this is why I never use ÷ (or more realistically “/”) without explicit brackets denoting order of operations.

im WAKIN UP

Is that a real german saying

What an excellent analysis.

Miyazaki loves technology. His films are bursting at the seams with it. He just hates what we keep using technology for.

This resonated with me.

I have no ass and I must shit

Oh yeah absolutely. Humankind has not been… kind, to their species.

holy shit

I can’t wait for the elephant-to-human translators

imagine if we could actually talk to elephants? if we could, like, teach them concepts?

I mean, speaking literally, it is sadly the reverse

Lightsong the Based

Discworld-ass looking Ephebian

F A M I L Y

LOWER DEEZ DECKS

The Squad

it’s not thousands of years of context. All this stuff dates back to, like, roughly the 1900s. Basically the British Mandatory period.

Well actually this is a discrete math thing, so if we let n be the number of girls, and f(n) be the number of cups, then f(n) = n/2, but only such that n = 2k, where k is an integer.

This isn’t religiously motivated violence the same way that the Spanish Inquisition was. But religion is pretty deeply baked into the conflict, in some very important ways.

You know? I think that sums it up nicely.

That’s fair. Religion can be a very important part of both identities.

However, I would like to stress that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not directly motivated by religious differences. As in, it’s not a case of “their religion is different! GET EM!”. The direct problem isn’t that the other side has a different religion, it’s that the other side essentially has competing land claims, and a competing nationalist vision.

Since religion is an important part of Hamas’ identity (and possibly of some factions in Israel, I’d guess), that affects how each side frames the conflict, and what some of their means and ends are. But the key issues of the conflict have to do with things like land borders and economic conditions.

AFAIK it scales at a 2:1 ratio. n girls means n/2 cups.

No, it has almost nothing to do with religion. The only part of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis that actually tangibly relates to a religious dispute, is the contesting claims over Jerusalem (because it’s holy to both Judaism and Islam).

Literally the entire rest of the conflict is based on competing nationalist claims.

Yes, even though Hamas is yelling “Allahu-akbar”. Believe it or not, they’re not fighting because of their religion, they’re fighting because of their political goals (namely in Hamas’ case AFAIK the destruction of Israel). They do also happen to be religious, but the primary conflict is a political one.

(a) that’s an awesome looking setup

(b) what’s that tetris game called? I want that