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I prefer the original “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”

Is the lacking sophistication bit a reference I’m missing?

CuntGPT, is that you?

Where I grew up it was between 20 and 30 much of the year. Honestly a 10 point warmness scale is quite easy to adjust to.

I have heard farenheit defenders point out that we’re not water - that farenheit cares about the temperatures that humans care about

A global government would prevent this from ever happening.

A few elites have the power to inflict violence on everyone else and get away with it - aka the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This allows them to enforce injustice like unlivable wages but also to starve, jail and kill anyone who is serious about taking aware their power.

Setting up a global union would drastically curtail the power of elites, and they would prevent it. You would have to defeat the world’s elite, and in that case a universal wage is small potatoes.

I’m a filthy casual, I’m yet to play above prince. I’ve had enemies take advantage of glaring weaknesses I left open, but I’ve never felt like my plans were thwarted.

Unciv is the only free mobile game I’ve ever found to be playable for more than a week.

Do you want to play civ4 smoothly and for free? This does that and has heaps of easily installed mods. Last time I played espionage was still to be implemented, but that’s in the works.

The easiest way I find is to memorize the 0/10/20/30C to F conversions, then plus/minus at 2 to 1 from there.

32 = 0 50 = 10 68 = 20 86 = 30

70F is ~21C, 54F is ~12C, 81F is ~27.5C.

Rugrats’ animation style is based on the genius Estonian animator, Priit Parn. One of his proteges worked on Rugrats and Argh, Real Monsters.

Hotel E is generally considered a masterpiece and Triangle absolutely hilarious, but all of his work is incredible.

It’s not a good idea or a mistake it’s just a thing that’s going to happen so prepare as best you can and enjoy, right?

Was that the asshole who spent ages in his autobiography glorifying how he beat a guy to death for looking at him funny?

Humans follow laws, animals ignore them

Laws are for binding the poor, the rich ignore them.

My Italian friend assures me it’s coffee and a cigarette.

He has multiple credible rape allegations going back years.

He supports ideologies that encourage hurting others.

His peers are known rapists.

He’s active in an explicitly pro-rape social scene.

He’s rich and famous, which neurologically reduces your brain’s capacity for empathy and encourages more harmful behaviors.

Russel Brand exists in a social environment that permits harming others and specifically encourages rape, and he has reduced cognitive barriers to harming others. As an organism, his social and cognitive environment is a strong incentive to commit rape and multiple witnesses say he has.

Incorrect. He’s definitely guilty. He has resting rapist face. When he walks into an elevator, everyone is like phwoah, what smells of rapist? Because Russel brand is definitely a rapist.

Almost as ironic as blithely accusing a large collection of disparate communities of having a culture of hate, negativity and rudeness.

I browse 3-5 times a day, and see something unnecessarily rude maybe once a week or so. I’ve not noticed any change in rudeness or negativity recently.

Without hard data, mood trends identified on social media usually say more about the identifier than the community.

Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

In Australia it’s shortened to “Sepo”.

I don’t think this graph is accurate - the lines shouldn’t be so perfectly parallel.

The older I get, the greater the distance between my age and “old” age. When I was 12, 15 seemed old. At 42, 75 seems old.