Fine, I’ll tackle it. It now ends like The Village. They were all in a big Renaissance Faire the whole time. The organizers are arrested and placed in the backs of police cruisers.

You don’t get to choose the location, it’s just a random place you’ve been before.

This probably isn’t the best place to share the fact I learned earlier this week, but did you know that Brazil received almost half of all slaves in the Transatlantic slave trade? Kinda blew my mind. I only ask because of your meme. From Wiki:

Out of the 12 million Africans who were forcibly brought to the New World, approximately 5.5 million were brought to Brazil between 1540 and the 1860s.

I haven’t played in yeeeears, but this still hurts my heart a little. So many memories.

I’d prefer everyone know just enough to be conversant in the many varied and changing topics of interest to me. I’d also prefer they not know so much about any given topic that it threatens me.

American Coup: Wilmington 1898

It’s not the same fictionalization, but I really, really, highly recommend everything ever put out by PBS American Experience. Everything.

This really covers all of it.

Can anyone recommend an economical and tasty gruel brand?

If answering very simply, no.

But I believe the words, “I don’t know” are arguably the most important words there are. As soon as you step beyond that into claiming to know anything for certain, I doubt your motives/mindset very much. But I appreciate that “I don’t know” also leaves room for so much mystery, pondering, speculation, etc. In that sense, I’m cool with a “maybe,” as long as you don’t start trying to define it as a specific entity you have special knowledge about, etc…

Pretty sure Jade Helm is the throat GOAT, but she retired, I think?

This is so perfect. I love it even more because I was dead serious about asking.

They’re so pretty.

…what would happen if I ground one up and smoked it?

You said exactly what I was thinking. Took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn’t have said it better myself (though I would have, had you not already so eloquently captured the sentiment that needed to be captured).

No, your.

Diversity isn’t directly related to DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)? Oh. Ok.

Maybe not mass migration, but that alone would probably add another percentage point or so to Linux’s market share, while others would just set about breaking the limitation/working around it within probably hours.

Deliciously ironic. Not condoning it! But boy, is it rich! Not condoning. But lolol.

Exactly, I heard this from people from literal NASA. It changed my whole perspective. It’s about ensuring the maximum number of viewpoints around a given table, because that’s how you avoid blind spots. You want as many perspectives as possible on a problem.

Were the Middle Ages a utopia?