I mean there was a lot of scientific growth during that period, just not in Europe. It’s basically just the “Dark Ages” because we’re taught to regard anything non-Western as less important. The Islamic world alone contributed algebra and huge improvements to optics, trigonometry, physics, the idea that disease can be…

“Fuck, Marry, Kill” is another version of the fight or flight response 

They’re expensive but pretty great. I loved getting them in Israel but rarely get them now bc of the cost (I basically only get the cheapest ice cream bar options)

I think a food you can easily pick up and put down with one hand can be ok but you can’t put down an ice cream bar and you can’t eat it as fast as a fry or chip. So this was probably not the best to drive with. Drinks are usually easiest and then small easy to eat fast stuff like fries are second best. It’s not ideal…

This is why I like bars with a drink menu. I want to know what I can feasibly request that the bartender will be able to make (this is a go to thing after going to a Cuban place that had a ‘bartender’ who could basically only open bottled beer and make jack and cokes). I don’t want to bother paying cocktail prices for…

Yeah me too- I’ve literally sent one of my friends NYTimes articles about human rights abuses and it’s a lot of “well things are bad in our country too”. He doesn’t really focus on the communist part just that he can’t see criticizing any other country coming from the US. Ignoring the fact that although we definitely…

People die from all kinds of things- someone dying from cancer isn’t going to be intrinsically as triggering as a suicide for people who struggle with mental illness. The idea is to give someone a moment to step back and avoid the subject. This isn’t something rare either, this is something generally recommended as a…

I mean I think it could still be good but there needed to be more room between the warning and the suicide/method mentions. The big triggers are (1) thinking about suicide and (2) hearing about different methods that might inspire someone 

It’s really bizarre when it comes to hentai. They will have full sex scenes but with a blurred out penis. 

Seems like the next dystopian technology considering how Israeli newspapers and magazines have had controversies about editing women out of photographs. You could have an automatic thing that detects a “woman” and covers, uncovers, or deletes her per that region’s standards. Mad at Simu Liu for his comments about…

In Spain this is considered pretty basic cable behavior since you can show topless women. So it’s probably similar to someone saying the F bomb a lot or your average adult swim content 

The most ridiculous thing is that the kind of nudity they mentioned is stuff you can just see on regular reality shows on TV in Spain. I guess everyone is stuck with America’s puritanical standards. 

Seriously- I think something missing from Holocaust education is how OK the Western world was with Nazi Germany until they took over a sufficient amount of countries to cause concern. Before that, they were just another government that was making the trains run on time, so who cares about their wacky ideologies. There…

Seriously- there’s no middle ground here. There’s right and wrong. 

The end feels like it was only half way through the film. The revelation of a murdered woman and a sinister cult leads to the response “You know what we have to do now? Fuck”. Nicole Kidman having a sex dream is given a similar weight to Tom’s sex with other women

He’s living out of his car, but in constant motion like the bus from Speed

Or heck- how much would taxi fare compare? After a certain point you’d think you’d break even

My parents to this day occasionally swap me and my sister’s names. I have been called the cat’s name. I have been called my mom’s name. I have had the cat called by my name. At this point, I just show up just in case like pets do in case there’s food involved 

I occasionally have a thing where I will be thinking about one person while looking at another person and I’ll swap their names when I say that. Also were these students wearing masks? It can be pretty hard to tell people apart when they are wearing masks- you just have their eyes, their skin tone, and maybe their…