I mean, I guess, but then she’s actually demonstrably wrong :)

Yes, but the similarities between Adam & Eve and the babylonion texts are between Enkidu and Shamhat, not Enkidu and Gilgamesh.

Wasn’t it Enkidu and Shamhat? Maybe I don’t know my babylonian poetry…

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Tillykke med dit smukke barn!

I just wonder if it’s true. It’s certainly true for many indo-european languages, but I wonder if there’s been a typological study with a representative sample of languages done for it. I’m not sure I buy it being a language univeral.

Is it really universal though? I don’t recall that from my linguistics masters at all, in fact I think I recall pretty much the opposite…

The argument is also sometimes as dumb as it looks

The choice of yeast should be influenced by what you want the end result to taste like.

For my champagne-like ciders with oak and based on belle de boskoop juice I use EC-1118. For my sweeter ciders backsweetened with erythritol I use Nottingham Ale yeast. For my summer-cider based in Discovery & Red Aroma apples and crab apple juice I do a wild ferment.

So the question is more - what are you trying to accomplish?

I don’t think it’s clear that they are not trying to minimize civilian casualties, it’s hard to imagine a more targeted attack than the pager attack.

I don’t know what the numbers are like for the Lebanon part of the war, obviously, but in almost all modern conflicts we see that between 25 and 80% of casualties are civilians. I imagine we’re on the high end here as hezbollah like to fight and hide amongst civilians and use them as shields.

I struggle to see how you can combat such an organization without heavy civilian casualties, no matter how you go about it. I’m not saying the Israelis are not making mistakes or even being disproportionate at times, but I just can’t see how you’re going to fight hezbollah without heavy collateral damage.