the Greek taverna is one of the most civilised social inventions in human history
hear me out 😩
you arrive, usually with people and the table is in the street or near the sea
the waiter doesn't rush you
he brings water and bread and olives without being asked
you order in the general direction of what you want - more plates arrive than you ordered because the kitchen decided something else was also good today
you eat across two hours
the conversation moves through subjects, nobody checks their phone
at some point - maybe hour 3 - the owner brings 3 small glass of something on the house
not because you asked but because you've been there long enough to be a real customer now
that the Greek taverna figured out - probably 2,000 years ago - is that the purpose of a meal is the experience of being human in a specific place with specific people
the food enables that
it doesn't replace it
modern restaurant culture forgot this
the Greek taverna never did
It's almost as if the alien ship from 🆅 has landed, offering us superior technology and an off-world cure for cancer, only the call is coming from inside the house.
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 impossibly disappeared without a trace 10 years ago.
We literally have two military videos that solve the mystery that leaked days/weeks after the plane vanished.
What do people think happened to the plane? There’s no other story that fits the evidence even if you ignore the videos.
People are frequently convicted of murder with less evidence than this and the only retort seems to be ignorantly yelling ‘it’s fake.’
In addition, it’s trivial to disprove any other story about the plane. Any crash or shoot down would have left a massive debris field that would have been spotted in under 24 hours by multiple nations’ satellites.
The denialism about the videos is one thing, but there’s not even a competing theory with any significant evidence.