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Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Misuse of the smoke signal is known to have contributed to the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the 8th century BCE. King You of Zhou had a habit of fooling his warlords with false warning beacons in order to amuse Bao Si, his concubine.

lmao

chinese history is great, just about every final monarch of every dynasty has a story like this

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Pakled posted:

chinese history is great, just about every final monarch of every dynasty has a story like this

speaking of, this movie just came out and its actually a pretty good fantasy epic. about the fall of the shang dynasty and rise of the zhou dynasty

i liked it quite a bit and it looks gorgeous, esp with all the detailed sets and costumes they built

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6979756/

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

i really liked the interior sets they built for the capital city

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
cool

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Pakled posted:

chinese history is great, just about every final monarch of every dynasty has a story like this

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Vibrating while you are lifting weights is thought to magnify the conditioning effects to help promote faster muscle growth.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Captain Hygiene posted:

Yo mama so worthless her Wikipedia page meets the criteria for speedy deletion

yo mama’s wikipedia page has multiple reliable sources for her weight

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
For example, the Wiener filter can be used in image processing to remove noise from a picture.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

i'll admit to knowing almost nothing about chinese history, so is it like japanese history where there's a thousand years of poo poo that obviously never happened, but everyone has to pretend it did for political reasons?

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Sweevo posted:

i'll admit to knowing almost nothing about chinese history, so is it like japanese history where there's a thousand years of poo poo that obviously never happened, but everyone has to pretend it did for political reasons?

When the inhabitants of the besieged city run out of provisions, they started to eat first the horses and then "the aged, children and women". In their biographies of Zhang Xun, the Old and New Book of Tang (finished between 945 and 1060) – the primary official dynastic histories covering the Tang period – estimate that about half of the original population of 60,000 people (including the troops) were eaten. When the city finally fell, "there were only 400 survivors" – less than one percent of the original population.[2]

According to the Old Book of Tang, Zhang Xun killed his own concubine as food for the hungry soldiers to convince them that such extreme sacrifices were worth it.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



In a paper encyclopedia, non-notable topics were not included for practical purposes. Wikipedia, however, is not paper and not confined by this limitation.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Sweevo posted:

i'll admit to knowing almost nothing about chinese history, so is it like japanese history where there's a thousand years of poo poo that obviously never happened, but everyone has to pretend it did for political reasons?

four thousand, in china

which isn’t any different from america in the Bible Belt tbqh

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



if you ask japan the poo poo that never happened took place between 1926 and 1945

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Of the estimated 10,000 officers involved in the protest and subsequent riot,

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

  • Airavata, the king god of elephants in Indian mythology.
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  • Robotic pets like AIBO
  • In 2010 city planners from Southern Sudan, which would become independent a year later, unveiled plans for the city center of its capital, Juba, to be built in the shape of a rhinoceros. The city of Wau was to be transformed in the shape of a giraffe.[19]

The Killing Jelq
Jun 13, 2012

|Occupation | Associate professor of mechanical engineering|
|Criminal status | In prison|
|Motive | Extreme misplaced hostility|

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



Sweevo posted:

i'll admit to knowing almost nothing about chinese history, so is it like japanese history where there's a thousand years of poo poo that obviously never happened, but everyone has to pretend it did for political reasons?

yes but it's farther back and there's more that's probably myth. but there's a ton of stuff that did happen, maybe. like, tons of really hosed up emperors who were definitely terrible and tortured and ate people for funsies so they had to be deposed, but that's surely not a cover story that the next dynasty made up to justify their coup or anything.

but then you'll have everybody thinking the rivers of mercury in the tomb weren't real until whoops we found it. kind of like the cannibalism thing mentioned above. if you look at the histories, every time somebody's mildly peckish in an ancient chinese city they kill and eat some neighbor kids. that's probably not true in all or even most instances. but there are certainly terrible sieges and famine and such where cannibalism did happen, and that kind of thing tends to resonate in the stories and cultural memory, and when you grow up with stories about terrible famine and cannibalism, and then you haven't eaten in a month, well, who the heck knows.

so there's a ton that didn't happen in the histories but it's not obvious which specific bits did and didn't happen so it's all really fun to learn about (until you get waaay back into the "definitely myth, probably" sections)

chinese history absolutely beats the poo poo outta european history imo. it's absolutely wild in its civility and its beauty and its brutality. whatever extreme of the human condition you can think of is probably in a chinese history book somewhere.

