NotEasyBeingGreen

We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didn’t bother. Most Greeks weren’t writing stuff down for history, were they?

It wasn’t all bad. One of those wacky alchemists might have gifted us tofu…

The Chinese Daoists that he recruited used “alchemical” methods to make both soy milk and bean curd, perhaps as a medicine for eternal life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_An#Legend_of_immortality

Celibacy became mandatory for Latin Church priests only in the eleventh century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Catholic_Church

Also, people could become priests after having been married earlier, right?

I really hope that Christians end up having their souls weighed against a feather. Just for being so certain about their own particular Johnny come lately view of the afterlife. 😄

I mean, I think future generations will judge us harshly.

Brilliant.

Of course when you take a town you kill the ruler and most of the nobles. But people with talent would be drafted to do whatever it was they were good at… so translators, people helping with logistics, and so on, right?

Mongols would also recruit as they rolled over every city and fort, right?

Do you have sources for this intriguing fact? Just looking at cuneiform I wouldn’t guess that it would be especially fast to write…

Normally there is some confusion for memes without any context added. Apparently no need in this case! 😄

Yes , but also here in the Netherlands farmers are often radically right-wing.

Amazing to think of a world where rural people are progressive!

I use Jottacloud for off site restic backups. You have to use rclone, but it’s not too tricky. I don’t know how well it works outside of Europe. It’s cheap and can store terabytes of data!

My understanding was that the Romans really, really liked races though….

Nice podcast about his chef:

https://thememorypalace.us/hercules/

Using some very basic security, like minimal services and keeping stuff patched and having backups, and you’re probably fine. I’ve run stuff locally at home for decades and never had a security issue as far as I know. (I did have a problem with a hosted server that I shared with some friends 20 years ago, because at that time updating Fedora was a hassle and we let it get behind on updates.)

Your eu.cc domains are fine. You don’t need to spend money on a 2nd-level domain if you’re happy with the longer name.

For comparison, I’ve had a nl.eu.org domain for decades, and never had any issues. I also had a number of .tk domains for a while and those all went away when the business managing the domain got sued out of existence. I currently use nom.es domains for various tests.

My understanding is that it was never required to sell things in metric, just to also include metric values. So you could still but a pound of bananas, but it had to also be labeled as 454g (or whatever a pound is in normal units).

People care about things not because of some intrinsic value, but because of our relationship to them.

We love our pets, and don’t really care about food animals. We are upset when a friend is in an accident, but not about people who died 500 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That was fun, thanks!

Bless you, comrade.

Super interesting! I have a jar with a lid that I tried to scale up and the threads just fail. I wonder if I can try some overgang magic on it. 🤔