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@lizardsquid Unfortunately it's almost never actually true. Every couple of years someone claims to have cracked the thing, although none of them have ever bothered to do anything like, say, produce a translation or earn the consensus of other scholars.

The kicker for me was "The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period". Two weeks, you say! Gosh, it really sounds like he labored long and hard over this. Outsider decipherments do occur (Linear B was cracked by an architect), but they still take years of careful work and collaboration with other scholars. Even Champollion (Egyptian Hieroglyphic) or Michael Ventris (the Linear B guy) didn't do it alone. In *two weeks*.

@stjohn yeah, I was skimming the original paper, and saw the author misusing linguistic terms and not being particularly clear about how they determined which glyphs are associated with which symbols, but assumed that they would explain it later.

And then the paper just ended, with a side note that the author had "solved" it in just 2 weeks.

I just read a somewhat convincing claim that the Voynich manuscript has been translated:

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

...and then a very convincing explanation of how that's not actually true:

voynichportal.com/2019/05/16/c

"job creation" is actually the name of my cloning device, which unfortunately only creates clones of steve jobs, and further, i cannot stop it, help

@InspectorCaracal I always use widdershins on board games days, because then nobody gets confused about whether I said "clockwise" or "anticlockwise"

@SilviaFox@sleeping.town the lizard loves you too!!!
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minecraft 

@BatElite well this mod adds a bunch of biomes, some of them are less conducive to living in than others.

It seems to be a recent trend in Minecraft mods, though - making things more grindy because otherwise they're "too easy"

minecraft 

I tried a new biome this time around (brushland), but I was annoyed because it was full of thorns (which damage you), and quicksand (which you get stuck in), and crops didn't seem to grow, so I've moved my home to a maple forest.

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@softgoat I love that sticker.

I think I would still use it, if it was attached to an email instead of a phone number

@softgoat I still use it, it's used by a bunch of local furries that I know, but I'm getting really annoyed at it

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