demom @kbin.social Software developer, father, son, dog owner, lover, human being, backpacker, gamer, reader and writer. Not necessarily in that order.
Incredible cute, my good sir. Might I ask which dog breed the great and courageous Banjo adheres to?
@Kainsmasquerade The rationale behind this is that before coffee arrived to Europe, most people drank beer and other alcoholic beverages (due to water being unsuited for consumption). Tea but to a larger extent coffee grew into popularity as an alternative to beer. And where alcohol has alot of negative effets such as violence, coffee makes people focus and discuss instead of brawl.
So a lot of coffee shops sprung up, replacing taverns and bars, and became popular meeting spots for the intellectual elite. It's in the cafees where Voltaire and his gang (rumour has it Voltire drank 40 cups of coffee every day) met to discuss what would be the foundation for the enlightenment and the western way of life.
And as an interesting sidenote, I find it quite interesting that its after the introduction of coffee that we start to see giant leaps of technology, while the technology progress had been extremely slow for thousands of years before. In a couple of hundred years we have trains, cars, aeroplanes, United Nations, space rockets, submarines and much more. it's interesting what potential humans has when we discuss and cooperate instead of fights.
And key to this is gods nectar. At least IMHO.
I love the image, although as with most AI-generated art it's something dream-like about it as when you look close it looses definition and form.
It should happened years ago. The fact that "free speech" has been gardened, moderated and owned by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit is mad. Kbin, Lemmy and Mastodon gives individuals the tools needed to retake their power of expression, for good and for bad. Together with Pixelfed and Nextcloud all needs are met - except for server hosting, that is.
We truly live in the future now 😊
Många svenska bibliotek är anslutna till en tjänst (Libby/Overdrive) där man - när man ha riggat sig med sitt bibliotekskort - kan låna både ljudböcker och e-böcker. Det är en superb tjänst som rekommenderas varmt.
Running it now, then deleting my account.