Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Raw milk is way tastier though. The clearest memory I have from visiting the UK at 9 y/o was the milk from the milk rounds being unreasonably delicious. Like so much better i wasn’t sure it was milk.
It’s obviously not the right choice to fulfill the nations milk needs, that’s a public health disaster. But I wish it was available in limited, risk-minimized contexts like in most of Europe.
Except dinosaurs weren’t taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.
I think that’s the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we’re still around to do it all over again.
I believe some uralic languages do it too. I’ve heard some attempts to link it to a circumpolar bear cult that there’s still scattered evidence for from groups as far away as the ainu, but I don’t know how solid that is.
It’s extra funny that “bear bear bear” would be considered the beariest bear, because “bear” doesn’t even mean bear.
Many languages had a taboo against saying the word bear - “bear” comes from the word for “brown”, because people used to say “the brown one” instead. Some languages seem to have used “sweetpaw” or something similar.
This is akin to the modern toilet-taboo, where except for terms like “shitter/pisser” all the words are euphemisms. Even “toilet” comes from towel.
Yeah I thought it was monopsony but my autocorrect gave me that incorrect spelling and I didn’t bother to double check.
Actual farmers are usually held hostage by the agro-giants who buy their product. In most markets there’s a Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.
Industry behavior is driven by these companies who have all the power. They leave farmers with all of the risk and take all the profit for themselves.
Ah, fascinating! We had a bunny growing up and I always remember her eating the little pebbly poop, but I’m probably just remembering wrong.
It’s probably a gut microbe thing that aids in processing food more efficiently, right? Koalas eat their own shit as well - I think their mothers even feed them shit, iirc. I think it’s not uncommon among herbivores.
University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory
The “unconventional computing laboratory” was definitely founded in partnership with Miskatonic U.
not really, it makes the store lock everything up behind plexiglass creating more friction for paying customers too.
That’s not really harm in the way that hunger or poverty or lobbying against workers protections is harm. That’s more like a temporary inconvenience that doesn’t stop anyone getting what they need, right?
Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.
Having power neurologically suppresses empathy. Therefor resources controlled by the powerful will on average be used more harmfully. Taking resources from the powerful reduces total harm done.
You will use a loaf of bread less harmfully than Walmart will use the profit from it.
Well completely unrelated is maybe an overstatement.
English and Chinese is the common example of unrelated "mama"s, but there is a non zero chance that they are distantly related - beyond the time depths accessable by the comparative method of linguistics.
It could be that “mama” or a very similar word dates back to like Ancient North Eurasians or some older population ancestral to both Chinese and English speakers.
If any one word could survive that long, some form of “mom” is a good candidate, but yeah the most popular theory is that something about the “m” sound makes it more likely to be in the word mama.
We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.
We’ve had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?
Burning down your house doesn’t poison people thousands of years later, so it’s not a perfect analogy.
Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.
First time I quit i was sick and cigarettes tasted awful for a week, so I figured if I had already gone a week without I might as well quit. Whenever I got a craving I thought about how disgusting they tasted with a cold, and imagined spongey lungs filling with black tar till I gave myself a shiver of disgust.
I started up again years later while traveling, then quit for good while visiting my parents for 2 months - I know I’m too embarrassed to smoke around my parents.
When I worked in a mall, there were no staff toilets. So I was subjected to a slightly less extreme version of that maybe 2-3 times a week.
I call that symphony “ringing the taco bells”.
Rebury the disarticulated ochre-painted bones of an important deceased community member!
“Edomite!”
I was getting onto a bus, someone looked me over and spat out the word. It was clear from the tone that it was an insult, but it also sounded suspiciously bronze age, so I was very excited to find out what it meant.
Turns out it’s a biblical reference used by some black nationalist groups in the US to refer to white people as unclean or diseased. Edom was one of several late bronze age Canaanite kingdoms. At one point the torah describes them as slightly paler and dirty, hence the insult.
I really love seeing a well curated list, and that’s a well curated list.
Ah, could be. There’s non-homogenized milk that we get sometimes here but it’s nowhere as good as I remember that UK milk being. Maybe it’s just distant childhood memories being incorrect.