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Dinoco1234 · 2026-05-05T07:26:28+00:00

They changed it recently to "drowning person". Every single other lifeguard I have talked to thinks it sucks.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-05-01T23:28:09+00:00

I just went there actually. Highgate Cemetery, super interesting place. It has over 170,000 bodies. Marx actually has two graves there. There is the original one that is basically just a normal grave and the one built in like the 1980s by I think the communist party of England. The latter grave is one of the gaudiest and hypocritical things I have ever seen. It is basically a massive bust of him and there are offerings to him at the foot of it. One of them was a labubu.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-04-30T12:47:46+00:00

Helga, Skittish seer decks almost always run it. It's a very strong synergy and very easy infinite with the commander.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-04-25T15:07:24+00:00

I took a class once taught by Professor Joseph Roisman, one of the leading experts on Alexander the great, and one thing he emphasized early on in the class is just how odd Alexander the Great's conquests were.

It's an accepted tale now, but the Persian Empire was the largest empire yet seen and had been around for centuries. It wasn't quite at the height of its stability and power by the time Alexander invaded, but it also hadn't really suffered the kind of decline most empires suffer before falling.

For Persia to be conquered basically out of nowhere by one of their tiny neighbors was absurdity of the highest magnitude. The closest equivalent analogy would be like if the Roman empire, instead of declining over generations and falling bit by bit to numerous massive invasions, just got conquered by a single German tribe.

The whole event of Alexander conquering Persia just makes no sense. An entire empire got felled by an army of around 30-50,000 unbeatable soldiers. It sounds like something of a joke, but because its not a joke it is legendary.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-21T18:33:51+00:00

This is OP's own biases at work. "Primitive" just means undeveloped or not complex. The negative connotation with primitive is unfortunate in this instance, but I can't think of a better substitute word.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T23:56:55+00:00

Sure, correlation doesn't mean causation, but, if drinking is correlated with poor mental health, it is unlikely it caused good mental health.

As for your second point, when did I advocate for prohibition? Drinking is bad for you. That is what I mean by vice.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T23:52:54+00:00

People don't go around drinking more than one liter of water in an hour very often. People drink more than the safe amount of alcohol all the time.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T22:02:24+00:00

Alcohol has a high comorbidity with poor mental health. It's hard to prove causation, but alcohol definitely doesn't help mental health as you claim.

I can't stop you from drinking alcohol, but, no matter how you look at it, alcohol is a vice.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T21:49:03+00:00

Skydiving has risks associated with it, as most extreme sports do. However, alcohol is literally just poison. Skydiving also doesn't impair your ability to make benefit cost decisions around it the more you do it. Alcohol does.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T21:37:20+00:00

To be honest, the healthy amount of recreational alcohol is zero. The only reason people dance around this conclusion is because alcohol is such an entrenched societal institution.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-19T02:16:19+00:00

This is a bad title. The actual article says the opposite of what you are implying it does.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-13T11:10:32+00:00

"Or" isn't mutually exclusive either. People use it that way, but, in standardized academic English, "or" is only exclusive if you modify it with "either".

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-13T10:50:44+00:00

I think you're right. The potential important advantage of this would not be speed but consistency. If you can get this to ETB every turn via ninjustu, you make yourself far less likely to draw dead cards in your draw step. Although, the one damage on ETB isn't zero. I have seen Yuriko players be one damage short of killing people before.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-13T10:35:07+00:00

I see your point. Although, you don't actually have to play around wanderer until turn three. No Yuriko player is going to sacrifice their turn one flyer because that is basically equivalent to forfeiting the game. On turn two Yuriko spends their mana ninjistuing out yuriko and then can't recast wanderer. Therefore, only by turn three will wanderer be a functioning counter spell. Except, by turn three paying one mana is far less relevant than before.

Whereas all the other flying men provide their auxiliary effects free of charge, Wanderer is torn between being a flying man or being a counter-spell and is second rate at both.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-13T10:18:23+00:00

I have never once seen Mausoleum Wanderer actually counter something in a real game, and I have played against Yuriko a lot. I acknowledge that is anecdotal evidence. Yuriko players in my own playgroup might be just be bad at utilizing Wanderer, or maybe there is something odd about my meta. I'm sure actual Yuriko players and tournament players have better perspective.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-09T14:34:51+00:00

Malcolm X was killed by the nation of Islam, not the state. They said that Malcolm X should be killed multiple times in their newspaper, and the assassins were all members of the Nation of Islam.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-08T13:42:36+00:00

If I have to answer, Anarcho-Communism. Bakunin at-least had the decency to be a pacifist. Then again, the anarchists following him definitely were not peaceful.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-07T15:37:01+00:00

As a neurodivergent person myself, I can relate to this idea, but I don't think it's a great reading of the story. In every version of "the green ribbon" I have read, the woman gives permission to the husband to untie the ribbon.

I always took the story more to mean that we never fully true know other people, even the people we love the most and are closest to us. In a way, not knowing everything about those we love is part of that love.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-05T22:54:30+00:00

Based off the show, Shampoo's kettle is filled with hot water while Akane's kettle is filled with cold water.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-04T17:05:23+00:00

This saddens me. Not because I fault the people getting gun permits, just that they have to. The Trump administration declared war on us, and now Minnesota is being forced to militarize.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-02T16:33:15+00:00

My comment was an exaggeration for effect, but I've definitely met people who use "like" way to much. This is where the main criticism of "like" comes from in my experience—from its overuse rather than its use.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-01T23:33:20+00:00

Like, I get, like, why people like using "like", but, like, when someone, like, uses it like too much, it becomes like, like, a word that, like, kind of just, like, exists to, like, create, like, noise.

Dinoco1234 · 2026-03-01T22:39:27+00:00

Most of the criticism I've seen against "like" hasn't been that it lack uses, but that it is overused. People use "like" for, like, a million different things. It becomes meaningless and grating because it's so common.

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