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Dispelling long-held notions that the trip was conducted to map newly acquired U.S. territory in the West, Princeton University historians confirmed Thursday that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on their legendary expedition mainly to justify the purchase of a lot of expensive camping equipment. “While many assume they sought to establish a trade route to the Pacific Northwest, recently unearthed journal entries suggest Lewis and Clark had spent a small fortune at a St. Louis outfitter in 1803 and felt foolish not getting any use out of the fancy new gear,” said Professor Burt Trehorn, adding that the items purchased included a set of hand-carved mahogany trekking poles, fine calf-leather boots, and sterling silver canteens, all of which were sold at a premium and would have been extravagant purchases outside the budget of the famed duo.

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"What are we having for dinner tonight?" "Chicken" "Again?" "Sorry." "Shit, that reminds me - you know that asshole down the street?" "The chicken?" "No, no, he's not chicken, he's actually cool." "You're joking. Someone on our street is cool?" "He says he is - anyways, he saw me waiting forever at the crosslight over by the chicken restaurant—" "Where there's always cars?" "Yeah, he see me refusing to just run out and cross in the middle of a bunch of cars—" "You're not stupid. You don't want to get anywhere near cars, they're always so loud, and the smell..." "Mhm - but get this, after he saw me refusing to cross with the cars, he had the gall to call me chicken!" "Well, that's cool for you. Guy probably loves hanging around cars." "Maybe, but he's so awful to everyone and everything he probably doesn't even like cars—remember what he did last year at that... car festival thing downtown?" "Yikes, yeah. Remind me never to have him over if we're also having chickens for dinner."

Inadvisable worldbuilding idea #137: create a setting where some common, everyday English word also happens to be the demonym of one of the setting's major nations. Use that word in both senses frequently. Refuse to clarify.

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On Monday, Tyler, The Creator released his ninth studio album, Don’t Tap The Glass. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the artist.

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Good.

You know what? Fuck you. *implements an operating system where the default alphabetically sorted file listing omits leading articles*

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The Second World War featured millions of horses. Germany and the USSR alone used more than six million horses, and the idea of the war as the first fully mechanized war is a myth. Most of the horses were pack animals and artillery haulers, but they saw combat too — as late as March 1845 the Battle of Schoenfeld saw one of history's last cavalry charges as the Polish 1st "Warsaw" Independent Cavalry Brigade drove the Germans out of the village of Schoenfeld as the Polish Free Army pushed its way into Pomerania. So there's no reason there weren't horse girls serving as horse girls in WWII—and beyond. Picture their usefulness to the communist troops in Korea, or on the mountain passes during the Long March or Vietnamese horse girls running arms south to supply the Viet Cong. The only reason the Taliban didn't use Horse Girls was presumably their raging misogyny. And this races a question: do they play buzkashi in the umamusume verse? Did/do the Taliban suppress it as amoral?

hey everyone. so i've been playing the horse gacha game umamusume pretty derby. two things about umamusume are that at the end of every race the horses who won the race perform an idol concert, and that every horse girl has a ridiculous unaerodynamic vtuber outfit. and initially to me these were both things that are obviously silly but which you have to suspend your disbelief for because you can acknowledge the doylean reasons for having them. but actually they make perfect sense in universe.

umamusume textually have strength and speed that vastly exceeds that of any normal human. historically it would obviously have been massively impractical to apply the same gender role constraints to them that were applied to normal human women in many cultures. you need your horse women to both be allowed to go to war and want to go to war, and while obviously you do also want them to reproduce you don't want them to then spend years raising the kids, something normal humans can do, when they could be using their time on things normal humans can't do.

so i feel like in a lot of cultures there would be similar kinds of social developments to machismo but for horse women (horschismo) to incentivise their participation in physically dangerous activities, they would overall be subject to different social pressures and expectations from normal human women, and probably to varying extents they would often be considered a separate gender from human women.

however, like horses in real life, since the industrial revolution umamusume in industrialised countries have become an entertainment commodity when previously they would have been vital to labour and warfare. and being cute girls makes them more consumable as entertainment.

so obviously the idol shit is a deliberate 20th century invention to emphasise the girlness of horse girls, which both makes them more marketable and folds horse woman gender roles into the broader concept of "women" for everyone's social comfort. probably there is a lot of in universe scholarship on this and different umamusume have and have had a lot of different opinions about it. like i expect in the early 20th century there would have been plenty of umamusume who were totally hype to be able to be "normal girls"

now i'm being tongue in cheek here obviously. but also this IS the logical implication of the information presented in the franchise. if cygames didn't want me to come to these conclusions then they shouldn't keep showing us ancient egyptian depictions of bronze age horse girls and shit like that. hope you're having a wonderful day 🏇

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Your parents can be tyrants and you needed an escape from them, and the harms of smart phones can be incalculable and pushed by an incredibly malicious tech culture whose medium to long term effects largely seem to be universally negative. Both those things can be true. Both of those things are true. It's baffling that so many people see arguments like the above and agree with them because they conflate their own personal lived experience with the global collective.

