Perchance is free

When I was a kid, I was legitimately afraid of this

Ooh bear facts! My favorite bear fact is that there is no grizzly bear species. Sure, there’s regional genetic variation, but they are all genetically brown bears.

What they are named for is the grey hairs on their pelt, which are caused by the stress of malnutrition. This is why they are so much more aggressive than the other bears: they are literally starving because there is not enough calories in their environment to keep so many land sharks happy and healthy.

Well of course he’s masking, he’s hiding the fact that he’s three kids in a trenchcoat

I have heard heard some people claim that Jernau Morat Gurgeh (from Player of Games by Ian M Banks) is probably autistic, but personally i think he’s more Ace-coded than anything else. Maybe you might think otherwise?

Personally I think a better example is Stafl-Preonsa Fal Shilde 'Ngeestra dam Crose, the Referrer from Consider Phlebas. She has a fixation on free solo climbing, and enough brainpower that supercomputers go to her for advice. I personally found the robot that was crushing on her to be super cute.

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The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was involved in a rollover accident on the Tri-State Tollway near west suburban Oak Brook late Monday morning, Illinois State Police said.

The famed hot dog-shaped vehicle was traveling north near Roosevelt Road about 11:10 a.m. when it hit a Hyundai sedan that was also traveling north, state police said. The wienermobile lost control and overcorrected after hitting the second vehicle and rolled over onto its side, according to state police.

The tollway’s northbound right lane was shut down from the time of the crash until about 12:25 p.m. while state troopers investigated. No injuries were reported, police said.

Lmao. It’s a link to an article about the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile being crashed yesterday. It bumper-tapped another car, and the driver freaked out and overcorrected right into a roll-over. Thankfully nobody was hurt.

That makes sense

Yes. But is it moral? Also yes. Will you get sued? Almost certainly not.

I would like to see a study done with several groups:

1. People who read multiple books each year
2. People who watch lots of video essays
3. People who listen to podcasts
4. People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
5. Veterans
6. Educators, such as teachers or professors
7. Librarians
8. A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories

I’ve heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I’m rooting for a null result.

Remember, who made the flashlight for the scientist? The philosopher.

They didn’t start guarding the president until 1901. So, not Grant.

The secret service was established by the Department of the Treasury 159 years ago under the Abraham Lincoln to suppress the counterfeiting of currency, which is still their primary mission

Bro, I am going to assume you mean well (because the actual words you are saying are fairly neutral) but anyone reading your comment in the context of this post is going to think you are racist.

It works. Well, it works about as well as your average LLM

Totally forgot about turkey being native to north America. They are certainly more docile than chickens.

Well, I learned something new today. Gonna be honest, I thought llamas were an offshoot of camels native to the Caucasus mountains. (I suppose they got to the Andes through Georgia’s advanced sea trade network /s)

Edit: Did some googling. They are, in fact, camelids. Why I thought this meant they evolved from bactrian camels is beyond me. They split off from their parent group during the last ice age: camels migrated eastward across the Bering land bridge into Eurasia, whereas the llamas went south.

Thanks for the heads up about the difficulty curve. My only knowledge of how paleolithic cultures are different is that the only domesticatable animal west of the Atlantic was the Guinea Pig, and I’m not even 100% on that. I’ll stick to european for now.

I’m going to stay eurasia-centric for now because I feel whatever attempt I make at native American history is gonna come across as very condescending.

That said, I plan on including early agricultural practices as late-game material, particularly focusing on alcohol production. I will be looking into the dates that grains and animals were domesticated so I don’t include something dumb like Neanderthals keeping beehives and eating golden currant