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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is currency so essential?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s very difficult to get things you need to live solely through barter. Many trades are very niche, and an economy that uses money allows those trades to continue being viable parts of society.

  Like, think of plumbing. If everything goes well, you don’t need a plumber. But when you do…you really need it. Now imagine being the plumber who wants some bread and eggs but the farmer has no problems currently that needs the plumber’s skills. Plumber can’t eat, leaves profession, there’s now no plumber when the pipes do break.

  Obviously, the next thought here might be, “Well, why doesn’t the plumber say if they get eggs and bread now, they’ll come and fix your toilet later if needed?” But that sort of re-invents credit, right? “I’ll trade 3 future plumbing problems for 3 boxes of eggs now.” If you have that, why not money?

  So basically, money is very useful. It can be traded for many things you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get if you were only able to offer as barter a specific item that might be rejected by the other person you want to barter with. Money is a “universal” trade good, and it’s also easy to store (you don’t have to have lots of physical room to store your Universal Trade Good).

  The BEHAVIOR of people surrounding this very useful thing can absolutely be suspect, depending on the person (greedy sociopaths hoarding wealth)–but that’s a human thing, not because money is innately a bad thing. It’s a social problem, not a technology problem. You could totally have a greedy hoarder storing up a non-money trade item too…see people and toilet paper/sanitizer during Covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to move to Linux for about 20 years, but gaming issues always sent me back to Windows.

  I tried again after hearing about how proton and steamdeck have made it so much easier for most games and it’s true. Been exclusively on Linux on my gaming rig since about September. The only one I couldn’t get working was oddly a little simple indie game, it lagged badly while stuff like No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk ran fine.

  Microsoft is pushing this at a very bad time, because you CAN game on Linux now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve had such an easy time of it that I’m actually surprised when a game doesn’t work in Linux now too. Which is a reverse of how it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched from Windows to Linux in the last year.

  There are sometimes odd things to configure, but it’s no more difficult than the windows XP era was.

  It is much much easier than Linux used to be due to Steam, and I find I more often have problems with smaller indie games than big ones.

  I’ve been playing Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3, Stellaris, No Man’s Sky, Crusader Kings 3 no problem. Plus many others.

  I tried to game on Linux for many years with wine, but it was Steam that actually made it feasible for me .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fred’s absolutely a setup to have Brent Spiner appear as SOMEONE in some episode.

  And given Season 3 of Picard, it might even be Data, with his new hybrid with-bits-of-Lore personality.

  But it could be a human Soong too, or another Soong-type android (I absolutely hate they call them “synths”, all I hear is Fallout references.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any good fiction/story driven books with life lessons for men in their 30's?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Books let you walk in the shoes of ANYONE. I would argue allowing yourself to open up and find life lessons in any book is an exceedingly valuable life skill for anyone, regardless of age or gender.

  Grab a book, any book Read it. There will be life lessons hidden in it if you allow yourself to think deeply on it after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does incest result in birth defects?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then science better get going on artificial, external wombs. A lot of people would be overjoyed to be able to have kids without the physical risk of pregnancy, and the technology seems like it’d be mandatory for true colonization efforts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran into something like this from a company named Botrista who was supposedly hiring remote positions. I got suspicious before they got my personal info, dug deeper and found their site ran on wix, tried to contact them by other methods to see if I could get a real person, and concluded it was all a scam to collect the typical prehire personal info like bank accounts, ss number, home address, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one big benefit I enjoyed with Twitter was following artists and scientists I would never have had such casual access to learn from in any other way. Being able to watch pros in their fields talk about their topics was something I never would have had access to. And because it’s short form folks were more likely to post than on a blog or something.

  Without social media the shop talk goes entirely behind closed doors, which is a loss for my ability to casually learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing topographical elements of Paleolithic rock art revealed by stereoscopic imaging⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The topographical features of the cave walls could also have inspired the artists’ imagination. Cave dwellers may have experienced pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of seeing unintentional forms in nature, like seeing shapes in clouds. If a bulge of rock looks a little like a horse’s head, the artist might imagine the complete form, filling in the rest of the details.

