it is an endless delight how fluent we are with cultural practices we have never performed like how a SF show doesn't have to show you anything to tell you a hand-held energy weapon is powering up nearby, they can just put a capacitor whine on the audiohttps://twitter.com/LNoble16897806/status/1164214273926545408 …
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this is reminding me of a time at the pool where some guy was haranguing his friend, who i think was from somewhere in western Asia, about how when he's asking about the guy's culture, he doesn't mean things like all the circumcision they do, that's religion, he means like food
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i don't think any court would have convicted me for going full The Culture Understander Has Logged On on him but i was "good", for sufficiently cowardly values of good
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the friend was able to come up with his people being really into their horses, incidentally
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other dude's concept of culture, of course, is nice things that can be shared with outsiders in a peaceful neoliberal milieu to give them a broader appreciation of the rich tapestry of humanity i.e. it's only culture if he can appropriate it
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this is it. this tweet is IT.
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finally! somebody notify the chief
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