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  • Wogi@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlForest of trees
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    1 day ago

    It was used on Reddit, but not widely. Mostly by insufferable ‘enlightened centrists’ who didn’t want to engage in good faith argument.

    It’s now a blanket term for “anyone left l politically left of me” used by insufferable liberals who don’t want to admit that trying to curry votes from Republicans lost them the election.

    For a time it was being used to describe actual Chinese and Soviet sympathisers, but given how quiet that particular group has been after the election, I suspect it was interchangable with state sponsored bot accounts.






  • Quark had a better safety record because he’s not human, and safety is intuitive to most species. Not humans.

    Humans are wild hungry barbarian thrill monkeys. Safety protocols on the holodeck were probably at Vulcan insistence after they watched us detonate a warp core inside a sun to see what would happen.

    This isn’t just in Star Trek either. In Stargate they find a gate orbiting a black hole, nearly destroy the earth, and then later on when we find a species they don’t like, we give away those coordinates as a prank. Among others. We used that same gate to cause a supernova somewhere else just to see what would happen.







  • You’re describing a few decades out of almost a thousand years of feudalism, in Europe specifically, and it wasn’t ever universally true.

    A lot of things contributed to that. Not the least of which is the difference between what we’d consider a day off and what they’d consider a day off. Not to mention how they paid taxes and what was actually required of the medieval peasant.

    Taxes could be paid in labor or produce. The guys doing the manual labor building a castle were likely to be paying taxes. They did that for up to a third of the year. The rest of the year was theirs to do with as they pleased, and the majority of that time would have been spent growing, gathering, hunting, or maintaining. Guild artisans had the closest thing to jobs that we’d think of them. Coopers made barrels, ropers roped. You had masons and blacksmiths and carpenters sure. Most people were growing and raising food, and maintaining their home. A day off was likely spent doing those things. They had so many partially because that time was needed intermittently.

    They worked harder than we do. Every part of their life was harder, required more energy, and took more time.

    Taking a day off to relax would have been exceedingly rare and probably maddeningly boring. Though they did party hard.


  • So way back during the 2016 election, I was finishing up some mandatories for my trade degree. The teacher made a pretty relevant point about how the upcoming president would have a large impact on this particular subject, as there was a lot of federal fingers in that particular frosting.

    Someone made an outrageously stupid, but harmless comment about changing the subject before this turns in to another (recent school shooting).

    About 10 seconds later there are police in the room. We were sent out for a break while the police talked to that guy, and ultimately walked him out of the building, and they sent us home for the night.

    And then he was back at the next class.





  • Oreos are 3 cookies to a serving.

    Frequently servings are fairly close to 1 ounce. Oreos are a little over an ounce for 3 cookies at 34 grams.

    This isn’t necessarily a serving suggestion. They’d actually very much like it if you ate an entire sleeve in a sitting, 3 times a day.

    It’s only there so you can calculate with excruciating detail exactly how many grams of sugar you just swallowed when you stuffed the middle of 4 cookies together.