15977 pts · February 6, 2015
She got a degree at Beijing Medical College before starting her studies of traditional remedies. She sorted through more than 2000 traditional recipes, narrowed them down to about 200 promising-looking herbs, and found exactly one that worked, with the production process informed by the instructions dating back to the year 340, which said to steep it in cold water. (Heat turns out to damage the active ingredients.) There's a lot of herbal nonsense, but people did very rarely get things right.
He seems to mean 'stole' in the sense of 'she was working for me and he hired her away from me without asking.' Completely ignoring the whole matter of what Epstein was doing with the girls he 'hired,' or what Trump might have been employing her for -- no, the real problem to Trump was that the girl 'belonged' to him.
Transhumanism is comfortably abstract. Some people in the future might put their minds in machines or give themselves robot arms? Sure, sounds cool! Transgender people are real and here today. Someone looking different than you expect and asking you to use pronouns that aren't the first that come to mind and maybe making you realize you might be attracted to them regardless of their birth genitals? That's too real, make it stop!
Or actors having pesky little things like 'morals' or 'personal opinions.' Have a fake Robin Williams shill for Trump; have a fake Arlo Guthrie or Tom Lehrer perform a funny folk-song theme tune for ICE; have Black actors perform in a KKK propaganda film or queer ones in homophobic screeds; the sky's the limit.
Also was suggested during the podcast, amazingly enough!
In the world of the Owl House, witches use magic that's sorted into nine different categories, and every witch is required to specialize in one while giving up the others. Some of them seem sensible from our perspective, like Illusions or Healing, but some are weirdly specific, like Abominations (making goop golems) or Construction (earth manipulation and strengthening oneself).
I've heard of an actual sandwich made with all of these to celebrate Pride, except with a Quail egg instead of Queso. (The podcast Lateral used it as one of their questions.)
It's a profile of an exaggerated woman's face, with her eyes bulging out, steam coming out of her nose, and her tongue curled into a spiral. It's pretty exaggerated, but with those reference points (and the obvious teeth) you might be able to get it.
It's more like, 'I just watched the new Frankenstein movie, and unlike the other movie versions of Frankenstein I've seen, which portrayed the monster as a dumb lumbering brute with bolts in his neck who can barely speak, it went back to the original text to explore the nature of humanity, with some fresh twists as well.' With a side order of comparing the movie to our current political situation -- see all the people frothing that Superman is 'woke' now.
The normal use of Icarus is a metaphor is using his 'flying too close to the sun' as being too ambitious, aiming too high, trying something too daring and getting slapped down for it. The post here then reverses that, inverting the metaphor to say that aiming too low and being too unambitious can be just as dangerous.
The other half of the equation is that rich people can afford security. Billionaires tend to stick to areas with secure perimeters, like their private estates or elite business offices or personal yachts, and if they have to go out, they've got bodyguards making sure no one with a gun gets near them. It's not as easy for a lone nut to take them out as it is for them to shoot up a high school or a parade or a sports event. (Which is depressing to think about.)
Not only that, but airports with international flights are also counted as borders, if I'm remembering right.
Basically, Hunter is a clone of a human who lived centuries ago, Caleb. Flapjack first belonged to either Caleb or his girlfriend/wife Evelyn -- I don't think we know for sure. He seems to have sought out Hunter because he realized the relation. Philip was Caleb's brother, who came to the Demon Realm with him. There's a lot more to it, but that's the basic outline with as few spoilers as possible.
Or, to use the kanji, 医者.
You're half-right -- there was an episode seen through the eyes of Pinky ('The Pinky POV'), but to say he made perfect sense is stretching things a bit. He heard most of Brain's exposition as 'blah blah blah big word blah blah really big word blah take over the blah!' And his 'are you pondering what I'm pondering' response came from his mind wandering and free-associating, leading him to visualize Brain as a hippo in a beach thong.
