The Mermaid

I signed onto a sailing ship

My very first day at sea

I seen the Mermaid in the waves

Reaching out to me

"Come live with me in the sea," said she

"Down on the ocean floor

And I'll show you a million wondrous things

You've never seen before"

So over I jumped and she pulled me down

Down to her seaweed bed

On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell

She placed beneath my head

She fed me shrimp and caviar

Upon a silver dish

From her head to her waist it was just my taste

But the rest of her was a fish

'Cause her hair was green as seaweed

Her skin was blue and pale

Her face it was a work of art

I loved that girl with all my heart

I only liked the upper part

I did not like the tail

But then one day, she swam away

So I sang to the clams and the whales

"Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair

And the silver shine of her scales"

But then her sister, she swam by

And set my heart a-whirl

Cause her upper part was an ugly fish

But her bottom part was a girl

Yes her hair was green as seaweed

Her skin was blue and pale

Her legs they are a work of art

I loved that girl with all my heart

And I don't give a damn about the upper part

'cause that's how I get my tail

What can I say? It’s a catchy tune!

Taxes apply any time money changes hands. The existence of taxes is not the thing that should cause revolution. The hoarding of wealth by the wealthy is. They don’t get taxed because their money doesn’t change hands, and for many other reasons, not least of which is corruption and bribery.

On the one hand, good on them for trying a “nazi punks fuck off” type move.

On the other hand, a blood sucking aristocracy that feeds off the “lesser people” beneath them as the protagonists… that’s nearly the definition of fascism?

I think it’s kinda refreshing when Hollywood actors get married and then show evidence that they genuinely like who they married, you know? It’s sweet. There’s too many times we’ve seen it go otherwise.

It only kinda works like this. If you have two slits, looking at it or not, you will see the top one. Now, the really weird thing is that if you fire a single photon at a time, you will still get the top one over time, suggesting that the single photon is somehow going through both slits and interfering with itself to do so. But the even weirder thing is, if you place a detector in one of the two slits to check which slit the photon is going through? You suddenly get the bottom picture.

For this reason, Dovah is typically considered an English “relex” rather than a conlang. Relex = Re-Lexicon.

Because I wasn’t familiar with this project before, and it took a bit of digging on the website to find out, and OP seems to think everyone knows already… this is a project to remake the NES Earthbound game (Mother 1) to the SNES, by means of romhacking SNES Earthbound (Mother 2). It also comes with a bunch of bug fixes to that engine, and they provide a separate patch file you can use to fix the regular Earthbound game without turning it into the Mother 1 remake.

That relief is pretty darn tiny too. I feel like I just have more anxiety about the other things my ED won’t let me do that I need to do.

It is, and if I recall correctly he’s an eye surgeon. He has a YouTube channel that’s pretty darn funny even to a non-doctor.

My understanding is that light directly above is their method of determining how to stay upright, so artificial lights cause them to think up is towards the light, so attempting to go in a straight line puts them in orbit around it.

They aren’t trying to go towards the light at all. They’re attempting to go perpendicular to the light.

The fuck does walking speed have to do with orientation? Do men get less gay as they get older and slow down?

Oh, he was. He was in the wrong, utterly. But that’s not the story. The story and the reality are not the same thing. The story is that of an individual aggrieved, facing against an unstoppable faceless bureaucracy, who took matters into his own hands in the footsteps of our national heroes of the revolutionary war and the pioneers, and built a manly and impressive machine to enact that will with his own strength.

Nearly every word of the story is factually incorrect, but the story is so compelling, so resonant with our cultural values we’ve been taught since childhood, that the story takes in a life of its own.

Is there something about farting in a bikini that’s different from farting in any other clothing?

There’s a saying… “If there are ten people sitting at a table eating dinner, and one of them is a nazi, you’ve got ten nazis.”

That is entirely fair. I only know V:tM from people I knew who played it… but they were, as individuals, definitely more on the fascist side, leaning more into the glamour of being a monster rather than the horror of being a monster.

I hope more groups and players lean into the horror of it more than the glamour. Maybe this note is trying to encourage that.

It was their self-descriptor until they learned other leftists didn’t like them much (because they’re authoritarian and supportive of fascist dictators such as Putin), and naming them using their self designated term meant they were excluded from other leftists. So they started taking offense.

Or North Korea. Or China. Take your pick of fascist dictatorships.

Title is slightly misleading. According to the article, it’s the ability to not scar, but instead grow new tissue, that’s what is switched off in mammals. This isn’t regenerating lost limbs, it’s growing tissue— and the tissue it grows at the amputation site isn’t correct at all, which sounds like a good reason for evolution to switch it off.

It’s still exciting research, because they hope to figure out a way to get stem cells to regrow the correct limb at the injury site instead. But that’s just a hope right now, and very speculative.

Assuming that as an older millennial, I’m the parent you’re talking about, no. Porn almost never went on those. VHS and paper magazines mostly. Computer porn would be downloaded to a convoluted folder depth with misleading names on your hard drive, and would never be placed on removable media unless you had a CD burner, which was rare as fuck (but they did exist).

Seriously though, people used to make genuine mazes out of nested folders.

If you were in the era of dial up BBS systems, you still were far more likely to use a hard drive than a floppy. The reason floppies weren’t used is that even at low resolution with still images, not much would fit on the things, super inconvenient. Shareware, sure. Porn? Not likely.