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



just to be clear when i say "when you grow up" i'm talking the people 1500 years ago growing up with stories of famine from 500 years before that, not modern people

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
probably helps that china is very big and equals more than a few european country's landmasses combined

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Achmed Jones posted:

yes but it's farther back and there's more that's probably myth. but there's a ton of stuff that did happen, maybe. like, tons of really hosed up emperors who were definitely terrible and tortured and ate people for funsies so they had to be deposed, but that's surely not a cover story that the next dynasty made up to justify their coup or anything.

but then you'll have everybody thinking the rivers of mercury in the tomb weren't real until whoops we found it. kind of like the cannibalism thing mentioned above. if you look at the histories, every time somebody's mildly peckish in an ancient chinese city they kill and eat some neighbor kids. that's probably not true in all or even most instances. but there are certainly terrible sieges and famine and such where cannibalism did happen, and that kind of thing tends to resonate in the stories and cultural memory, and when you grow up with stories about terrible famine and cannibalism, and then you haven't eaten in a month, well, who the heck knows.

so there's a ton that didn't happen in the histories but it's not obvious which specific bits did and didn't happen so it's all really fun to learn about (until you get waaay back into the "definitely myth, probably" sections)

chinese history absolutely beats the poo poo outta european history imo. it's absolutely wild in its civility and its beauty and its brutality. whatever extreme of the human condition you can think of is probably in a chinese history book somewhere.

at least one of the really early pre-qin dynasties actually did practice human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism including children,
for religious reasons

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Achmed Jones posted:

but then you'll have everybody thinking the rivers of mercury in the tomb weren't real until whoops we found it.

I mean we haven’t though have we, we’ve detected evidence of mercury contamination in the area but nobody knows yet whether that’s the tomb leaking or just modern industrial contamination (according to my expert knowledge on the subject, aka “I browsed the wikipedia article just now”)

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Soricidus posted:

(according to my expert knowledge on the subject, aka “I browsed the wikipedia article just now”)

hi fishmech

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Research on sex ghosts and demonic cats

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
Photo of someone "palming".

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
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Zohar
Jul 14, 2013

Good kitty
At the Science Writers' conference, theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll explained why there was no need to "sample the moon to know it's not made of cheese." He said the hypothesis is "absurd", failing against our knowledge of the universe and, "This is not a proof, there is no metaphysical proof, like you can proof a statement in logic or math that the moon is not made of green cheese. But science nevertheless passes judgments on claims based on how well they fit in with the rest of our theoretical understanding."[20][C] Notwithstanding this uncontrovertible argument, the harmonic signature of Moon rock — the seismic velocity at which shockwaves travel — is said to be closer to green cheese than to any rock on Earth.[21]

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008
Samantha Hissong of Rolling Stone wrote that "Bored Ape art isn't as valuable as it is because it's visually pleasing, even though it is."

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

She is reported to have a leading role alongside Mos Def in the upcoming indie film, Bobby Zero

afaict this movie was canceled sometime in 2008

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



McDevitt later moved to California and conned his way into television and film writing.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Did he sell someone else's scripts as his own or something?

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Paladinus posted:

Did he sell someone else's scripts as his own or something?

doesnt seem like he actually wrote any scripts, just joined the guild?

found a 1992 article that is pretty yospos in parts:

quote:

To some union officials, the McDevitt affair is a tempest in a terminal, of consequence only to half a dozen or so contentious and disgruntled guild members able to spend many hours logged onto the electronic bulletin board.

Born just before the five-month guild strike in 1988 and available free to any member with a computer and a modem, the bulletin board is a 1990s equivalent of a watering hole, giving isolated writers a way to vent their frustrations, exchange information or simply pass the time.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-12-ca-192-story.html

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
"Fart Proudly" (also called "A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting", and "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.[1][2]

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



"Large breeds of asses were found in Kentucky by 1800."

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



The term is a portmanteau derived from "edgy" and "shitlord" – a person who "basks in the bitterness and misery of others".[4]

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
At the time of Charlie's execution in 1923, it was claimed that he had killed five people, had appeared in over 180 films, and was over 150 years old,[8] and at least some[weasel words] of that was partially[weasel words] true.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
When caught in very clear water when the flesh is firm and reddish to pinkish, the hornpout is quite edible and delicious.[original research?]

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The Killing Jelq
Jun 13, 2012

It is extremely low in fat (around 0.5%) and it has a powerful penetrating smell.

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