  For example, one newly discovered horse image measures around 460 x 300mm and is painted in red using variably spaced dots. It depicts the head with the corner of the mouth, an eye, an ear, and the beginning of the cervico-dorsal line. The figure makes use of natural features of the cave wall, with cracks in the rock incorporated into the outlines of the head and chest. The cervical-dorsal line adapts to a concave area of the wall.

  I guess previously scientists were looking at the art like how you or I might look at a horse drawn on a piece of paper, but some of the art was more like going up to a funny rock sort of shaped like a horse, and adding onto it/altering it in order to show others how much like a horse (or whatever) the funny looking rock is.

  Which kind of crossing between artistic mediums, from 2D painting to something more like sculpture.

  Anyway, this is cool. I didn’t really consider that someone might do that with their art before reading this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been a huge fan of “adult animation”, or really animation in general. So I had to get over that hill of bias. But once I did, I found I enjoyed this show. Those Old Scientists on Strange New Worlds is actually what made me go back and give Lower Decks a second try.

  Anyway, I’m excited to see where season 5 goes. I also kinda want another live-action crossover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your account has 4 posts over a few months and one comment. Maybe you have actually been using Lemmy for longer on another account, but we can’t see that.

  I’m an Elder Millennial, used to admin/mod a fandom forum around 1999-2002ish. A small percentage of active users essentially carrying the content of small niche communities on their back until ignition happens has ALWAYS been how communities work. It’s like that in real life, and it’s like that online. It was like that when niche message boards and forums reigned in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was like that on usenet, in IRC, on email groups. It was like that on World of Warcraft, when you tried to get a guild off the ground for raiding or something. It’s like that here on Lemmy, because Lemmy is a social platform too.

  The only real solution to grow a community is to jump in and create content yourself, to help communities along until one or two ignite and take off. You have to participate yourself to change the culture, not just bitch in a post that it’s “changed” and that you’re going to stomp off if it doesn’t “change back”. (Although, that type of post is, admittedly, also a tradition as old as time.)

  Anyway. Communities starting small and needing people to grow is just…a thing. This is how volunteer organizations work in real life–why do you think they’re constantly pleading for other people to get involved? Because you need people who actually pull on their adult pants and get in and do the work of organizing things, doing things, instead of sitting about like a lump consuming it.

  You can move back to reddit of course, if you want. That’s similar to moving from a small town to a big city for the night life, which people do. Maybe you don’t have the time or energy to essentially “volunteer” your time on a small community to help it grow.

  But the thing you’re complaining about is…just part of how communities work. Communities have always revolved around a few people contributing most of the content until the community takes off (or doesn’t).

  So, rationally, what’s the next step? Stepping up your own contributions, or going off somewhere else?

  Only you can decide because only you know your IRL time commitments. But one action is going to be more useful to helping niche subs get off the ground than the other.

  (Here’s something interesting: The Frugal sub has a shit-load of people subscribed who eagerly jump in feet-first if you start a relevant topic. Why doesn’t someone here with an interest in that sub go over there and start a post?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hikers rescued after following non-existent trail on Google Maps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I “can’t understand” something, I stop for a moment, and start interrogating my own assumptions of how the world works, because I clearly made an assumption of how the world or how people in general work and need to correct my own thinking.

  It’s very hard to change how others do things. Much easier to start on yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen mindsets like yours coming into book fandom more and more as the years have gone on.

  I’m going to say some things from a meta perspective that you might not like. And while I’m making assumptions, and they might even be wrong about you in particular, I think there’s still worth at trying to see my perspective, and trying to understand WHY I am saying what I am saying, and why I’m saying it in response to your post at this particular point in time, even if I’m wildly off base with you as an individual. You’ll probably learn more from doing that than by trying to get into a one-on-one argument with me over details. Like, even if I’m wrong with you–WHY did I choose to say this right now in response to your post? What details in your post made me react in this way?

  So, as far as I can tell, looking in from the outside, it looks like takes like yours arise when someone is raised in a religious context, following a holy book of some sort (Bible, Book of Mormon, the Koran–any writing really that is supposed to be your highest moral guide), and then either has not left that religion, but is trying to understand other people’s moralities through the same lens because everyone they personally know forms their morality from the bible or another holy book (so surely everyone else must too? And maybe other people use Star Trek?), or comes from someone who HAS left but hasn’t yet examined old habits left over from that upbringing, and and thus brings them into new spaces, as you seem to be doing here with Star Trek.

