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Yeah I’m in Ireland and I can, and do, pay for stamps with cash.

Ethanol, caffeine, mushroom, and cauliflower

Ye were in the Let Them Eat Cake phase in the 1980s. This is the Storming The Bastille phase

It’s actually standard practice for secret agents to use their real names, as accidentally failing to respond to a pseudonym is one if the easiest ways to blow their cover.

Furthermore, Bond is a secret agent. The fact that he’s a spy who has tons if amazing adventures is not public knowledge, let alone well-known. We the audience know James Bond as a super-popular action hero from a long series of movies, but in his own universe there is nothing particularly special or noteworthy about the name James Bond.

In European polytheism, there isn’t a clear division between the mundane and the divine, like you see in Christianity.

There are gods all over the place. Your house has a couple of gods in it. They aren’t powerful enough to kill you with lightning on a clear day, but they will still annoy you unless you leave out a little food for them.

Specifically in the Greek context, Protogenoi, Titans, Olympians, Gigantes, Nereids, Gorgons, Furies, Fates, Muses, and Nymphs are all gods of varying strength and prominence. Everybody worshipped Zeus, but only your family worships the house gods.

Likewise, in Scandinavia, you have your Aesir, Vanir, Jötunn, Dwarves, Elves, and so on. Gaels have the Sídhe, Fomoire, Tuatha Dé Dannann, Leprecháns, and whatever else. To an Arab pagan, djinn were a form of minor deity. The kami of Shinto continue to encompass everything from local spirits to the supreme creator, to the point that Japanese Christians and Muslims refer to God as Kami-sama.

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When Christianity caught on, other gods were out, but that didn’t stop people honoring their local house gods. Small gods were reïmagined as fairies; Christian clergy denied their reality, but belief in fairies was mostly seen as a harmless superstition, like not stepping on a crack in the road. Belief in fairies persists in Ireland; ironically, those who genuinely believe in the old gods are the most devout Catholics.

We see a similar phenomenon across history and culture. When Christianity met Vodún, people didn’t stop believing in their indigenous gods; instead, those gods became spirits who God put in charge of particular aspects of the cosmos, which is how we get Vodou.

Likewise, Zarathustra was a polytheist, but by the time Islam rose, Zoroastrians were down to two gods, with the others recast as basically angels. This concept in turn influenced Judaism and Samaritanism; Yahweh, the Hebrews’ patron deity, merged with El, the Semitic supreme deity, and the other gods became angels.

Because Christianity caught on as the Western Roman Empire was disintegrating, people felt like they were living through an apocalypse. Clergy said that, while the physical world was collapsing, the world to come was brilliant, and thus a sharp division was drawn between the mundane and the divine. Modern Euramericans are raised with this division; whatever our beliefs or lack thereof, we see it as fundamental, and thus retroactively and anachronistically apply it to pre-Christian paganism, whereas the pagans saw the divine as simply part of the world.

They don’t call him the Sane Titan.

And he’s purple because he’s an alien who Jim Starlin gave purple skin.

Before the printing press, introverted men worked the farm, while introverted women spun thread, made and repaired clothes, cooked, cleaned, nursed babies, and also worked the farm.

this is the same as what extroverts did, because back then, you contributed to the farm and the household whether you liked it or not.

At a celebration or festival, the introverts might gather in a corner to tell stories, but there was no way to avoid being part of the community back then.

No, he has his own bizarre approach

I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

The ultimate goal was to transition Mandarin to Roman letters (which had happened naturally in Vietnam, so there was precedent).ao’s party realised that going straight from Chinese characters to Roman letters would be too abrupt, so took a first step of swapping out complex characters for characters that look simpler but are easier to write. This was surprisingly well-received, and became standard in mainland China (but Taiwan did not adopt the new system on the entirely reasonable grounds of fuck the CCP). The CCP intended to do a second round of simplification, but the people balked at this on the grounds that it made the written language to difficult to read, and so they stopped at the current set.

Tabhairfaidh mé mo vóta duit.

UBUNTU, from Zulu.

Ubuntu is a concept in Bantu philosophy which is commonly translated as humanity or humaneness, but those are rough and don’t capture the nuance.

In a bunch of SciFi stories, a robot or alien joins a group of humans. The humans are initially wary of the alien/robot, but they spend time together, bond, and realize that they’re not really that different after all. A human says that, while their new friend might not be Homo sapiens, they’re definitely human.

Ubuntu captures that whole concept in one word. It refers to the subtle, ineffable qualities which “make us human”, as exemplified by our social bonds and how we interact with each other.

That’s my guess. I had the same experience tge first time I followed a hashtag, and I’ve seen it happen to at least one other person.

America does not have a national age of consent; each state sets their own. It’s 16 in 30 states, 17 in nine states, and 18 in 11 states.

Yes, the age of consent is 16 in the majority of the USA.

Several of the states which set it at 17 or 18 also have close in age exemptions (AKA Romeo and Juliet laws) which cover the case that OP raises. In such cases, it is legal to have sex with somebody slightly below the age of consent as long as both people are sufficiently close in age; some states, such as Texas, also require them to have been dating since both were under the state age of consent. This means that, in most of America, it is perfectly legal for a 19-year-old to have sex with a 16-year-old.

The misunderstanding most likely comes from the fact that the majority of entertainment media is made in New York and California, where the age of consent is 18 with no exceptions, and pop culture writers act like this is the case everywhere.

Also I should clarify that bringing a minor across state limes to take advantage of a lower age of consent is a felony, for obvious reasons.

You can tell everybody involved knew they were making a movie called Snakes on a Plane and just embraced it.

Also, the blonde flight attendant who is long of leg and short of skirt? Pretty cool she spends the entire movie being effective and competent, and is never a panicky damsel.

It also too about 100 years to reach the modern design of rubber tyres and a drive train, with the rider sitting slightly forward of the rear axle and well behind the front wheel.

Snakes on a Plane

Civilian

A polycule of n people should have at least n toothbrushes.

Most likely the programme they use applies it by default, and nobody has the inclination and knowledge to change it.

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