there’s beaucoups of oil in the Usa

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

one (1) boatload

approximately this

This is how satyagraha activism is supposed to go: they’ve made the bad guys incriminate themselves and put themselves in a bad position legally and in public perception.

Do you think they should have chickened out because of the possibility of arrest?

Meme posted by Southern Hemisphere Gang

Honestly a pretty good outcome so far from their nonviolent action.

Well done.

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Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I’ve also heard that ‘gringo’ derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I’ve heard that ‘fuck’ is an acronym for ‘fornication under consent of the king’

All nonsense of course.

I’m originally from Sabah in northern Borneo, Malaysia

Hey I’ve been there. Hello.

Certain topics (mostly household things), I’ll think in Irish.

Or sports… it’s easier for me to think “tá an cailis déanta aige” than “he fouled the player” because my sporting life has generally been through Irish.

Was North Korea 3rd world?

I am sceptical.

I don’t think there’s evidence showing these arrangements.

Cool

Looks like Inuit words to me

No it’s today, 29 May

You’re thinking of a different story

You wouldn’t

Agreed. Being civilised is an Englishy queen-and-country virtue.

https://d-place.org/parameters/SCCS1650#0/14/150 — 52 of 186 uncivilised peoples in this dataset have no war.

There’s probably war without civilisation, but “more civilised means less war” is hard for me to accept.

whether uncivilised people have ‘war’ is controversial; many people thi k war arose with civilisation

For example, the book Warless Societies and the Origin of War by Kelly argues that you need civilisation to have the sort of organisation and population density for war. A counterargument is that some great apes have been observed warring.

Anti-civ people could respond that a civilisation focused on war is particularly civilised.