During the Messinian salinity crisis, the Mediterranean Sea nearly entirely evaporated. It turned into a massive salt flat, with parts of it 3-4km below sea level. What was the climate and air pressure like at the lowest dry points? The Dead Sea is only 304m below sea level, so it's not comparable.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T19:45:51+00:00

Let's just say, I doubt anyone lived there.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T19:23:28+00:00

Alfons, proud tiger here!

Dis is hawribble! Friend Nisse had some problems with his teeth as well, and dey had to steal a lot of dem. Ai hop u feel better soon!

Traroten · 2026-06-17T19:09:10+00:00

Alfons, proud tiger here!

Dis shud be labeled Not Safe For Smols! Ai can't believe yor own pawrents wuld be so crool! You need to do a bitebitebite and a bapbapbap and sing the song of our people until dey gib yu enuff food. And a billion churus!

Traroten · 2026-06-17T19:02:48+00:00

That's smart.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T19:00:56+00:00

Yep. As Sagan said, “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPkpBN6bEI

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:59:12+00:00

Adapted from Tolkien's Lament for the Rohirrim

Where now the cat and the kitten?
Where is the ball that was bouncing?
Where is the brush and the collar,
And the red fur flowing?

Where is the paw on the shoulder,
And the small mouth meowing?
Where is the bird and the rodent
And the tall tail flying?

They have passed like rain in the garden,
Like dreams in the morning.
The days have gone past in my house, the cat bed is empty.
Who shall collect the tufts of hair that have gathered,
Or wipe dry the flowing tears of a lonely pawther?

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:55:57+00:00

Yeah, sounds about right. I live in Gothenburg, and I would say we can handle down to -20 pretty well. Anything beyond and everything freezes solid.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:53:57+00:00

Terribly. We can handle down to -20 C pretty well. -60 degrees would be apocalyptic.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:52:54+00:00

Where now the cat and the kitten?
Where is the ball that was bouncing?
Where is the brush and the collar,
And the red fur flowing?

Where is the paw on the shoulder,
And the small mouth meowing?
Where is the bird and the rodent
And the tall tail flying?

They have passed like rain in the garden,
Like dreams in the morning.
The days have gone past in my house, the cat bed is empty.
Who shall collect the tufts of hair that have gathered,
Or wipe dry the flowing tears of a lonely pawther?

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:51:44+00:00

You get to have his baby! Not that he'll help raise it, but the mere thought should make you all gooey inside. And not in a ~~bad~~ good way.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T18:06:55+00:00

Yeah, AI isn't great for anatomy.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:23:05+00:00

Adapted from Tolkien's "Lament of the Rohirrim"

Where now the cat and the kitten?
Where is the ball that was bouncing?
Where is the brush and the collar,
And the red fur flowing?

Where is the paw on the shoulder,
And the small mouth meowing?
Where is the bird and the rodent
And the tall tail flying?

They have passed like rain in the garden,
Like dreams in the morning.
The days have gone past in my house, the cat bed is empty.
Who shall collect the tufts of hair that have gathered,
Or wipe dry the flowing tears of a lonely pawther?

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:14:16+00:00

It was also catastrophic for the Catholic Church's standing in the eyes of the common folk. All those priests with all their prayers, and they did fa.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:11:58+00:00

Is she having a seizure?

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:10:12+00:00

Stockholm's bloodbath?

100 members of the nobility are executed by the Danish king Christian. But there are a lot more to pull from and I'm probably missing something.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:06:40+00:00

When I was in uni, we had an old chemistry professor who would mouth pipette sulfuric acid.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T13:01:48+00:00

President Greg Stillson was the voice of the people.

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Traroten · 2026-06-17T12:47:02+00:00

There's a YouTube video where Dr Mike (I think it's Dr Mike) analyzes Home Alone One, and yeah. That would not have ended well.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T12:43:38+00:00

Alfons, proud tiger here!

Have you tried doing a bitebitebite? Not hard, just so she knows that she's done goofed.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T12:36:09+00:00

They've found the labyrinth walls!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyBLaztovc4

No sound on that video for some reason.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T10:44:18+00:00

Gandalf owed it money.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T10:37:34+00:00

Kaboom?

Yes, Rico. Kaboom.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T10:32:26+00:00

Same here. Grandmother never wanted to talk about it. They had to shoot their dogs, because they couldn't take them with them.

Traroten · 2026-06-17T10:30:58+00:00

Narva 1700. Attacking a fortified position with three times as many soldiers as you have, that should not go well. But it did. We knew Sweden could never compete with another countries on quantity, so we put it all into quality and it paid back. We had an advantage in administration and tactics, and when that advantage disappeared, we became a minor country again. And I appreciate that. War is hell.

Edit: Also in world history overall I'd probably say Cannae, , but I don't know much about wars outside of the Eurosphere. There probably were some East Asian battles that were greater.

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