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Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.

The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.

they’re trying to make a socialist statement

They’re not though. Their politics aren’t socialist, or progressive, or anything.

Their comedy is about shock and being uncomfortable. Whether the topic for the week is political, social or interpersonal the show will have a take that is designed to shock and make people uncomfortable, because there’s laughs in being uncomfortable.

Claiming southpark is socialist is like claiming your fever dream was more Dengist than Trotskyite. That’s just not how it works.

I’m pretty sure the ship’s planks had to be replaced because it was on display as a heritage item for generations afterwards - not during his lifetime. Are you really viewing theseus’ ship if everything you’re looking at post-dates his death, was the issue, iirc.

Just to get unneccesarily pedantic about a joke.

why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.

Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.

My mother: My best friend Ruthy was the sort of person who thought a best friend was someone who gives you their last tab of speed during exams. My best friend in highschool, hearing this: So you had speed in highschool? My mother: oh ugh um ahh well.

My mother also advised us that if we thought a bar was watering down drinks we should order black russians because vodka is more alcoholic but kahlua is more expensive. Also never buy white rum because you might as be drinking vodka - this was meant as an insult to both vodka and white rum.

Power. Men are more privileged than women. The more power somehow has, the more they are shielded from the consequences of their actions and the worse their behaviour.

I do suspect that overall men are alsi more likely to engage in violence than women, but i haven’t checked data to see if i’m wrong.

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Tabletop rpgs are the only artform that merges artist and audience. Telling a story is probably the oldest human artform. With a well-designed RPG and a good group you can tell a story and thrill yourself at the surprising outcome. It’s a unique and timeless hobby.

Ok but how does it look from the other side?

Sure yep, that also seems unlikely 😆

Yeah for sure, that’s all possible. Or eden could just be an idealized dream of an agricultural society and not a historical memory at all.

My favourite light bulb joke is:

How many Morriseys does it take to change a light bulb? None, because there is a light and it never goes out.

Every other light bulb joke i hear, the number is arbitrary - it could be 10/100/1000 with no loss to the joke. But “none” and for that reason is the only possible correct answer to that joke.

I would guess that B is the “correct” answer because it shows you’re old enough to know a sex joke when you read one.

Green Sahara/Desert Sahara is a cycle that happens.

I’ve heard people try to claim the garden of eden is a memory of the green sahara, but that’s not provable.

I also heard it has an effect on animal evolution - the desert acts as a wall, seperating north and south, then goes green and the two regions’ life mingle and compete for a while until it desertification seperates them to evolve independantly of each other until the next green phase.

I heard the hollywood thing of closing someone’s eyes doesn’t work because your eyelids just stay open after you die - you’d have to hold them closed.

I don’t think they’d have to glue his eyes open, is my point.

Yeah it really doesn’t look like a current photo.

If he is alive they edited or staged the photo so much that it no longer functions as credible proof of life.

The US also doesn’t label alcohol content effectively - % alone is not helpful.

In Australia for example, all booze containers tell you how many “standard drinks” they contain. 1 standard drink is the average amount of alcohol a body can process in an hour. If you have no more than 1-2 standard drinks in you, you should still pass a breathalyzer, depending on weight/gender.

A ~5% beer can is ~1.5 standard drinks. So if you drank 4x beers over the last 3 hours, best spend another hour drinking water before you drive:

4 beers x 1.5 = 6 standard drinks. - 3 hours = 3 standard drinks

Two really strong competitors is called a duopoly and in practise it works like a monopoly in terms of gouging customers and stiffling competition. It promotes collusion, but it tends to look way healthier from the outside than a monopoly. It’s not though.

Has it been shown that we’re smellin’ for incest, so to speak? We definitely seem to have a smell test but has it been shown to include that?

I don’t think it was because of the arranged marriage - just that experienced matchmakers knew they had to account for that.