Tiered?

Technically there have been ruins and tombs with traps and riddles. Take a look at some of the info about the Curse of Tutankhamun’s Tomb alone, including stuff like an anthropologist named Field having his house burn down, then flood after its rebuiling (purportedly because he had accepted a mummified hand as a paperweight which came with a cursed bracelet attached).

Granted, there’s no Myst or Tomb Raider-style tomb puzzles unless you count translations of ancient dialects used by the original architects/artisans/scribes/etc., but a lot of death has been associated with burial sites/tombs, whether or not you attribute them to curses or long-dormant mould being disturbed and breathed in…

You’re in luck, OP, I’ve got some genuinely riveting cinema for you, and it’s wholesome as well. Watch the quirky, classic Russian comedy movie Come And See (1985).

(from left to right) a) trying to look slim b) about to escape from prison in 1930 c) trying to confound enemy nation’s Navy

Real talk; if someone who knows these supervillain-level lunatics could do the entire planet a solid and break their arms, I’d really appreciate it.

This isn’t my belief, it’s the general state of affairs. The reason for its cost isn’t rational in the sense that you’re hoping for, they want for you to either produce the capital needed to push through the ceiling, or stay where you are. It isn’t supposed to be fair, it’s been purposely contrived to keep people “in their proper place”.

Social infrastructure FTW, a far more respectable way to run the ship. I’ll keep with the boat analogy to use another idiom; “a rising tide lifts all boats” society shows wisdom in encouraging the kinds of conditions where their citizens can succeed without significant barriers, and improve the whole of it afterward (instead of the banking institutions which extend predatory high-interest loans) with their success. Hats off to Sweden.

Fair point to feel a little harangued by the cost of education, but the incongruity isn’t quite so irrational it seems. This has always been the way of things - dues must be paid, costs must be levied to keep people in their place, this is the order of things, and has been for a very long time. The idea of a free education at any stage is a relatively new concept, historically speaking, and even then public schools’ cost to its users (kids, parents who decline to send their children to prestigious private schools for financial reasons) are levied via taxation instead of fees outright. It always costs money, but the amount paid, and the personal/professional advantage gained vary widely.

Sort of broadly applied throughout history, it’s a kind of way to establish and maintain the strata (see definition 3B) of society. You or your family must have the funds to send you to school, and if you can’t pay to learn, you don’t, and you go to work when you’re deemed old enough. If you’re lucky, you apprentice with family, if not you labour at any task which earns your bread, so to speak. The only real break in this system has been subsidy to ensure that less wealthy families’ children can attend school to learn to read and basic math (as well as PE, science, literature, art, etc.), and people’s ability to generate loans specifically tailored to post-secondary. It sucks ass, but please believe me when I say that it could be much worse.

hands on hips “That’ll stop them.” /s

Lemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?

I like the cut of your jib. The real gems I’ve found were literally that, rings and earrings of varying quality/value. I credit video games for the habit, it always pays dividends finding random partially-concealed valuables on the ground. This doesn’t even count the number of (rarely) full/half-full packs of cigarettes, which sometimes contain other substances from nugs to hash and beyond.

The lawn, I feel that pain. Field sports on a dry pitch is a little like doing it on stone once it dries out enough due to lack of rain, that shit can really hurt, even without getting tackled down onto it lol

Don’t forget that your odds of finding and petting the roving neighbourhood cats increases as you walk more vs. driving.

It’s not as bad if you walk ‘off trail’ in cities/suburbs. I’m convinced that a lot of the Runner’s Knees has to do with pounding cardio on hard-packed Earth, asphalt and concrete instead of forested/green areas.

Haha, no just a quick little shitpost after seeing the sidebar on a dictionary site. Made me think of that town with the twenty syllable name in Wales.

Subscribed to all five meme groups too, huh? Figured I’d spread it around to see where it gained traction.

MRW someone posts about Reddit still being a shit community tolerating abuse on a downward arc from Advance Publications, to Mods (fuck Spez), to users.

“Hey guys, I heard about a poppin’ new club! The cover is only $10, but bouncers get to backhand anyone anytime they feel like it, and kick you out anytime that you advocate support for anything even slightly left of center.” /s ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ

Already done, we’re up to our eyeballs in flight test data.

See also: aircraft stall speed