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Dieterlan

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Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, for mining, by doing what the meme says (I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to, but it makes the nitro not go boom, when it really wants to boom). After seeing what it was eventually used for (bombs. Lots and lots of bombs) he regretted ever making it. He set up the Nobel Peace Prize as a result, to try and even the scales a bit, so to speak

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In this moment, I am not euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s cursing. But because, I am englightened by my intelligence.

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I thought he was autosexual/romantic, if anything. This is the “stare into the water admiring his own face until he dies” guy, right?

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No, they mean literal magic. I started reading the book, and they’re talking about “Dark Magicians” on the first page.

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I just checked. The comment section of that video really is nothing but anti-Semitic comments, with a Kirby coat of paint. Enjoy, I guess? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEZQ00OOxY

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This might be heresy, but I feel like saying that “science isn’t truth, it’s the search for truth”, and “if you disagree it’s not a disagreement, you’re just wrong” is internally inconsistent.

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If I’m following the logic from the other guy, I think that it would be “Microsoft ecosystem”, not “XBox ecosystem”, since they’re removing the specific platform, and adding the company. Which I think works.

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Have you checked the authors? Maybe it’s just one, really exhausted, parent who’s super done with the whole thing :P

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Narrator: She did, in fact, take no for an answer.

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