“devastated by”?

Please do give an example. Humans have been the apex predator around these parts for literally thousands of years. We manage the deer. We don’t devastate it. If you threw in a pack of wolves, never even mind about the social effects of throwing them into what is now a population center has, the wolves don’t have an understanding of how many deer are supposed to be killed and how many aren’t.

I would love more wolves around my area, I’m not afraid of them at all. But it’s just not feasible anymore.

Might be hard for you to understand but not all human actions destroy nature.

You’re not wrong, cash does have more mistakes, but it evens out at the end, since you usually make mistakes both ways. Cash is riskier, yeah. But it’s also a lot cheaper depending on what the services and machines cost.

I remember a time when people were hesitant to use cards for small payments, and some places wouldn’t take them for small purchases.

Then cards became more popular and in recent years cash has been going away at least here, when it used to be that you had to be able to take cash.

But yeah mistakes happen with cards as well. They’re just way harder to fix from the client end. (Client as in the company/person using a card machine to charge someone something.)

But yeah it’s marginally easier to just take card payments but you have to keep the receipts from those as well just like you need to keep cash so there’s not that much of a difference in very small scales. (Like driving a taxi.) The bigger the scale the more it matters.

That they’re going about it in a potentially counterproductive way doesn’t mean I join the opposition.

Okay this is getting a bit off-topic I guess but I get what you mean but the logic when taken to the extreme is silly and non-functional and creates more animal- and human suffering.

For one hunting as a way to control deer populations as controlling the population is a must since one of our ancestors went and replaced wolves hereabouts and bringing them back (I wouldn’t mind it) wouldn’t be as good population control and also not good for the wolves. Also also a deer suffers more when run down by a wolf than when one-shot killed by a rifle.

I support vegan products all the time and don’t really consume non-game meats if at all possible.

But like I said, offtopic. I agree with you that I wouldn’t go and troll the vegans, I do like arguing with them, as their ideology, while kinda naive, is at its core trying to help animals. And that I do too. So I just want to make them better at it and thus point out the flaws in their worldview. Not to mock them, to help them.

Meh, invention seems something a tad more in tentional. I think nature sort of gave us the solstices, we used them for some reason or another, but then they were too far apart and that’s when we invented holidays.

I’ll be the first to say “well done, you”. I only got 32 could’ve easily spulrged at least for 64.

Oh shit, I had no idea those places were real. I mean going by what I saw in “The Cable Guy”, I’d imagine you saw “more real” fighting.

So you’re just opposed to regular riding as well, then? Because I think it’s far riskier. You wear only a helmet if that, whereas these dudes are padded to high heaven. In regular riding you ride in all sorts of terrain, all around the year. These guys have a very well taken care of field and a direct path.

Also the lances in these are soft af and they really never off-seat their opponents, it’s just about accuracy and style.

I used to ride massive horses when I was like 8-9 and I also did a bit of “equestrian vaulting”, which is just riding without a saddle and doing tricks on the horse while riding. And no I couldn’t probably do that again right now, it’s been like 30 years lol.

Anyway I just once saw jousting in real life a year or two back and seemed way calmer than I had assumed.

I went to watch real life jousting in a castle near me a summer or two back. I have to say, I was rather disappointed.

The lances seemed to be balsa wood and the force of impact didn’t even seem to push the opposing rider. You really couldn’t even tell the winner until the judges told you who won based on, idk, style akd and accuracy or smth.

Idk “account tenure” sounds like “if you signed up when we first opened in 2015 we prolly don’t need an id”

But what do i know

I started reading in other languages for her. To which I credit a lot of my English skills. I couldn’t wait for fifth one to be translated so just started reading books in English.

My mom got me onto them though.

I’ve used rapeseed oil to oil the handles of my knives and whatnot since I couldn’t be arsed to buy an oil for that purpose.

Seems to work fine since it’s a half-hard oil iirc.

(edit Canola oil for the Americans )

There’s a Doctor Who episode with that as it’s premise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_(Doctor_Who)

The Twelfth Doctor, Bill and an angry Nardole travel in the TARDIS to follow a distress call to a deep-space mining station. When the TARDIS is jettisoned by the station’s computers, the trio are forced to wear “smartsuits”, robotic spacesuits capable of independent operation tied to the station. The suits are also the only source of oxygen, as the mining company does not provide an oxygen atmosphere inside the station, and every activity is measured in breaths

Well at least our Finnish national dish is still traditional. Take cubed beef and pork. Put them in water. Add salt. Put on heat for a sufficient amount of time.

That’s it.

Fancy modern versions have peppers and whatnot but traditionally it’s just salt.

doesn’t need any particular structure.

Ofc it does. You still haven’t given a single example of these things you pretend can be true. (Which they aren’t.)

Stories do have a beginning middle and end. That’s what a narrative structure means. No matter how much you break fourth walls or film a movie like Memento, it still has a start an end and a beginning, as does 2001. (Which I never said I disliked or liked, just to reiterate as you got me confused with someone else there.)

I read plenty of books and watch films that have no clear linear narrative, a

“no clean linear narrative” doesn’t mean it’s not a narrative with a start and an end

Just like no-one would describe you as (I’m just assuming gender now but whatever doesn’t make the point any different) a handsome and successful man, but I still think you can be described as a man (or a woman).

So your “no clear linear” is just shifting goalposts.

a particular story structure, doesn’t mean that’s the only type of structure that is valid.

And why would it? But see, even you point out the alternative is other story STRUCTURES because stories have structures. Mainly a beginning and an end, when you generalise enough. But narrative stories do have structure.

You’ve still not given a simple example or a narrative story without a beginning a middle and an end, have you?

Oh little babby is trying to be condescending while talking utter shite out of his arse, how adorable.

I point to literally all stories. Just because some narratives are more convoluted than others doesn’t mean they don’t begin and end, dumbo.

Oh you do give an example… of what you point out isn’t a story as such. Because it’s not a narrative. Did I ever say all written art is stories? I don’t think I did. But I get it… You’re not here to argue or with an open mind. You just said something dumb and now refuse to accept you did.

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You’re even confusing me with someone else.

Tell me, which definitions of a story are you aware of, then?

Because I can’t find a single one that even slightly supports your naive garbage. A story is narration. (from latin narrare, to tell) and a narrative has a plot and a plot has a beginning, a middle and an end.

I’m not conflating shit. You’re pretending you can tell a narrative without touching any conventions (which go back tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years).

Just because you don’t get the art film doesn’t mean it didn’t have a beginning, a middle and an end. If it doesn’t then it’s just okay to only watch a portion of it? And since there’s no end or start, you can just watch a random 10 min from anywhere and backwards or forwards… riiight? Because that’s what you’re saying, dimwit.

Just like with the structure of a narrative, you’re completely wrong. I have never said I don’t like 2001. But will you accept that? Ofc you won’t.

Your argument is a thing you’re not aware of can’t exist.

Can’t really talk to such a fundamentally moronic person, really. If you don’t realise that there are things which you don’t understand but others do, then there’s just no helping you. Maybe try a few milligrams of LSD.

Must be nice to be smarter than professionals who make movies and cars. Wish I as much of a genius as you clearly are.

It’s not actually, because the large majority of people are like you, who just won’t accept the fact they’re ignorant of something.

So which professional storytellers have said that there are no conventions in stories? Which movie doesn’t have a start middle and end? Documentaries? Even they do. Because it’s ingrained in humanity for hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of years.

Who were the professionals whom I am smarter than?

Not Dan Harmon, that’s for sure. https://youtu.be/RG4WcRAgm7Y