Multiple billionaires, so multiple heirs. Plus, if they have more than two billion, they could split their estate among two heirs and you've just added one to the number of billionaires in the world. And as for the children being better, well, people were cheering when the innocent son of a billionaire died in the sub disaster, so presumably a lot of people think they're just as bad.
Fairly true. But cultivating the right personality traits -- among them, empathy, intellectual curiosity, and open-mindedness -- can make 'the right circumstances' a lot rarer. They can still come up, but it's still a good mental immune system, as it were.
Only for things the Supreme Court declares to be official presidential acts. And it's very likely five or six of them would be willing to rule that even the most obvious things aren't covered if they're done by a black Democratic president. (Not in so many words, but we'd know the reason.)
The thing is, killing them doesn't exactly solve anything. Their heirs just get their money and carry on. People were cheering on the Titanic sub disaster, and of course Luigi Manzione, but despite the deaths they didn't actually change much of anything. The health insurance industry is still awful, and the number of billionaires hasn't gone down. Real reform takes a lot of hard work and struggle, but people prefer the idea of 'just kill all the bad guys' because it's easier.
Or sitting around saying 'none of this matters, nothing's stopping them, it's so hopeless, you're a naive fool for thinking anything could ever get better.' Sand in the gears may not shut them down right away, but everything that slows them down, everything that makes it harder for them to implement their agenda, makes it more likely they will fall eventually. Not without hardship first, but the cracks are already showing.
'Know' is maybe an overstatement -- we don't have hard evidence -- but it's been alleged by several women who claimed he assaulted them around that age. It seems very likely, but he's bullied his way out of getting into court cases that could prove it.
My parents got divorced when I was a teen. I never, ever asked either of them to avoid dating anyone younger than me, because the very idea never came up. I would never have even imagined them dating teenagers, and they never would have needed me to warn them against it. Even at the absolute most charitable interpretation, that this was a 'joke,' the fact that Trump even thought of it says horrifying things about him. And if it wasn't a joke, if Ivanka really did feel the need to say it...
Trump has, in previous incidents, worked to get cases assigned to a district in which Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by him and very perceptibly biased towards him, handles a large proportion of the cases. It worked very well for him in the stolen documents case.
Fun fact: there is a canonical DC character named Super-Squirrel. (A Superman parody from the funny-animal comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, from back in the 80s.) This almost certainly wasn't a reference, but it's kind of fun to see the connection nonetheless.
The lawsuit got dropped, allegedly because the woman filing it (who claimed to have been raped by Trump) was receiving death threats and harassment. Her account of it sounded very similar to what Stormy Daniels testified to receiving several years later, which was pretty reliably sourced to Trump's people.
The thing is, the majority of 'tech bros' aren't inventors, engineers, or pioneers. They're money men who hired the actual inventors and engineers, profited off their work, and then fired them to save a few bucks on the next quarterly report.
He once boasted that his then-17-year-old daughter had made him promise not to date anyone younger than her, which was really narrowing the pool of available dates as he got older. Which is horrific on multiple levels.
More properly, it'll get better at plagiarizing from the people who had those experiences. It still won't be able to add anything new, novel, or meaningful to the corpus of humanity's art. Not until/unless we get fully sapient AI, anyway, at which point we've got an entire new set of problems, starting with 'are the techbros going to give them civil rights or did we just reinvent slavery?'
Art is, essentially, communication. It takes an idea or a feeling or knowledge the artist has in their head and conveys it to the audience, whether it's something as profound as 'human suffering is both created by and healed by our connections to other people' or as simple and shallow as 'I think this chord sequence sounds cool' or 'I think big-breasted anime women are hot.' Good art lets us into the head of the artist. AI 'art,' even at its best, is hollow, lacking any hint of this.
