Caveman @ olafurp @lemmy.world

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Rivers are the GOAT

I meant it more as in the context of subsaharan Africa not having the wheel until the 19th century. Wheels for transportation were pretty much useless until they got roads there.

I see now I should have caveated my post with 5 qualifiers now.

The wheel is overrated historically. You need paved roads for a wheel to be useful while a donkey train climbs mountains.

"This article of clothing will be sad and very upset with you if you don't buy it"

Vespasian was a pretty cool dude. What you're looking at used to be Nero's fun place or whatever. Trick is to have tons of money like Microsoft

This is a great place to show off my two favorite new words:

• Grindset
• Productivity-pilled

Shocked pikachu

They've been preparing for decades and they literally have now a mobile bridge to make an instant port.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/china/china-landing-barges-cable-cutter-taiwan-intl-hnk/index.html

They've also been simulating US carrier movement with rails in the desert to be able to shoot it down with missiles.

Made tons of transport ships for military equipment.

It looks like they're gearing up to take Taiwan so fast that nobody can respond in time.

Left to right

• Windows (not linux)
• Fedora
• Arch
• Kali

Conservative / Liberal divide was aimed at the fiscal side of things. Fiscally Conservative being less about spending and focus more on the national debt and liberal being more take a loan and invest the money.

Wikipedia told me how wrong I was just now and it's more aimed towards maintaining the status quo in relation to a certain period in time. In Western democracies often means protecting organised religion, nuclear family, property rights, rule of law etc.

So it's more of an umbrella term for people who don't want to change anything or even bring back some previous state.

Andrew Heywood's book "The Conservative Mind" from 1953 denotes it as

• A belief in a transcendent order, which Kirk described variously as based in tradition, divine revelation, or natural law;
• An affection for the "variety and mystery" of human existence;
• A conviction that society requires orders and classes that emphasize natural distinctions;
• A belief that property and freedom are closely linked;
• A faith in custom, convention, and prescription, and a recognition that innovation must be tied to existing traditions and customs, which entails a respect for the political value of prudence

With all that said it's a pretty garbage political philosophy and pretty regressive.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you got downvoted for having tankie vibes when most of it was pointing out that the Russia that invaded Poland before 1922 (Tzarist Russia) isn't the same Russia as USSR/Russia.

Nice take, I also subscribe to the theory that the Russian narrative is a lot more important than land gains. To be able to sell an "Underdog but growing empire despite evil holding us back" narrative would definitely be useful and a good exit strategy.

If you're going to make a comment like that you need to have your facts straight. Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a real thing where Nazis and the USSR invaded Poland.

There are more ways, weak virus, dead virus, modified virus, payload swap virus and an mRNA blast.

Would love to see this HIV vac get more development and become permanent and a part of infant vaccine routine until it just fucking dies.

I underreact pretty much everything. Many people think it's weird but it's me and I'm not going to mask it. 🤷

My Spanish speaking friends have always said that my Spanish gets much better when I'm a bit more than tipsy. Finally somebody confirms this.

I think it's an improvement though. You never part with your money unless you know exactly what you'll get.

It's basically individualised offers in the form of boxes.

Let's argue "what in heavy" before we go there

Depends on whether or not you count in air resistance. I was just making a shitpost