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John R. Lunise
2/8 near Recolle
On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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Ragna Edgson you lost me halfway through
Ragna Edgson "infinite universes"?
Ragna Edgson that's some sci-fi level bullshit

John R. Lunise I can assure you, speaking as a doctor of physics: the most esoteric and amazing reaches of scientific understanding make science fiction seem mundane, dull, and boring.

Ragna Edgson that so?
Ragna Edgson then why are textbooks such crap

John R. Lunise Because they are universally made according to standards set by Texas.

[Okay, that gets an amused snort out of him at least.]

Ragna Edgson point taken
Ragna Edgson write your own ones
Ragna Edgson they'll be naming schools after you

John R. Lunise Save that they would not be suitable for the standards set out by many school districts, and thus would not be bought.

Ragna Edgson see and that's why school sucks ass

John R. Lunise I would suggest instead that politics sucks ass, with schools an unfortunately casualty of the suction.

Ragna Edgson true that
Ragna Edgson seems like you'll have to win the elections first

John R. Lunise And as I have no gift for politics and am a thoroughly unsuited candidate, that may be a small obstacle.