Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

This graph is for the United states.

They do say if you want to commit a crime, do it with a car.

It’s really tiring to see people going to huge efforts to analyse media that’s intended for young children and complain about tropes and narrative devices that are there because it’s media for children.

I get that it’s sort of an elitist sentiment, but media written for or targeted at adults is usually better, or at least freer to explore the sorts of things these people claim they want to see, and they would almost certainly have a better time if they just stopped watching children’s media.

For example, Harry Potter / Disney fanatics in their late 20s early 30s. Read another book, I’m begging you.

lmao if you play video games as an adult you would absolutely end up on the wrong end of this

Plenty of video games written for exclusively adults (and plenty that can’t legally be sold to children).

At a certain level, I think most people, including myself, consume this sort of media wanting to know vaguely that it has a history and a progenitor, but uninterested in the specific details, and unwilling to do any sort of investigation.

We’re in an interesting halfway period where the lies are not yet so good we have no way of telling what’s real, but it’s still easy enough to achieve that bubble where the things we interact with are unknowingly fiction.

Eventually we will have to embrace that nothing we see or hear can be known to be real.

Birds aren’t real though

It’s his turn (again)

With the rise of China and Russia and the weakening of US-NATO, countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK etc, will have breathing space to chart their own path, instead of being constantly under the jackboot of US Imperialism.

I don’t disagree, but the path Russia seems to be charting is one of bourgeoisie oligarchy. Not something to admire.

People go for critical support because it opposes the US’s interests and somehow forget that the USSR has been dead for over thirty years and the Russian Federation is a bourgeoisie oligarchy wearing its corpse as a mask.

2, Obama did some horrible things, but everything I know about him suggests he’d be a good conversationalist.

Every American either lives like the Simpsons, the family at the start of interstellar, or the cast of Friends,

So offending the state in China invokes the punishment of getting to experience the American reality?

but this site being populated mostly by different varieties of contrarians and malcontents

You can just say leftists/communists/socialists

This is anti-struggle-session thought

Help, I have an excess of yellow bile and a deficit of phlegm, can bloodletting really balance out those humours?

They have to roll really high on the table. Most of it is just stuff like stunned or bleeding. In previous editions they were more lethal.

Old fashioned pens need to be held at a downwards angle or they might not write. A lot of modern pens as well. Plus it looks nice and it’s basically just a block of wood with a hole and some polish.

That’s the one projectile he’s proven he can dodge

3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.

Unless it’s the only thing you’re doing, you’re not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.

On a chemical level, children’s brains work differently to adults when they’re learning, it’s not a question of effort.

Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.

Surely slate and tile have to balance out in price at some point? The slate on my home’s roof is ~120 years old and only needs a little bit of maintenance every 5-10 years.