Damn, these look kinda fun…

glowing?

Actually, because of Caesar and Augustus adding months, the 25th month is only Vigintitrisember

lol

the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive

You know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, right? How early roman christians viewed and treated Jewish people is reasonable context to include in a conversation about the history.

Life has a tendency to spread when new environments are available, yes.

But beyond this planet, there are no other environments. You might say the rest of the universe is antivironment. There is a wide range of possible conditions, of radiation and tempurature, gravity and molecular composition. Life requires a very very narrow and specific set of those conditions to continue.

Going from one continent to another, within the same atmosphere, with the same underlying set of conditions, is not all that much of a change. Actually leaving the planet? Permanently? And without just dying in the attempt? That would require a level of organization, long term planning (like, centuries long term), and resource management that we as a species have yet to demonstrate.

Would Oganesson even last long enough to lick? Let me look this up…

…0.7 millisecond half-life. A fraction of a millionth thousandth of a second. So you really only have to worry about all the things it decays into, and not the element itself.

I get these stories as a way of pointing out the inherant absurditity in a lot of every day things…

…but also… life requires energy. Something’s gotta keep the metabolism going. Oxygen is both highly reactive and significantly more abundant than any of its heavier counterparts further down the column. If there is life out there with a metabolic rate anywhere approaching our own, it would be weird if it didn’t use oxygen.

those actually look pretty tasty

No other country has done as much? We’re gonna just ignore how much support Israel has thrown behind Trump? Netanyahu was meeting and communicating with him during the 2024 election cycle, all while ignoring the Biden administration! Snubbing a sitting president for a prospective candidate!

¯_(ツ)_/¯ stick to dealing with the beam in your own eye, rather than the splinter in your brother’s

It takes heavy inspiration from how one mathematician posited that neurons work. Actual neurons are living cells, and have a wider range of behaviors and interactions than the “neural network” model accounts for.

that’s the real trouble with suggesting linux IRL is if someone actually takes you up on it now you’re kinda obligated to be their tech support

centrist, uninformed yet confident

We don’t know how brains work, nobody can authoritatively say that a computer programme and a brain work the same way.

I did say it was reductive.

But I think the word you’re looking for is “prejudiced”. This position is prejudiced against anglophones. I also don’t genuinely hold it. It’s a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration of my frustration with the governments of the US, UK, and Canada. Hard to imagine how, as inheritor/patriarch/benefactor of the British Empire, these countries could ever be reformed in a way to make them genuine democracies and just actors on the world stage. At my most exasperated, I sometimes think it would be better if we just turned over day-to-day management to the UN.

racism?

At my most reductive, I think English speakers shouldn’t be allowed to self govern.

I think just being an organism with an anus leads to higher levels of poop exposure than whatever minuscule amount of particulate matter that manages to aerosolize from an unlided flush