Adventures of Mark Twain devil:

fun fact: scientists are working on making it so humans can too

It do look like a painting, heh.

so a game where you become The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™

yes

but i2p

the auxhdeer?

routerman comes to save the day

what fuck

There was a brief period where even this was too much work for people, so pancake batter came in spray cans.

The googly eyes. Other models use screens for animated ‘eyes’ but this thing? Just stick some giant eyes on it and call it a day.

but what if you adjust for 5 million years of inflation?

Some years ago I’d seen studies showing a ‘religiosity cycle’ - war and strife drives people to religion, religion drives more war and strife - and I can’t help but wonder if that’s the goal here.

It’s a @truewagner bit.

We’re rapidly becoming an anocracy - sometimes called a ‘semi-democratic’ state.

Also apparently called ‘managed democracy’.

No more AskReddit hornyposting the same questions over and over

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“Every one you love is dead. There is only ice cream.”

I choose to believe this is some sort of shibboleth

like throwing the most inane business speak at each other somehow confirms that they are a real business person and not some guy in a suit that would never think to say something so vapid and devoid of actual meaning

Reading through history is like, “oh wow what a cool unique culture!” Then you get to the part where a missionary shows up and starts taking it apart or suddenly there’s a civil/holy war that obliterates most traces of the old culture.

In many cases the missionaries were slaughtered, but they sent more, or sent armies. Heck, the British had to try like 5-6 times to take over one particular Indian kingdom (that I can’t remember off the top of my head).

Never underestimate the power of sheer persistence and a rabid dedication to a cause.