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Timeless movie!

So you’re saying you agree?

Walmart is absolutely a result of capitalism, those intricate supply chains are in place to make money. Maybe we could do it without a common way to track needs for a while, but would it adapt? Would the alternative resist corruption better? The invention of Money almost seems an inevitable consequence from one perspective.

I don’t think this answers the original question, but it’s an interesting side topic.

Thank you.

(Also happy thanksgiving!)

Granted, but the cheese can also be part of Dairy?

Pizza is a food pyramid.

I think that speaks more to how broken the food pyramid was than how good pizza is.

“catatonic teenage warhead”

+1 for xkcd

Donnie Darko is an upside down version of “it’s a wonderful life”

Acerola - I tried simulating the entire ocean

I really enjoy listening to this guy, he really explains the details about graphics in an easily accessible way.

Start with Luke 21 …

He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.

Sounds… nice, poor people should give, right? Then read just before the unfortunate? chapter break at the end of Luke 20

“Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

What we are seeing is the sunlight going through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell’s_window and it looks amazing.

Veritasium did a bit Why it was almost impossible to Make the Blue LED

This is exactly what I was thinking.

Or that we are all refugees and are just tired of enshitification.

That’s what she sed

I thought ‘Children of the mind’ was good, could have been merged with Xenocide.

Whatever you do, stay away from ‘The Last Shadow’. What a terrible way to finish a series.

'I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don’t come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.’

Portland Oregon

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