Thank you. I’ll consider it.

Do you have other accounts with more activity, specially in this community?

The settlement is right at the border of what would be controlled by the Inca government, two millenniums later. It shows that there’s some decent access to the region from the west than you’d be led to believe, with the Andes in the way.

As such, if they find other cities further east, I’m predicting that, culturally speaking, they’ll resemble nothing this one; even if they happen to be roughly the same size.

People ate maize and sweet potato, and probably drank “chicha”, a type of sweet beer.

“If you don’t have chicha, any small thing will do.” (reference to a certain song)

Serious now. Potentially yucca too - it grows right next door, and if they got maize from North America then they likely traded for crops.

Stating obvious shit like it was some hidden piece of wisdom? Inability to handle subtleties like “lying” vs. “saying an incorrect statement”? Voting system? People repeating the same shit over and over, without reading the others’ comments?

Lunix sucks so much that it got stuck into the version 2 for years.

Dunno in Brazil as a whole but at least in my city, school uniforms are default. They’re simply taken for granted, not a “conservative vs. liberal” matter. Each school picks its own, but it usually boils down to a shirt, baggy pants, and a jacket (most schools cut you some slack on really cold days to swap it with a warmer one).

Most “rules of thumb” become awful advice when used indiscriminately.

People assign slightly different meanings to the same words. You need to acknowledge this to understand what they say.

Words also change meaning depending on the context.

When you still don’t get what someone else said, it’s often more useful to think that you’re lacking a key piece of info than to assume that the other person does.

Hell is paved with good intentions. This piece of advice is popular, but still not heard enough.

Related to the above: if someone in your life is consistently rushing towards conclusions, based on little to no information, minimise the impact of that person in your life.

Have at least one recipe using leftovers of other recipes. It’ll reduce waste.

Alcohol vinegar is bland, boring, and awful for cooking. But it’s a great cleaning agent.

Identify what you need to keep vs. throw away. Don’t “default” this indiscriminately, analyse it on a per case basis.

The world does not revolve around your belly button and nature won’t “magically” change because of your feelings.

You can cultivate herbs in a backyard. No backyard? Flower pots. No flower pots? Old margarine pot. (Check which herbs grow well where you live.)

I usually twist this into “memento mori, quoque uiuere” (remember [that you’ll] die, also [that you’ll] live).

Like, not trying to become worm food full of regrets is nice and dandy, but remember that you’ll suffer the consequences of a few of your actions while you’re still alive.

But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)

Swap “subscription” for “multiple small transactions” and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn’t know “how”.

It’ll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.

I feel like Greedy Pigboy and Reddit Inc. as a whole deserve to be punished, for all that “my precious data! No, it is not the users’, IT IS MINE! MY PRECIOUS!” fiasco. Enshittification will happen either way.

I don’t even recall pronouncing it in loud voice. In English I simply say “what you see is what you get”, and in Portuguese or Italian I rephrase it. (Although I remember at least one person calling it ['vizi 'vige] in Portuguese. And I was, like… “what?”)

What else is it supposed to be?

• fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
• ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
• fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
• feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
• feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.

Mine are “lol” and “lmao”. I get what they originally meant, and I get why most people use them nowadays. It’s just that they often signal “I have nothing to contribute, but still expect people to read my crap”.

As a second (third?) place, “WYSIWYG”. If you’re going to coin such verbose acronym, might as well sub it with an actual word, like, dunno, “transparent”.

It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.

Your version of the 8th would literally undo all religion

It would undo the myths, I think. Morality and religious practices might survive depending on how much they rely on said myths.

and a bit of science

It would perhaps demote a lot of theories back to hypotheses, but that’s actually good IMO. A good scientist should embrace the doubt and treat it as a respectable enemy, not hide from it like a catfish in the mud.

The five missing ones are:

11. Address the central point.
12. Thou shalt not soapbox.
13. Thou shalt not decontextualise what others say.
14. Thou shalt not claim intentions to defend thine or someone else’s actions.
15. Thou shalt not convey “I disagree” through feigned lack of understanding.

Bonus: the original version of the 8th was

8. Thou shalt not claim with certainty things that you do not know for certain.

The current 8th (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour) is a forgery. Some assumer got called out over and over because of the older 8th, since he really liked to make shit up, so he restricted it into near uselessness. Source: I’m Lucifer, I know it. :^)

I meant “decrypted”, not “decompiled”. (When I wrote the above I was sleep-deprived.)

I mostly pick visual novels apart, to know how to reach one or another specific route. From that I’m somewhat used to read Python code - or at least Ren’Py code.

Given that I stole this from a programming community, it shouldn’t be too far off from true.

(Caveat lector: I’m not in the IT industry but I’m often messing with bash scripts and decompiled python code.)

[Speaking as a user] Yeah, it looks inorganic for me too. As another user said the gold trim signals that the post was gilded, gilding nowadays works like a “mega-upvote” and gives it that trim. It’s possible that defenders of the Jewish genocide (Holocaust) and of the Palestinian genocide (the ongoing war) are dumping money in those posts, to promote their shitty discourses.

And that works really well in Reddit because the userbase there loves some oversimplification: they have a really hard time decoupling the Jewish people from the State of Israel.