Infrapink

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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 day ago

The Panchen Lama is a puppet of the CCP.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 days ago

Bad news for the Libertarians: silver was historically way more common for money than gold was, to the point that languages like Irish and French use the same word for money as for silver.

This is because there was (and is) way less gold than silver, so gold is way more valuable. As such, gold coins were only used to buy things like houses, horses, and suits of armour. Silver coins were much more practical; the linked article mentions that Ptolemaic Egypt had to export large quantities of grain to bring in enough silver to pay their army despite there being gold in Egypt.

But more than that, if there is a complete societal collapse, the metal you'll want is iron. Societal collapse doesn't mean things continue as they have been except there are no safety or food quality laws. It means everybody goes back to peasant agriculture using tools made of wood and iron (well, steel, which is iron with extra stuff in it). If money is used, it might well be something where no coins actually change hands; everybody just remembers how much they owe their neighbours, and how much their neighbours owe them. That, if course, assumes that in the event of complete societal collapse, we don't decide to give local communism a try.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 8 points 4 days ago

I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.

~/Books, with subfolders by topic.

~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.

~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's actually how it works in Irish. The word for good is deas, while the word for bad is deas prefixed with the negating particle , so mídheas.

(There are still separate words for tge cardinal directions).

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a misconception. Most people in ancient and medieval times had reasonable access to clean water. They drank wine and beer because they wanted to get stoned.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 week ago

If it's dark and I see a light at just tge right angle, I see an image of the blood vessels inside my eyes.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like the term Markov chains in a Chinese room

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.

 

Israeli forces stormed a theatre in occupied East Jerusalem to prevent a children’s play from taking place following orders from far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Police forces arrived on Sunday night at the Palestinian National Theatre, forcibly removing spectators gathered for the play and causing children to cry as they were ordered home.

 

Beckinsale explained that she initially thought her daughter’s boyfriend was just looking for attention until she noticed that, similarly to an egg, whatever had passed through his body had a “shell” and a “yolk” when opened.

“Hold on a second,” host Jimmy Kimmel said. “An egg came out of his body?”

According to Beckinsale, yes. “Not out of his mouth or ears, it came out the route that it would come out of a hen,” Beckinsale replied. “Well, not his vagina. He went to the bathroom and was very surprised to find that he had laid an egg.”

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use a dedicated video player instead of a browser. Quite a few desktop and mobile video players can directly play YT videos if you just feed them a URL.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 88 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Needing to log into an online account to play a single-player game.

When a single-player game keeps pausing to tell me it can't connect to the server.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are bisexual pies allowed?

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do you have just a few minutes to chat about our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

 

A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nude photos during an innocent conversation about soccer. Tesla and xAI didn't respond to CBC's questions about the interaction, sending what appeared to be an auto-generated response stating, "Legacy media lies."

 

The stolen chairs, which had an estimated value of €60,000, were resold in Spain, Morocco and Romania, according to police.

 

Tesla has added another brazenly stupid new entry to its dubious safety record.

 

It's unclear how the ducks got onto the freeway, which is guarded by a concrete barrier.

It is the second day in a row ducks have caused peak hour chaos in the same spot on the freeway.

 

Sir, this is really not helping your case

 

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

 

A video captioned “Gotta Catch ’Em All” spliced raid footage with Pokémon imagery, sparking calls for Nintendo to step in.

Even the Nintendo haters are hoping they sue the DHS and win.

 

There is speculation among gamers and religious analysts about whether the PlayStation controller used by Acutis would be considered a second-class relic by the Church.

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