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Newspapers and magazines used to be absolutely everywhere. Littering train carriages, stacked up in waiting rooms. Most of my workplaces would have a daily paper lying around that rotated through the team. Paperbacks exist because they were easy to carry around.

I will never understand why people with power are this petty.

They probably think it's a huge flex, but it makes them look like the most pants-shittingly immature little cry babies.

Real power is not devoting brain cycles to things that should be beneath you.

Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

Pebbles are small enough to fit in your mouth. This is clearly a stone.

This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn't red. Yet.

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At my last job we had a lot of old code, and our supposedly smartest framework people couldn't be bothered learning front end properly. So there was a mix of methods for passing values to the front end, but nobody seemed to think of just passing JSON and parsing it into a single source of truth. There was so much digging for data in hidden columns of nested HTML tables, and you never knew if booleans would be "true", "TRUE", "1", or "Y" strings.

Never mind having to unformat currency strings to check the value then format them back to strings after updating values.

I fixed this stuff when I could, but it was half baked into the custom framework.

I had a look at the Smite roster, and yeah it's cool to see some Celtic and Polynesian representation there.

I would personally love to see indigenous Australian mythology represented much at all in media. It would be challenging because you're dealing with hundreds of individual nations, most of which had their culture taken from them before it could be well documented, but there are a few recurring themes to draw from.

The closest thing to a god entity would be the rainbow serpent, which you could argue is related to common global themes of flying serpents. Similarly, the yowie has almost spiritual status in some places, but is similar to yetis and sasquatch. I recently learned about the Seven Sisters myth being another one.

Which mythologies would you like to see represented?

I think this would apply to all media, and probably just comes down to some traditions being more familiar and having more cultural impact in general.

I'm assuming it has social networking features shoved in for no reason?

That reminds me of an image I meant to create myself once.

@[email protected], can you show me a painting, reminiscent of Magritte's pipe, but replace the pipe with an emoji poo, and the text with, "Ceci n'est pas une poop."