What if you were born into a Thornberries esque family, grew up traveling the world as your researcher and adventurer parents did their studies in the wilds, ancient ruins etc.

You fell in love with adventure and ancient mysteries, so after graduating from adventurer college (you were a legacy admission), you intern for [initial quest giver for campaign].

Easy one, done off the top of my head.

I think they mean a real person, the player, would need a minimum of “12 charisma” to even think of saying something like that to the DM.

And the meme says “me with 8 real life charisma” y’know, so less than 12.

If I’m honest, I don’t believe the official story at all.

Too many holes. Too many weird coincidences.

One that I see few people talking about is Philip D Zelikow. He is an ideologue for the right. And his main work was on myths and civilization building, how civilizations are built (or re-built) around myths.

He had a very interesting article a few years before 9/11 about how the US needed a major tragic event, like a terror attack, like bombing in the WTC, to kickstart a new myth. To shape the future of the country, shift its direction from the last major myth (WW2 and the fight against communism) after the victory at “the end of history”.

This guy was put in charge of writing up the official story from the 9/11 commission.

I don’t know what exactly happened. But I don’t believe the official story is all I can say.

It feels too much like the shady CIA operations we have lots of details for now from the 50s and 60s. Like I can see a Blowback on 9/11 in a few years. Or an Eyes Wide Open.

I really recommend Eyes Wide Open on YouTube btw. And James Corbett on 9/11 stuff as well. Both super well sourced.

Only landowning or capitalist white men could vote and participate in politics…

Except they go ahead and waste their life in some grand finale killing innocent people… because idk they can’t a gf or non-white people exist.

Americans are the most terror prone people ever. They get terror attacks every week basically. By their own people.

But it’s never directed at any of the people who actually deserve it. That’s the most mind boggling thing to me.

Like they are so quick to shoot up a mall, but not a CEOs jaguar?

Capitalism really

July Sixth Park Day!

Bit where we end racism, but put people who taste soap when eating cilantro in camps.

Just because you are a mutant doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the rest of us… cilantro is delicious. Soap mouth.

I vote to use the fashion definition. 20 years ago is retro. It’s simple. Yeah it makes me feel old. But still…

Chris and Jack have a recent sketch about that that is real good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM0teS7PFMo

How is it cultural genocide when they have all public things (signs, documents etc) written in Mandarin and the local language? If the government rebuilds and renovates historical and religious buildings? Sponsors cultural events, like festivals, parades, performances etc.

This is true for all autonomous and minority regions and cultures in China btw, not just Xinjiang and the Uyghur people.

What do you mean by cultural genocide exactly?

Bears have omnivore digestive systems tho.

Being from the Carnivora family doesn’t make you an obligatory carnivore.

(Though their last common ancestor was most likely an obligatory carnivore yes. But bears are a very old group, and they have evolved away from obligatory meat eating a long long time ago. We also have some adaptations away from being herbivores for example - shorter intestines than gorillas etc.).

Bears (with the exception of polar bears) actually hunt very little. Black bears barely eat meat even. Their diet is mainly composed of nuts and berries. They eat meat if they find carcasses or are desperate enough.

And like even deer hunt rabbits for food if they are desperate. You wouldn’t call them “predators”.

We might “be” predators, but we didn’t evolve to be predators. At least not obligatory predators like tigers.

There’s no good evidence that shows meat from hunting was a major part of our diet for 99% of our evolutionary history.

The vast majority of ancient humans found subsisted mostly on fruits, tubers, grain etc.

It’s likely we started eating more meat only during the past ice age.

We’re more like bears than tigers.

Just searched for this on TikTok and for sure it’s a suit. It’s not a horrible one, but it’s still very noticeable.

That’s literally what anti-Zionist Jews have been saying since Zionism was born over 100 years ago…

Zionism IS antisemitic. It’s based on the idea Jews are incapable of living with other peoples. That Jews are incapable of not making other peoples hate them.

That’s literally what Theodore Herzl thought and wrote when justifying an ethnically pure Jewish state.

Like the dude hated Jews as much as the antisemitic Christians around him.

And progressive, communist mostly, Jews mounted opposition to this. Choosing to fight for rights and acceptance, for protections and for a popular revolution. SINCE THE BEGINNING. And they were the fucking majority by far. Zionism was fucking FRINGE.

And it makes me really sad to think that so many of those antizionist fighters stayed in Europe until after WW2, fought to liberate Jews in camps, fight Nazis and fascists, make up huge numbers of the partisans all over Europe.

Then after WW2, the nascent settler colonial state of Israel that was struggling for decades to attract Jews, literally denied entry to many of the survivors of camps and only allowed partisans and people who fought in. They formed many of the first communities, which is why so many were communistic.

Also why Stalin at first supported Israel, hoping they’d turn communist and ally with the USSR.

But European colonists gonna colonize and so many became straight up fascists themselves and created the basis of the modern ultra Zionist movement.

Communism discourages greed, capitalism discourages compassion.

Like even if this shit discussion on “human nature” was of any value, there are NO “human natures” you’d like to discourage? Like the “natural human” desire to murder every late lane merger? The “natural human” behaviour of propagating childhood trauma?

Idk this is just stupid.

Non-human animals do some crazy shit we would not want to do, and we know we used to do some and still do some crazy shit. “Naturally”. “Nature” isn’t better. And also it’s all fucking “nature. All our behaviours are “human nature”. We literally cannot act in ways that are not in our “nature”. What does that even meeaaan

This whole “human nature” thing is lazy and unscientific asf

“Blessed is the lion which a man eats so that the lion becomes a man. But cursed is the man whom a lion eats so that the man becomes a lion!”

But replace lion with man and man with lizard.

Brown bears as in grizzlies? I’ll for sure defer to you because I’m not from a place with brown bears. But I thought they were pretty aggressive in many situations (territorial males, females with cubs etc.). And that black bears are way more chill and will usually prefer to run away.