If others are curious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

It was created in 1997 and blew up in 1999.

I want good posts to be more visible.

I reread and burst out laughing in the morning while everyone in the house sleeps.

https://memoriediangelina.com/2012/04/22/tomato-sauce-101/

The whole site is a goldmine.

I just thought about this now, but any alternate history that explores tech in the Middle-Ages would count as medieval sci-fi. For example, the Eastern Romans building on the ancient Greek technologies and experiments and using Greek fire, concentrated mirror beams, calculators and steam engines.

I found this universe that might be medieval scif-fi:

Dragonriders of Pern

The books follow a series of Allomancers, who are individuals who can consume metal to wield magical powers.

Doesn’t seem scientific.

I just realized now that “Dubya” means W.

And now I understand why that US president is given that strange nickname.

The Chinese invented the Chinese ideograms.

The script-less Japanese adopted them, but they didn’t fit their language well on their own. So, they created hiragana (a syllabary) to be able to properly write their own language. A Japanese sentence typically comprises Chinese ideograms and hiragana.

Later, both the People’s Republic of China and Japan simplified their ideograms, but not in the same way, and the Chinese went much further.

So, now, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao use the traditional hanzi.

Japan uses their kanji, somewhat simplified.

And the PRC, Malaysia and Singapore use the simplified hanzi.

South Korea uses hanja which is virtually the same as traditional hanzi. And North Korea completely abandonned the Chinese ideograms.

In Chinese, they’re “hanzi”.

Or you can just say “Chinese ideograms”

There are many false friends between French and English. Off the top of my head:

• EN: eventually (FR: un jour)
• FR: éventuellement (EN: possibly)

• EN: actually (FR: en fait)
• FR: actuellement (EN: currently)

“Enregistrer” in French both means to record or register something and to save a file, but you can’t use the English word “register” for both.

“Défense” in French both means defense and prohibited, but you can’t use the English “defense” for both.

I have ADHD (actually diagnosed, in childhood) and coffee doesn’t put me to sleep, much to the contrary. A little amount wakes me properly.

There are different types of ADHD so it might be why.

Really? That’s really cool!

While I think that caring about how you look is not the same as “attention seeking”, I think that “feeling good about you look” is still related to socialization.

If we didn’t care whatsoever about others, we wouldn’t have any reason to care about how we look. It doesn’t have to be consciously thought like “if I do that, I’ll be more attractive to the other sex” or “if I wear this, my tribe will recognize me like one of theirs”. But feeling good about your appearance is still, in a roundabout way, about socialization, I think.

When I look in the mirror and see myself with my long hair (as a man), my metal band shirt and a wristband with norse symbols, I feel great about myself. But I think it’s not random coincidence that I happen to be really into metal.

It’s so bad. I hate this meme template.

Yea and I don’t even get what appeals someone to the aesthetic if they’re not rebellious.

Best answer by far, in my opinion.

Who’s crazy enough to write such delusional things in this insane style?

So, it doesn’t stop it, but it definitely helps.

I think they meant that the question starts the conversation between humans, in the comments.