  Like, I see religious folks, or recently ex-religious folks who have not yet examined their inner drives to get over-involved with the media they consume. They interact with their show the same way they would interact with their church, or with the Bible or another holy book. Even if they claim they are no longer religious, they were still raised in a religious environment which has an effect on habits and thinking esp. re: the topic of morality, and emotionally fandom spaces and fandom drama can feel a lot like church from a socializing and discussion standpoint, so old habits of churchy stuff sometimes seep into fandom.

  But not all people interact with stories in this way. In fact, when you look at how people actually interact with media, people often take bits and pieces here and there. They agree with some stuff, disagree or just ignore others, and transform things too. You can truth-check this by looking at your peers in school. How many times did a teacher say something, and someone next to you said it was bullshit? People take in, reject, and transform information all the time. Words are not a total telepathic mind-control, people have agency.

  I’m a writer, and it’s fairly common to see a reader interact with what I said and take a totally different insight from what I said, because all of their life experiences are getting tangled up with whatever story I was trying to tell, and that MIXTURE is showing them something new that I might never have realized or thought of. And this is normal–this is how humans interact with fiction.

  The idea that a work of fiction has to demonstrate moral things perfectly or else be doomed as irredeemably flawed is really in my opinion more of a religious-brain thing. And no, maybe you didn’t say that directly, but I question the drive behind why you posted this post, listing the things you did. I question your motivations and assumptions. Approaching Trek asking the questions you do doesn’t align with how people actually interact with media in my experience, but it does align with how I’ve seen people utilize religion, and holy books in particular.

  I’d encourage you to look up a community college and see if there’s any ethics classes you can take. I had to take an ethics class for the degree I was working on. I didn’t actually want to, as I’m in my 40s and comfortable with my sense of morality–but it ended up being shockingly useful, because it laid out different frameworks in which people can evaluate the morality of something, and the pros and cons of each. It kind of started with the “gut feeling” a lot of people use when they feel more than think, then progressed through religious frameworks, then a few philosophers, and then storytelling frameworks, and basically gave me a lot of different and new tools to evaluate things I hadn’t explicitly had before. It was very useful, much to my own surprise, and I’d recommend the experience to everyone if they go to college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any tools out there to simulate planetary orbits in a binary star system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

  (I had to check I didn’t secretly have that one already too–this time I don’t, but it’s going on my wishlist.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any tools out there to simulate planetary orbits in a binary star system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gah, that’s exactly what I want, I just have no budget for it atm. Going on my wishlist for sure.

  I wonder if there’s less-polished tools (FOSS) out there that can do something similar?

• Any tools out there to simulate planetary orbits in a binary star system?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been having a lot of vague thoughts about the unconscious bits of our brains and body, in regards to LLMs. The parts of our brains/neurons that started evolving back in simple animals as basically super primitive ways to process visual/audio/whatever input.

  Our brains do a LOT of signal processing and filtering that never reaches conscious thought, that we can’t even reach with our conscious thought if we tried, but which is necessary for our squishy body-things to take in input from our environment and turn it into something useful instead of drowning in a screeching eye-searing tangled mess of chaotic sensory input all the time.

  LLMs strike me as that sort of low-level input processing, the pattern-recognition and filtering. I think true generalized AI would have to be built on pieces like this–probably a lot of them. Ways to pluck patterns out of complex but repeated input. Like, this stuff definitely isn’t self-aware, but could eventually end up as some sort of processing library for something else far down the line.

  Now might be a good time to pick up Peter Watts’ sci-fi book Blindsight. He doesn’t exactly write about AI in it, but he does write about a creature that responds to input but isn’t exactly conscious like you or I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2842: Inspiraling Roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I’m just looking at this, and thinking of far-future people digging up ANY roads with lines or on/off ramps or cloverleafs, scratching their heads, and going:

  “It must’ve been used for religious purposes.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolutionising prosthetics: Groundbreaking achievement as bionic hand merges with user’s nervous and skeletal systems, remaining functional after years of daily use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The link to the science article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adf7360

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alright, where do I begin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a new watcher, especially a young one, Strange New Worlds is probably the best start. It has a lot of the classic “Trek” philosophy going on, but paired with modern production and special effects, and also paired with more modern treatment of female characters.