Ambulances using leaded gasoline got people to the hospital in time to save their lives, it didn't make leaded gasoline a collective good, in much the same way the long term effects of mass car ownership and fossil fuel burning seems to destined to, y'know, kill the planet and the species. Having a car may well have helped you drive away from a bad relationship or move to a nicer place or just have a higher standing of living generally in your lifetime and specific location - the general solution to that social ill was not, however, 'give everyone a car.' "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is a call to be mindful of the difficulty of escaping the corrosive effects of capital when living under it - it is not a get-out-of-jail 'ignore the material conditions of any given scenario' card. Whether we're talking about the long term social and psychological effects of 'constantly having access to social media, ads, algorithmically targeted content, and now know-nothing AI slop and ChatGPT hallucinations' (which, I can't stress enough, is pretty rough), or just the literal toll the resource extraction to build pocket computers for everyone in the first world has taken—its bad, It's been pretty goddamn bad. You don't have a great moral high ground to talk about go off about 'my opponents don't respect the right of the child' when 'the right of a child to have a smart phone' requires children working in slave labour to extract the rare earth minerals to produce the smart phone. It's a very imperial core mindset to commit to a solution whose worst knock on effects happen very far away and conveniently won't immediately affect anyone the solution is meant to save. I know having a smart phone may have saved you from a bad situation. But in some sense that was closing the barn door after the horses had bolted - the solve should have happened much earlier, in preventing the toxic conditions from arising in the first place— toxic conditions that include the increasing radicalization of, say, parents by those same tech companies who really love you defending smart phones and 24/7 social media usage. Asbestos fireproofing saved people and their homes from catching on fire - it did not mean it was a good idea to expose everyone constantly to asbestos. "This smart phone helped saved these kid from their abusive homes." Okay, that's great, but it was also the device that was a non-trivial factor on giving that group of kids a gambling addiction, helped that group of kids get bullied, drove those kids over there to suicide, radicalized those kids into being fascists, and was partially built with the aid of those child slaves in a Congolese cobalt mine, so maybe there's a slightly more nuanced conversation we could be having here than "people who don't want to give five year olds unfettered 24/7 non-stop access to the internet and social media through a computer they always have on them simply don't respect the rights of children."

i think we should maybe start killing people

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The improperly capitalized 'English' is really going to bother me.

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Gaster was Hot Dog Harpy all this time.

literally i cannot wait for gaster to actually show up in deltarune and he doesnt look anything like the melting skeleton guy from undertale. just ten years of fanart in the fuckin garbage

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Always important to remember: the idea that in the past that people only lived until 40 is—outside of plague and famine times—simply false, an adult living in a stable community was by and large as capable of living into some kind of old age, maybe a decade younger than more of us might now expect. But the average life expectancy rate is always low for the past because the infant and child mortality rate is so incredibly high it warps the stats.

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I realize "that's just X" is the worst form of internet response, but hard to shake the idea that that's essentially Oblivion. The main quest is so poorly integrated into anything else that's happening that you can go off and play the entire rest of the game and barely miss it. The only thing you don't get is the formal 'the end' main quest ending credits... which Oblivion may or may not even have had, only beat that dumb main quest once.

RPG that does the "we only have 37 seconds to save the world!" thing but has no explicit mechanics for the passage of time (as one does), except if you progress through the game without completing even a single sidequest, there's a secret ending where you show up early for the obligatory act-one fakeout boss, successfully prevent the baddie from blowing up the world, and the whole second act doesn't happen.

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i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny

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I've been busier lately but I still wanted to find even a little time to draw something for Annie's 14th year! It's a little late and rough but that's fine, I had fun✨

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There's the good and evil shoulder angels from the Black & White games, who are male-coded, arguably fairies, and incredibility irritating, but I don't feel like I could count them as brats, so I want to ask for the purposes of clarification where does just plain 'aggravating' stop and true 'brattitude' begin?

I recognise that this may be a controversial opinion on the "everything is better when girls" website, but I feel like making the action-adventure game protagonist's obligatory tutorial/exposition-providing bratty little fairy companion a boy is underexplored territory.

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he's on thin fucking ice

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‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

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Yuck. Imagine getting hit on by Bush Senior.

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