Many people don't know this, but that was intentional! Laputa was invented by the English author Jonathan Swift. In his book Gulliver's Travels, the floating city of Laputa oppresses the country below it (literally). The oppressed finally manage to ground it by having the towers of their capital collapse inward when Laputa descended on it. The place where it happened is called Lin Lin. Lin Lin = double Lin = Dublin. The oppressed country is Ireland and Swift was calling his own England "the whore".
I started reading the Discworld novels in high school in the early 2000s. I definitely felt a change in the writing around Going Postal. The novels were no longer creative chaos the way the were in the 90s. Less plot threats running in parallel, less chaotic stuff happening. But the transition seemed to me so gradual that I wouldn't have made the connection to Pterry's state of mind. It seemed more like he was changing as a writer.
I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn't it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?
What risk? Worst outcome, Russia stops the war, leaves Ukraine, delivers Putin to the Hague, gets a democratically elected government and re-enters civilized society AND THAN we have to pay them back. We can be pessimistic, in which case that will never happen. Or optimistic, in which case: if we could get all this by just giving Russia back its money, I'd be the first to say pay them!
The sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.
Many people don't know this, but that was intentional! Laputa was invented by the English author Jonathan Swift. In his book Gulliver's Travels, the floating city of Laputa oppresses the country below it (literally). The oppressed finally manage to ground it by having the towers of their capital collapse inward when Laputa descended on it. The place where it happened is called Lin Lin. Lin Lin = double Lin = Dublin. The oppressed country is Ireland and Swift was calling his own England "the whore".
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SATANAS
My Lord! We can no longer install prevent_primarch_from_falling_to_chaos.exe, the Machine Spirit rejects it!
Rookmates
I started reading the Discworld novels in high school in the early 2000s. I definitely felt a change in the writing around Going Postal. The novels were no longer creative chaos the way the were in the 90s. Less plot threats running in parallel, less chaotic stuff happening. But the transition seemed to me so gradual that I wouldn't have made the connection to Pterry's state of mind. It seemed more like he was changing as a writer.
Never knew THOT is an acronym. I always just read it as a new slang word.
Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
It's a scleral ring. Lots of animals have that, many including humans don't.
Leage of Legends: Runeterra Drift
I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn't it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?
I recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It's related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o'clock = 7 bongs...
Might mean the US government warming up to the new leadership in Syria. The new president was seen as a terrorist until last year.
I just tested myself and burst out laughing. Apparently Surviving Mars is woke because the little models of the colonists are too diverse 🤣
What risk? Worst outcome, Russia stops the war, leaves Ukraine, delivers Putin to the Hague, gets a democratically elected government and re-enters civilized society AND THAN we have to pay them back. We can be pessimistic, in which case that will never happen. Or optimistic, in which case: if we could get all this by just giving Russia back its money, I'd be the first to say pay them!
Outer Wilds. A game that genuinely made me reflect on my place in the universe.
Caught in delusions See through the lies of the jedi Open you eyes Let your anger flow through you
I'm betting on brown
The sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.