Maybe. We don’t actually know, because most of our information about the skeptics and stoics come from their detractors. Very little of their actual beliefs made it into writing that survived the years.

Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.

Tang would also like a word.

But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.

Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.

Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)

The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn’t close it’s German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.

And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.

As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.

As a fellow stickler, you can sometimes find these works at the cave entrance, but time tends to be less kind to works that are less protected.

I personally know of several sites in North America where the works are on an open cliff face, but also continue into the nearby caves. I’ll not be specific with locations, because people have vandalized a few of the sites.

But yes, the deeper into the cave, the more likely that such drawings have survived to modern times.

They didn’t use to.

The problem is the studios have gotten lazy and risk adverse.

The reason why Endgame was so huge was because the studio took some risks and did the work to set everything up for that payoff.

There were movies in the first few phases that fell flat, like Thor 2, but even that movie pushed the plotlines forward.

Post Endgame, marvel hasn’t really had a unified plan. They’ve also become so risk adverse that if any given movie underperforms, it kills the entire plotline.

Which leads to movies that don’t have meaningful character growth, so who cares about those characters? Or those movies?

Snidely Whiplash only needs to find a bridge, preferably one over a large ravine.

Then he just has to tie the hostage to the center of the bridge. Then when the hero makes a daring rescue Snidely can blow up the bridge.

What’s the Roche limit of the ground you’re standing on?

Technically, there are police officers who qualify as serial killers.

I think it’s three or more separate killings nets you basic serial killer status. There are officers who easily meet that criteria.

Well, security through obscurity never really did work

Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.

Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.

As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.

Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.

XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

You would think that. Especially with Homeopathic nonsense with diluting things with water until none of the molecules of the original substance are present.

You’d think that an aspiring Homeopath conman would just start with purified water, and call it a day.

That’s not what happens. Instead they seem to actually use the highly toxic whatever, usually deadly nightshade, and then skip the water dilution.

Look up the Highlands baby teething chews if you like being sad.

Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They’re dying at accelerated rates.

We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.

And pesticides… and monoculture farming.

The actual story of the money changers is worse than most people know.

See, as part of their religious observance, the ancient Hebrews made a pilgrimage to the Temple. This was a mandatory part of their faith, much like the Hajj is for modern Muslims.

Those who were too poor to bring their own sacrifice could buy one at the Temple, but the Temple didn’t take the coin of the realm (the Roman coins), they only accepted Shekels.

So, the Money Changers. They set up in the Temple itself and were fleecing pilgrims of all their money.

In comes Jesus, who flipped tables and broke out the whip, and less than a week later he was crucified.

And this is the only part of the bible that I believe is 100% historically accurate. A peace loving Rabbi threw a fit over the Money Changers and was crucified for it.

Do people in glass houses shit in the woods?

I would love a storyline where Luther claims to be Ceaser, but is shown to be more akin to Nero.

Superman of the comics (from about the mid-80s onward) would tell the military, politely, to go find a location to fornicate with themselves.

Also the animated Superman. He took would tell them to go fuck themselves. Neither one would actually curse.

That being said, both incarnations would put the fire out, if only to prevent environmental damage.

Possibly by dropping a large block of ice on the building.

Collaborative world building often falls apart. It needs a full time coordinator, or it’s like herding cats.

By a worm no less.

Not everything shot for a film gets used. The director might say, “let’s reshoot the scene with wardrobe B” and then you have a new take with a different outfit.

Simple scenes like that often take a few days of work to dial in just right. Or sometimes it’s done with a single take and everyone feels vaguely off about it until they see the edit.