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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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Indus Valley Civilization. I don't think there's much we'll get out of their symbols even if we do ever decipher them, because a text corpus where the longest work is seventeen characters long probably won't yield that much information. Even so, something so big and so old doth bring out wonder.