Just wanting Zeus in heaven to see that “Sexual Chocolate” t-shirt.

I dunno, I lived in LA in the 00s, I can think of a couple people in their 20s/30s who were that ridiculous unironically. (In a good way! Who doesn’t love Bill & Ted?!)

Just listening to that one now, never heard it before either. Wait, is this a trick to get me to listen to the entire Radiohead catalog?!?

Just listening to it now. Never heard it before.

the Hagbulbia album by Portal

thanks, I’m listening now, gonna have to dig out my best headphones!

drone

Dunno much about drone, but I’ve recently started listening to noise and dark ambient that’s sometimes also labeled drone. Any recommendations?

Radio head is like THE indie band everyone knows.

Yeah, but everybody only knows “Creep.” (Source: I only know “Creep”.)

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Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the “attacks” are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it’s all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a “live” adversary who’s actively trying to beat you. I’ve read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that’s rare.

When someone asks you questions, it’s also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you’re heading for an environment you don’t wanna be in.

• THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
• YOU: So, obviously my family’s important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
• THEM: Well… (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We’re expected to make work a priority…

In the martial arts, Tai Chi is the obvious answer.

Consider Aikido. It’s generally more like choreographed exercises. A lot of dojos are very understanding of physical constraints. Check with your doctor, it might be good way to gently test your limits. Plus, it’s important to know how to fall safely.

They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren’t big enough to do so.

This cartoon deserves a Pulitzer.

Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.

This isn’t really my area, but afaik…

• the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn’t the only cause of the French Revolution.
• the American and French Revolutions were both products of “the Englightenment” which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were “inspired by” the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
• I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it’d be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were “implanted” by the French Revolution.

I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.

a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we’d not have a lot of countries.

At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we’re in the shitposting community

Some people are indeed that fragile. Often from trauma. I suspect that’s not the case here tho.

The ghosts are the game. The cats are game-masters. That’s why terrible things happen to us if we displease them.

You know how cats are sitting still staring at something, and you’re like “how can that cat sit still so long and stare at something?” It’s this. The entire world is a game to them.

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