You can just tell they got Asterix & Obelix in that ship.

Aw, she was fake? I feel… something a lot like loss.

Excellent point. Even something as relatively simple as a spreadsheet program enables things.

ridiculous contraption but ingenious for the time period

Yeah, I have to keep reminding myself that people back then were just as clever as we are today, they just didn’t have as much pre-existing easily-accessible information as we do these days.

wow there a lot of fascinating stories here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_assault_on_French_Florida

among other little tidbits:

On 20 July, 1565, the English adventurer John Hawkins arrived at the fort with his fleet … The French introduced Hawkins to tobacco, which they all were using, and in turn he introduced it to England upon his return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline

Doppelsöldner

I thought you were talking about his sword, but actually it’s people who fought in the front line for double pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelsöldner

Trying to turn it into an example of minority oppression is a big stretch. AI will be used replace all races, sexes, and ethnicities of DJs. Not just minority DJs.

You are very close to seeing the problem here, which is: when one of us is oppressed, we are all oppressed.

hits different live

I guess I don’t appreciate things well, bc I didn’t really feel much from seeing the Pantheon or even the Sistine Chapel. But what I REALLY loved seeing live was just the downtown area in Rome between Piazza Venezia, the Spanish Steps, and the bridge to Castel Sant’Angelo. So amazing to wander around these 1800s/1900s buildings making up a bustling modern city and every single block has a church, a plaza, and some ruins. My favorite was the ruins of the Largo di Torre Argentina which I believe was where Julius Caesar got stabbed, and which houses a cat sanctuary. There was a newsstand nearby and a grocer, so I could get a comic book and a snack and sit on a bench looking down on it. Eventually a cat would saunter up and be like: what.

I love how it has two armed soldiers standing at attention in front of the gateway. “Let none pass who wish ill to our bold empire city pair of huts, lest the might of our legions army handful of kids with sticks fall upon you!”

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Someone on this Mastodon instance started to follow the tycoon lemmy community

Fascinating info. I’d noticed that posts from the lemmy community !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip were showing up on Mastodon. For example: https://mastodon.social/@Hammerjack@lemmy.zip/114286540525130294

But how do I follow a lemmy community from mastodon? I tried a couple things but nothing worked. Thanks for any additoinal info.

Yeah, same. the article has another picture of Siberian uncle with it strapped to his back and enemy arrows sticking out while he’s shooting, and it says:

The researchers also reconstructed the large shield. It was originally made from plates of animal bone, probably from a type of elk called an Altai wapiti (Cervus canadensis sibiricus), that seem to have been glued onto a leather base.

A couple other thoughts:

• at night, if you lean it up against a tree I bet you have half-decent rain protection.
• in battle I wonder if you could plant them in the ground for protective cover.
• in emergency, maybe you could use it as a sled to drag things behind you?

See, that’s why it bugs me when people distort history in the movies for dramatic purposes. What we know about the truth is usually dramatic enough.

Roose doesn’t have to make actual arguments – he makes statements, finds one example of something that confirms his biases, and then moves on

All too common an approach.

I’ll be so happy when I can read AI-related news again without having to hear about that OpenAI guy.

Along with Guy of Lusignan and the Knights Templar, Raynald is one of the negative characters in the Kingdom of Heaven, an epic action movie directed by Ridley Scott and released in 2005. Portrayed by Brendan Gleeson,[160] Raynald is presented in the film as an aggressive Christian fanatic who deliberately provokes a conflict with the Muslims to achieve their total destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynald_of_Châtillon

Thanks, it’s amazing how I can log in to lemmy every day and there are still live interesting communities that I didn’t know existed. We’re really not that small after all.

When I was taking writing classes several decades ago, people like Joyce were considered like a baseline. If all else failed, just try writing like him. Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver were in the same category.

I’ve been going to a series of readings by the MFAs of the nearby university. It’s amazing how they’re mostly still writing in the same style. wtf is up with that.

This is literally you, buddy:

be a chad… speak the truth. At !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world

Have you tried posting to !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world ?