There was also a time when most of the universe was at the perfect temperature and density to cook pizza,I guess.
Doing the Lord’s work in the Devil’s basement
There was also a time when most of the universe was at the perfect temperature and density to cook pizza,I guess.
What is complicated about alchemy is that it’s a tradition that is thousands of years old and it has so many layers it’s hard to make sense of.
Originally you have metallic alchemy, a precursor to chemistry and metallurgy. An insanely valuable corpus of knowledge if you think about ancient times - good metallurgy made good armies which made empires. It was technology so advanced it might as well have been magic. The literature that has survived is very opaque by design, and hard to read because of cultural jetlag, but they are technical texts - tutorials and explainers for the various chemical and alloying operations that were known at the time.
utility outside of use as a metaphor : 10/10 if you’re kind of done with Bronze and want to boost your kingdom into the Iron Age
Then around the Renaissance, when antique stuff started becoming hot again, those texts started buzzing and they were re-interpreted with a generous flavouring of Renaissance spirituality. That’s pretty easy with antique technical texts because they are always written with a lot of religious and astrological terminology. It could be about plumbing and you’d still have Apollo fighting Hades as an allegory of you unclogging a pipe or whatever. So, to a modern mind it made sense to see them as spiritual guidebooks through the transformation and purification of the self. That’s also when they started pumping the gas on the “philosophical stone” ideas of turning mercury into gold, becoming immortal etc… The technical aspects of the texts started fading in the background.
utility outside of use as a metaphor : 0/10 although you’ll get some beautiful, evocative literature out of it. Some seriously trippy stuff if you’re into that sort of things.
Then you have the 19th century onwards where it’s a literal explosion of books and treatises and translations, and it gets even more divorced from the source material, as the academic work gets shoddier and shoddier. At this point the technical aspects are mostly lost on the readers because they make no sense in the context of early-industrial metallurgy and chemistry.
utility outside of use as a metaphor : 0/10, kind of new-agey to my taste. It has a lot of cultural relevance, though. Being well-read in early modern hermeticism is kind of the Rosetta stone of popular culture lol.
I love that on Lemmy, people will trip over themselves to misinterpret simple, unambiguous comments such as yours.
How are emoji zoomer ? If I had to guess of say they’re more of a millennial thing
I suspect a lot comes from the ingredients being mediocre when you buy them at high demand periods.
I come from the French country side, my father raises poultry and makes his own foie gras and deli meats. When I see the shit they sell at Christmas, which most of my fellow countrymen eat every year… I wouldn’t be surprised reading a comment similar to yours about French Christmas food.
Maybe your grandma can’t afford the good stuff, or doesn’t have access to it ?
Why can’t a woman take illegal drugs? Control of your own body is a philosophical concept not a legal one.
I have a channel on cytube for that exact purpose, feel free to hop on if that’s your jam ! It doesn’t require you to sign in or anything
Seveneves would be the bomb (eta : they could even do the last part as a separate animated short)
Just blocked politics & news and my quality of life instantly jumped 200%. I highly recommend it. If something significant happens, you’ll read about it in another community.
Kudos op for a very unpopular opinion (at least on Lemmy).
I’d add that people trying to gatekeep what is and isn’t art are missing the whole entire point of it. I get the same vibe about AI art on Lemmy as when boomers criticize modern art on Facebook.
Any group that adds quotes around the word art (as in AI “art” or performance “art”) instantly loses any legitimacy on the subject. They’re virgins discussing sex acts.
I’m sure Terry Gilliam will be very sad to learn that collage isn’t art…
While this is undeniably good advice, it doesn’t address the core issue IMO.
Yes, Lemmy users are unusually hard to deal with. It’s roughly equivalent to Discord in terms of angry userbase, maybe a bit worse - even Reddit seems pretty level headed in comparison.
Oh, it is functionally useless in the context of the game, more of a “because they can” kind of deal… That is why you’ll almost exclusively see that kind of things in Creative mode - it eats up tons of resources for no discernible end.
haha yeah it ain’t a good base if it doesn’t have dozens of pets sitting around. You should show your kid how to tame parrots with seeds, he’s gonna love it !
Yes you got it ! By combining redstone elements you can make all the basic logic gates. You combine logic gates to make binary adders, multipliers etc… You can store data as inventories, like for example a chest with 5 slots filled won’t give the same signal as a chest with 3 slots filled. And finally you have various elements that can light up when powered so you make displays out of that.
haha yeah, same when I play solo without cheats. but it’s better to have a creeper blow a hole in your dirt shack than in your carefully designed redstone contraption!
I got way too hard into the Minecraft anarchy scene so I’ve got knowledge that even Minecraft fans find abhorrent.
Setting up bots and automation, using server exploits to hunt for hidden bases, exploiting item duplication glitches, and of course using cheat clients. I’ve even written a few hacks for a private client my group used to make.
Pfff haha. Read the comment again. Slowly. You can do it !
I remember it more for the intensity and violence, than for the gore. Either way it’s an outstanding movie.
Then there’s games like the original “pirates!”. It has an anti cheat that would present itself as a simple question like “do you recognize whose pirate flag that is”. The answer is in the booklet, and if you answer wrong nothing visible happens but the difficulty is cranked so high that the game becomes effectively unbeatable.