  I love The Next Generation, that’s “my Trek”, but certain things haven’t aged well.

  I’ve been watching Babylon 5 for the first time (didn’t see it when it was actively airing), and while it’s not Trek, it was produced in the same era as TNG, Voyager, etc. and I find myself jarred by certain ways they portray characters, esp. female ones, and that same sort of stuff is present in older Trek too. Like, Crusher and Troi got absolutely cheated when it came to great arcs and such. Strange New Worlds handles its female characters much, much, MUCH better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYCC: Alex Kurtzman Gives ‘Section 31’ And ‘Academy’ Updates, Teases “Exciting” New Star Trek Projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  • Section 31 seems to be moving forward - Michelle Yeoh had the chance to move on but I guess she’s putting herself behind the project instead of ditching it, as she conceivably could given how her career is going. It’s called a “movie event” in the article.
  • Starfleet Academy is going forward - Tawny Newsome (Mariner from Lower Decks) is on the writing team for that.
  • The final season of Discovery is coming out next year, and they were allowed to do some reshoots as it’s the final season.

  Personally, I really hope that Saru makes the transition to Starfleet Academy. I love him to bits and Doug Jones could do a ton more with his character if given the chance. I also suspect, due to the way Picard ended, that Brent Spiner’s Data in some form or another might show up as an instructor, maybe as a guest star. I’d actually really like to see a Lore-influenced-Data bringing the snark in a classroom. Data’s earnestness and Lore’s sense of humor especially charming, and we only saw a bit of it at the end of Picard. And I’d love to see Saru and Data interacting.

  Pelia is also long-lived enough to show up, and she was an instructor prior to becoming the Enterprise’s Engineer. They’ve already set her up to be replaced by Scotty, so I could see the actress moving to Starfleet Academy, since we already know her time on the Enterprise is limited.

  Unrelated to Starfleet Academy, I do notice there’s no word on a post-Picard series starring Seven of Nine–I hope that’s mostly because the strikes disrupted early planning or something.

  But they set Picard up perfectly to spawn a new series from that and I’d absolutely LOVE to see Seven of Nine as Captain of her own Starfleet ship, and Jack would make an interesting foil to Wesley as the cocky ensign. I think with the topic of AI being a thing now, and all the loose ends with the Borg and with Data’s offspring (and Data himself), we could actually really use right now a series that talks a lot about AI. I imagine interaction with Jurati-Borg could be an ongoing arc. And Soji could appear and we could get some interaction with Data to tie off that storyline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked. I’m seeing it on lemmy.world using Firefox. I’m not using any of the special front-ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archaeologists Discover Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in Ancient Egyptian Tomb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Tomb beverage” sounds like some sort of horrible euphemism involving embalming fluid…or worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I treated Twitter as a RSS platform where I could follow subject matter experts like scientists and writers and artists I liked.

  I also used it to follow people and groups that weren’t like me so i could learn. Like, “disability twitter” opened my eyes to some things I took for granted, because you had regular people dealing with those things just talking back and forth about it. If I shut my mouth and just listened, it opened up a whole new world.

  For small-time creators making either art or science, Twitter was a good platform to get little chunks of info out to your followers. I don’t know that Mastodon fills those shoes yet, but I hope it will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, that’s an interesting theory. I like it.

  Reminds me of how things like flood myths might have actually come from times of great natural disasters that got passed down in stories.

  I’ve also always wondered if stories about elves, dwarves, etc. are ancient, tattered memories of prehistoric times when homo sapiens was not the only hominid walking the earth.

  We overlapped with Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo floresiensis, etc. (And interbred. nationalgeographic.com/…/enigmatic-human-relative… ) So there was a time when anatomically modern humans walked the earth when other almost-human-but-not species still lived.

  And it’s always seemed to me the variety of almost-humans in mythology from around the world might be in some cases an ancient memory of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  really you have to make everyone disembark during rush hour so you can cram your obesity scooter on there so you can go to Tim Hortons so nobody else can sit down?

