Maybe I’m just being contrarian, but I don’t think the water or the beach are very good in this painting. The wheat, greenery, cliffs and clouds are great, but the water and beach are kind of monotonous blobs that frankly aren’t that great in this painting.

If you take anything away from this post, let it be that Claude Monet had no idea how to paint water and I dare anyone to prove me wrong! That should be a reasonable idea to defend.

Hedgehog. I know about all about youth culture and the “Sonic is a hedgehog” games.

Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?

Me too! What’s your destination?

Two years later, I’d like to summarize recruiting in 2024. Today we approached a man in a full pig costume flipping a grocery store sign in 104-degree heat. The man said nothing, just flipped the sign faster than human eyes could follow. My comrades in arms are gone. All that remains of them are the stains their innards left on some cereal prices in the corner of the sign. I managed to surrender to the silent pig-beast, knowing I had nothing to offer him that could sate his hunger. He is now the governor of Ohio. I pray that it will be enough.

I’m not really up to date on the modern movies, but didn’t they spend several movies exploring who bad milk blood robot is? This synopsis really nailed the big unanswered question.

I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!

I can’t be too hard on him. In hindsight I guess it’s easy to say he shouldn’t have died in prison, but I’m sure he had his reasons.

Have these cowards never heard of ramming?

He looks like he discovered that his girlfriend was actually just a pile of lit dynamite sticks assembled into the rough shape of a woman.

Bring back the version of Germany where every single outlined municipality was ruled by their own haemophiliac grand baron shaped like a snowman and they all made a living by shaving the precious metals off of each others’ coins. Have the pope pick the one with the most impressive gout as the new emperor of the EU and make Ursula von der Leyen wait by their toilet around the clock to push the flush button when they are done, which is now the highest attainable office in the EU for someone with no Habsburg blood.

Silent reading is actually a shockingly recent invention. Because the letters “make sounds”, the natural way to process a phonetic alphabet is to make the sounds of the letters as you read them and listen to yourself speaking the text. This goes on way later than many people realize. Being able to do silent reading at all was still a pretty remarkable skill in the time of Shakespeare. Being unable to read something without speaking the words was common probably well into the 19th century. Actually, as someone who works in education I can tell you that I will still recommend kids to read things out loud if they find something difficult. It’s what phonetic writing languages were designed for, and it increases accuracy and comprehension.

It’s ALWAYS Nord VPN. I expect we’ll see them in Hamas videos of blowing up IOF vehicles any day now.

I’m gonna thorw myself out there and be brave today.

I will say that both neo nazis were wrong and should quite honestly change their opinions. I’m really brave like that.

For the benefit of those of us who are not great with geography:

Xinjiang is so absurdly landlocked that “to the sea” might seriously mean you end up somewhere in Europe.

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In fact, considering how much control over their national resources and economic policy they are going to give up to then IMF, Ukranie doesn’t need any of its territory to win.

Did they actually move him to the North Pole or are they having fun with the word “Arctic”?

The Toungue map.

The idea that different parts of the tongue are responsible for feeling different tastes. This blatantly false idea was made up in 1901 out of thin air and then made its way into biology classrooms somehow. It was taught to schoolchildren (including me) for about 100 years as a biological fact, even though every human being in that time proved it false by experiment thousands of times by eating things and tasting them with the “wrong” parts of the tongue. It doesn’t quite count as an example of this happening today, because we finally realized that it simply wasn’t true and have stopped teaching it, but still: 100 years is a long time to realize that something is false when every human being in the world is confronted with physical evidence several times every day.

I don’t think the association to monarchy has much to do with it. The names of the pieces come from a time of monarchs but I doubt that anyone on any side of the political spectrum is reading much into it these days. The association to high IQ and being “high class” or “civilized” will probably draw nazis like flies to shit though.