Basically, yes. Camila's a single mom to Luz, and at the start of the series sent her off to summer camp. Presumably the first section of the comic happens around then. Months later, she found out Luz had actually gone to the Demon Realm instead of summer camp, and some time after that, Luz returned with a bunch of her friends, temporarily trapped back on Earth. (This happened at the end of Season 2/start of Season 3.) Camila ended up being substitute mom to them all (and basically adopting one)
She got a degree at Beijing Medical College before starting her studies of traditional remedies. She sorted through more than 2000 traditional recipes, narrowed them down to about 200 promising-looking herbs, and found exactly one that worked, with the production process informed by the instructions dating back to the year 340, which said to steep it in cold water. (Heat turns out to damage the active ingredients.) There's a lot of herbal nonsense, but people did very rarely get things right.
He seems to mean 'stole' in the sense of 'she was working for me and he hired her away from me without asking.' Completely ignoring the whole matter of what Epstein was doing with the girls he 'hired,' or what Trump might have been employing her for -- no, the real problem to Trump was that the girl 'belonged' to him.
Transhumanism is comfortably abstract. Some people in the future might put their minds in machines or give themselves robot arms? Sure, sounds cool! Transgender people are real and here today. Someone looking different than you expect and asking you to use pronouns that aren't the first that come to mind and maybe making you realize you might be attracted to them regardless of their birth genitals? That's too real, make it stop!
Or actors having pesky little things like 'morals' or 'personal opinions.' Have a fake Robin Williams shill for Trump; have a fake Arlo Guthrie or Tom Lehrer perform a funny folk-song theme tune for ICE; have Black actors perform in a KKK propaganda film or queer ones in homophobic screeds; the sky's the limit.
Also was suggested during the podcast, amazingly enough!
In the world of the Owl House, witches use magic that's sorted into nine different categories, and every witch is required to specialize in one while giving up the others. Some of them seem sensible from our perspective, like Illusions or Healing, but some are weirdly specific, like Abominations (making goop golems) or Construction (earth manipulation and strengthening oneself).
I've heard of an actual sandwich made with all of these to celebrate Pride, except with a Quail egg instead of Queso. (The podcast Lateral used it as one of their questions.)
It's a profile of an exaggerated woman's face, with her eyes bulging out, steam coming out of her nose, and her tongue curled into a spiral. It's pretty exaggerated, but with those reference points (and the obvious teeth) you might be able to get it.
It's more like, 'I just watched the new Frankenstein movie, and unlike the other movie versions of Frankenstein I've seen, which portrayed the monster as a dumb lumbering brute with bolts in his neck who can barely speak, it went back to the original text to explore the nature of humanity, with some fresh twists as well.' With a side order of comparing the movie to our current political situation -- see all the people frothing that Superman is 'woke' now.
The normal use of Icarus is a metaphor is using his 'flying too close to the sun' as being too ambitious, aiming too high, trying something too daring and getting slapped down for it. The post here then reverses that, inverting the metaphor to say that aiming too low and being too unambitious can be just as dangerous.
The other half of the equation is that rich people can afford security. Billionaires tend to stick to areas with secure perimeters, like their private estates or elite business offices or personal yachts, and if they have to go out, they've got bodyguards making sure no one with a gun gets near them. It's not as easy for a lone nut to take them out as it is for them to shoot up a high school or a parade or a sports event. (Which is depressing to think about.)
Not only that, but airports with international flights are also counted as borders, if I'm remembering right.
Basically, Hunter is a clone of a human who lived centuries ago, Caleb. Flapjack first belonged to either Caleb or his girlfriend/wife Evelyn -- I don't think we know for sure. He seems to have sought out Hunter because he realized the relation. Philip was Caleb's brother, who came to the Demon Realm with him. There's a lot more to it, but that's the basic outline with as few spoilers as possible.
Or, to use the kanji, 医者.
You're half-right -- there was an episode seen through the eyes of Pinky ('The Pinky POV'), but to say he made perfect sense is stretching things a bit. He heard most of Brain's exposition as 'blah blah blah big word blah blah really big word blah take over the blah!' And his 'are you pondering what I'm pondering' response came from his mind wandering and free-associating, leading him to visualize Brain as a hippo in a beach thong.
Multiple billionaires, so multiple heirs. Plus, if they have more than two billion, they could split their estate among two heirs and you've just added one to the number of billionaires in the world. And as for the children being better, well, people were cheering when the innocent son of a billionaire died in the sub disaster, so presumably a lot of people think they're just as bad.
