David Thomas Moore

me trying to teach bechamel:

her: how much butter?
me: [squints, cups hand] that much?
her: how much flour?
me: like, it should *look* like the same amount, if that makes sense?

I posted on here a few months back about my toddler once throwing a fit because her banana was broken (and she didn't want a new banana, she wanted me to fix *that* banana), and fully five people responded "oh, god, broken bananas!" 😆

Sympathies! I find the whole medieval/Christian era of philosophy pretty dire - either do philosophy or theology, don't try and do both. My medieval studies were all about the literature.

...An app to download, on your telephone...

After the Resurrection, Thomas both was and was not an Apostle until he touched Jesus's wounds and collapsed the probability wave.

I mean, the existence of "Doubting Thomas" suggests that uncertainty applies?

Happy birthday, Alasdair! Lots of love and joy on the day.

thirty silver dollars (£22.26 at today's prices)

john of patmos rn:

our AI-mmanuel

oh, very good!

ChatJesusPT

I love that it includes "nearly all 12 disciples"

i dunno, i reckon texting judas would be a trip

(shit, i'm assuming judas is the one they've not created, but who knows with these chumps)

[Depeche Modely] ♫ Your own... digital... Jesus... ♫

"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration

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After the latest round of Omelas Discourse it was almost too perfect

Well, strictly speaking, "helicopter" is adapted from the French "hélicoptère," but there isn't a direct Latin translation of that either. The French word was a new invention (attached to a new invention, natch).

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(we do it all the time: when we encountered orangutans, we didn't translate the word into "forestman" to use in english, we just borrowed the malay name and applied english inflection rules)

you could, but the counterargument is: the romans never had flying machines. whatever its roots, "helicopter" is an english word, so the decision was the borrow the english word and conform it to latin grammar. it's a completely legitimate thing to do.

in 1980 the vatican had to invent the latin for "helicopter pad" so that they could bless their new helicopter pad (it's "helicopterorum portum")

me: ooh, there's a zootropolis 2!

also me: [vividly relives every panel of that horrifying pro-life zootropolis fanfic comic]

okay, now fr I want to write the witches take the ring to mordor

love to see a billionaire who lives in a literal castle suggesting that someone else is "cushioned by wealth and fame"

Weird. Unsettling. Eldritch.

So: what the fuck is he? Or any of the toys? They're not obviously fairies or magical creatures, they're clearly made things, with seams and patches. Are they haunted, or possessed? Where is the Hundred-Acre Wood? It appears to be through some sort of goddamn magical portal.

Christopher Robin (2018) leaves absolutely no ambiguity about this whatsoever: it is absolutely all happening for real. Several characters see Pooh and interact with him, and his actions influence the environment around him.

like most imagination/fairytale stories, these stories usually end on a slightly ambiguous "was it all real?" note

the whole film generally leans strongly to "yes," but the ending leaves a question mark hanging over it (various figures from the fantasy turn up in real life as normal people, etc.)

the film belongs to what you might call the "rediscovery of wonder" genre of stories, in which an adult who, as a child, lived in an immersive fairy tale world, returns to it later in life