Get dunked.

The Great Flying Spaghetti Monster created the Universe and that exists out of boredom after indulging into too much beer and findings like these is just the GFSM messing with our colective hubris of knowing-it-all.

Those “fossils” were placed over night as decor, now that the ice melted.

Can you expand more on that, please?

The more I read the text the less sense it makes to and not having watched the described scene, I’m at a loss.

Everything he said plus today.

With our current level of technology, that is impossible. Who knows what materials are we going to discover in the future?

If a scientist came to me asking for funding to research on bodily odor (which has happened, if memory serves me well) I would be baffled by the request but I wouldn’t outright deny it.

Sweaty arm pits. Stinky feet. Bad breath. Farts.

The lab would have to be declared a bio hazard area by itself. Too good to miss out. Just the chance to see someone trying to keep a straight face while taking in some of these fine bouquet of rancid would be too good to miss.

Imagine watching the footage of a day of work.

That’s… unnecessary kinky. But might be fun.

Forgot cold brewers.

Oh. That one.

I agree no research is useless but some just goes straight into the bonkers folder.

Which one?

Too many people arguing for one to manage to pull a power grab

That had Monthy Python vibes.

I didn’t. I don’t care about the votes system; you engaged me in conversation, I replied, let’s keep going. Does not care if we disagree on our views, we’re discussing ideas and that matters by itself.

You’re right. The value of anything, especially art, resides on the eye of the person looking at it, so, at this point, I will admit defeat on my previous argument.

Tagging is a form of urban cancer on its own. Full stop. But depending on what is writen, the border between reactionism and vandalism blurs.

I grew up in a very urban setting, after a political revolution, and the graffiti on the walls were words of anger, of calling out those who had cooperated with the old regime, slurs, etc.

Every word, line, trace, was disfiguring the buildings, statues and whatever surface it landed on but carried meaning, a message.

The Pompeii graffiti were gratuitous in nature but it was a city and part of a civilization know for being prone to excess. Today, those graffiti are living testaments of our colective history, although not much diferent from common and crude public bathroom scribbles.

Memes come and go too fast for that.

This isn’t garbage, this is good banter.

A bored guy engraving runes at an height of 3.8 meters just to mess with the next guy reading it, an artist or worker sculpting his name into a work, ordered by the class in power (church) just to give the finger to the clergy, Mozart creating a piece to get revenge on the rich class that held him prisoner to work on what was asked to him instead of having liberty to create as he pleased…

Good, old fashioned, rebellion.

Can someone help with clarifying a few things?

There is a build up to the full issue, so I’m going to set a few entry questions:

• Are the acquired studios privately owned or in the market, open for hostile takeovers?

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I’m not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?

Word of the day for me!

I was an avid gamer under Window$. When I bought a laptop that was supposedly shipped without OS, because getting a M$W license was not in the budget, I asked a colleague to help me find a distro for my new computer.

Even after finding out the computer did in fact was preinstalled, I dual booted the thing and the first thing I discovered was that I could run Neverwinter Nights natively, running faster and smoother than under the OS I had originally played it.

Never looked back.