i read player of games, loved it, read consider phlebas and that was the last culture book i ever read (except for re-reading player of games like twice)

inability

weird way to phrase “complete unwillingness to even try, and shooting themselves in the dick instead”

only that one specific group of muslims in china too! by and large they dont even know about the other muslim ethnic groups.

by pure coincidence, the group they know so much about happens to be the one the US tried to use as a spear against china, among other things by spreading wahhabist nonsense amongst them.

curious.

nah, the inner face of the outer shell is also not visible, so not rendered. if you actually managed to look at it, you’d get garbage. usually the remnants of previous frames.

Is that the one with Kissinger’s recipe?

i’m neither of those things too, i just believe that if you want to sing the song of life, you have to abolish private property and things like that. and if you aint singing the song of life, you’re singing the song of death.

yeah but backface culling means the far side isnt rendered, so it really is dark

most of europe (outside the blue banana) isnt that full, you can fit plenty of factories in it. finding a spot for it near a town so your workers can live somewhere is trickier…

Why is that goat super neglected? Hooves ain’t supposed to be that overgrown

how much can that uranium weigh? 2lbs?

the least existing type of pokemon exists the most, yes

and this pokemon doesnt exist at all, which is much less than a fraction of a second, so it can easily be hotter than lightning

this is why the legend in this map is misleading.

eg, in hungary’s case, you’d never have this kind of confusion about the first floor, because of the words used.

• ground floor = földszint (literally, ground level)
• first floor = első emelet (literally, first thing that is raised, emel is the verb for lifting, raising)

so you start building a house by building walls around the ground floor, then you raise a story on top, which is the first lifted thing (that is, it’s not on the ground).

so there’s no programmer’s logic involved, it flows quite naturally from the words we use.

looks like a distorted map. why cant people use the correct one?

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/app/uploads/2015/11/transcribed-map.jpg

the AI the department of war uses to pick the target thinks iran is already owned by israel, so it determines to nuke the capital of iran: tel aviv

this would actually make a great columbo remake thing. have him investigate historical genocides. constantly bugging the bourgeoisie with just one more thing.

reminds me of

if King Croesus crosses the Halys River, a great empire will be destroyed.

at the very end, after rome conquered greece, they were basically a spartan theme park for visiting roman aristos.

Biggleswade seems like a very fitting name for a place to release beavers.