Raine_Wolf

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[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The Simic Combine wants to know your location

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

"Uhh... Something something about an inordinate fondness for beetles."

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, that's just slavery with extra steps!

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I grew up there. Honestly, you're not wrong. Napoleon Dynamite is honestly only a mild exaggeration.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The thing is that most voters would be in favor of such a thing. Which is why those policies rarely find their way to polls. We don't live in a direct democracy. We live in an oligarchy.

Edit: Talking about the US here.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Or Anthropology. Right now, we have realized that New Caledonian crows have entered an equivalent to the early stone age in humans. Therefore, we can gain a lot of insight both about the nature of technological progression and of the very nature of intelligence (and the differences between mammalian and avian intelligence) by doing these studies.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's more like... Having an extra layer or two stashed at convenient locations like a chipmunk.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Ok... Those don't look half bad tho. Anyone out there got a good flan recipe?

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

Cities: We expect them to get help! Just not from us. We can't lower property values like that.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I mean... You could try a tea shop! Usually have good pastries too

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

TIL: Guinness Book of World Records origin story is the same as a D&D campaign: started in a tavern.

[–] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that called a slum lord?

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