Taniwha420 @ Taniwha420 @lemmy.world

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I've found Bewley's to be quite good with hard water too.

IMO Yorkshire does well with hard water, and takes milk well.

I've been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it's absurdism.

We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn't give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.

It's interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.

I've been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who

Lots of good articles on Canadian brutality in WW1 if you do a search. As for war crimes in particular, here's one of many articles mentioning how Canadians killed prisoners of war:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war

It doesn't.

Birds are reptiles.

I mean, we're kind of known for war crimes too. Was anyone in WW1 worse than the Canadians?

Jack & Diane, by John Mellencamp

I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.

Yes. I noticed a decently reputable (but mega corp) bag of whole espresso beans... 50% robusta. I was surprised.

Everyone is right into burnt coffee for some reason too. I hear a lot of people talking about dark roasts and how they like "strong coffee".

IRC the genetics don't support that. It looks more like Polynesians originate from the area around Taiwan, sharing DNA with the indigenous Taiwanese. Again IRC there are some South American genes present in the Easter Island or Tahiti area, which seem to have been introduced pre-European contact. It's tricky to tell though because there has been so much sharing of genetics since then. It looks like maybe some Polynesians went to South America one or a few times and returned.

Holy shit! This dude's pluralising in Greek!

Do you change the emphasis? da-ko-TANT?

Canada's Brightest Ditch-Digger

The word used to describe Jesus's occupation in Greek is 'technōn' (Mark 6:3), which means something like 'builder'. In terms of etymological root, 'technician' might be closer. It commonly referred to carpenters, but also masons. There's an argument to be made that with Roman involvement in the area there were a lot of Roman summer stone building projects, making it more likely Jesus was a mason than a carpenter.

Maybe he was a roofer?

Yeah, the sponge underside mushrooms are boletes, and I am not aware of any that are poisonous.

No. This story starts with filthy SE Asians. Europeans are just the man-whores that gave them to everyone else.

"Vamipre".

When they are in Kill Mode they are absolutely vicious. They'd reach through the fence and pull the chickens' heads off.