they give your kid a lead blood test. unsafe levels are defined as being in the 97.5th percentile or higher. if you get that result, you take steps to lower it. but when you leave the top 2.5%, another kid replaces you: its a percentage. you give another kid unsafe levels of lead
Man-as-organism no longer overflows but conserves. An ominous sign.
Life at its peak overflows—it wastes, celebrates, burns itself in excess, a sign of surplus vitality and life force.
Decline in alcohol consumption is civilizational harbinger. Fatigued organism.
One time in middle school we had a new Indian classmate and the teacher asked him "Do you guys still use rupees?" and I heard "rubies" and thought Indians must be rich as fuck carrying bags of rubies to the market
Pope Clement VIII on coffee
“Why this Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.”