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Been reading Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, yes that one, it's pretty good, I enjoy that autism is the thing that allows you to see demons. It's genuinely sinister, especially knowing this evil isn't imprisoned to the page.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Three engineers are in a bar discussing which school of engineering god belongs to, the mechanical engineer goes first;

    "God's a mechanical engineer, look at the bones and muscles and how they interact and move." The electrical engineer is shaking his head;

    "God's an electrical engineer, look at the nervous system and how the brain is wired, that's electrical engineering." At this stage the civil engineer has a wide grin on his face;

    "God's a civil engineer, who else would run a waste pipe through a recreational centre?"

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    So Latin spread pretty well across Europe, being the basis of almost every language there, but how come it didn't take as strong a hold in the Middle East? It's not as if the Romans were never there, and they lingered there far longer than they did in Europe. Was it just a matter of a stronger preexisting culture, or did the Arabs have something to do with it? What happened here?

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