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cannibalism 

Although preservation is a necessary condition of eating someone who died centuries ago, could a European of this time period eat human jerky made from a recently hanged person and not feel any guilt?

Hm...was the cannibalism/not cannibalism distinction religious? Could a Christian eat a non-Christian? Something something eucharist

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@melissasage I was just thinking how I've never been friends with anyone who was also into my twee trash. Right now I'm listening to a playlist based on Sarah Records singles.

cannibalism 

Europeans used to consume Egyptian mummies as medicine. During the same period they were actively doing this, they would frequently accuse indigenous peoples of cannibalism.

Why did they not consider mummy consumption cannibalism? Was it only cannibalism if the person being eaten had been alive recently? Was it about race? How does that relate to Europeans pretending that ancient Egyptians, who they were eating, were white? Or was it because mummies were preserved and not fresh?

Techbros think ahead 5 seconds challenge

"Hm...if I hardcode everything...it might be hard to change when I have to update it"

"Using tiny grey characters on a grey background might be hard to read for some people"

"Why add a menu? Maybe we don't even need this feature"

"Maybe I'm ruining society"

Tbh the OOP I learned emphasized using generics whenever possible. Acting like writing reusable code is too hard just stinks of inexperience.

@dankwraith @HTHR@cybre.space @witchfynder_finder And driving everyone else on the team bonkers with your bespoke, thoughtless code. If designing it to be general purpose is too hard for them, you know it's not commented and has no unit tests.

Racism 

Amazing thing I learned about my education just now: Bob Jones University, where my awful Christian schools got their textbooks, was given tax exempt status by Ronald Reagan even though they were segregating their school. Holy shit. I keep learning more and more shit about how awful my schools were

sometimes i remember that historically, it is entirely plausible to write Sherlock Holmes owning Nintendo game systems*, and am delighted

*if by game system you mean some playing cards, mind you

I have the feeling that the Ramones comparison is intended to distance them from from riot grrl. Which is, like, fair. Too many of those bands wound up being TERFs.

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I mean, they play fast, poppy punk songs, but...if the Ramones are your first and last reference for that...there's not exactly a lack of more current bands that have taken on the same style?

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There are a bunch of things comparing Peach Kelli Pop to the Ramones, but they sound more like Shonen Knife to me. I honestly thought they were Japanese when I first heard them.

i know everyone's communist here etc. but i think mastodon should respect the true blue blood heroes 

looking for a third for our oncelerplay. no weirdos

I see the cover design for the printed edition of Mastodon's documentation turned out very well. ^_^

People who say things like "hecking", "kiddo", and "doggo" in real life are probably murderers

"murder, she live-streamed"

It would be modern day reboot of 'murder, she wrote' where instead of a famous author, the protagonist is a social media influencer who solves murders she gets caught up in while making content.

The young 20-something protagonist would still played by Angela Lansbury, of course

gendered voices 

gendered voices are a social construct and whenever I bring this up to anyone they always have a story about some cis extended relative being misgendered over the phone and yet they still try to figure out someone's pronouns based on the pitch of their voice

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