StalinStan

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[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

We got people today that you can't convince of the conservation of matter and energy. Good luck convincing anyone else of that.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If they laid eggs you would be able to find them someplace. People were created from dirt, birds fly close to heaven, they appear after the winter thay when the mud is exposed. It is equally as reasonable to a person who couldn't imagine a world as large as the range those birds migrate.

The scientific method hasn't been invented yet.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It'd be a meat noodle. If we maintained it it would be as a pentrentive tool. So it would be a girthy meat noodle.

I ment to type prehensile but you know what, I am leaving it.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah. That is equally plausible given the information available to the people at hand.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

You would have to be real bored to not around and watch flies fuck and they were kinda busy trying to not starve to death. Even then, if you watch flies fuck there is no particularly sensible way to watch flies lay eggs that turn into maggots. That then pupate to flies. The metamorphosis is kinda wild if you really think about it. Like, if you were gonna break that down into observable events to draw a flip book you couldn't do it without lots of explanation you know.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

People still call Russia communist

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We knew about parasites. Several cultures had traditions of parasites that turned out to be not real. Tooth worms for example. Alot of elf stuff from north Europe tracks as paracites as well.

It is just the scope of the microcosmose is impossible to intuit. Even today we largely don't nderstand or appreicate the real ramifications of biology and just kinda wing it. We generally have a strong bias against anything we can't see. Even allowing for that, there is no way to intuit from any natural method that the green stuff on bread is made infinite yeast cells that were likely there before it was baked and have hyphated through the substrate. The spore part they got close with miasma.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess I was too optimistic then.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, never show liberals weakness. If anything is going to work on them it is blindly asserting thr point with confidence.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are sure you could pick a random person off the street and communicate a random common point with them then I was say you are fine. There are several levels of profiency above conversant. I am below conversant in Spanish but I can specifically have the conversations related to my work pretty well. I just completely fall off the rails if I need to communicate anything outside of that specific context.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

He is kept in a high tech coffin like a super soldier in a sci-fi film.

Everytine they need someone to give the least impressive speech about innane liberal drivel they have to have a montage of powering him up and releasing him onto the world again.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The correct way to play magic is with a group of friends and using only proxy cards. That is like get a pack of card sleeves and print out inserts to put onto cards so you can infinitely vary the experience. If you find a site selling cheap fakes that is nice as well. The second best way is to set up a group where you all agree to buy prebuilt decks and only a set number of boosters. That gives you the gambling and rarity enjoyment without risking spending too much.

The actually games themselves are usually pretty good. They just don't justify their price and the gambling aspect is highly problematic.

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