If he just wanted to be remembered he wouldn’t get so upset about people saying bad things about him.

He would hate people celebrating his death with the collective expression of joy it deserves.

I live in portland so I imagine the bars here will have drink specials, parks will be filled with celebrating stoners, etc.

Probably we’ll walk to the nearest clump of bars and join the celebration.

One of my best highschool teachers taught us this ~25 years ago, basing it on some research his academic wife had done.

The way i heard it was everyone remembers better if they see, hear and speak the information. The whole “i’m a visual learner” thing has no evidence behind it.

Everyone remembers more the more senses they engage.

The purpose of pointless expensive rubbish is to show that you can afford to waste your money on pointless expensive rubbish.

Vehicles like that are wasted on everyone, that’s the point.

Messengers of state and embassadors were considered sacred, sacrosanct or had some kind of official immunity in most states throughout history.

It was a fairly common practise because it’s just really hard to conduct affairs of state if anyone you send fears for their life.

When you want to provoke someone into war, killing their messengers is a tried and true method. I believe that was the goal of the khwarizmian shah when he killed those mongol messengers.

The best bits of 30 rock are when they make fun of how genuinely bad snl is most of the time.

Having a sad life is not the same thing as depression.

Depression is a condition that persists regardless. Bad bouts are often triggered by legit shitty things happening, but unlike non-depressives who can react appropriate to the scale of the shitty thing and remember that it’s a temp problem, depression encourages black and white thinking.

Depression is knowing in your heart that this is the worst thing in the world, is because you’re irredeemably broken, and will never change or get better. In reality, that’s not true.

Like most chronic health issues, symptoms ebb and flow, so sometimes you can be talked down or see the light yourself. Othertimes you cannot.

He was a shitbag and he ruined barrens chat.

A large part of inflation is just tech oligarchs like amazon and rent fixing companies deliberately raising prices. Monopolists will continue to raise prices because they can and cash supply won’t affect that.

Yeah as concerning as the present historical moment is to live through, i’m really excited about the light it can shine on the past - what imperial transitions look like.

This is such a good episode! “Please remain in the relaxation grotto? Were crueller words ever spoken?!”

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the nobel in medicine for a breakthrough anti-malarial drug her team discovered by compiling and testing tcm malarial remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

I spent like 6 months in 雲南 and 18 in 台灣 but yeah i’m not familiar with 台山.

But for years afterwards people who i talked to would ask me about thailand, even a close friend took like 6 months to understand no, not thailand, somewhere else. I think most places you could speak cantonese and say you’re from cambodia and no one would bat an eyelid 😆

Or I could pretend to be from Taiwan… most people probably can’t tell anyways, its just the same Mandarin to them

If you say you’re from taiwan, i think many people will say, “oh i love thai food!” 😆

only apply to TCM products that are injected intramuscularly or intravenously, not to the remedies widely taken by mouth

The potential harm from injections seems like a good reason to tackle them. I suspect wider TCM has too much support to be worth taking on.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine, so forcing more legit research on it could produce some interesting results - in addition to dispelling a lot of potentially harmful nonsense.

Some people won’t eat tongue because their culture doesn’t eat tongue and when asked they come up with reasons.

“We just don’t, it’s a cultural thing” is so often the correct explanation, but our brains usually spin up reasons that are tidy, “just so” or satisfying even if completely off base.

A percentage of viewers will need the product or service, and when that times comes they are far more likely to remember the advertised one.

The hills were alive

It’s going to make snr devs get fired, surely?

They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.

Lol no.

Who are we trying to impress with how un-creased are sheets briefly are before we sleep on them? Ourselves? We’re much too smart to be impressed by something so irrelevant.