ancient greek philosophy
[edited 8/3/24 to add a continuation of the thread]
The flying guy in the picture is St Joseph of Copertino, patron saint of aviation.
According to his hagiography, he wished to be a Franciscan but was rejected several times for lack of intelligence or educational attainment. Eventually, he was admitted anyway and became a priest. He reportedly levitated while saying mass.
The Spanish name for "Copertino" is Cupertino. Some in California established a parish dedicated to this priest in the disocese of San Jose - St Joseph. There are many Catholic churches in the area named after the parton of he diocese. St Josphes of Mountain View, St Josephs of San Jose (I know), St Joseph of Los Altos. And also the parish St Joseph of Cupertino. So when the area got more populous and needed a post office and city governance and all that, well, if they've got a church St Joseph of Cupertino, that must be the town name, right?
Anyway, then 50 years later Apple moved in and now the extremely dull suburb is famous.
Also, the church says it's Thursday office hours are 1-4, but nobody is answering the phone.
Diogenes on the Internet: "Touching story, bro. I bet you're a real looker."
I'd argue that 'handsome' satisfies the touch case
@stavvers Well there’s “touchy,” which means irritable. And “looky looky” is an exclamation indicating intrigue or attraction.
So the default is also for things to be grumpy but alluring.
@stavvers see, I disagree.
We do say that something is "a sight" meaning it looks impressive, and we do say something is "touchy" meaning they're ill-tempered.
The conclusion is that the default object is impressive to look at, ill-tempered, produces a cacophony, smells bad and tastes delicious, which is to say, it's an apex predator, which all tracks.
We have "sighted," but that would mean the object can see you. And we have "touched," which means the object is...well, not quite right.
So the default object is loud, stinky, delicious, slightly insane, _and it can see you_
@ami_angelwings oh I think I wasn't really active here for that
anyway it's such an underappreciated show
@waitworry I also mentioned Estab-Life in these toots recently:
https://urusai.social/@ami_angelwings/110564379216437248
Attached: 4 images Kizuna no Allele would be the 2nd anime I've seen in the last year meant to sell a product that actually tried to do more than that, featured a trans character and snuck the trans flag into their coming out episode, Estab-Life did it too (and had the trans girl return to save them in the penultimate episode which also had a lesbian confession)
@stavvers I've been imagining it as a Tom Clancy thriller except the cool secret agent protagonist has ADHD.
THIS SUMMER: Chris Pine in EXECUTIVE FUNCTION