gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
The goddess of victory, to be exact. Or was it demi-goddess? In any case, she sat besides Zeus.
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Hygro
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Goddess of #winning?
Meanwhile we're still advertising their shoes.
Meanwhile we're still advertising their shoes.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
misuse of hashtags is why God abandoned us
also because of that apple
but one led to the other anyway
also because of that apple
but one led to the other anyway
Zkribbler
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Damn right.
Let alone that this language is just about the only better thing we still have to those offspring of barbarians
Zkribbler
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Link to video.
This probably won't work. YouTube hates the Philippines.
This is the "Give me a word--any word--and I'll show you how the root word comes from Greeek" clip.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
TIL of this site, which creates haikus based on things that have been said in the Canadian house of commons
If you're curious where it's grabbing the data from, click here.
Even more cool data here
If you're curious where it's grabbing the data from, click here.
Even more cool data here
Zkribbler
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SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
TIL about the concept of jeitinho.
More newsworthy is jeitinho, a diminutive of jeito (“way”. It is a way around something, often a law or rule. The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, an unpopular president who has not personally been accused of serious wrongdoing, is a jeitinho around the constitution. (Many of the politicians who voted to impeach her are themselves indefatigable explorers of such byways, for example around campaign-finance laws.)
Jeitinho, which has connotations of ingenuity as well as illegality, is a marker of national identity, says Livia Barbosa, an anthropologist. Two-thirds of Brazilians confess to seeking out such shortcuts, according to a survey conducted in 2006 by Alberto Almeida, a political scientist. Daily life is criss-crossed with them. A restaurateur offers policemen a packed lunch to entice them to patrol his street, saving 10,000 reais ($3,000) a month in private-security fees. Laranjas (“oranges”
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
TIL that gender politics is an essential waypoint on Earth's path to type 1 civilization.
Is a type 1 civ like being O positive?
Only if you're talking about power consumption.
That is a pretty useless scale, but thanks for the link.
I wish that after we died, there was an afterlife where we could find out exactly how everything worked out for all time. That way, we could make predictions and bet two bottles of afterlife juice that things would go some way or another. I say this because I'm generally pessimistic about the technological potential of humanity and would bet lots of afterlife juice bottles against humanity's power production exceeding 1.00 on Sagan's expanded Kardashev scale at any point in its future [K = 0.1*(log10 P - 6), where P is power consumption in watts]. It seems like a tall order to even keep our K = 0.724 civilization going indefinitely without wrecking the biosphere even worse than we already are, although I'm much more optimistic about that than the K>1 stuff.
Lexicus
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My god, get out of my brain. My friend and I have discussed this exact thing. We also wanted to be able to travel at will to different points in the timeline of the universe, and we wanted life statistics to see how many times we did things.
Well, it is not entirely impossible that current life is a phase of something more extended. Even if so, though, it isn't having to include being explained considerably more stuff than those you examine here, and even less so of a complimentary type: I mean in a dream you have far better (potential) access to subconscious things in you, but you won't get to know in a dream if someone is behind the door of your actual apartment irl.
Then again, for all we know, we are all blobs in a field of alien fungi in an over-reality.
Then again, for all we know, we are all blobs in a field of alien fungi in an over-reality.
Yeah, my entire afterlife fantasy is just about knowing what's actually happening throughout the universe, like how common life is and how often so-called "intelligent" life forms, and how that ends up developing, along with the future of humanity as one example of how intelligent life progresses. I have a lot of suspicions and predictions I'll never get to see confirmed or refuted, many of which (if my suspicions about the limits of humanity are right!) will only be glimpsed incompletely even after my death if any hard evidence is even found at all.
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