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You have the many common cast members. You got Bane, fake Ra’s Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Robin, and Alfred.
How do you connect them to Inception?

It’s a tiny island that’s resource poor.
They didn’t have the manpower to conquer places like India, but were still somehow able to do it.
How did they conquer so much of the world without the manpower to do so?
France is larger than Britain and France did industrialize with the rest of Europe. So Britain didn’t have a large gap in technology like Britain and the indigenous Americans for example.
Lots of Western European countries had access to a lot more resources with a larger land area. They were also connected physically, making it easier for them to trade with each other over trading with Britain.
How did Britain do it?

The Great Recession episode.

Dennis (blacked out) suggests the Paddy's Dollars like Dave and Busters does.

Was there something they could've done to make it work?

It seemed like a good idea.

There’s the old saying of how a common enemy unites people because of the idea that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Like the US and Soviet Union were enemies, but they allied to defeat the Axis Powers. The common enemy of the Axis Powers united 2 enemies. But they went to doing the Cold War after WWII ends. So the common enemy being gone caused the relationship to return to hostility.
Has it ever gotten to the point that many fragmented nations united against a common enemy that they became an empire to defeat their enemy?

The implication is what I think of. Disturbing, but Dee understood it perfectly and had her own version.

Asking as an American, since Australia didn't really come up in history classes.

The Americas were the New World and there was 1st contact with Columbus and the indigenous peoples. These were 2 continents that didn't know of each other with multiple peoples that never knew the other one existed.

Did this happen with Australia too? Or was Australia close enough to the Afro-Eurasian land mass that there was still contact in those times?

Australia never seemed to come up with the New World and Old World labels. Australia is an island and further away from Afro-Eurasia, but it is somewhat close to Indonesia and I am assuming Indonesia was in contact with the rest of Asia. So, if Indonesia is close enough to Australia and close enough to the rest of Asia, then others would've known about Australia.

The Pokedex has described at least Charmander as living in mountains. And the professors have exclusive access to the 3 starters.

What are your theories?

I’ve seen up to season 12.

I think of when they tend bar to try to win an award. Mac gets mad at Dee and was ready to fight her. Makes me forget they were married by then.

I think of Dennis putting a woman’s head in a freezer for love. I wonder what was going through his wife’s head. Like was she wondering, "How TF did my husband think of that for love?"

They both said how slavery was bad and needed to end. But they both actively kept numerous slaves and never freed them. That they felt slavery was hypocritical when they’re fighting for freedom from Britain.
George Washington freed his slaves on his death, yes. But he could’ve freed them way sooner.
Thomas Jefferson also fathered numerous children with his slaves and I am assuming not all of that was consensual.
I am assuming it’s that they both were greedy and wanted to continue to profit, which for them meant keeping slave labor. But is that it?

Evolution is just a force that exists.
Obviously it has no end goals and isn’t making decisions.
It just exists and is about an organism leaving enough descendants with traits that give their offspring the advantage to survive longer.
I’m just personifying evolution. What are times it was just good enough?
Things people joke about as evolutionary flaws.

Like the laryngeal nerve.
Or human testicles require a temperature different from the human body. So they’re external, where they’re super vulnerable and hurt if they’re attacked or can have testicular torsion.

The Karate Kid movie.
Maybe it’s an age thing, I’m in my early 30s, born in the early 90s.
I was rewatching the other day and it seemed like Daniel saying the school sucked was a big deal.
The coach was mad at Daniel for fighting in self defense and sent him out.
But the coach seemed to get angrier when Daniel says, “This school sucks! Sucks!”
They act like he cussed.

I’ve only seen up to season 17.
It’s generally agreed that what Cartman did to Scott Tenorman is the worst thing he did (up to that point).
What would the 2nd worst thing be?

The theory that theropods were good parents and would’ve cared for their young is now what is most likely. Like Oviraptor being overturned as a dedicated parent and not a thief.

Did they have any further nuances into the theory of theropod parenting? Like how long the parents stayed around, which parent cared, what they did, etc.

Like birds, the modern dinosaurs, they do care for their young. But there’s many different care strategies and ranges of care. That also has to do with the wide range of mating behaviors too.
Like in birds we see mating habits of polygamy, mostly serial monogamy, seasonal monogamy, etc. And then in parenting, we see both parents involved, mostly paternal care, mostly maternal care, etc.
Any links to free articles of research would be awesome.

Outside the obvious moment, when Dennis and Dee were pretending to be the serial killer and Dennis was reminded they would not kill the Waitress when they caught her.

Unless I’m still not understanding the ending properly, despite being in my 30s.
Tod and Copper try to literally kill each other and are literally at each other’s throats with 0 acknowledgment of being friends in the past. Tod saves Copper’s life from the bear (Which I do understand the bear did nothing wrong by attacking and attempting to kill Copper and Amos. The bear has to defend its space and probably felt threatened and rightfully so.), despite the fact that they literally just tried to kill each other. Copper in turn saves Tod’s life and refuses to let him be shot. But they still never become friends again. They remember each other and saying how they’d always be friends, but seem that they’ll never be friends again and never see each other again.
Amos, the villain, also never gets his bad karma returned! He only gets a trap on his foot. That’s nothing compared to what Copper, Chief, Widow Tweed, and Tod went through the entire movie.
To me it’s still the deepest Disney movie I’ve ever seen. And that’s only acknowledging the ending, the rest of the movie is still deep and has even more depth to me as an adult.
Is the ending realistic to real life? Yes, in real life, friends can drift apart and never each other again and friends can become enemies. Yes, in real life, innocents can suffer and the bad can get rewarded.
But, for an animated Disney movie for kids, definitely not a typical ending and sad! They don’t become friends again and give each other no apology or acknowledgment other than their passing looks and unsaid understanding when Copper leaves with Amos.

When I’m hearing about the voyages, it seems Europeans were the ones going back and forth between continents. This is before the 1700s, I know by the 1700s white Americans had started to make voyages from the Americas to Europe and back.
Europeans sailed back and forth to the Americas. The Europeans would pick up the slaves in Africa to take to the Americas, and pick up the products in the Americas to take back to Europe. But the indigenous Americans and white Americans didn’t sound like they made a lot of voyages to Europe and back to the Americas.
Why didn’t West African nations make any voyages to the Americas and back? Some of them were involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and had general contact with Europe. So they would’ve been aware of the Americas existing and some idea of how to get there.
With being bound by natural geography, only Western European nations and Western African nations would have access to sail from the Old World to the New World. Only eastern coast nations in the Americas could make a voyage to Europe and back to the Americas.

This is personal curiosity. And correct any of my understanding if it’s wrong.
In tetrapods there is the major split that led to the current living groups of tetrapods, where amniotes and amphibians diverge.
Do they know anything about that common ancestor? Like how they lived or reproduced.
Since many major differences happened: porous vs waterproof skin, being bound to water for eggs and mostly external fertilization vs internal fertilization and having young on land, being able to breathe without needing moist skin vs breathing requiring moist skin.
So many major gene changes had to happen between then. I’m curious about the transitional phases in those. Like what transitional eggs from water to land would be like, transitional porous skin to water proof skin, external to internal fertilization transitioning, full air breathing transitions.

There were white people that held the view that owning slaves is bad because people should not be owned like they are property. But many of them believed all races were not equal. They believed though blacks were people, they were inferior people.
How did Abraham Lincoln justify thinking that way because he freed slaves believing that “all men are created equal”? But thought other races were inferior.