In the romantic sense, someone that seems dumb or childish. I just can't go there without some sense of being a peer.

I've seen it. I can't find what I was remembering now.

There was a Reddit thread where OP was trying to identify a one-leg male thong his gay roommate left on the floor, I think that counts.

There is, trying to find it again.

Edit: I don't think this is what I was thinking of, but here: https://www.candymanfashion.com/

You didn't just talk about it. You said they should all do it, and specifically shouldn't do standard agriculture, like what you depend on. If they find a use for mixed planting, great, and obviously they do sometimes.

There must be software to do all these over SSB, right?

Also, I'd like to plug this related thread from retrocomputing, since it's possibly not just my project anymore:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/12486933 (non-federated)

What painting is this?

I think there's a streak of racism among Westerners who think they know better than the people on the ground, if we're going there.

In fact, the people who actually show up to help have a nickname for your lot: "Great White Savior"

I don't think you're a bad person. Or a racist. I do think you stepped in shit and are digging yourself deeper out of, like, pride.

No, mate. I'm close with actual relief workers IRL. ^{Albeit one less as of a couple weeks ago :(}

Keeping the kids out of school so they can work the land so you don't starve is common as dirt. It's as simple as a certain number of hours in a day, and school taking a good half of them. Shit, even farming folk here in the West did similar things a century ago.

Wow, I either missed that or forgot about it. Nevermind.

Maybe I'm a sentimental fool, but I feel like there should be some kind of basic respect for the craft, and doing things the right way just because. I get making bad code to meet a deadline, but not if you have a choice.

Then again, I've never done coding as my main job.

The home provinces of most auxiliaries would not have had the institutional capacity to get money from Point A to Point B on the other side of the Empire - provinces had surprisingly ad hoc organization, in contrast to local cities and the Empire itself.

Hmm, I wonder if that was deliberate. Give the illusion of self-governance and keep local elites happy, while minimising revolt risk and red tape.

I'm guessing both, so they get returns and still have an "oh shit" fund. I doubt it would be good for the oligarchs, at the very least.

Venezuela can do hyperinflation because they have a more ideologically driven elite who will ride out the turbulence. No such luck for Putin; he's a neofeudal lord and has to keep palms greased like it.

Being in NZ we were also hit hard by the issue of federation being concurrent. To this day we are running an extra VM in Finland to batch up activities and send them in bulk to be replayed on the Lemmy server. I’m pretty sure I saw a pull request for that recently though so it might be fixed in the next version (but we’ll have to wait until Lemmy.world updates if I understand it correctly).

Fascinating, I didn't realise the latency down there was that bad. How hard was it to get the process working across two distant servers like that?

Perhaps such a thing exists for Mastodon and could be applied to Lemmy?

Hmm, doesn't look like it. The relevant source doesn't mention anything, and a GitHub question from 2022 doesn't mention a devoted feature, although there's some publicly posted lists shared.

Any updates on this? It has all been silent, so I'm wondering if that was misinfo.

Very interesting, thank you.

Depends where you release. I haven't actually done the orbital calculations for this, but I'm assuming there's some setup that would work for juggling scheduled flights around the globe. If not, it's a better propulsion technique or bust, basically.

You said we should much poorer people than you should go back to the way things were thousands of years ago, including living in the boonies handweeding mixed-use gardens in order to not starve. Maybe you're still letting them use metal tools, but that's kind of a weak improvement. They could do agriculture the same way the people who feed your white-collar ass do, with a bit of education and a leg up, but that's not good enough apparently for your highness. Look, I'm trying to be charitable, but this is so outrageous it's hard.

A quick look through your profile suggests you were recently a banker in California. You should basically shut up about how much baking in the sun people you have nothing to do with need to endure. Until you goddamn try it, at least.

Russia’s successes, meanwhile, came at a staggering human cost. The Kremlin’s casualties were “three times” higher than Ukraine’s, and “even more” in certain directions, Syrskyi said.

That's pretty good. If they reach 1:4 Russia is actually taking more attrition than them, even in raw population terms.

He said Kyiv had a plan to get back Crimea, more than a decade after Vladimir Putin illegally annexed it. Was this really feasible? “It’s realistic. Of course, it’s a big military secret,” the general said.

I can't wait, with this kind of teasing I'm expecting a modern Operation Overlord.

One of the historians on AskHistorians claimed that they still could do realism in the medieval era, it just was out of style. It's hard to believe a fashion could last 800 years like that, but then again it doesn't take too much practice to draw better than this or any number of manuscripts.

Oh no! Anyway...