A good thing about Bluesky is it will remind you when you have alp ready downloaded a JPEG, because otherwise I would have like 5 different versions on this image downloaded on my phone
(Eyes rolling back into my head as I stroke out) Millennials reinvented having an personal, idiosyncratic style of dress and beer that doesnt taste like you mixed lemon water and piss together, and the other generations will never stop resenting us over it
I dont really trust other millennials who refuse to at least admit that Little Lion Boy and The Cave absolutely rip
Theyve never managed to shred as hard as they did on their first album, but Im tired of pretending that Mumford and Sons dont have incredibly consistent output and are better than 95% of the other 2010s indie rock bands
The Orthodox liturgy is SHOCKINGLY petty. All time haters. Little old women go into churches to kneel and pray and the choral music is basically 8th century "When We Ride on Our Enemies"
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I do think the Orthodox clinch this, bc a shocking amount of the liturgy is the winners stunting on the losers of various doctrinal battles. Its more or less if a very large church was repeating 2-Pac's diss tracks against Biggie a thousand years in the future.
Yeeeaa...
Unfortunately, it does seem to require that you believe you will grow closer to God by living a deeply asetic life sharing a bare room with three other guys and NOT sleeping with them, so its difficult to apply to our secular age
One of the reasons Im so interested in monasticism is that it really does seem to be the one ideology historically that does cause people to give up conspicous consumption.
My headcannon is that the North are actually Fantasy Koreans, and that every family has a metric ton of kimchi buried in the ground waiting for the winter (I dont actually know how long kimchi can theoretically last, but its gotta be better than just vanilla grain, right?)
I got the thing the ladies want (PDF about how narratives about the Ottoman Empire as the Sick Man pf Europe are too simplistic, if not outright wrong)
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My European friends (Romanians, a couple of Lithuanians and Turks) all complain about how the burgers in America are too small and disappointing compared to what they can get in their hometowns
Honestly, seeing how meat consumption rises across Asia as wages rise convinces me that this isnt just an American problem. The worldwide preference seems to have a lifestyle where every household has an extra large garage, 2-3 cars, and to eat meat with each meal
Every friend group needs a Grungler
Sitting around and thinking (as any good nerd does) about how I wouldve improved Rings of Power, and man, theres so much potential there, but its such a hard sell for people used to, "Hobbits go on an adventure"
Gonna start saying this to myself when I go in for the first bleary eyed piss in the morning
TURTLES:
-what are they hiding in there?
-crimes?
....why not, btw? Distances are too great for it to be a possibility, or something?
So what youre saying, its time for @bartenderhemry.bsky.social 's congressional run...
Sometimes I wonder if it would improve things to reduce the number of political appointees and rely on an increasingly proffessionalized civil service, or if that would make things even worse? Probably a bit of a wash either way
Modern warfare seems to have a crab convergent evolution thing going on, where everything is converging on a platform to deliver long range fires
Ships? Long range fires. Planes? Long range fires? Infantry grunts? Buddy, thats just a very small, mobile platform for delivering long range fires
I like how we all have these microscopic memory slides of minor Bush functionaries stored in our head, and its because, Im assuming for all of us, 2002-05 was the maddest wed ever been in our lives up to that point
Like Trump has tweaked the ground invasion part, but both him and Bush had the same Uncle Rick "Quick war, Morty. In and out, will only take a few months, its going to be so easy."
The similarity for me is that if you look at the original Rumsfeld Doctrine, it did call for an actual ground invasion, but then only planned for a quick 9 month of so occupation before all US troops would pull out, ready to do the same thing again to another country.
4) is very funny, bc Obi-Wan takes like 10 years off lightsabering, and it still only takes him like a month to whip himself back into shape and come back for a late career win, hes basically the George Foreman of Star Wars
More about management philosophy, but it does go into how interwoven those philosophies are into what biz schools teach
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Ki-Adi-Moon is a straight edge, so once he came in it was goodbye to cracking open a cold one during work hours
Used to be able to smoke in the Council Chambers, you could. Cant anymore, because of woke.