Fairly true. But cultivating the right personality traits -- among them, empathy, intellectual curiosity, and open-mindedness -- can make 'the right circumstances' a lot rarer. They can still come up, but it's still a good mental immune system, as it were.
Only for things the Supreme Court declares to be official presidential acts. And it's very likely five or six of them would be willing to rule that even the most obvious things aren't covered if they're done by a black Democratic president. (Not in so many words, but we'd know the reason.)
The thing is, killing them doesn't exactly solve anything. Their heirs just get their money and carry on. People were cheering on the Titanic sub disaster, and of course Luigi Manzione, but despite the deaths they didn't actually change much of anything. The health insurance industry is still awful, and the number of billionaires hasn't gone down. Real reform takes a lot of hard work and struggle, but people prefer the idea of 'just kill all the bad guys' because it's easier.
Or sitting around saying 'none of this matters, nothing's stopping them, it's so hopeless, you're a naive fool for thinking anything could ever get better.' Sand in the gears may not shut them down right away, but everything that slows them down, everything that makes it harder for them to implement their agenda, makes it more likely they will fall eventually. Not without hardship first, but the cracks are already showing.
'Know' is maybe an overstatement -- we don't have hard evidence -- but it's been alleged by several women who claimed he assaulted them around that age. It seems very likely, but he's bullied his way out of getting into court cases that could prove it.
My parents got divorced when I was a teen. I never, ever asked either of them to avoid dating anyone younger than me, because the very idea never came up. I would never have even imagined them dating teenagers, and they never would have needed me to warn them against it. Even at the absolute most charitable interpretation, that this was a 'joke,' the fact that Trump even thought of it says horrifying things about him. And if it wasn't a joke, if Ivanka really did feel the need to say it...
Trump has, in previous incidents, worked to get cases assigned to a district in which Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by him and very perceptibly biased towards him, handles a large proportion of the cases. It worked very well for him in the stolen documents case.
Fun fact: there is a canonical DC character named Super-Squirrel. (A Superman parody from the funny-animal comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, from back in the 80s.) This almost certainly wasn't a reference, but it's kind of fun to see the connection nonetheless.
The lawsuit got dropped, allegedly because the woman filing it (who claimed to have been raped by Trump) was receiving death threats and harassment. Her account of it sounded very similar to what Stormy Daniels testified to receiving several years later, which was pretty reliably sourced to Trump's people.
The thing is, the majority of 'tech bros' aren't inventors, engineers, or pioneers. They're money men who hired the actual inventors and engineers, profited off their work, and then fired them to save a few bucks on the next quarterly report.
He once boasted that his then-17-year-old daughter had made him promise not to date anyone younger than her, which was really narrowing the pool of available dates as he got older. Which is horrific on multiple levels.
More properly, it'll get better at plagiarizing from the people who had those experiences. It still won't be able to add anything new, novel, or meaningful to the corpus of humanity's art. Not until/unless we get fully sapient AI, anyway, at which point we've got an entire new set of problems, starting with 'are the techbros going to give them civil rights or did we just reinvent slavery?'
Art is, essentially, communication. It takes an idea or a feeling or knowledge the artist has in their head and conveys it to the audience, whether it's something as profound as 'human suffering is both created by and healed by our connections to other people' or as simple and shallow as 'I think this chord sequence sounds cool' or 'I think big-breasted anime women are hot.' Good art lets us into the head of the artist. AI 'art,' even at its best, is hollow, lacking any hint of this.
Basically, yes. Camila's a single mom to Luz, and at the start of the series sent her off to summer camp. Presumably the first section of the comic happens around then. Months later, she found out Luz had actually gone to the Demon Realm instead of summer camp, and some time after that, Luz returned with a bunch of her friends, temporarily trapped back on Earth. (This happened at the end of Season 2/start of Season 3.) Camila ended up being substitute mom to them all (and basically adopting one)