breecher
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- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 day ago:
As expensive as any other good weighing the same. Salt wasn’t expensive, that is my point.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 2 days ago:
You have fallen for the myth that salt was rare and expensive in ancient times. Medieval people did know how to make salt out of seawater. There were salt works all over the coasts of Britanny and Normandy during medieval times. Salt was not rare or expensive, except that they did need a lot of it because it was one of their prime preservation ingredients, so they needed barrels and barrels of the stuff, and that could drive prices up. But it was not because they didn’t know how to produce salt in enormous quantities.
Same goes for Roman times. The myth that salt was so rare and precious that it constituted part of the pay for a Roman soldier is wrong. It was because salt was such an important part of the diet and for preservation that it was given this way. They got grain and oil as well.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 3 days ago:
Again, pretty irrelevant, considering oligarchs constitute a fraction of a fraction of a generation (and their wealth and oligarch status will be inherited by their gen a or z offspring anyway).
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 3 days ago:
You can claim that all oligarchs are boomers (and that would not be close to true, a lot of the techbro oligarchs are a lot younger), but not all boomers are oligarchs. OP is inferring all boomers are oligarchs, so it is the textbook definition of intergenerational strife deflection.
- Comment on YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows 4 days ago:
And how are they expecting to crack down on this? By deploying automated slop which largely comes up with false positives and can easily be expoited for nefarious purposes, to the annoyance of their regular users?
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 days ago:
Why that needs to be connected to the internet is an entirely different matter though.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 4 days ago:
This inter-generational strife nonsense is the greatest deflection the oligarchs have come up with to make people forget who their real enemies are.
- Comment on YSK that you can disable AI features on DuckDuckGo without cookies 5 days ago:
Wow, thanks that is super useful.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 6 days ago:
What constitutes good AI content?
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 6 days ago:
You mean those institutions which are controlled by the same organised crime family who did the election fraud?
- Comment on Fart kontrol 1 week ago:
Linguists disagree with you.
- Comment on Fart kontrol 1 week ago:
The first one is Danish. It is split up like that because of the width of the sign, and it is an official sign. The second one isn’t Danish.
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 1 week ago:
The Romans had a slave economy. I don’t really think that counts as sustainable or even having worked it out.
- Comment on Q anon was a psyop. 1 week ago:
It wasn’t started by him though, he just took over the account and exploited it for his personal benefit. The person behind the original account is far more interesting.
The documentary suggests it may have been Mike Flynn, which of course would support the direct connection between Trump/Russia and qanon.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 1 week ago:
I didn’t reply to you. I replied to another account. The ethnicity figures for the US are as equally easy to find on the internet as the ones I posted (I found them on Wikipedia). You did not even bother to find those figures in your passive aggresive response, which is not even a response, since I replied to a different account.
Could you focus some of that passive aggressivenesss on actually finding out the figures you are so passively aggressively defending? Or is that an impossibility?
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 1 week ago:
It doesn’t, you fucking nazi.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 1 week ago:
The thing is that the average person in the US still have it pretty good, because they still have their bread and circus to distract them from the creeping fascist takeover.
When people refer to those instances in history where non-violent protest succeeded, the average person was much more afflicted, as in with literal risk of starvation or similar. Modern dictators have long since learnt that you just need to ensure very basic means of sustenance and a helluva lot of entertainment (provided with the willing help of the tech bro oligarchs), to keep the general populace content with events.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 week ago:
That’s… that’s not really relevant to their statement though.
- Comment on More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction' 1 week ago:
It’s not even future generations anymore. It is happening right now. We are all going to experience it regardless of our age.
- Comment on More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction' 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, the US just enacted a $200 billion ice funding bill.
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Nevermind, that was $200 billion for ICE.
We’re fucked.
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 1 week ago:
Watch it for Days - A channel exclusively dedicated to almost forensically detailed breakdowns of every single Columbo episode.
The Curious World - Explores all kinds of history and knowledge, historical curiousities and so much more.
- Comment on Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse 1 week ago:
Until there is no more money to grift. Which even at this impressive rate of grifting and corruption, is still going to take a while, because there is a lot of wealth in the US to pilfer.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 1 week ago:
shit Americans say.
There are more than 600 ethnic groups[2] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 1 week ago:
I think you misread their double negative.
- Comment on Ugh! 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how old you are.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 weeks ago:
And as can be seen from the behaviour of all the .ml’ers in this thread, you really should block that instance as well. They are the same people, just using different accounts to spread their hateful stupidity.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone watch a pewdiepie video?
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
There are lots of EVs by European car manufacturers. The problem is that they have trouble competing on price with the Chinese ones.
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 2 weeks ago:
This is just yet another brexit benefit. They can’t turn their backs on the US market.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 2 weeks ago:
The entirety of Scandinavia: Definitely not.