arctanthrope
@arctanthrope@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's honestly kind of wild how unpopular Roosevelt's ideas for English spelling reform were. 1 week ago:
> no context
- Comment on What a time in history... 2 weeks ago:
there’s actually some debate about whether that particular flute is actually a flute, or if those holes are from animal teeth
check out this video by an archaeology grad student for more info on the development of music and musicality (you can skip to 10:30 if you just care about flutes)
- Comment on Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission 5 weeks ago:
The issue isn’t making a 3rd-party case for Valve’s hardware, it’s making that case resemble an object whose image was created by and is owned by Valve. the fact that Valve both makes the hardware and owns the image is coincidental
you can make an iPhone case without any issues from Apple, but you can’t make an iPhone case with images of Disney characters on it without permission from Disney
- Comment on Is this true, Germans? Would you politely chuckle at this? 5 weeks ago:
here’s my one German joke:
what’s the funniest type of fish? salmon.
- Comment on The 2000 election in a nutshell 5 weeks ago:
well, the people did vote for the Democratic successor. and then the Republican-controlled Supreme Court butted in and said “actually you’re not allowed to check the results of how the people voted, we declare our guy won”
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 1 month ago:
I’d watch that movie
