Given how often solar eclipse are used to date historical events, I think an international calendar should begin on the day of the first recorded total solar eclipse.

If scientist are right about some Irish petroglyphs, it is currently the year 5365. Christ was born in 3340. The Egyptian middle kingdom period lasted from 1300 to 1558. The Ottoman empire took Constantinople in 4793. Star Wars episode IV was released in 5312.

Proto-writing systems emerged sometime between -40 and 240. The Olmecs emerged in roughly 2140. The Aztec Empire was founded in 4768. The Zhang dynasty began in roughly 1574.

the central conceit of white boy "comedy rap" genres is that they're too racist to recognise that most classic rap is already pretty humorous in many ways, on account of wordplay being fundamental to the form,

and also steeped in pop culture from the very beginning, like the rap scene was already making music about comics and anime and video games you don't need to segregate a new genre for that

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I would bring Nabokov back give him a PC loaded with nothing but rpgmaker and just let him cook

this website is literally addicted to smugly saying "both things can be true" instead of developing an informed opinion on which of two mutually contradictory positions is in fact defensible

hi! my name is 🦭! my job is play toys and shapes at the water factory! i get paid in fish. after a long day i like to unwind with my hobby, kissing and hugging my friends! which i also get paid in fish for!

imagine coming home and your mom found your steampunk clothes and shes just there with her arms crossed

she's holding up a ziplock bag of gears and springs asking you what they're for

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the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held

whenever they stop spending money on good wigs on tv and the character goes from voluminous to flat in 1 season i like to pretend the actors real life anorexia is now a diegetic character trait and theyre just showing the realistic effects of chronic repeat TEs

reverse solipsism: everyone else has a vibrant interior life but I'm just a passive observer