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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.

I watched some gameplay videos, couldn’t get into it either. The start is somewhat intriguing, but once you’re out of the prologue it just looks boring and weird in a bad way. Though that’s mostly about the visuals and general gameplay, I didn’t see enough to say much about the story.

Maybe the issue with the awards is that the competition wasn’t that strong? Most AAA games don’t put much effort into telling an interesting story, if nothing else Expedition 33 at least tried.

Ah yes, the Suicide Pills(TM).

TBF I’m not a woman and I’m still disillusioned. The amount of times I’ve heard from doctors more or less verbatim “I don’t know what to do” … might as well prescribe recreational drugs and tell me to goon.

I played The Drifter and Until Then some time ago, both are heavily recommended if you like these kinds of games. Especially The Drifter, absolutely great game and it’s palatable even for someone like me who doesn’t really like point-and-click adventures (I’m a bit low on patience for figuring out the “go to a specific place and combine a specific item with a specific part of the location” riddles).

Interesting that they were generally aware of the risk and trying to mitigate it. Didn’t they also use leaden pots and sweeten their wine with lead, however that actually works?

Thanks PugJesus!

grumpy barely writes comments at all …

same stance that Germany has about everything that happened

One of the stances that Germany adopted in response to its WW2 crimes is unconditional support of the nation state of one of its victim groups. I wouldn’t recommend that.

There is much to be said about how Germany’s “denazification” hasn’t worked nearly as well as Germans used to claim until extremist rightwing parties got really popular again about 5-10 years ago and public opinion kinda turned on Israel. But man, Japan just completely skipped that whole thing.

This but unironically!

WTH is going on with the font there?

TIL there are muslim sects that reject the hadiths altogether, and they’re growing in popularity. Apparently, the Quran itself is quite a bit less strict and misogynistic than the popular denominations that follow hadiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quranism

Interesting how this parallels Christianity’s 16th century revolution, but also differs from it in key ways - many of the protestant denominations were more strict than catholicism and were often more misogynistic (e.g. most witch burnings were done by protestants, the Catholic church called belief in witchcraft superstition). Let’s hope the muslims won’t have a 30 year war about it …

On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage.