I was much the same was growing up, though I doubt I have anywhere near a typical childhood experience. I was raised by a single mother who most likely is affected by BPD which included extreme paranoia. As a result, every time I was at a store I treated every person present as a potential threat and kept on eye on…

To be fair, many considered Shakespeare low-brow while he was alive. Between all the sexual innuendo(nearly everything he wrote), disguised curse words("country matters") and large reliance on source material(Romeus and Iuliet, Hecatommithi, Il Pecorone, etc), I can understand why some people thought that way. If I…

If you're interested in trying them, I believe the brand of the bars was Chapul.

A year or 2 ago I helped fund a Kickstarter for protein bars made out of ground up crickets. They were actually pretty good, and the fact that they didn't look like insects probably made them easier to eat. I wonder if the first step to eating bugs is to start by processing them down into a state we're familiar with…

Shounen often suffers from a lack of characterization. Shounen isn't a strict 'genre' but rather a demographic: males aged 10-18. Thus you often get characters that are defined by certain traits (hotblooded, won't betray friends, shy, devious, etc) instead of being shaped by their past experiences. You're more likely…

You do realize the African idea of slavery was largely one of indentured servitude and not chattel slavery right? Even if that wasn't the case, it's still irrelevant. The misdeeds of others do not excuse your own.

Actually most of the agencies directly involved int he war said there was no need for internment. One of the biggest motivations for internment was a large amount of political pressure by white west-coast farmers. The Japanese at that point in time had many successful farms and were harsh competition. Rather than…