¿Sabían que la sal en el ring de sumo no es un simple capricho cultural, sino un ritual de purificación sintoísta?
Antes de cada combate de sumo, los luchadores (rikishi) arrojan puñados de sal al dohyō (el ring de arcilla). Esta práctica, que consume alrededor de 45 kilogramos de sal en un solo día de torneo, tiene un origen profundamente arraigado en la religión nativa de Japón, el sintoísmo.
En el sintoísmo, la sal se considera un elemento sagrado con el poder de alejar los malos espíritus, las energías negativas y las impurezas. El dohyō es tratado como un espacio sagrado, y cada combate se considera una ofrenda a los dioses (kami).
Al esparcir la sal, los luchadores purifican simbólicamente el área de combate, pidiendo la bendición de los dioses, asegurando la seguridad del lugar y, según la creencia popular, previniendo lesiones durante el enfrentamiento.
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The English word ‘sad’ is related to ‘to satisfy’, ‘to satiate’, ‘saturation’ and ‘asset’, a group of words that English borrowed from French and Latin.
They all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to satiate”.
‘Sæd’, the Old English ancestor of ‘sad’, meant “sated; full; weary; having had your fill”. Only in Middle English did it come to mean “sorrowful”.
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Scandicci ha vinto il Mondiale per club femminile di pallavolo - Il Post
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Scandicci ha vinto il Mondiale per club femminile di pallavolo
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Il ful è un piatto siriano semplice e gustoso: fave cotte con aglio, cipolla, prezzemolo e un po' di olio e limone.
Oggi quel posto non esiste più, spazzato via dalla guerra.
Sono passati 14 anni, il regime di Assad è crollato ma la situazione è la stessa.
Ho raccontato la mia storia in #Siria nel mio #podcast Ponti Invisibili: se non lo hai ascoltato, è il momento giusto per farlo.
Jogos da THQ Nordic em oferta na Steam; até 90% de desconto
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Jogos da THQ Nordic em oferta na Steam; até 90% de desconto
Confira os principais jogos distribuídos pela THQ Nordic disponíveis em oferta com desconto por tempo limitado na SteamJuliano Aires (Adrenaline)
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Zu einer öffentlichen Anhörung wird der ehemalige Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn (CDU) erwartet.....
Befragt werden kann auch die im vergangenen Jahr vom Ministerium eingesetzte Sonderermittlerin Margaretha Sudhof.
Rechnungshof bemängelt Aufarbeitung von Maskenkäufen wegen Corona | tagesschau.de
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Rechnungshof bemängelt Aufarbeitung von Maskenkäufen wegen Corona
Die Corona-Kommission des Bundestags befasst sich am Montag mit den umstrittenen Methoden zum Kauf von Masken. Nun kritisiert der Rechnungshof mangelnde Aufklärungsbereitschaft im Gesundheitsministerium - und fordert Konsequenzen für die Zukunft.tagesschau.de
Seems Nicky NoBoats is under pressure from the hard right for not doing austerity ruthlessly enough. Although the debate itself is not ruthless since the Taxdodgers Onion are planning to wheel out Ruthenasia Richardson to debate NoBoats;
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A clash of the neoclassical titans. Like a debate between 19th century orphanageers, over whether the current one is beating the orphans enthusiastically enough to get them adopted.
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Hopefully people will see this debate, grok the horror these corporatist vampires have in store for us all, and vote for those campaigning on a politics of universal wellbeing in 2026.
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—Gary Marcus
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“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killedGary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
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Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation
We present the Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image (Parti) model, which generates high-fidelity photorealistic images and supports content-rich synthesis involving complex compositions and world knowledge.arXiv.org
Grok gets the facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting
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Grok gets the facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting | TechCrunch
Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
Stille Geschichte – Am Grimansbrunnen in Laubach / Hessen
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The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'
Cadmium zinc telluride is advancing medical scans, airport security and space telescopes - but few firms can make it.
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'It's amazing' – the wonder material very few can make
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Türchen 15 Kreative Routinen, die guttun
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Oroscopo del giorno // Lunedì 15 dicembre: determinazione
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L’uso dei #Social è dannoso per i più piccoli.
Uno studio svedese ha dimostrato che i bambini che trascorrono molto tempo sui #SocialMedia tendono a sperimentare un graduale declino della loro capacità di concentrazione.
Una ricerca che ha coinvolto oltre 100.000 giovani tra i 18 e i 24 anni ha rilevato che chi ha ricevuto il primo smartphone prima dei 13 anni riporta tassi più alti di pensieri suicidi, aggressività, ansia, bassa autostima e disturbi dell’umore.
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I bambini che usano quotidianamente i social perdono capacità di attenzione e di concentrazione, l’allarme ...
L’uso continuo dei social è davvero molto dannoso per i più piccoli: può portare a un graduale declino della loro capacità di concentrazioneRoberta De Carolis (GreenMe.it)
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Immediately after the 2024 US election there was a naive knee jerk reaction where pundits would claim the country as a whole had shifted right, and that to win vulnerable groups like trans people need to be thrown under the bus.
A new analysis challenges that view, suggesting that what really happened was fewer left-leaning voters came to the polls in 2024.
They note one of the largest problems was lack of a strong economic message from Democrats.
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A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.The New Republic
The U.S. Military almost collided with a JetBlue passenger headed to the U.S. earlier today at 34,000 feet.
Why? They had their transponder turned off, as part of the war against Venezuela.
#Video of woman scrolling through invisible phone racks up over 50 million views: zorz.it/MlKYN
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Video of Woman Scrolling Through Invisible Phone Racks Up Over 50 Million Views
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a 2020 commission-like drawing for someone at that time called heathenheanow showing Ms. Fortune from the video game "toonstruck" with a variation in wardrobe that would be unusual if someone else had drawn it
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Elezioni in #Cile, #Kast è il presidente eletto - America Latina - Ansa.it
La candidata di #sinistra Jeannette #Jara ha ammesso la sconfitta
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Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
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Tokyo Gas Eyes US Investments to Drive Growth
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Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 12/5-12/11
In a major defeat for Donald Trump, the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate rejected redrawn congressional maps that would have given Republicans two more seats in the U.S.The Big Picture
Dear Makers of the Mastodon Web Interface:
Can we get rid of or turn off a bit of annoyance in the web interface? When my pointer accidentally crosses over a tag in a toot, a popup appears that blocks my view of the toot. And the popup doesn't go away.
I don't want the popup to appear at all.
Sincerely,
Me
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in reply to Aetherius Eldritch ⛤🧙♂️🎙️📻 • • •Un luchador de sumo está en medio de un ritual en un ring circular. El luchador es un hombre corpulento con el pelo peinado en un moño superior. Lleva un taparrabos azul y calcetines blancos. Está de pie sobre un montículo de arena, con las manos extendidas y arrojando arena al aire. Al fondo, una gran multitud de personas está sentada observando en un ambiente interior. La arena arrojada por el luchador es visible en forma de una nube brillante que se extiende hacia la derecha de la imagen.
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