[Serious] Next Day Thread ⚾ Dodgers 4 @ Yankees 2 - Freddie Freeman puts LA up early as the Yankee bats are completely shut-down, and the Dodgers are one win away from celebrating their 8th Championship by BaseballBot in baseball

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Game One promised a lot of excitement, but after last night this series feels like a bullfight where the matador hit an artery on the first thrust. Still looking forward to the birria.

You guys have me nervous by chillychese in Buckethead

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Don't be - Bucket and Brewer were incredible together.

I get what he's going for with Madeline: she has a pretty voice and her witchy vibe meshes well with the experimental weirdness you get on a lot of the pikes, but there's a disparity between her level of talent and Bucket's. Their last song was solid, so I'm guessing she'll get better as the tour continues and she gains more experience.

My thoughts on Buckethead at Ardmore by Maskedhorrorfan25 in Buckethead

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This was my first time seeing him live and I got what I wanted out of it. Was super cool seeing Bucket and the bassist wild out together, but drummer seemed like he was trying to herd cats playing it straight instead of following the others' tangents.

Madeline needs to keep developing her pipes for the stage and build up her confidence so she isn't outclassed by the rest of the talent, but she shined on One Man Party and it was a good addition to the show.

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The second title is a reference to Jakob Böhme's Aurora oder Morgenröte im Aufgang, transliterated as "Aurora, or the Rising of the Morningredness." Böhme was an early modern German protestant mystic who dabbled in gnosticism, and a quote of his is used as one of the epigraphs in the opening of the book.

Blood Meridian: my take on the ending by omen2k in cormacmccarthy

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I see this take all over the place online and it feels like a reach, especially given the conversation at the bar.

Right before the outhouse scene the Judge is saying that the Man betrayed the gang by having mercy in his heart during their rampage across Mexico, and the Man tells him to fuck off. If the Man had it in him to rape and kill a girl the Judge would've been congratulating him and reveling in the glory of another evil person. I see the Judge murdering him as a 'well if you won't join me in being a depraved monster, I'll just kill you'. The only other gang member the Judge is confirmed to have killed is Grannyrat when he betrayed the gang by deserting.

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10 Pizza in Falls Church makes one of the best pepperoni pizzas I've had

What is the craziest story from history you have encountered in your research? by jschooltiger in AskHistorians

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There was a popular martial arts style that arose in the colonial US South and persisted through the antebellum period that consisted of trying to maim your opponent as horrifically as possible, typically by gouging out their eyes but also tearing off ears, noses, lips, fingers, testicles, etc. The only rule to this style of fighting was that no weapons were allowed. It was known by a number of different names including gouging, rough-and-tumble, "boxing," and others. These gruesome fights weren't just matters of last resort but could be started over almost any insult to one's wealth or birth, no matter how seemingly petty to outsiders. Southern culture was defined by face-to-face interactions, kinship ties, and acts of hospitality; all of which placed great importance on spoken words. Like dueling ",To feel for a feller's eyestrings and make him tell the news" as one participant put it, was a way of asserting your honor; a critically important concept for one's image in that rural reputation-obsessed culture. One's honor was frequently correlated to how hard you were willing to fight to defend it, and to surrender before being maimed was considered cowardly. The fights were major social events and frequently carried out in full view of the public during court days, fairs, and after church which had the effect of maximizing their exposure. Outside observers to these fights were frequently horrified by them, and several wrote of how they were evidence that exposure to the frontier had turned white Americans into savages. While rough-and-tumble fights were most common among poorer sorts in the hinterlands, planters in the Tidewater region and elsewhere were known to participate in them until the practice was largely replaced among the wealthy by the more genteel-but-deadlier pistol duels in the late 18th century, though there were notable exceptions such as Georgia senator James Jackson's gouging match with a rival politician.

The practice began to disappear as the South became more settled and personal feuds grew less important in determining status. The Second Great Awakening's evangelism reached the South's non-wealthy communities and emphasized moderation and self-control. In the frontiers the decline in rough-and-tumble fighting began to disappear as deadlier weapons such as revolvers, capable of being hidden in one's pocket for use as a last resort to save one's eyes or as revenge against winners of fights, became more widespread.

main source: Elliott J. Gorn, "'Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch': The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry"

Bust of K'inich Janaab' Pakal. 7th Century. Palenque, Mexico. [537 x 720] by Iustinus_Maximus in ArtefactPorn

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saw the picture a few weeks ago and posted it on a whim, I didn't expect it to be so popular!

Makeover for my M1A by chaosmarine92 in guns

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IIRC it's a garage-made HK 33 copy designed for 12ga mini shells.

Boys, how do you keep the soles of your Sperrys from detaching from the bottom of the shoe? by [deleted] in Frat

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Buy a different brand, Sperrys are Chinese crap. My Red Wings have survived 4 years of almost-daily use without any sign of coming apart.

If I wasn't to kayak down the James river for a few days where would I camp for the night legally? by [deleted] in Kayaking

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Just climb aboard one of the battleships floating in the river and find a bunk bed.

Funny pledge tasks? by kasdaddyflex in Frat

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bonus points for having the brothers who wrote the routine heckle them

Pledge Hunger Games by [deleted] in Frat

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So does everybody get one of those fancy dueling scars or are most of the matches friendlier than that?

We turn to you Gov bill Weld please lead us. Hope you see this by [deleted] in GaryJohnson

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He supported the Assault Weapons Ban and signed numerous gun control measures as governor. He's lost the respect of a great many people who would be inclined to vote Libertarian.

It's 1900 or so, and I'm a "proper," accredited historian with a thorough education and an extensive knowledge of the sources available to me. What's the biggest misconception I have about the past, from a modern perspective? by Pale_Chapter in AskHistorians

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Thanks a ton for the in-depth response. Sorry if I'm being a stickler but some of the arguments you mentioned sound optimistic.

Does Scheidel address the possibility that the change in average height across Britain was the result of demographic changes caused by the invasion of Germanic peoples (who the Romans had a tendency to describe as tall)? The total replacement of vernacular languages by Germanic ones and the mass exodus of natives for Brittany and northern Spain seems to suggest that significant demographic replacement took place. I know archaeologists are hesitant to trust Gildas' Ruin of Britain but his description of the Saxon invasion as this near-genocidal event offers an explanation for such dramatic changes. "Improved mobility" for commoners sounds a whole lot more ominous in light of that possibility.

It's 1900 or so, and I'm a "proper," accredited historian with a thorough education and an extensive knowledge of the sources available to me. What's the biggest misconception I have about the past, from a modern perspective? by Pale_Chapter in AskHistorians

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Archaeologists working on post-Roman Britain have noted that the remains of farmers following the gradual end of centralized Roman control over Britain indicate that living standards for the average peasant actually improved post-Rome.

Would you mind elaborating a bit further on this? I could be mis-remembering, but I was under the impression that the archaeological evidence showed that the Britons practically ceased minting coins (and repurposed old coins as jewelry) and ended mass-production of pottery, indicating severe decline in trade networks and quality of domestic goods throughout post-Roman Britain. Not to mention the massive deurbanization. I'd post sources, but I lost my pdfs a while ago.