L. Marcus

No fair -- everyone knows that Scandinavia is the Federation of Earth.

Where the Sun don't shine? That's over in Slice.

Mmm, sulfur ...

It's the Kalu'un Qaroof! My people!

Totally fair. 
 
I think whether we like the Orville or not, there is a commonality we can all agree on
 
 
We all miss Firefly
 
*Sigh*
 

Funny how all these people with nothing to hide still close the stall when they're taking a dump.

In other news, the latest GOP attempt to gut the ACA apparently does not have enough votes to be taken to the Senate floor. This attempt was especially dire, gutting Medicaid itself as well as the exchanges and other features of Obamacare. Since the temporary rule against filibusters ends on the 30th, this may have been the last chance to ram something through in this Congress.

Viscous crimes?

I'll look. I think it was a nyckelharpa/oud duet. Here's some more nyckelharpa music
 

 
Edit: The video you were looking for is on page 660. I posted it in February of this year. I remembered you praising the nyckelharpa.

Reposted:
 

Mind that steeple, though. Those things can really hurt.

Useful for your next fantasy game.

Gone with the wind. Not flatulence, but genuine wind.

"Continence" and "consistence" -- two different words!

Bazza's prized possession is a library card in his name, issued by Ptolemaios VI himself.

Finished off the original Star Wars trilogy today. Still much enjoyment -- it was the original theatrical releases, digitally remastered. The first one wasn't even A New Hope yet!

Finished off the original Star Wars trilogy today. Still much enjoyment -- it was the original theatrical releases, digitally remastered. The first one wasn't even A New Hope yet!

After twenty years, the epochal Cassini mission to Saturn will end Friday.
 
EDIT: go to the "Raw images" page linked there, and you'll have the opportunity to "Download all (395,323)".

I demand that for the last minute of the decent the ground crew belts out the chorus of Jon Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory" as hard as they can and posts the results.

"They say I am crazy, but I know better ... It is not I who am crazy -- it is I who am mad!"

It has been well over ten minutes since I last put up a post on the superdraft thread with my rough draft unedited slapdash attempts at fiction.
 
Still no likes.
 
The withdrawal has kicked in. Without the adulation of people who have never met me, I begin to shake. My mouth grows dry, and the symptoms are getting worse.
if , if I don't make it..., send my wealth to the bad fan fic society.
 
They'll...they'll carry on my work.

Happy birthday again!

I should be more specific, I guess.  The elaborate systems of inheritance, property rights, etc. that we have mostly flow from the advent of agriculture and domestication of livestock.  Before then, land didn't have much value.  Sure, Thag could say "No touch spear, that Thag spear", but that was about the extent of it.  In a small community of 50-150 members of a hunter-gatherer society, personal selfishness would be an unaffordable luxury. If someone was sick or injured and unable to help hunt or gather, those who did shared some of their food with them.  If they didn't, who would do it for them when they were sick or injured?  We know this in part because there are still a handful of such societies in existence.  Empathy, not selfishness, is what kept humans alive, and community awareness was how civilization developed.  Individualism was a relatively late development in the evolution of modern humans.