I think one theory is that it was central Asian horse-riding societies who started carrying milk on horseback, in saddlebags made out of animal bladders. The motion of the riding and  the rennet left in the bladders churned the milk and turned it into cheese.

I remember also reading on a science magazine’s site this possibility that the first cheese made by humans was more of yeast-based preparation, without animal milk, but i can’t find the article mentioning that anymore.

I like the idea.

Also, who’s not into food, people who don’t eat?

More unfixable crap for a world drowning in crap. Hooray!

Picking Billy rather than Jimmy in Double Dragon.

Foreigners dying for your country: fine

Citizens of your country wearing a symbol to honour all the soldiers who died for said country: unacceptable.

Yup, racist logic for racist pieces ofof shit.

I meant Paris, not “Paris, Texas”.

You’re trolling, but no, if you distribute you get the same result:

2 + 5(8 - 5) =

2 + (5 × 8) + (5 × -5) =

2 + (40) + (-25) =

2 + 40  - 25 = 2 + 15 = 17

What du you mean, not writing it properly?

The panic felt by some sad men at the idea of failing some shittily defined masculinity test and the ways enterprising grifters cultivate and exploit that for influence and gain. Yay.

I don’t think he has this "integrity"concept we used tto value.

Supercomputers are not made of custom or exotic hardware. They are large clusters of high end servers.

Yeah, this one’s grim.

Not all cash is made like it’s the 1870, Australia’s cash is perfectly waterproof.

Sorry, are you talking about Parisians?

I think it’s more than that, they are heavily invested in a rather nasty version of the “just world hypothesis”: if bad stuff happens to these people, like being poor and hungry, it’s because they are bad and deserve it.

It’s the same logic at play for blaming victims or rape and sexual violence.

Because the alternative, that the world isn’t fair and horrible stuff happens to good people and good things also happen to horrible people, is too unpleasant and exhausting to contemplate and requires complex thought.

Years of anger, bad faith and force-fed weaponised identity politics have turned it into a point of pride for these people.

Considering more people in the world speak multiple languages than only one – multilingualism is the majority – no, we very much don’t experience existence from a point of view no one else can understand.

“Here” is in this situation.

It sounded like you were saying the UK is not a “civilised country”.

Otherwise not sure what your point was.

Exactly. I can’t see this having no component of political strategy and influence.

Trump is going to crash hard once all the horrible stuff he’s (very very likely) done comes out. At which point he’ll be extremely toxic andand anyone “true to MAGA” but seen to have pushed for “the truth” will have good political credit with that base.

But also, I think people like Boeberts or Taylor Greene are true believers, to a strong degree. They believe in lots of absolutely fucked up shit, but they are also unwilling to compromise on defending nonces, which is one thing we can agree on and respect them for.

So, a mix of both I’d say.

Are you saying the courts won’t do anything here?