The Bible pretty clearly iterates that God does NOT like insincere prayers. Condemn hypocritical Christians all you want, but you don’t make shit up.

I believe that “Indian Giving” is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there’s no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn’t returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their ‘offer’.

Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.

It doesn’t.

Jack & Diane, by John Mellencamp

I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.

That’s not too fair. Poor guy. Someone has to fight back. Are we sure it wasn’t self-defense? Maybe they were trying to sink his yacht?

No. This story starts with filthy SE Asians. Europeans are just the man-whores that gave them to everyone else.

Yup, sounds like it. I think this is what the French call “a crime of passion”. The idea is that the moment is so enraging that one cannot be held accountable for one’s actions in that moment. It’s a kind of, “fuck around and find out,” law.

They’re naked seeds. I get you.

“Surf Wax America” -Weezer

The leaves change colour

Technology fails humans

A second stone age.

A power outage

Turns my shiny computer

Into a dead rock.

EDIT: Lemmy edited out my paragraph breaks.

First time I’ve seen the word ‘cryptofascist’ outside of Red Dwarf.

This is an ancient, but relatively unheard of Japanese dueling style called ‘tugoware’, where the duelists fight left handed, whilst trying to yank a double-handled katana out of each other’s hands.

Fuck, AI really doesn’t get weapons, does it? Amazing it can put together reasonable looking armour, but just can’t figure out a sword.

… we should probably keep it that way. It’s going to be stunned when it tries fighting us.

Is that it? I thought the music videos for the whole album told a story? Thanks for the reference to “Interstella 5555” though. I’ve always wondered where that came from.

I couldn’t catch it either, but yeah, that’s rough. Definitely a step above “shut up”.

Yeah, the artwork is good, but it is a miss in terms of solarpunk. It’s like re-skinned Mad Max, or Battletech.

Ooh … Jacket on top of kimono! I haven’t seen that one before. Did I miss something, or is AI mashing up modern and classic Japan?

Why is he holding a flamethrower? Does the AI think firefighters are pyromaniacs?

Oh. Are you telling me the anti-robot revolution hasn’t actually begun? Well, that’s disappointing. Thanks for taking the time to straighten me out.

Wait … That’s exactly what a ROBOT would say!