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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • I feel the need to add some context here.

    The patriarchal push to erase the pantheon started just before the Babylonian Exile under the reign of King Josiah. He ruled from 640 to 609 BCE.

    His son Ellakim (or Jehoiakim) refused to pay tribute to the Neo-Babylonians which resulted in 60 years of slavery for some 7000 Judeans.

    It was only in 539 BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell that they were allowed to go home.

    The Judeans come home, but their temple has been sacked and most of their sacred texts burnt, so they rebuild and recreate.

    This is when Noah and Moses were invented, a long with anything before Solomon, and even much of his life as well.


  • Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.

    Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.

    Krillian was actually alive to see that death.

    As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.

    Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.



  • 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?








  • 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.