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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

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Medininkai Castle, Lithuania (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, we really castle-shaming in the Year Of Our Lord 2026? 😭

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It just looks like a guard tower and walls. Just saying.