Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Such a pain in the arse when you have to refer to them.

Not sure if you’re joking, but…

So there’s no real reason other than what what we already knew. They’re fussy little fuckers.

If China gets Christianised, are you going to claim that Easter actually had it’s origins in the Qingming festival

If the entire Christian world then adopts elements of the Qingming festival and changes the name of it’s spring solstice festival to “Qingming”, then yes, of course.

Don’t joke about that. You’ll make the Christians cross.

This raises an interesting question. If god is omnipotent, could he give himself a bris? Or is the end of his dick not all-powerful?

It’s absolutely, unequivocally not.

Ēostre ([ˈeːostre])[1][2][3] is an Anglo-Saxon goddess mentioned by Bede in his 8th century work The Reckoning of Time. He wrote that pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in her honour during the month named after her: Ēosturmōnaþ (April), and that this became the English name for the Paschal season: Easter.

Whatever fictional character you ascribe it to, the fact is that the modern Christian festival of Easter partly replaced, and is named after, an earlier pagan festival.

No no, it’s just a coincidence that Christians celebrate the birth of the Son at the winter solstice, and the resurrection of the Son at the spring equinox. You can tell they’re not pagan festivals by all the mistletoe, Yule logs, horny bunnys and eggs.

Or go to northern Portugal for the ultimate one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha

I once tried to learn to count in Japanese, but had to stop because I got an itchy knee.

They’re a legume. They grow in pods.

And if it is an exceeding rare book, you probably don’t want to be destroying it to scan it. I think it’s possible to use a decent camera instead of a scanner, but it is still quite an involved process. Look at what Google did…

The books were placed in a custom-built mechanical cradle that adjusted the book spine in place while an array of lights and optical instruments scanned the two open pages. Each page would have two cameras directed at it capturing the image, while a range finder LIDAR overlaid a three-dimensional laser grid on the book’s surface to capture the curvature of the paper. A human operator would turn the pages by hand, using a foot pedal to take the photographs. With no need to flatten the pages or align them perfectly, Google’s system not only reached a remarkable efficiency and speed but also helped protect the fragile collections from being over-handled. Afterwards, the crude images went through three levels of processing: first, de-warping algorithms used the LIDAR data fix the pages’ curvature. Then, optical character recognition (OCR) software transformed the raw images into text, and, lastly, another round of algorithms extracted page numbers, footnotes, illustrations and diagrams.

It’s a butthole. No judgement. https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

“[Supporting Israel] is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” US senator Joe Biden, 1986.

*reported crimes

Women are just better at it.

SJW seems like a good name for a place to get pissed.

No CEOs or politicians makes it hard. Can we do people from the past? If so I choose baby Donald Trump, baby Elon Musk and baby Peter Theil.

I propose we make the calender a nice round 360 days, then have a roughly 5-6 day holiday for new New year around the spring equinox.

It’s Xmas that highjacked the winter solstice. New year used to be the start of spring (March) then the Romans decided to acknowledge the first 2 months, and then changed the start of the year to January so they could elect some officials to govern Spain instead of waiting an extra 2 months. It’s about as arbitrary as it can get.

https://youtu.be/RrGHtl5qJfk About 24 minutes in to skip to ^