CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@simonbp @SecureOwl the agents are working at the gate, and the blockchain is what holds together the two rubber things that keep the wheels from moving while the aircraft is parked.

@benroyce @alexshendi “gemini” is? I’m not sure! I thought it was plausible that Geminus is a transliteration of Didymos, only I couldn’t find evidence. Also, the fact that Δίδυμος is transliterated elsewhere as Didymos (such as for the apostle Thomas) makes that connection seem less likely. But I’m just playing at being a linguist here.

@alexshendi @benroyce @selzero I’m having trouble finding sources indicating that Δίδυμοι became Gemini. How’d you find that?

Interestingly, I did find a random page that gives Castor’s & Pollux’s Greek names (Καστωρ and Πολυδεύκης), though the Greeks seem to have referred to them as Διόσκουροι (Zeus’s boys). https://greekerthanthegreeks.com/the-ancient-greek-myth-around-the-zodiac-sign-of-gemini/

@benroyce @selzero I thought Janus might have been the interpretation, though my only source for connecting “two-faced” as in duplicitous with the two-faced Roman god (one looking into the past and the other looking into the future) is the movie Goldeneye, so I have treated it with skepticism. Janus is the god of doorways, physically, and thus metaphorically of transitions/beginnings/endings.

“Gemini” is Latin and, If you believe wiktionary, descends from proto-italic, no mention of Greek. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geminus — the words geminus and ianus aren’t really related.

I didn’t know there was a canonical astrological association with gemini ️ as being duplicitous, since I don’t follow astrology. Seems kind of rude though.

The only inaccurate thing selzero said is what “gemini” means, so I’m not trying to start an argument about the *point* being made.

@selzero “gemini” means “twins”