I started reading the Discworld novels in high school in the early 2000s. I definitely felt a change in the writing around Going Postal. The novels were no longer creative chaos the way the were in the 90s. Less plot threats running in parallel, less chaotic stuff happening. But the transition seemed to me so gradual that I wouldn’t have made the connection to Pterry’s state of mind. It seemed more like he was changing as a writer.

Never knew THOT is an acronym. I always just read it as a new slang word.

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Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor

It’s a scleral ring. Lots of animals have that, many including humans don’t.

Leage of Legends: Runeterra Drift

I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?

I recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It’s related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o’clock = 7 bongs…

Might mean the US government warming up to the new leadership in Syria. The new president was seen as a terrorist until last year.

What risk? Worst outcome, Russia stops the war, leaves Ukraine, delivers Putin to the Hague, gets a democratically elected government and re-enters civilized society AND THAN we have to pay them back. We can be pessimistic, in which case that will never happen. Or optimistic, in which case: if we could get all this by just giving Russia back its money, I’d be the first to say pay them!

Outer Wilds. A game that genuinely made me reflect on my place in the universe.

Caught in delusions See through the lies of the jedi Open you eyes Let your anger flow through you

I’m betting on brown

The sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.

No, it is something different. Cloning creates a another being with the exact same DNA. This would allow people, who can’t produce viable sperm/egg cells, to reproduce with their partner. First patients would be infertile men and women.

I did, and I am.

It’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you

Maybe they mean lupus? I think wolfes were already extinct in the 1600s on the British isles.

Principal Skinner and Miss Krababel where in the closet together. And he had a thousand hands, like Vishnu. And they were all busy.

That’s why the dwarfs where helping him with his decision.