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Wasabi Sushi in Portland OR had a deep fried hot cheetos sushi donut. It was like a tempura fried sushi roll, but round and covered in cheeto dust.

It was not bad, just a bit too greasy for my taste.

You know I almost didn’t post, thinking about that exact point?

But at least two of them are holding weight on them - rightmost of the front pack and leftmost of the mid pack. Also I’m guessing that they’d still need more robust arms than that just for lifting and carrying in high G, right?

Since long legs would be impossible

Luckily those long slim arms are completely unaffected by that same gravity.

The soup is a metaphor for bringing back a poet from the dead. Pretty obvious, right?

For some reason Dionysus is being coy about what he wants - I’d guess either for some cultural reasons, or just as a premise to set up some jokes about being hungry and horny.

This is from Aristophanes’ Frogs, written and performed as the plague ravaged citizens of Athens hunkered behind their walls with Spartans terrorizing the Attic countryside.

So to help, Dionysus goes to hell to bring back a good poet to cheer people up. Because imagine trying to get through 2020 without TV.

There’s a great line describing Aeschylus’ sentences as great galumphing things with adjectives hanging off them like monstrous shaggy eyebrows.

It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.

I’m not sure that link does have good info.

That’s a 0 point comment on ask historians, from 11 years ago, with no sources listed, no details and little explanation. The follow-up comments have a little more info but only from 1870, and even then it’s only talking about land not wealth. Also the only source linked is a NY Review of Books article that 404s.

I think it’s fairly safe to assume that wealth inequality was lower before industrialization. That really supercharges the power of capital, encouraging and rewarding larger and larger accumulations of capital. Before that it’s also much harder to get reliable data.

Aristotle in the politics mentions a plan to cap wealth inequality at 1:5. Once you have more than 5 times the poorest citizen, your wealth is redistributed. He thinks it too radical, but could you imagine anyone talking about capping CEO pay at 5 times the janitor? That’s unthinkable to us.

Increasing wealth has only ever been observed to fuel greater inequality.

I don’t see any evidence that the value that increasing automation is bringing will be distributed more evenly.

We produce enough food for everyone and still let people starve - equal access to AI is even harder to justify than equal access to food.

Yep, another great example. When you have as few rules and as tightly focused a scope as lasers and feelings, every single situation the rules can generate is going to be on theme.

every ttrpg has had rules that can be exploited and abused

That’s true for games in the tradition of D&D/F20/Trad, but not all ttrpgs. Fewer rules, a tighter scope and more elegant design make it much easier to rule out the kind of bad interactions or edge cases that lead to rules that run counter to the game’s purpose.

My Life with Master, Fiasco and Fall of Magic are all games i’ve played, where exploitation or abuse of rules is just not possible. Unbound is a tactical combat rpg without any room for abuse of rules.
John Harper’s rules-lite DW hack World of Dungeons is probably too elegant for abuse to be possible.

That’s the first few that I can think of, but i’m sure there are plenty more.

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

Sticking together is what good pastas do.

Trump didn’t want to win in 2016. His whole candidacy was basically a shit post gone awry, and that was so expensive that it may still cost us democracy in the US.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don’t understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?

I’ve heard so many right wingers claim that Californians aren’t real americans, and yet here they are trying to shoot their way out of the consequences of large scale systemic failures.

Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.

The fact that you posted that incredibly disingenuous jpost piece from foxman yesterday makes me very skeptical of your ability to identify what is and is not antisemitism.

No, that’s too shitpost.