The people they talk about are contemporary to the Babylonions who have already absorbed the urban Uruk civilization that started to peak a millenium prior. The difference isn't biology but resource density and climate favorability leading to higher social organization.

Most likely even Heidelbergensis had "complex grunting" and hand signs so humans in the neolithic are effectively identical to us in language capability.

Until, for example, they are out of style and it functions like a crack in the mask, draining social energy for being perceived a certain way.

I was with you until the last clause of the final sentence, which I believe is against the HN guidelines.

Cellophane is still used to refer to LDPE grocery bags in former soviet immigrant diaspora

Yeah I know this usage from older people when I was a kid, they referred to any clear thin wrapping as cellophane where to me it was just plastic. My father told me that cigarette packs are kind-of environmentally friendly because they are made up of nothing but paper, tobacco obviously, cellulose acetate for the filters, and cellophane for the wrapper. Recently I got interested into whether they still use cellophane instead of plastic, so I did some * * * science * * * by dunking a wrapper in water (and yes, it did soak up some water) and burning some (it burns cleanly like paper with grey ashes, unlike plastic which stinks and leaves behind hard black tar). So apart from the printing colors, it looks bio-degradable, with the other reservation being that especially the filters will spend a really long time underground before becoming integrated.

Mostly vegetables, sizable amount of seafood, and rice (if we speak of coastal east asia generically)

That sounds like my Greek diet!

Does the Greek diet consist of flavourless plain white rice?

We eat plenty of rice in Spain, but not white like East Asians do...

Usually short grain white rice, but it's mixed in food. Things like stuffed peppers and tomatoes or stuffed grape leaves. Not a plain side dish.

Imagining an ancient theological order with ranks based on color coding...

that could easily pervert to racial castes, but get the cargo-cult vibe, of trying to induce the "benign ones" to come back

This might be a simple take but - smaller and more expensive?

Hard to say. I’m not sure who the target segment is for “dozens of superficially descriptive blocks of text that say absolutely nothing paired with dramatic photos of adults with trust funds”, but apparently I’m not in it.

I wonder what portion of power users will take the color dosplay to its fullest. I'd still settle for trying out one of the older B&W models.

It's supposed to be compared to the Remarkable Paper Pro, which is priced at $629. This is priced at $449.

Ah then I'm mistaken in my logic. However they're gaming the system while citing color e-ink R&D and/or patent procurement as the cost driver.

GPT3 drove the AI Dungeon explosion iirc