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  • I feel the need to add some context here.

    The patriarchal push to erase the pantheon started just before the Babylonian Exile under the reign of King Josiah. He ruled from 640 to 609 BCE.

    His son Ellakim (or Jehoiakim) refused to pay tribute to the Neo-Babylonians which resulted in 60 years of slavery for some 7000 Judeans.

    It was only in 539 BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell that they were allowed to go home.

    The Judeans come home, but their temple has been sacked and most of their sacred texts burnt, so they rebuild and recreate.

    This is when Noah and Moses were invented, a long with anything before Solomon, and even much of his life as well.




  • But, sometimes it’s more fun to let the players go. Especially if they keep the game and the table separated.

    Cross lines in game, but keep the table clean? Then keep going.

    Cross lines at the table, and the game ends until everyone has talked it through. And sometimes the game is just over.

    This story sounds like it stayed in game enough, but may have been scratching at the table. Enough to pull back and talk for a moment, but not enough to kill the game.



  • There’s actually a somewhat brand new miracle treatment for cancer that uses individual atoms of actinium-225.

    Each cancer cell gets a single atom, and then it dies when that atom decays. And since it’s an alpha decay, the cell gins some high energy helium. That’s it.

    Well, the atomic nucleus of a helium-4 atom. Which then rips some electrons from whatever it collides with.

    And then that happens a few times to produce bismuth-209, which has a halflife of 2x10^19 years. Which means it’s perfectly safe.

    Anyway, this treatment, called targeted alpha therapy is specifically approved for Bone metastasized prostate cancer, and significantly improves survival rates vs placebo.

    It’s not that good against solid tumors








  • Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.

    Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.

    Krillian was actually alive to see that death.

    As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.

    Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.







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