Bullshit! I found evidence of their proliferation in my cupboard and behind the bed.

I would venture to guess it had to do with noon. It would have always been easy to say sunrise, sunset or noon even before a clock or sundial were invented. Remember there were no aircraft flying through the timeshifts. The effects of time on long distance travel were negligable if noticeable at all. Communications also traveled slowly. Once technology introduced clocks, you could see how your noon no longer aligned with the sun a couple hundred miles east or west. Your clock would not match the place you are visiting as noon had hands both pointing straight up as where the sun would also be located at that time. Your question only becomes relevant when we get light speed communication like radio and telegraph.

“Good afternoon German friend how is the weather today?” “WHY ARE YOU RINGING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AMERICAN FRIEND!?” Not a real conversation, but you can imagine.

The answer: people hate change.

If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.

Must be nice having an inner voice.

That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.

Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…

You, for being such a whiny little bitch of a sore loser.

We would make it too complicated. Almost all animals are in survival mode. Some that have free time could understand limited concepts. It would be easier to setup commerce with some corvids for example but not to keep them out of the corn fields. Dogs would have a lot more anxiety and cats wouldn’t change much.

Some of my students act like that. You are in school, put them away!

Okay, so, I completed this impossible task. Now, how do I get coffee into my cup?

The internet was so full of life and learning.

The “none pizza, left beef” story got me pretty good when it origionally posted.

I think what you are calling toys are what I would call addictions. They can get innovative with finding ways to access those addictions, but really they just want that mind numbing, repetative flashing lights and noises. Anything to shut down and avoid thinking, like a bunch of zombies.

Sorry. That’s just the rant of a 7th grade teacher.

This was fun when my business address was some office I’d never been to.

Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.

I don’t understand your explanation of your habit. It comes off as you don’t like vegetables and are choking them down to get to what you like. Is that a correct interpretation? My wife just made the best dinner and all three items were green vegetables.

The sun is a fiery, life-giving snail that is creeps across the pale blue outer shell of the great mother snail we live upon.

How can you possibly pet all the goats? Google AI helped me calculate that there are over a billion goats in the world and nearly 2 million new goats born every day.

edit: You’d have to pet 1.7 million goats per day to finish in 1 year. this doesn’t seem to add up. sorry. I tried. it’s not possible is all I’m saying. But if you could, Baphomet would probably find you.

Okay. I don’t understand all the different instances yet. I got instructions from someone on how to navigate it but haven’t sat down to try.