  Has it…occurred to you that some disabled people have mobility issues or pain disorders that limit mobility to begin with, and that weight gain is a byproduct of not being able to walk or move or stand for very long without trouble?

  I had a boss who had dwarfism and used a wheelchair 80% of the time. 20% of the time he slowly, painfully did hobble about–but it was clear as day WHY he was higher weight than he should’ve been. My own blood pressure would spike hearing the tiny sounds of pain he made when got out of his wheelchair and moved.

  I have a friend with POTS–and if you’re unfamiliar with that, basically she stands up and her blood pressure and heart rate is malfunctioning so her heart acts like she’s running a marathon, the beats per minute go insane…but blood is pooling in her feet and they’re turning purple where you can’t see it because things are out of whack and despite her heart going haywaire, there’s not enough pressure to get the blood out of her feet and elsewhere. This condition happened prior to any weight gain.

  I can hear her breath start to go wobbly just doing simple things because her body doesn’t regulate her blood pressure and heart rate normally. She’s gained weight because she’s at risk of passing the fuck out if she is on her feet for very long–she has to literally plan out doing simple things like going to the grocery store because if she pushes herself she might end up downed on the sidewalk relying on the helpfulness of strangers to get back up. It’s taken her many years to accept she really shouldn’t be pushing herself into a collapse because she’s worried that people will judge her for being “lazy and fat”. Comments like yours about “obesity scooters” only act to tear down all the people who ARE trying their hardest and still having their body fail them.

  I have a different friend who has thyroid problems, she inherited them from her mom (and her bro has them too), and weight is a bitch for her to manage because her thyroid is fried.

  I just broke my foot in July, and watched my weight inch up because it’s really fucking hard to get up stairs when you can’t put weight on one foot. I was semi bedbound for like 2 months. I’m LUCKY in that my foot will heal, but I don’t even snack and I gained 15lbs because of that one little temporary mobility issue. I’m LUCKY in that once it heals, I will be able to move normally and lose what I gained.

  You could’ve made your point about transit without taking pot-shots at disabled people, who often are stuck in a terrible situation of their body failing them medically, and society often forcing them into poverty to be able to access the care they need.

  Seriously, why isn’t it possible to champion mass public transit for all without shitting on the people who use it by necessity currently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  but some of it is because 50% of the way through their brain is tired of reading text. AND THAT, is problematic.

  Yep.

  This reminds me of how often people mistake skill for “natural talent”.

  “Natural talent” exists, but someone without any particular natural talent at something who has still spent thousands of hours doing that thing is going to run circles around someone with “natural talent” who never put time and effort into practicing.

  And I think when that skill is “reading”, people don’t power through the moments when their brain rebels, gets frustrated, or gets tired. So they hit that block, and don’t push through to overcome it. They go do something else…but they go do something else every single time. So a block that would be frustrating but minor in the big scheme of things gets codified in one’s mental image of themselves.

  And once you have this idea that you are or are not something–that conception can turn into a huge mountain to overcome.

  (As an aside, our parents have huge influence on if we think we “are” or “are not” something. It’s very worth it when you think you “can’t” do something to go back and look at your life and check if that voice in your head isn’t actually yours, but the voice of a parent who didn’t know what the fuck they were talking about!)

  (Both people who were belittled as “stupid” and those who were constantly called “smart” can end up kinda “malfunctioning” later on, thinking they can’t do something. The ones called stupid think they can’t do something because “they’re dumb”, while the one called smart has been conditioned to fear not being 100% perfect, so they don’t even start because minor, genuinely trivial failures loom as large as the destruction of the entire earth in their minds!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Are Some Good Card Videogames?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Black Book more than Inscryption. it’s about a young evil witch in a fantasy version of eastern europe, and you cast spells by stringing a combination of cards together that are curses or blessings. There are some encounters that use puzzle decks, but mostly you build your own deck as you progress and get new cards.

  it’s heavily steeped specifically in slavic mythology, which is different from most worldbuilding using viking or celtic or the like. So you meet things like leshys instead of trolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landslide reveals 2,500-year-old 'richly decorated' gold necklaces in Spain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know why, but calling a torc a “necklace” makes me wince. As does the article spelling it “torque” later on… it’s not typically spelled like that in English, is it?