The Anglo Saxon name for February is Solmōnaþ, meaning month of hearthcakes (similar to cookies), and Bede wrote that cakes were offered to the Gods. Milk was mentioned among offerings to the Gods by Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and is still frequently offered in Hinduism today. It’s entirely possible that at some point, our ancestors literally left out milk and cookies for the Gods. Painting by Joseph Martin Kronheim, 1868. 𐃏
The Anglo Saxon name for February is Solmōnaþ, meaning month of hearthcakes (similar to cookies), and Bede wrote that cakes were offered to the Gods. Milk was mentioned among offerings to the Gods by Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and is still frequently offered in Hinduism today. It’s entirely possible that at some point, our ancestors literally left out milk and cookies for the Gods. Painting by Joseph Martin Kronheim, 1868. 𐃏
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. 'Wild West' Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number.
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