@jaddeyekabir@TheLastFarm Because the ancient caledonian forest is a globally unique ecosystem. The country would still be special and beautiful, but in a healthy way rather than a sick one.
@JaymesLackey I think intentionally abusing the trust of a nation, coming in friendship so you can kidnap/seduce their Queen is a bigger betrayal of Xenia than fighting a war to take her back. But that’s just me and Homer’s opinion, so who knows?
@writriverdale To be honest, I don’t think the winnowing oar task is a huge deal. It wraps up Odysseus’s conflict with Poseidon through a kind of penance, but we know he competes it and dies peacefully of old age back home in Ithaca, as all Tiresias’ other prophecies have already came true.
@kunley_drukpa Head out to a disco spoons, have a few (fiver each), make a joke about how they used to say “woman owned company” but now say “woman founded”, get dancing. Class.
These Sea People are so terrible, what will become of us Mycenaean Greeks, of the Mycenaean Palace Culture, when our Bronze Age collapses due to the Sea People! What will become of our Linear B script!
There is a certain kind of intelligent person who believes hard STEM is the highest attainment of man, often physicists. Their narrow studies make them ignorant of the larger picture of human knowledge, in which ‘fields’ are dunes in the desert.
@OfficialJonaveh@OVTweetmarck Probably because he was a writer and not a mathematician. You probably didn’t hear Shakespeare mentioned in your Analogue Electronics classes.
@EvolvedPotatoe@_veleho 15% is honestly not bad if it’s on a super large scale like this OP is saying. Could still be millions of trees over 100s of km
My prediction for England V Argentina. England will lose because Scotland will be supporting them over Argentina (mostly), and whichever team Scotland supports loses.
@Michmue2@DrewPavlou Just read his book “From Third World to First” he goes through all aspects of singapores development from post WW2 to about 2000. It’s very well-written. You could probably get an audiobook of it if you want to listen.
@TaigaExplorer@blown_through The idea is that any concourse between men and women must have a sexual element, so when any man and woman are friends it is insinuated that they are in some form of sexual relationship.