> The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.
In France I could have a blood test right now, without an appointment, and an X-ray by tomorrow morning (just checked).
But the ER is generally far too slow and some specialists have much too long waiting times.
> With the tech and scales of the times, it's mind-blowing and a testament to how badass humanity already was.
At the scale of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Antiquity is yesterday. A good rule of thumb in History is that people were and will be exactly the same as we are.
> You get to a ruin which has been messed up by Roman archaeologists, and their stuff is also artifacts.
In the case of Egypt, the chief culprits are usually ancient Egyptians. Not just common thiefs mind you, but also officials from later dynasties using grave goods as their treasury.
Yiddish follows the same pattern as other Jewish languages, ie. starting out as a sociolect of the local language with additional Hebraic vocabulary for subject matters specific to Jews.
It doesn't seem any less German than say Austro-Bavarian.
In any case I've heard from the mouths of Yiddish-speaking Polish Jews who had been through the Nazi concentrationary system that they in some respects had an easier navigating it than Western or Greek Jews because they spoke "more or less German".
That would be a massive quality of life improvement for me. I've had a lot of issues with my teeth and while being in my thirties I currently need at least 4 implants to get close to a properly functioning dentition. And that still leaves a lot of empty space in the back that makes my speech inherently more slurred.
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