it’s important to do things for your teenage self every so often, as a way of staying on speaking terms with the person you used to be

in an earlier piece they described Patterson as "emotionless" and Wilkinson (a victim) as "stoic". That's just two people identically not making any facial expressions!

people's delusion that they can read minds through body language is how we got the Lindy Chamberlain false conviction

Although coins have had the monarch's head on them throughout a tonne of places and times, much more ubiquitously than an Other's head

(and a common pub sign motif was "the king's head", which was intended to be wholly patriotic, not rebellious or anything)

oofffff was not aware of this ty

yeah but they would still think it was normal and not shocking that a guy like that is president. They don't expect the president NOT to be a narcissistic liar.
Like how we tell everyone their whole lives to drive safely, but that doesn't mean we see car accidents as weird or abnormal

honestly, i think that's reductive. it's about all the usual reasons for war, occupation and resistance (resources, strategic positioning, domestic politics, civil rights, etc etc). I think religion is a bit of a distraction, a way to make people overlook the actual facts of what's happening

It's not that it hasn't figured out how to depict gravity - it's that it hasn't tried. It doesn't work by learning the rules that govern movement, it works by looking at a bunch of gymnastics videos and trying to follow the pattern of pixel placement - it's like your phone's autocomplete, but visual

This is very unfair; if I travel to Berlin, and hook up with someone while I'm there, that doesn't mean I travelled 14,700 kilometres for sex. That whale might have been going to the cool artistic part of the ocean.

OH THAT'S GOOD

I appreciate that while you're skeptical about your memory, you're happy to accept my claim that it's lifesaving information

(I have ADHD as well and terrible episodic memory - like i remember practically nothing from overseas trips, but very good for facts. Brains, man!)

nonono you will remember and this knowledge will save your life one day, definitely

oh my god. yeah one thing I didn't mention about how llamas see sheep as just short llamas, is you can't set intact males to guard sheep.

oh yeah, that's definitely a thing! I sometimes still stumble over who's/whose, and have to de-contract it (read the sentence to myself as "who is" and see if it makes sense that way)

(I can imagine a kid not really understanding why an animal wasn't responsive to being pet, it would seem cold. I'm speculating wildly!)

Another fact about llamas is, their tongues are too short to groom their babies. This means a) they always give birth during the day, so the babies have time to dry off before it gets cold, and b) llamas do not like being pet the way a cat does, because it's not part of parent/baby interactions