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Red: the blood of angry men.

Green: the blood reptilian healthcare CEO’s.

This is your annual reminder that Santa’s steeds as classically depicted are all Ladies. Male Caribou shed their antlers before Christmas. That’s right! The sleigh runs on girl power! Red One even paid homage to this fun fact this year.

Oh, most certainly. (I didn’t say it was an organized system) That ad hoc system lent itself very well to assimilating and romanizing local beliefs as part of conquest.

‘Subjugate’ probably wasn’t the right way to frame it. It allowed conquerers to so say “Oh, that sacred tree spirit, that genius loci that you venerate? Yeah that’s one of ours; its a dryad. So we’re just gonna put up a Roman shrine to that dryad right next-to/around it. Don’t you worry! You can keep worshipping it. Just remember that is a Roman thing that you’re worshipping, not something else. Oh! And while your doing that, if might behoove you to consider that [my patron] a proper Roman god, might be more capable of helping you out than these dinky little nymphs you’ve got round these parts. You can tell they are more important because the temple we built is bigger than the shrine for that dryad”

Just here to point out that Rome did the same thing pre Christianity as the did with Christianity: Absorbing local gods, sacred sites and traditions and subjugating them under their dominant religious system of the time.

Since the mid 17th century, really. And does not currently exist as an independent nation. Which is exactly the point, they were making.

The US is certainly not the oldest institution in the world. And as a people, as a culture, yes, the US is rather young. But the US is relatively mature as far as continuous national governments go, and the oldest surviving democracy.

It’s all about context. There are options that are context and age appropriate that aren’t condescending or clinically reductive.

Men’s bathroom and Women’s bathroom > male bathroom and female bathroom

“Hey, guys/gents”, “hey, girls/ladies” > “hey, men”, “hey, women”

First woman President > first female President > first girl President

Glass functioning as intended. Any deficiencies that arise are due to the failure of the customer to provide appropriate design parameters.

the sort of housing that government could relatively provide.

The sort of housing the government is willing to provide.

choose between going to a shelter or being arrested but they couldn't remain camping

Given the a choice between restricted temporary housing or imprisonment, it’s no wonder someone would choose independent living on one’s own terms. People need support for independent living not being forced into a soulless shelter room shared with strangers and a dictated schedule, where they can’t bring their children, pets, or dependent substances. It’s the same reason folks dread being shuttled off to a nursing home.

This glass has a safety factor of 2

Re: good engineer: this is the thing that frustrates me amount marketing/labeling for travel mugs or cookware; the listed capacity is the absolute brim capacity not the practical capacity. Want to put 16 oz in a 16 oz mug you’re gonna have to sip 3 ounces out first in order to put the lid on. Want to serve 2 qt soup? Gotta use the 3 qt pot.

Engineer: the glass is underutilized/over-sized

Management: Lets hire a consultant to investigate the value proposition of downsizing glasses and discuss the results over a company expensed dinner.

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