Cryophilia

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've got a question about ranges. If you have a ghost gun, will that be a problem? Do they check serial numbers?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not related to mental health, you absolute turnip. It's a post about class dynamics.

And also, even if we were talking about mental health, that's fucking ridiculous. So you refuse to consider any hypothetical whatsoever?

Actually, as I type this I'm realizing you have all the markers of heavy autism, so it actually may be biologically impossible for you to consider these things.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like the details an author can give that the Wikipedia page doesn't have room for. I was just listening to The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer which inspired my initial post.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm taking issue with your passive tone, as if things just naturally changed all by themselves. There is one specific group directly responsible and we should name them.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you exclusively interact with concepts described in a peer reviewed study?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sargon was fucking nuts. From son of a gardener to king of the world.

Fun fact: I always thought the Mask of Sargon looks like the Chad guy in soyjack memes

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's literally a concept described in this post.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Wasn't Shamshi-Adad the first one to claim the title "king of the universe"? 🤣

Assyrian boasting always cracks me up. Sennacherib describes this battle against Babylon:

With the dust of their field covering the heavens, like a wide, mighty storm, they drew up in battle array before me on the bank of the Tigris. They blocked my passage and offered battle. I put on my coat of mail. My helmet, emblem of victory, I placed upon my head. My great battle chariot, which brings low the foe, I hurriedly mounted in the anger of my heart. The mighty bow which Assur had given me, I seized in my hands. The javelin, piercing to the life, I grasped. I stopped their advance, succeeding in surrounding them. I decimated the enemy host with arrow and spear. All of their bodies I bored through. I cut their throats, cut off their precious lives as one cuts a string. Like the many waters of a storm, I made the contents of their gullets and entrails rain down upon the wide earth. My prancing steeds, harnessed for my riding, plunged into the stream of their blood as into a river. The wheels of my war chariot, which brings low the evil and the wicked, were spattered with filth and blood. With the bodies of their warriors, I filled the plain like grass. Their testicles I cut out, and tore out their privates like the seeds of cucumbers of June.

Meanwhile, the Babylonian records say:

The Assyrians lost the battle.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, they don't work because they were systematically dismantled by Republicans for a generation.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the city. I live in San Francisco, and honestly I see almost as many gender nonconforming people out and about as I do gender conforming. There are trans flags waving all over the place. A few years ago a bunch of Trumpers tried to have a rally in Oakland and people threw stuff at them until they left lol

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It's like that time when Al-Qaeda told Isis to chill the fuck out

 

In 1860 BC, Ikūn-pî-Ištar, king of Isin in Sumer, received a very troubling prophecy: a great tragedy would befall the King, soon. So Ikūn-pî-Ištar had a genius idea: let's take some poor idiot, make him king, and then "rebel" against him and put him to death, satisfying the prophecy and leaving Ikūn-pî-Ištar unharmed. Ikūn-pî-Ištar picked the first lowly worker he found, a gardener named Enlil-bāni, and abdicated the throne in his favor. Ikūn-pî-Ištar then went off to eat a bowl of soup, which he promptly choked on and died. Enlil-bāni then refused to relinquish the throne and reigned for a relatively safe and prosperous 24 years, lowering taxes and rebuilding the city's temples and walls.

Source: History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer

 

Took a nap instead. I threw my back out a week ago, and sleeping is difficult. But I happened to be on the bed earlier and found a position that didn't hurt, so I was like "oh yeah, I'm not moving" and had an incredible nap.

 

Testing posting from other instances

 

When we have a critical mass of people, we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way.

 

Bonus question: how much would a company have to pay you for you to give 100% effort at work?

 

Also knowns as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

 

I'm not hip to the lingo

 

Aside from racism. I mean economically/socially, what issues does too much immigration cause?

 

Inspired by this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19408108

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