RunawayFixer

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[–] RunawayFixer 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This reads like a case of game design by spreadsheet to me. Instead of the lead designers being creative persons making creative decisions, these are accountants that are designing a game by ticking boxes. They didn't try to make a game that they would like to play, they tried to make a game that they think others would like to play.

[–] RunawayFixer 13 points 2 weeks ago

Or in other words, it's to make sure that those kids stay in the cult of stupid. Ignorant and stupid people are easier to control, both by external grifters, but also by the parents.

[–] RunawayFixer 1 points 2 weeks ago

Totally, in the end it boils down to that. England holds cultural heritage treasures that were undoubtedly stolen/robbed and they have no intention of giving those back either.

An example is this Portugese book collection: https://www.sulinformacao.pt/en/2013/12/associacao-%C2%ABfaro-1540%C2%BB-quer-que-inglaterra-devolva-colecao-de-livros-roubada-em-1596/

[–] RunawayFixer 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, earth in Dutch is "aarde" and in German it's "erde", which both sound related to "earth".

However, it originally must have meant soil/dirt/land, long before those humans were even aware of the concept of planets. So who was the first to call Earth after earth or Terre after terre? Probably the first persons to figure out that they were living on a planet is my guess, it makes sense to name something after the part that you can see imo.

[–] RunawayFixer 2 points 3 weeks ago

Are you sure about Antarctica? I wouldn't be surprised if emperor penguins measured distance in feet and flippers.

[–] RunawayFixer 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm using qwant as my default now. It does well for most searches, but for map related things I still use google.

[–] RunawayFixer 6 points 1 month ago

Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim,[a] constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE.[8] They traditionally spoke Yiddish[8] and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

The "Poland-Lithuania" that most of these migrations went to, at the time included large portions of present day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The regions with the highest Jewish populations prior to WW2, seem to match the borders of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth before it was partitioned by their neighbours in the 18th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland

[–] RunawayFixer 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not the one making the claim, but found something that this tall tale might be based on: https://www.grunge.com/756660/the-mysterious-bay-of-jars-explained/

Tldr: Brazilian entrepreneur throws some amphorae into a bay to grow barnacles on them for aesthetic reasons. Disreputable sea treasure hunter finds some of those, makes a flurry of wild claims, gets banned from Brazil for theft of actual antiquities from another wreck and he goes silent when people start asking more questions.

So the closest I came when looking for a source, was 20th century amphorae in a Brazilian bay, nothing about a roman shipwreck in the Carribean. But since the claim was a roman "galleon", a claim for it to be in the Carribean also means little.

[–] RunawayFixer 3 points 1 month ago

Solid idea, but imperfect execution.

[–] RunawayFixer 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

History is written by the victors.

[–] RunawayFixer 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

14 to 16h is too short for a default. Not everyone will (or even has) the ability to take out their smartphone multiple times per day every day to catch up with the news. Someone who will only read it during the evening, would need posts to stay up 24 to 26h. So that to me is the minimum. Personally I don't mind if they stay up longer, there might be new interesting top comments if the post itself stays on top longer.

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