So… you don’t need to find caves. Just bring some excavators, and some prefab-structures and bury them.

This would then let you set up some place with useful resources (light for solar power, ice for drinking and stuff.

Personally, though, I vote we send Musk to the other Sister Planet. The one that’s full-on angry-goth-girl, complete with the sulphuric acid. Don’t judge, as far as planets go, she’s freaking hot.

…. But they’re anal retentive. You really don’t want to tickle that sphincter. Most have been holding since the 80’s

Gun violence, too.

Abbot is a limp chode

he should fuck off to someplace that doesn’t have internet so we can forget about him.

DATA SEASON!! FIRE!

(wait… no. don’t fire. Mr Tricorder was hilarious. we can’t lose that.)

Uhm. This is why historical context is incredibly important when talking about these things.

Jesus was the son of a carpenter. he wasn’t exactly wealthy, by any means. He certainly didn’t have the resources to take a trip to India to study anything- such a trip would have taken at least a year just to travel.

He was raised in the Jewish tradition and taught their religious teachings, which, most certainly did not include the philosophies of other religions. Suffice it to say, that Jesus was thoroughly Jewish his both his understanding of the world about him, and how he expressed that understanding.

Further to the point, when jesus was at what we now call “the last supper”… he was not speaking to a bunch of Hindus. he was speaking to a bunch of Jewish men. Even if he had been aware that Hindus exist at all- never mind having studied their teachings and philosophies- he wouldn’t be relating such in that place at that time.

When he says “this is my body” or however you want to translate that, he meant it to be a more literal symbolism than you ascribe. in jewish tradition, when an animal was brought to the temple for sacrifice, it was common for only a small part of that animal to be burned at the altar. the rest of that animal was then divided between the priests and the petitioner (or it went entirely to the priests, or it was the less-common sort that was entirely burned. it depends on the reason for the sacrifice).

he was speaking to jewish men. He was establishing a new sort of sacrificial offering (the right of communion.) and while the disciples didn’t fully understand what he meant, they figured it out pretty damn quickly. he was saying he’s the ‘final’ sacrifice, and therefore- as part of the ritual offering- his followers were to symbolically consume his flesh and blood.

now Catholics take that a step further and follow a doctrine that says the communion bread and wine literally become such during the right (it’s called ‘transubstantiation’). But he was ultimately talking about how he was a sacrifice and he was establishing a new sort of ritual for his followers.

This was an echo of already-established jewish tradition. he wasn’t drawing on hindu or hopi or any one else’s teachings. he was drawing on jewish tradition surrounding sacrificial offerings and echoing that. because he and his followers were jewish.

maybe you have a point. But can I loot all his money first and make him watch as i donate it to trans rights, maybe also some no-kill shelters. you know puppies and kittens. also, maybe end homelessness and take a bite out of world hunger?

The guillotine was actually meant to be painless. Properly constructed and sharpened it pretty much is. Or so I’m told.

You’re right. I’d say mean things about him on twitter, but that requires a twitter account… and that’s just gross.

I was also under the impression that the captive wolves were in mixed- that is forced- packs.

All the fighting that was observed came from that rather than any sort of natural behavior.

All hail our alien overlords.

Good to see.

this probably hurts him more than me saying he’s an incompetent nepo baby. (the best way to hurt rich fucks is to hurt their wallet, after all.)

David Copperfield vibes. half expecting a swish of the wings only for a tiger to show up. or maybe they just make some rabbits disappear.

Dunno if you’ve been on blue sky at all… but I just caught this one- there seems to be a fair amount of #owls over there.

to be fair, the birds were scared shitless and we all knew exactly what was going to happen. the sacrifices made for a decent photo. the chickadee was held propped up by the feet so he basically flopped over and started jackhammering with their tiny beak. the jay just bit down and didn’t let go. (maybe it was a cardinal? he had both coming through.)

commentary on the most foul birds? Geese and swans. Geese are more common but swans are bigger.

yeah, so chances are fairly solid they did drive. Either they drove in, or they chartered a coach bus. (brewer’s fans tend to do that.).

There’s really no “reason” to assume that it was totally unsecured though. at least none that would induce a cop to investigate another cop. It probably was unsecured, but it probably wasn’t left in a bush or something. firearms aren’t exactly inexpensive.

I don’t think I’ve ever reached the “majestic” stage. Then again, I’m not an owl, so I just sort of stayed grumpy.

this face is either “hello, neighbor” or “HALP? Please?”

either way, be sure to wave back in the future.

they also try to measure their body fat. at least in song birds, they do this by puffing/blowing on the belly feathers.

which has got to be weird. I don’t recall if they stuck a thermometer anywhere. But eh… they also stuffed the birds into old socks. which, and sometimes tried to get lots of pictures of them.

(gram for gram, chickadees are the toughest fighters. Dude drilled out a bit of the ornathologist’s knuckle when the teacher wanted a picture. in all, took a larger chunk of flesh than the jay did.)