Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • This is from Aristophanes’ Frogs, written and performed as the plague ravaged citizens of Athens hunkered behind their walls with Spartans terrorizing the Attic countryside.

    So to help, Dionysus goes to hell to bring back a good poet to cheer people up. Because imagine trying to get through 2020 without TV.

    There’s a great line describing Aeschylus’ sentences as great galumphing things with adjectives hanging off them like monstrous shaggy eyebrows.




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    2 months ago

    Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

    Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

    We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.










  • I still do not get it.

    Are his eyes and nose supposed to look like testicles and a penis? They’re upside down if so.

    Is it his eyes and the line extending from his head? There’s the square of his head in the way so it just doesn’t look like a penis to me.

    I gather it’s somehow penis related, yeah?




  • This is called parsing - your brain processing the speech sounds into meaning. That feeling of suddenly realizing what was said is your brain needing a little extra time to parse.

    This can happen for lots of reasons. One time my sister in law was so grumpy that my brain struggled to parse what she was saying because the tone and words were so mismatched.