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I can already buy christmas sweets, it’s great! Not good for my diet, though.

Don’t tell them about pipes.

Thanks!

My websearches also indicate that many of the deeds ascribed to Cromwell weren’t necesarily his personal doing, e.g. christmas and theater were already banned when he came into power. Puritans really didn’t like fun, like in general.

This is kinda cheating. He may have done whatever “declare the leader is a Taghut” means ("call the king a devil”, or something like that?), but he certainly did not use that word.

Do you have a more in-depth source on his deeds? His Wikipedia article seems to refuse to engage with this aspect.

AFAIK it’s the gigantic sediment load plus the wind sediments from the Loess plateau, which makes the area exceptionally fertile.

You’d think so, but according to Wikipedia it was both, and the Yellow river is definitely the more prominent one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River_civilization

Honestly amazing that they managed to become a cradle of civilization with such a capricious river as the centerpiece. Maybe the devastating floods were just frequent enough to make people organize to mitigate the shortcomings, without being enough to completely wipe them out.

butter-flavored margarine gang
fridge-temp butter is annoying, and room-temp butter goes off too fast

I think Matrix offers most of the functions you need, though it kinda has issues with ease-of-use, performance and stability. “Discord but selfhostable and with E2EE” is pretty much what the Matrix devs are going for.

Grimgar was really good. I think ReZero was also really good about exploring what it’s like to actually use these “cheat abilities” that most Isekai-Protagonists have (in this case, the protagonist travels to the past after dying, like a video game savepoint), though it overstays its welcome IMO.

9 out of 10 people think decimation sucks. The 10th wasn’t available for comment.

there are ways, no natural ones tho

These goblins look rather smurfy…

There have probably been a couple of meteor impacts, too!

Meh, you can’t really see the sun, it’s mostly just an undefined and incredibly bright blob in your peripheral vision. You can’t see any shapes in it other than “circle”. If you caught a glimpse of the recent partial solar eclipse in Europe, even when 80% was covered by the moon, it still looked like a perfect circle to the naked eye.

Earth changed a lot in 2000 years, the moon not so much.

spring is allergy time. autumn is alright.

truth in television

Recent research showed that they had lead-polluted air on top of things like lead-sweetened wine. Apparently the lead air pollution was also a byproduct of silver mining (which was mostly for coinage). e.g. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419630121

Beats me how there could even be much controversy around that game, TBH.

TBH I always felt bad about watching Tom get abused, so anime catgirls are clearly a vast improvement.

… yeah that’s sounds pretty bad.

I definitely heard about this kind of thing earlier than 2025. It’s pretty well-known that the Romans were fond of lead items, including lead-sweetened wine. Seems unlikely that it significantly impacted the decline of the empire, but it probably didn’t help, either.

I did think that the whole “superheroes are organized and attend multi-year academies for hero-ing” was an interesting, distinctly-Japanese premise. The series has its flaws, but it was a much more enjoyable watch for me than the last MCU or DCU movies I watched. I thought that it ws really fresh to follow along with "super"heroes who are only a little super, rather than the larger-than-life characters that US superhero media is usually trying to construct, and watch the more “realistic” perspective on the actual logistics of heroing.

Mine is definitely the perspective of someone who is much more into anime than into superhero fiction, though.

I do have formal education in the field, but that doesn’t mean that I’m easily capable of e.g. writing a module for Nginx or even most website frameworks or knowledgable enough about administration to feel comfortable exposing a dynamic website (as opposed to static HTML+CSS) to the internet.

The product manuals one can’t be overstated. I recently got my hands on a functioning digital typewriter (which would be neat, because I don’t have my own printer, because modern consumer printers suck), but it’s barely usable because I can’t find a manual anywhere.

Sure feels like it.
I’m kinda prevented from growing up by health issues, it’s a bit hard to grow up (or at least feel grown up) when you can’t work a job or anything resembling it. So that sucks.

even though there were 4 channels on tv, Atari, and books.

TV, game consoles and PCs with games were multiplayer!

Have you tried east asian fish sauce? “mostly tastes of salt” might be for some low quality variants, but the decents ones are very flavorful. I mean c’mon, it’s fermented fish and the Romans had decidedly pre-modern technology, seems like you’d have to try pretty hard to make something that is not flavorful without an industrialized food factory.

Judging by what little I know about fish sauce (roman, thai or otherwise), the process seems more similar to east asian fish sauce. Fish isn’t even really the main aroma in Worcestershire sauce.