Hegar

I agree completely, except I don’t think ‘bought off’ is the best way to characterize the rich consistently acting in their own interests. Democratic party leadership doesn’t need a bribe or inducement to attack working people and the left, it’s the job they signed up for.

You may be punished because:

==please incorporate the word rule in your post titles==

Maybe put an R the word “SCHOOLS”?

Swallowing gum.

It’s genuinely hard to recognize when a rule that almost always applies doesn’t apply to the specific situation at hand.

Killing bloodthirsty rich people who are beyond the reach of the law and can’t be stopped any other way is a valid exception to the otherwise valid rule that murder is bad.

I really wish we could popularize the term shit-in, but it’s just too beautiful for this world.

Russia is wasting no time here. They’re already starting to pull apart the US military while the tariffs plan strikes at the core of the US’s most important alliances. And their regime hasn’t even taken power yet.

It was always so satisfying to get it off in one single strip

Both English and Chinese speaking people have both English and Chinese tattoos. It’s fine.

From my experience far more Chinese people were against tattoos of any kind, rather than caring about what the tattoo is.

One vaccinated and well nourished 21stC individual won’t bring back the level of disease of boatloads of sick, unhealthy, unwashed 15thC european sailors.

What’s been the most stable written language over time?

The best possible combo of far back and wide reach is probably Akkadian cuneiform. Maybe you could get further back with Sumerian cuneiform and trust that it’ll get translated once Akkadian becomes the lingua franca.

Oracle bone script which becomes Chinese characters probably doesn’t get you as far back and maybe not as wide an area, but definitely much longer in time since it’s basically still in use.

The only problem is those are both languages of imperial systems and giving them greater power is probably a net loss for humanity.

I’m trying but tbh it’s not working out great for me.

A new hope was only good to the extent that a mediocre remake of a Kurosawa film is still good. Empire was slightly downhill from that (sad ending =/= good movie). Everything after that struggles to remain watchable.

Grifters trying to stymie competing grifts is the ideal use of our throughly corrupt court system. Just the perfect venue for that. It’s like an inception of lies and money.

One of my friends of at uni was a woman in her 60s. She told me that in her experience young people who could make friends with mature age students tended to have healthy relationships with their parents.

• A fire extinguisher to the library of Alexandria.
• A small pox variolation kit to ~13thC somewhere in the Americas. Probably the PNW to preserve the linguistic diversity there, maybe the amazon river, the Tlaxcala or the groups who would go on the confederate into the Haudenosaunee.
• Vials of horse-plague to the cucteni trypillians, see if we can’t blunt that Indo-European expansion somewhat. If it’s virulent enough, maybe we get lucky and weaken the power of aristocrats across Eurasia for millenia to come. (Sorry horses!).
• Just for me, some magic mushrooms to shangqiu, henan ~325 BCE ish. See if I can’t convince Zhuang Zhou to trip with me.

Given the level of expertise in the trump regime, this can only possibly end with mexico reclaiming texas. I hope they rename it Alamonia. To remember.

I am the friendly staff, and I often think how much I could enjoy life on the other side.

That said, the food is vile. That’s really the deal breaker for me. The first meal I made, the gravy made me wretch more than the toilet shared by 3 incontent schizophrenic men.

Variable.

In general my working memory is shocking, and my long term memory is very good. I presume it’s an ADHD neuroplasticity thing - my brain probably had to over rely on long term memory due to major short term memory deficiencies.

But it depends on topic as well. One of my coworkers pointed out that I had 4 rough guesses when asked how long my wife and I have been together but answered immediately and at length when asked about say, the Indo-European language family or bronze age societies.

I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places

Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.

Remember when Silvio Berlusconi lied, cheated, raped and stole his way through public life, gaining wealth and fame, dying at the ripe age of 86 without facing justice and after having set the stage for even more extreme fascists to take over?

History shows that often, very often, the baddies just win.