Red Mosquito

What a world we live in where a billion dollars can be raised in a matter of days to rebuild an old church, yet children still go hungry and die from curable diseases every day. I’m sure that’s exactly what Jesus would have wanted.

Yes let’s be reductionist and dismissive about great artistic achievement to make a sociopolitical point, cool cool

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yes let’s be reductionist and dismissive about great artistic achievement to make a sociopolitical point, cool cool

I'm running at half-speed today, so what was the great artistic achievement?

bune wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yes let’s be reductionist and dismissive about great artistic achievement to make a sociopolitical point, cool cool

I'm running at half-speed today, so what was the great artistic achievement?

Um

OK, I'm seeing what you were trying to do. Got it.

Sorry.

The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.

Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.

McParadigm wrote:The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.

Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.

why are they mutually exclusive? they can rebuild and do something about the flooding seine.

Why do people build cities in swamps?

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

Because humans like to live by water.

yeah. rome, london, paris, etc. were all founded on rivers that overflowed their banks.

I mean, don't all rivers overflow their banks?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I mean, don't all rivers overflow their banks?

at some point yes. but the thames, tiber, and seine all overflowed them with predictability once a year. yet they still built significant buildings on or near the rivers. hell, rome's first hospital was literally built on a tiny island on the tiber.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.

Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.

why are they mutually exclusive? they can rebuild and do something about the flooding seine.

Mitigating the effects of climate change is completely missing the point.

Fuck the mods

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

I know, it’s inseine.

bart wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

I know, it’s inseine.

nice one, bart..that took over 24 hours though

we need these jokes in real thames

doug rr wrote:

bart wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

I know, it’s inseine.

nice one, bart..that took over 24 hours though

we need these jokes in real thames

That was an amazon' set of posts.

“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And one needs more than mere opinions to erect a Gothic cathedral. Our pained nostalgia is not only at the damaged monumental art, but the monument to a humanity once capable of producing such marvels. The thought someone would start a monumental project whose fruit only their grandchild would ever see is inconceivable to us now."

BurtReynolds wrote:

doug rr wrote:

bart wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

I know, it’s inseine.

nice one, bart..that took over 24 hours though

we need these jokes in real thames

That was an Amazon' set of posts.

Burt you do realize you’ve essentially sunken to the level of PJ song title puns here...how are you going to live with yourself

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

doug rr wrote:

bart wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people build cities in swamps?

I know, it’s inseine.

nice one, bart..that took over 24 hours though

we need these jokes in real thames

That was an Amazon' set of posts.

Burt you do realize you’ve essentially sunken to the level of PJ song title puns here...how are you going to live with yourself

With a coping mechanism. Maybe de nile?