)
So, this story is rather simple. SL was having its full solar eclipse after a long while. (it was the 1955 one [1]).
The local snake oil salesmen masquerading as ayurvedic doctors started the rumour that if you drink the mixture named වදකහ සුදිය while the solar eclipse was happening, you would become fair and beautiful.
So … obviously, a whole lot of women and girls did. And the whole lot of them…
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Origin Legend of the Demon Mahasona
Origin Legend of the Demon Mahasona
Note here that the story has many versions. I am picking the most colourful version/elements for this retelling.
First of all, the background knowledge. There exist(ed) a local martial arts system named Angampora (අංගම්පොර). The art was taught and practised by the two rival scholastic houses (ගුරුකුල) named Sudaliya (සුදලිය) and Maruwalliya (මරුවල්ලිය).
In the time of King Dutugemunu, the…
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Why is the sky blue?
Why is the sky blue?
In the visible spectrum, blue to purple range has the highest frequency. Thus, they have the shortest wavelength. This means, when white light is met with tiny molecules in the air, the blue-purple band is the ones that get scattered the most. Hence, the sky is blue most of the time. Also, this is why the top of the sky is bluer and towards the horizon, it tends to fade to light blue or white.…
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The Etymology of Goni Billa
The Etymology of Goni Billa
The term’s original form was possibly coined 111–113 AD during the reign of Vankanasika Tissa of Anuradhapura. However, it became more popular during the time of JVP’s commie terrorist period.
The original origin, during the reign of Vankanasika Tissa of Anuradhapura, was due to a mass kidnapping racket run by Indians. They would wear sacks on the head, ambush Sinhala people and kidnap them for…
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