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Love the meme, but it is kind of mocking a deeply mentally ill man.

For context, he wanted to start an artists collective. Other famous painter, and close friend of Vincent, Gaugain wanted to leave pretty soon (probably not helped by Vincent being a mooch and terrible housemate), so being incredibly unbalanced, Van Gogh cut off (part of) his own ear, and presented it to a prostitute he liked. Who, not being mentally unwell, immediately called the police.

“I have drip, look at how wealthy I am! Also, my family will absolutely pay a ransom, so don’t kill me!”

Ok, I guess it’s more of a generational thing.

Not if you’re in Europe, no.

This is absolute erasure and I will not stand for it!

There are knights, vikings AND pirates.

And also Romans, but we don’t talk about those.

“If you didn’t want to lose, why did you lose?”

After July 22nd, 2026.

Of course that date keeps iterating upwards with every sunrise.

The subversion about women’s rights and self determination aren’t really why people like the book today though. Nor is it because of the subtle social clues oh high society that we just don’t pick up, like the timing of their breakfast.

It’s because the characters are so real, and their growth is them turning from a real person into an also real person, while being likeable (well except maybe for Darcy at first) all the way. They’re also quite smart and funny along the way, even if most of the jokes are rather nuanced and hard to spot by modern eyes.

But honestly, I found the book extremely boring as well. They’re excellent characters who do absolutely nothing interesting.

I don’t think anyone liked that one

Average dutch male, looking down from 6ft, wondering why everyone is so tiny.

As a severely below-average height Dutch woman, visiting Japan and seeing faces at the level of my face instead of chests was quite the experience.

Oh, this is fun tech, but it’s more of a toy than actually useful.

I had a tour with a Dutch company who does something similar, and they told me they were hoping to build up to a quarter of a watt per square meter. With a big downside being that it requires anaerobic soil, and healthy bacteria, so basically anything that’s not a warm, muddy swamp is a no go.

A quarter watt will provide power for a single LED about as bright as a modern candle, which is what they used it for at the demo site, lighting up the edges of a path with fiber optic strands with an LED.

Also if your family doesn’t want you to join a cult, just leave them bro.

Amen. That’s a position I fully agree with. It’s not one most people who manage stuff agree with.

Managing is literally the easiest part. Finding someone to volunteer for shit shoveling duty is a lot harder.

See, if dictators call themselves proles, then it totally is a proletariat. After all, we’re all equals, my comrades.

There are a few groups in Europe that do WW2 Wehrmacht living history. They ask some VERY strict questions when you want to join, and have a very very long (non public) list of stuff that gets you banned for life.

And then there are some groups that don’t ask questions and don’t have lists. Unsurprisingly, they also don’t get invented to events, or anything. Nobody wants to sit at a table with them.

“I am Ozymandias, King of Kings…”

A great poem, but there remains quite a bit more than level sands of what Ramses II made. Hes probably in the top 3 of famous pharaohs.

Doesn’t detract from the rest of your point though.

True, and dead people make poor writers.

He insists on existing.

He was ahead of his time, but not in fashion.

“this is wrong, but also really useful so we’re going to do it and pretend to feel bad”

No, but being at war with the English is a pretty universal experience.

Fwiw nobody loses weight through exercise anyway.

If you want some depressing stats: walking around a soccer field burns 2 entire peanut M&Ms. Not 2 bags, 2 individual candies.

I’d you’re open to advice: calories aren’t what makes you feel full. Mass makes you feel full (a bit over simplified, but not completely wrong), so what you need to do is eat stuff, and I ate SO many carrots and cucumbers when I was trying to feel more full without more calories.

I absolutely hate raw carrots now, but eh, small price to pay.

For a lot of people losing weight is not easy. You could also tell a smoker that it is easy to quit smoking, just don’t pick up a cigarette anymore.

Yeah, except then you die. So actually DO keep smoking, but limit yourself to 3x a quarter of a cigarette per day. Easy, right?

Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.

No, losing weight is very very SIMPLE.

But a lot of people, like me when I was obese, don’t struggle with knowing what to eat. We struggle with our brain, with satiety, with binging. With failing and comforting ourselves with food and failing more. With controlling food as a means of controlling our lives. With not taking ownership of our problems.

It’s not easy at all. It’s really fucking hard. But at least it’s not complicated.

The statement “Weightloss is calories in, calories out” is rather like “running a marathon is just running 100 meters and repeating it 420 more times”. It’s entirely true, but it’s reductive beyond uselessness. Yes, if you burn more calories than you eat, you will always lose weight. And if you run 421, 100m stretches you’ve done a marathon. And both of those pieces of advice are completely useless to anyone trying to do it, and they can possibly even make things worse.

Managing satiety, breaking patterns, learning recipes that work for you, finding comfort without food, learning to say no to your immediate friends and family, dealing with binging, rewarding yourself without food, and many maaaaany other things are the tools people need to lose weight.

Calorie counting is useful and foundational, but you like my therapist used to say: “you can’t live in a foundation”. But, without a good foundation, you can’t build a house either. If you switch your 5000 calorie fastfood diet for 5000 calories of fruit and vegetables, you’re not going to lose weight.

Ehhhh sorta kinda. If you eat a more “natural” diet (read: not super processed) then the two are pretty closely linked. But we’ve invented entirely new foods that basically gives you zero satiety, but also has hundreds and hundreds of calories.

You can eat to satiety on carrots and spinach, and literally starve to death from lack of calories. You can also feel hungry all day and gain weight from drinking soda and eating cookies.

How to beat the celts:

Fight them in a fight of hip high stinging nettles, holly or hogweed

“so, this book will contain drawings of things that kill you?”

“No”

“Descriptions of things that kill you?”

“No”

“Well, then how are you going to teach people about the things that kill them”

“Ahhh, well, I’ve got a novel method!”

For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

And in summary: Soviets build nuclear weapons plant with the usual Soviet care for safety. It predictably goes wrong, but since the effects only hit the Soviet Union, they cover it up till practically the end of their nation.