Highly recommend:
Crucible of War
Einstein’s Telescope.
1176 BC
The other side of history: daily life in the Ancient world
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?
3·2 years agoIts from the book 1176 BC by Eric H Cline.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?
18·2 years agoEnd of the bronze age. Have a set of letters between citystate rulers, one writing that help is urgently needed as seaborne invaders have been spotted nearby and his military is off with the hittite empire.
The response back, in modern slang amounts to “lol ur fucked.”
Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.
For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.
It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.
The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.
So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn’t have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.
Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don’t even have that to work from.
Why would anyone in 2024 honestly switch to google products.
They are worse than microsoft, and that takes effort.
I feel the need to remake this using Brennan Lee Mulligan from Dropout.tv.
kbin_space_program@kbin.runto
Gaming@lemmy.ml•PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is
8·2 years agoPlaystation won with the PS5 because MS realized PC players have more money and went back to them.
MS left the game because they found a better game.
Ears are wrong since they suggest directional ears, but we don’t have the muscle, or critically the ligament attachment points on the skull, for that.
As far as claws go, again, no marks of strong cartilege / ligament / bed on the fingers and toes that would indicate functional claws.
Nipples: the smoking gun would be a pregnant woman or an infant, but theyd be able to see that unlike rodents, humans arent having more than two babies at a time outside of extremely rare cases, more than two babies just dont have room to fully gestate, so theyd likely cut that number down.
Fur: the sheer amount of plastic clothing we’ve generated will put that to rest fast.
Whiskers: There would be ligament attachment marks on the skull where the muscles used to move them would have been. Also maybe blood vessel/neuron marks on the bones.
Also the almost complete lack of snout would indicate heavy hand usage and not diving into things headfirst like rodents and cats have to.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update
4·2 years agoThat never stopped any previous Bethesda title from being modded.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update
24·2 years agoIt already is. Check it out on Nexusmods. I did so late last week and they couldnt even fill 1 row of new mods this week. Even Morrowind still gets that done.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Escape From Tarkov dev finally caves, says people who paid $150 for the game will get access to its new mode 'in waves'
35·2 years ago“I’m extra sorry that our lawyer got back to me and said the previous wording we did around the ‘all future DLC inclusion’ was legally binding and we’d get the pants sued off of us unless we changed course.”
If youre talking about car insurance, comparing rates by themselves is irrelevant. Alberta has relatively cheap insurance, but BCs basic coverage is more than ten times better for only about 30% more cost.
There are massive fundamental driving differences between the provinces.
For example, you can instantly tell an Albertan driver. They don’t know how to do hills, corners, or worst of all, hills with corners.
kbin_space_program@kbin.runto
World News@lemmy.ml•EU to probe ‘flood’ of cheap Chinese electric vehicles, sparking trade war fears
28·2 years agoScmp is unfortunately CCP propaganda.
Not pictured:
The adorable, if thiefish Grey Jay, aka the Whiskey Jack.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
1·2 years agoI’m simply saying what happens. For good or for ill.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
22·2 years agoYeah but things get popular here, we tell our family and friends, they go out and tell people…
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World News@lemmy.ml•US tells Israel it won’t join counter-strike on Iran, urges caution
11·2 years agoIm sure Bibi is angling to find a way to make them.
Also, wasnt the message yesterday that the US was opposed to Israeli count-counter attack?
Now its just: we’ll still sell you things, but we won’t use our own shit to help you attack.
When you hear food engineering, think of things like how Pringles chips give a huge burst of flavour then shatter in your mouth with a nice crunch, but leave nothing to chew.
Or how fast food burgers like Mcdonalds and Wendy’s similarly give lots of flavour but nothing to chew.
Both are examples of engineered foods. In both cases, designed to leave you wanting more.
They work on two principles.
- The brain wants flavour and crunch.
- It cheats on immediate fulness by counting bites/chews.
You can counteract their food design with smaller bites and chewing more.
This was from a CBC Radio special on the science of fast food I recall from far too long ago.




Based on the article, the problem is that Github isn’t being treated as legacy software, but isn’t able to load a full file using the currently popular JS framework they are using.