I’d say that Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” speaks the lie to this in a nicely subversive way.

It paints medieval politics as being devoutly religious, and the people… not so much.

I missed an obvious opportunity to say “melon collie”.

I used to watch that every day after school. But it always seemed so sad.

I thought they were going to go with “Shame Month”

How does it interact with EM radiation?

Annihilation.

Yeah; crows have mating songs.

But it’s all about two things: attracting a mate and avoiding predators.

Some birds use sound for that. Other birds use visual displays, aerobatics, sheer viciousness, or other physical traits. Some use combinations of the above. Like everything else, what works will survive to be used by the next generation.

For the most part, bb guns and pellet guns have been replaced with nerf guns.

Nerf darts are designed to bounce off eyeballs.

Growing up, I had a compact pneumatic dart gun that fired actual darts with needle tips. Those could definitely have taken out an eye, and are likely a controlled weapon today.

I see what you did there, you hacker.

There’s a difference between remembering your training and being in proper physical condition.

In fact, if your film training involves different martial arts for each film, you probably would suck at actual fighting due to having to think about each thing you plan to do before you do it.

If you know one way to take someone down, if they come at you, you’ll reflexively do it.

If you know 30 ways to take someone down, you’ll either use the one you’ve used the most, the most recent one, or you’ll have to stop and decide which one makes the most sense in the situation—and that hesitation will mean you’ll lose against anyone well trained in a single discipline.

Do you have experience with AI dev environments? That’s generally the differentiator right now. Claude Code replaces managing a junior dev team of 5. Anyone who can demonstrate the ability to leverage it is not short of work.

Those 5 junior devs are, though.

Blueberries are sweeter and can be cultivated. Huckleberries grow in wild uneven terrain and so are harvested by hand.

Compare huckleberries to wild blueberries — they’re about as available, and are even about the same size.

Growing up, I always had the goal to pick enough huckleberries for a pie, or possibly a few jars of jam.

Generally after 6 hours or so of picking, I’d had enough of picking, and still only had enough huckleberries for a mixed pie or jam (although they taste great with strawberries and rhubarb).

Compare that to blueberries where commercial berries are grown in straight rows and can be bulk harvested by machine. This makes them much more obtainable.

My favourite though are thimbleberries (broad leafed bush, white flowers) — they’re like a flatter, velvety raspberry. Also only grow wild, but boy do they pack a flavour punch — almost as much as wild strawberries.

Because they can’t afford the AI subscriptions AND the humans. Something has to give, and AI doesn’t unionize, take holidays, have centuries of regulations or sue.

At least, not this financial quarter.

Minnesota Nice means you’re friendly and pleasant to everyone, help out those in need, and your values actions and behavior do not change, either as an individual or as a community.

Populism, fascism and naziism work by gaslighting people and getting them to fight against each other.

It has no power over a critical mass of people who are relentlessly nice. It doesn’t matter how you redistrict, how you craft the evening news, even how many armored vehicles you roll through town or how many people you arrest. It’s real life A Bug’s Life.

Being nice doesn’t mean being a pushover. It just means eternally holding the line against hate and intolerance as a community. And Minnesota communities have learned the hard way that it’s often the only way to survive.

Bless your heart.

That’s not quite how “nice” works.

Minnesota Nice is like an iceberg. The Trump administration is the Titanic.

Ketchup is essentially bbq & vinegar with a bright red dye. Doesn’t really taste like ketchup OR bbq, but exactly like “artificial ketchup flavour”.

It’s been a flavour in Canada for over 40 years? Since it was all Hostess and Ruffles and before Frito-Lay rebranded as Lay’s.

It also contains dill pickle and ketchup flavour up here I believe.

Next up, a new innovative $1.8B fund for the defense of patriots.

After all, these are all still at the proposal stage; you can make an infinite number of proposals, and then everyone spends energy fighting them, whan no effort is needed to make them.

We already established that. You have the right to express your opinion. That doesn’t mean there are no consequences to doing so.

Yes, and it’s everyone else’s legal right to both tell you what they think of what you said, and refuse to associate with you.

Laws are in place because of precedent. New precedent is set every day.

Society makes laws, but is greater than its laws. Laws don’t define society, they help enforce it.