Muskrats everywhere, those little pests!

Also keep in mind that I have a terminal disease myself, and I’ve made endless contributions to PJ’s basic posts over the years. Want to see one? Here: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels@piefed.social/p/2215171/what-were-roofs-made-of-in-ancient-greek-temples

And then the resultant explanations he made, which I re-posted shortly afterward to a different community. Point is-- I love PJ, and his phenomenal efforts, and… it doesn’t make sense that I wouldn’t at least TRY to make the effort for my man.

All he ever got out of his work was comments…

@alleycat@feddit.org,
I see what you’re saying, mate, but that’s simply not true.
Nah, he and I and others specifically debated the historicity, provenance, and just everything there was to say about so many fascinating pieces. In fact, that’s one of the my biggest gathers from a science & academic standpoint–

Like-- the cautious, friendly, informed, object-oriented approach to knowledge. Now THAT (to me) is the greatest slice of bread in history, hehe. Facts. Reason. Verifiability. All those greats.

When we lose such things, we’re just nothing as a peoples. We’re the deepest shame of all to our ancestors (“Oh, did you say that you liked the book 1984?”)

PJ said he was frustrated and exhausted that this was like his 4th move from head-banging places and so forth, over to hopefully open-minded, kind-hearted places, like PF.S.

If I was a younger man, I’d probably be ramming my head in to the nearest tree trunk in order to understand. Just… baaah

Lol, Sergio…
You know, I’m probably the stoopidest Latin-scholar on the face of the planet.
Baptised in Sud. A., then went off to Europe, now immersed in French.

Too much information, honestly. There’s also High-Latin, and of course Low-Latin, regional Latin, with historic Latin overtones, godammit.

So yeah, I asked DeepL for some help on that phrase, and the results seemed like (based on my SP and FR) … “whoah, that makes much sense, mate.” Like, dissecting it word-by-word, it did feel… accuratish?

(keep in mind that I’m an idiot, lol)

I bet the Romans had something wise to say about this kinda thing.

Love it! (see updated title, lol)

Our thoughts so often are dominated by the Fusiform Facial Area and Phallus-Recognition-System, two areas of the brain, that it’s nice to get a different spin once in a while. XD

Good ol’ Billy Strings!

(I have no idea who that is, but I love that album cover)

Don’t you KNOW IT. 🤜🤛

So the joke in this comic is that Jucika received a romantic “Book Day” gift, then re-gifted it to the man she was actually interested in.

Well-summed indeed, and really, a sort of chronic, tragic phenomenon that goes on between the underdog that greatly appreciates the heroine for who she really is, while she has the hots for the more ‘manly’ man. (mix up the genders, delightfully as you will, still the same equation)

I think across my romantic attempted conquests, I only got scorched once or twice, until I kinda realised some fundamental things… 😅

Probably more like the richest assholes who have the most influence in politics in the EU want more DC’s.

Far as I know, no sensible person on Planet Erff wants more DC’s, both locally and remotely, due to their ~100% toxicity rate.

Simple, yet brilliant, and especially poignant for these dark, dark times. oO

I wonder…

https://www.google.com/search?q=star+trek+devil+in+the+dark+"tunnels"&udm=2

Lol… I could not make head nor tail of that!

Can you figure it out…?

Upvote, but I think what would really help when posting deep or deep-ish research / thought-pieces is to excerpt some telling portion of the article in order to show us what you personally found interesting, as well as to share some key bit of interest from the piece.

Social media streams are so driveby-ish in nature that they’re heavily geared towards a quick look or impression of an image and or bit of text, that merely linking to something will tend to get less engagement (assuming that was the point). Even in a science sublemmy, I would think.

Just my driveby-ish 2¢.

have gills on the underside of their rear legs

I… did not know that. oO

WORST: a state of useless fear & confusion, 24/7

BEST: a feeling of regular connectedness and goodwill towards others

With all due respect, I fear you’re combining different phenomena in your analysis.

nobody’s remembering them because they were forgettable then

Oh hell, no. The ones I was seeing were absolutely outstanding, which I tried to give y’all a taste of, above. And all the technology to produce them was there, as well.

Millions of people who love LEGO + software tools + creativity = some REALLY good shit, here and there

Usually I need to read the dang ol’ WP link to understand what the deal is.

This time, all it took was a half-second glimpse at the tiny thumbnail, and Bob was instantly my uncle. 😁

I’m thinking in particular the CG ones, made in Blender or whatever it was, back in the day. (“Milkshape”…?)

I would have thought that with 25yrs of software advances, the fake dioramas would be better than ever, but it’s like that particular line of creation just evaporated. (poof!) The thing that’s crazy to me is that a lot of the CG LEGO images I was seeing back then were absolutely gorgeous.

But I guess one possibility is that LEGO communities as a whole came to frown on stuff that wasn’t built out of real bricks. So maybe they kind of got policed-out, so to speak?

Oh flog me, it’s embarrassing for me still to be using Windows at this point. Really need to decide upon one of the millions of flavors of Linux to at least create a dual-boot system. 😑

So, circling back to the https://getwacup.com/ page, do you know what’s meant by the “public WACUP preview” download? Is it just a demo or something with limited options, do you know?