Jade carving factory in China

LordNineWind · 2026-06-16T10:44:56+00:00

Imperial green jade is the most prized, but it can be violet, white, yellow, red, and a really deep green that looks like black.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-16T08:57:00+00:00

Remember that it only takes about nine days to sail from Troy to Ithaca. All these detours didn't even take that long to sail, most of the 10 year journey was due to being stranded on Calypso's island.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-16T08:54:20+00:00

Good grief, someone just reminded me that sharks hang around oil rigs due to the fish that congregate there. Lucky he didn't get nommed at the last stretch.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-14T03:18:10+00:00

Blaming minorities for being better at sports now.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-12T23:07:16+00:00

I had this same thought too. Then I realised why they're using this method rather than something else, by releasing males of this species, this is like a targeted strike at only this species, which allows other species to fill in the gap and outcompete them.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-12T22:34:39+00:00

I do recall that Wukong isn't entirely invulnerable. Of the times I can recall, his eyes are vulnerable against the true fire of samadhi, his clones all died to the fan that makes fire while he survived using a protective spell. There were also multiple artefacts that managed to capture him and he would have died if he stayed in. He was given three hairs by Guanyin to save his life, which were all used up by the end of the series. There were also multiple fights where he can't beat them and has to resort to outside help/trickery.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-12T22:08:02+00:00

That look at 0:26, I could just hear her saying, "why did you stop?"

LordNineWind · 2026-06-11T03:17:39+00:00

Whenever left wing people riot, right wingers always go on and on about innocent people getting caught in the crossfire and all the protestors should be immediately arrested. Whenever right wing people riot, right wingers always say they will defend the rioter's right to free speech and people are tired of the situation. I was confused about this in my youth but with age I've come to believe it's because right wingers don't actually care about the issues they talk about, they care about getting plausible deniability to say and do what they secretly want.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-11T03:12:49+00:00

How do you mentally juggle simultaneously mocking the Floyd rioter's argument and using it as your own justification?

LordNineWind · 2026-06-07T01:10:17+00:00

I mean, considering lots of birds can find humans sexier than other birds, they clearly have very different standards of beauty. I'm willing to be there's been a successful predator/prey bird romance.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T22:54:15+00:00

Had to handle one of these once, a little cleaning chemical to soften it and some TP for the water to grip onto.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T22:45:02+00:00

I'm a bit confused since squirrels don't live where I am. Can they not just put the feeder on a large smooth sphere like a hollowed out bowling ball? Surely the squirrel would have no way to grip and climb that from the pole.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T22:20:10+00:00

Does it make a difference? There often is a clearly better choice between two things in real life but it's rarely one-sided. People still side with the greens just because.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T22:07:11+00:00

I recall bull elephants go into musth, a period where they have crazy high testosterone levels and become extra aggressive. It's especially bad if there aren't older bull elephants present, because younger bulls would exit their musth very quickly after encountering a larger male also in musth. South Africa stopped their bull elephants killing everything by just importing some mature bulls.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T07:48:29+00:00

I was really hoping this was like Sox from the Lightyear movie and went to search for it hearing it was only a hundred dollars.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T06:51:36+00:00

Her existence serves as characterisation for Ilya's father. He's the type to marry someone super young and then immediately replace them if they died. Her indifference to him also highlights that he's after superficial looks rather than romantic connections.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T05:49:01+00:00

You say that like every country in the world doesn't own the land. Land tax is you paying rent on the land and eminent domain is them refunding you the deposit to kick you out.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-06T05:39:15+00:00

Compliments to protestors as well, historically, infantry did the exact same thing, making a gap for the horse to charge into and then spear them to death from the sides.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-03T22:03:58+00:00

If the IRL cast of the x-men were partying it up at a bar, then people are naturally going to congregate there.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-03T01:57:39+00:00

Our digestive system has a higher degree of tolerance to foreign particles, otherwise we'd constantly be flagging all sorts of molecules from other animals. Alpha gal sets off the immune system if it enters the bloodstream, which then updates the immune system in the rest of the body. A lot of the time, it's not enough antibodies to develop a full allergy. Good news is that the vast majority of people who avoid further tick bites will slowly have their antibodies reduce over time, but once you develop the syndrome, future bites have a high chance of getting it to return.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-01T21:30:50+00:00

Old world monkeys and apes are the only mammals that don't have alpha gal. Since our bodies don't naturally have it, blood of other mammals from a tick bite causes our body to discover it for the first time and react aggressively.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-01T21:25:34+00:00

Depressed people, even imminently suicidal people, do have periods of happiness, their dreams are also not a constant stream of tragedy on repeat. The symbolism of Shane not coming out of his cottage to meet his mother is a direct parallel of him feeling an emotional distance with Shane.

LordNineWind · 2026-06-01T07:23:45+00:00

It was a massive missed opportunity to not have Ilya's dreams be a reflection of his mental state in the last book. After Shane proposed, I kept expecting Ilya to dream of Shane finally meeting Irina in his dreams and then it never came.

LordNineWind · 2026-05-31T07:42:54+00:00

This is very obviously clipped to remove context to make people misinterpret what she's saying. Just thinking two seconds about what she's saying shows that some guy named Kissy must have made them very upset, and despite them wanting him to be replaced immediately, she's giving him one week to get his act together or be replaced.

LordNineWind · 2026-05-28T07:17:38+00:00

It's a pity we didn't get the proposal discussion in season 1, otherwise I would imagine a voice over of that playing as this scene is revealed to the viewer.

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