Indonesia was definitely strongly influenced by India. The first states in Java were supported by priests and monks of Indian religions, and they called their kings “Maharaja”. The island has famous buddhist temples.

Good thing that Israel is liberating Christians from Muslim extremists.

Have you considered going out, breathing some fresh air, maybe just walk, or go to a café, or a bar…?

That should help put things back into perspective.

No, I mean, the person is really insane. I spent too much time reading his Wikipedia article trying to find a motive before realizing his statements are completely incoherent and out there.

I think you meant “immigrants” instead of “emigrants”. Emigrants would be people leaving, not coming.

I have some weird shit I got from 4chan about 15 years ago. I wonder what they’ll make of that.

If anyone wonders the motive: it’s mental illness.

You just made me realize that people holding birds that can lactate in captivity for their milk isn’t an impossible scenario.

Vietnam War

Iraq War

Ukraine War

Iran War

It’s just a continuation of the tradition of naming wars where a single country gets invaded by another after that country.

Humans have taken over the biosphere.

Wow! It’s controlled by the same hormone as in mammals: prolactin.

If I was working with those concepts, I’d just start using numbers.

Like, acceleration is v2, jerk is v3, and so on.

It’s always fascinating for me to learn about the totally unexpected and “creative” solutions evolution “comes up” with, real or simulated.

Here, a great paper on such solutions

What? I live in a traditionally Catholic region and I haven’t heard of anyone getting circumcized, now or in the past.

Also some flat earthers believe Antartica is an icy wall that surrounds Earth and the authorities claim the Earth is a sphere so that people don’t try to find out what’s behind that wall, for reasons known only to said authorities.

You made me burst out laughing.

Imagine how broken it would be otherwise. The first person to write a while loop in any given language would be the owner of it. Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

The smaller polities can ally.

Also, a single small polity can be relatively powerful based on its wealth and population density. It can also have local defensive advantages.

No. She just says “in French” for the 24 hour system, and “in Spanish” for the 12 hour system, since that’s where she noticed the difference in our context.

My wife is from Colombia and not used to the 24 hour system.