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If things were reversed, and Siberia and Canadian shield for once ideal places for civilizations, I suspect that they would still be heavily populated today in spite of the weather.

You do have to remember that the climate has changed a lot since civilization was born. The epic of Gilgamesh talks about the great cedar forests of Syria. Northern Europe was a giant chunk of ice. And once a place has ontological inertia, there's only been a few times in history where that changes, such as the bronze age collapse.

"I'm thinking of investing in this crypto scam, should I do it?"

Micheal Dorn: "you should not. Crypto scammers are without honor."

"Everything was fine. There was punch and pie."

You're in luck, I've learned a thing or two about this.

NodeBB categories do not follow activitypub group actors. Form category actors are not community groups and so aren't really compatible. NodeBB follows account style actors and remove group posts are not imported the same as local posts.

In order to get group support working on a wide variety of platforms, the software needs to have a wide variety of dialects that it knows how to deal with.

Small appliances rectify AC into DC before using it and therefore what you end up with is a DC supply that can support multiple input voltages and frequencies.

By contrast, larger appliances typically use the AC directly. A motor is designed to be able to connect directly to local AC power, and the voltage is quite important and so is the frequency, because a change from 50 hertz to 60 hertz will make a motor go much faster and a change from 60 hertz to 50 hertz will make a motor go much slower, and resistive loads such as furnace elements which are designed to be able to be connected directly to mains power our engineered with a specific resistance.

For motors changing frequencies, the way you would end up having to retrofit such devices is to rectify the DC signal and then reconstruct it as the proper voltage and frequency using pulse with modulation. That's going to be a fairly expensive thing compared to just connecting some wires across mains. Even changing voltage is using a transformer means that you're going to need transformer capable of potentially converting multiple kilowatts of power, and that's not an inexpensive touch either.

Buddy of mine wanted to go work for Ubisoft Montreal. Took a computer programming course.

I recommended that he should be making video games right now as he wants to make video games because there's going to be thousands of other people who want that job and a lot of them will have made games and he never has.

He's now learning how to be a carpenter. Probably the better bet.

I think you got that backwards. The reason that the jerk from that episode hadn't had his way with her yet was that doing so would cause the slave crest to be damaged.

I recently heard about an effort to grab some of the verbal stories from Africa and write them down, and that seems like a perfect treasure trove.

Not to mention, not all of those myths turn out to be entirely mythic. We found the minoans and what is likely ancient troy by listening to the stories and looking where they told us to look.

This guy is amazing. He does work that's so entertaining but really helps you learn more about the crazy things he's doing.

Honestly, the fact that works from thousands of years ago survive and have spread around the world is incomprehensible in terms of what would have to happen over time, particularly prior to the printing press.

The human race really is amazing.

I believe this is the answer. If you can turn off the TV but you can't turn it back on then you're probably just using the wrong code.

These things are not like normal businesses. You end up with something so irrationally large that it would be immoral to let a single person make any decisions, which makes no sense for a creative endeavor.

People don't realize how bad things are in Canada right now. Not sure how most people keep roofs over their heads and food in their bellies, though the massive homeless camps I suppose show that a lot of people don't.

And the giant money incinerator!

Sad because hell mode is one of my favorite LNs, they're doing my boy dirty.

I mean, I care.

Ok, it outbound federates after follow on FBXL Lotide (which makes sense considering I've made FBXL Lotide federate with everything), so that just leaves lemmy proper.

I mean... I'm not American...

If this was about guns, they would ban hardware stores. It's just about controlling everything so they can parcel it back out to friends.

Hey, that ain't your 256MB of RAM.

Surprisingly, amazon can be a DRM-Free bookstore, as long as the publisher chooses to publish DRM-Free. As of early this year, if publishers choose such a thing, users can download the works DRM-Free.

It's interesting, I almost immediately got the "this is gonna ask for money" scent from the way the website looked.

But if they're asking for money, I just don't really see why you would pay for a mid launcher.

Context: history memes are often posted without context and so people don't get a chance to immediately learn the history behind the meme.

The problem, as I often say, is that just because something demos well and it's easier to buy something doesn't mean it's going to be good in production. If you have a solar farm but you need to build a coal plant large enough to power the island anyway because you don't have dispatchable power, then you end up with Australia, California, or Ontario, where "the cheapest power" causes electricity costs to rise. Meanwhile, In places like Norway, Quebec, and iceland, those renewables actually drove down electricity costs because the marginal cost of energy is very low and you don't need to double up your infrastructure even if it's expensive and difficult to build up-front.

One of my favorite history truisims is that history isn't written by the winners; history is written by the people who write and maintain the history books. The distinction is subtle, but matters.

For a gaming PC in 2026 that's not actually bad. Pretty sure I paid more than base for an Xbox one series x a few years back we got for a friend's graduation gift when they were particularly rare.

Imo one of the examples of renewables that someone needs to push (and I don't care who, whichever team does it takes the win) is geothermal in hawaii. They import massive amounts of coal to generate 90% of their electricity and thus have some of the most expensive electricity in the US.

Easy win, it would make everyone on the islands life way better, and of course it isn't even on the radar because it wouldn't cost that much and it'd be really effective immediately.