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2022-07-04, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2022-07-04, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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I took four semesters f Spanish in college.
One year the professor arranged something and some college kids from Mexico who were up here on a school trip visited us and we paired off. (this was apparently a regular occurrence)
Our instructions were that we'd talk to them in Spanish and they'd talk to us back in English.
In practice, everyone just ended up speaking Spanglish.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-07-04, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2022-07-04, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cardiac-centered HIIT isn't actually all that bad. Like, I'm enjoying it well enough. For exercise. Even the strength-focused HIIT isn't the worst.
But burpees. **** burpees.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2022-07-04, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Blow Stuff Up cause Murrica day celebrated successfully.
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2022-07-04, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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there is oddly no fireworks happening in my neighborhood. odd, usually I hear them by now, did my neighbors change or did they not decide to them?
oh well, guess playing a bunch of Fallout New Vegas counts as celebrating the 4th of July.
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2022-07-05, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 02:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hey! It's nice of you folk in the USA to celebrate the Eve of Tynwald. Most Manx folk celebrate the day itself - oldest continually ruling democracy in the world, founded at the latest in 979 CE.
Sadly, I'm in the UK today, not on the Isle of Man, so I'll not be enjoying the public holiday, or the chance to present any petition directly to Tynwald.
So - what curious ancient customs are there in your neck of the woods?
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2022-07-05, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, next week a lotta people will gather to watch fewer (but still lots of) people with guns and sometimes horsies walk down a street in fancy/silly costumes to music. And one group stubbornly refuses to walk at the same speed as the others so they either go first or last.
Also, planes and fireworks are involved.Forum Wisdom
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2022-07-05, 03:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well just over a month ago we had parades for a woman's refusal to die, all because her right ancestor was related to a different one of her ancestors.
And Saturday was Pride, which isn't ancient but was mostly celebrated by the most ancient British tradition still active (i.e. go to a field, get dressaged, and try to convince your partner to take their clothes off).
Otherwise we mainly just refuse to give our police anything invented after the year 1700.
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2022-07-05, 06:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Imagine being a chili or some other plant whose fruit has appreciable levels of capsaicin.
You evolved so that your fruit would have a chemical that would inflict pain, nausea, and in high enough doses possibly death on anything that you did not want to eat your fruit in order to ensure the survival of your seeds... And then here come some primates you not only continue to eat your fruit despite the pain, but some of them enjoy it enough that they selectively breed your species and similar ones in order to make it so that your fruits have more of that chemical agent.
That would like being a human and finding out that the aliens that invaded in order to eat our brains like being shot and set on fire.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-07-05, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2022-07-05, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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closest I can think of is the Orks from Wh40k who love war and can regenerate from being shot to the point where they make more orks because dying makes them spread spores that spread and growing into more ork life forms....but being set on fire does make sure they die for real.
though as Keltest points out, its not completely analogous; the better analogy would be an alien species who like being shot, blown up and burned so much that they see us doing it to them as a form of hitting them on and can somehow reproduce with us, and thus gives birth to more humans somehow.
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2022-07-05, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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I mean that is basically the Predators.
Fruit is meant to be eaten by specific things. Birds cannot taste capaschin and fly far and wide, they propagate the spicy fruit plants. They wanna be eaten by them because their seeds can't be digested by bird style guts. Ours, however, can, and we love to eat pain! We love to eat pain so much that we intentionally grow them, which DOES turn out to help the spicy fruits, but is definitely not the intent of said fruiting plants.
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2022-07-05, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2022-07-05 at 12:15 PM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2022-07-05, 01:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-07-05, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-05, 07:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2022-07-06, 05:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Go BIRDIES!
We love to eat pain so much that we intentionally grow them, which DOES turn out to help the spicy fruits, but is definitely not the intent of said fruiting plants.
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2022-07-06, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Peelee wasn't saying that artificial selection is good, merely that it is a form of selection
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2022-07-06, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Corn is man-made. It does not exist in the wild and if all people suddenly disappeared corn would die out quite shortly. It can only continue by direct human intervention.
Apropos of nothing.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2022-07-06, 07:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-06, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-07-06, 08:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2022-07-06, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-07-06, 09:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hm. I vaguely remember someone saying something to the effect of "[d]omesticated species are almost universally made more vulnerable to pests and more reliant on their captors by the process of domestication (whether intentionally or unintentionally) and that's bad."