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What the fuck?
So much crap going on on Earth, so much distracting news, you could have missed the item today that might reverberate across time
News from another orb
Scientists are cautiously considering that life existed/exists on #Mars
"In summary, our analysis leads us to conclude that the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’"
This is #Romanian #comedian #VictorPatrascan
He is doing a set in #Iceland, and he encounters a brainwashed #vatnik heckler, also from #Romania, and...
Why do people think they can heckle comedians? Their entire job is wit
'—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves'
- #MarkTwain, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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'whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror
...'
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'THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak;
...'
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The hero's journey can be divided into 3 parts in a story:
1. The hero faces adversity
2. The hero tries and fails to overcome it
3. The hero finally transcends via inspiration
The question of course, is who is the real hero in this story:
"Scientists discover giraffes are four distinct species, not just one, in a 'long-overdue decision'"
Why the unnecessary comma? 🤭