When I was a kid, I had to reference several manuals and carefully assemble a double handful of parts in specific order to connect two computers to eachother. I’d have to fiddle with protocols and speeds and obscure features and traits to make the stars align. Transferring 200mb would be an overnight task. If I wanted to show pictures from my vacation on a big screen, I would have to have them printed on cellulose and insert them in tiny frames to project on a thick screen with a huge machine.

Yesterday, I went to a friend, pointed my phone at a magic symbolqr code and sent a full movie to their PC in a few minutes. Then I pushed a button to make the photographs on my phone appear on their TV.

That’s not really how Venn (or Euler) diagrams work.

Being targeted by Nazis doesn’t mean you did anything wrong.

I would argue it means you did something right.

There are websites that will list “bad” books, including lists of wordcounts of the bad words. That way, you can stay up to date on what to be offended about without actually putting in any effort to form your own opinion.

I so badly want to know how many people clicked that link

And the gelatine

“not as bad as Venus” is probably not the goal we should be setting ourselves though

Hey, the planet is just fine, that was the point right?

along with mocking people who have a fetish for flying military hardware.

Which is all of NCD, it’s on the entrance exam.

That’s not remotely close to what I think the world SHOULD BE like.

It is, unfortunately, what I think the world IS like.

I’m also pointing out that if you want that aspect of the middle ages, you can have it right now by also taking all the crappy aspects of the middle ages…

You can put hashtags on your Tumblr posts. And people sometimes use it as a post scriptum

No, but it’s like a dollar per square meter if you’re remote enough…

He does enjoy suffering

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the movie Braveheart gives a rather accurate representation

That loud, earth-rumbling moan was the sound of every historian turning over in their grave.

And gathering your own firewood, and water, and making twice as much to prepare for winter, and the strongly reduced options.

I mean yeah, it IS fun for a bit, I do medieval reenactment, obviously I enjoy it. But doing it every day absolutely sucks.

In several European countries, people who have favorable views of right-wing populist parties are less likely to have a positive view of Zelenskyy. In Germany, for example, supporters of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are about half as likely as those who do not support AfD to express confidence in the Ukrainian leader (31% vs. 61%). In some cases, the pattern is reversed: Spanish supporters of the right-wing populist party Vox are more confident in Zelenskyy than nonsupporters

Gee, I wonder why.

One man’s total disaster is another’s gleeful happyness

I mean the reality was that the time “off” was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you’ll quickly realize it’s a LOT of work.

Taverns kind of are a thing, they’re just called hotels now.