“Unmanned” doesn’t mean “driverless”.

Pretty sure RC cars existed before RC airplanes.

Why do Americans seem to think making a sauce is some magic requiring rocket building skills?

I’ve been making my own sauces since I was twelve. Perhaps once I tasted one of those canned “pasta-sauces” as a teenager but they’re disgusting imo.

Unless you’re making your sauce out of fresh tomatoes, it doesn’t even take long. Crushed tomatoes and tomato paste is just fine.

I don’t remember if I be ever really used fresh pasta, tried it maybe once or twice, but I always make the sauce. What do you find so cumbersome in making it?

I don’t usually eat more than once or maybe twice a day but often still take more than one shit.

Everyone’s bowels are bitty different.

“The spirit of imperialism” isn’t the same as “the yearning for never-ending and ever-growing profits”.

Infinite growth on a finite planet is literally impossible.

What propelled the hunger for exotic colonies? The foreign products which were so esteemed back in Europe.

We could argue all day what specific ideology it is what drove them, but I think it’s enough to say it was greed and cruelty of some sorts.

The Bible warns of greed, talks about how people with wealth will never go to heaven. Look at how much colonization/spread Abrahamic religions have and they still couldn’t solve this

Wait, so… you’re telling me… that… the violent bigots forcing their dogma on everyone couldn’t achieve world peace?

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

You’d argue that because after the age of those ships, while capitalism is still around, we haven’t got any of the things mentioned anymore?

Capitalism is the cancer of market economies.

“Nice, I’ve identified this thing as an alien motor that we don’t completely understand but which we know how to utilize.”

We don’t really know how gravity works, yet we understand it well enough to utilize it.

How does a society build a thing it can’t identify?

“Working unidentified flying objects”

I know, I know: “common usage, common usage!”

Redundant/false acronyms just irk me a little.

10 years ago everything was “smart” now it’s “AI”.

Goddamn marketing people.

Bill Hicks on marketing

“Hopefully my bowels aren’t able to absorb water?”

That’s literally their job. There are filters, you don’t absorb waste from your colon, but water and nutrients.

The colon is the longest part of the large intestine. It receives almost completely digested food from the cecum, absorbs water and nutrients, and passes waste (stool or feces) to the rectum. The colon is divided into 4 parts: The ascending colon is the start of the colon.

Diarrhoea is often a problem with the absorption of water in the colon instead of the body “flushing water” into your digestive tract.

Like the main job of the colon is water absorption, so the digested mush turns into stool that can be deposited in the rectum for to be expelled through the anus.

If that absorption doesn’t work then it’s just coming thorough and that’s diarrhoea

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