Messengers of state and embassadors were considered sacred, sacrosanct or had some kind of official immunity in most states throughout history.

It was a fairly common practise because it’s just really hard to conduct affairs of state if anyone you send fears for their life.

When you want to provoke someone into war, killing their messengers is a tried and true method. I believe that was the goal of the khwarizmian shah when he killed those mongol messengers.

Surely it’s Hydro-Quebectricity?

The best bits of 30 rock are when they make fun of how genuinely bad snl is most of the time.

Having a sad life is not the same thing as depression.

Depression is a condition that persists regardless. Bad bouts are often triggered by legit shitty things happening, but unlike non-depressives who can react appropriate to the scale of the shitty thing and remember that it’s a temp problem, depression encourages black and white thinking.

Depression is knowing in your heart that this is the worst thing in the world, is because you’re irredeemably broken, and will never change or get better. In reality, that’s not true.

Like most chronic health issues, symptoms ebb and flow, so sometimes you can be talked down or see the light yourself. Othertimes you cannot.

This has pretty much been my position too - I’m just yet to see a valid use case for me.

I enjoy writing and have a recognizable and idiosyncratic style. Plus i’m too ADHD to do work that requires a lot pointless reports.

My searches are almost always obscure details that i need to be accurate.

I’ve made a few images for rpgs i run, but i’m usually going for something very specific and off-beat which ai is not good at, plus the overly detailed style of ai art is at odds with the surreal minimalism i like.

He was a shitbag and he ruined barrens chat.

Cerutti is heavily debated and most serious discussions of humans in the americas ignore it. The supposed association with stone tools fails to convince most archaeologists. A mastadon died there 130kya. That’s all cerutti can prove.

Last i heard most experts think the bones were broken by modern construction equipment not ancient hominins.

A large part of inflation is just tech oligarchs like amazon and rent fixing companies deliberately raising prices. Monopolists will continue to raise prices because they can and cash supply won’t affect that.

Yeah as concerning as the present historical moment is to live through, i’m really excited about the light it can shine on the past - what imperial transitions look like.

What are the chances that someone got it to mine bitcoin, probe internal networks and make a reverse ssh tunnel, then lied about or covered up their shady instructions?

I presume we can rule that out if it got to livescience?

Pointing out what a shitbag someone is seems entirely appropriate for the comments of a shitposting community though.

This is such a good episode! “Please remain in the relaxation grotto? Were crueller words ever spoken?!”

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the nobel in medicine for a breakthrough anti-malarial drug her team discovered by compiling and testing tcm malarial remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

I spent like 6 months in 雲南 and 18 in 台灣 but yeah i’m not familiar with 台山.

But for years afterwards people who i talked to would ask me about thailand, even a close friend took like 6 months to understand no, not thailand, somewhere else. I think most places you could speak cantonese and say you’re from cambodia and no one would bat an eyelid 😆

“Did you find any kidnapping victims in my suit pockets?”

Omg that was hilarious. My wife had been texting me all day about the trial but i’d not realized how good the songs were. And the footage of cops stealing rolls of cash is just perfect.

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Or I could pretend to be from Taiwan… most people probably can’t tell anyways, its just the same Mandarin to them

If you say you’re from taiwan, i think many people will say, “oh i love thai food!” 😆

only apply to TCM products that are injected intramuscularly or intravenously, not to the remedies widely taken by mouth

The potential harm from injections seems like a good reason to tackle them. I suspect wider TCM has too much support to be worth taking on.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine, so forcing more legit research on it could produce some interesting results - in addition to dispelling a lot of potentially harmful nonsense.

When i worked in a mall there were no staff bathrooms.

I came to refer to the sound of nearby-diarrhea as “ringng the taco bells”.

If you want to see the worst slop, roll your hand over the keyboard and search that on youtube.

I work in mental health and when a client did that, it was all ai kidslop. Videos with titles like "kkkkkkllllllll;;;;;;;” that are clearly designed specifically to be found by under-supervised children.