I’m Chinese, I’ve never seen a map like this before. We usually just use Mercator but split along the Atlantic ocean instead of the Pacific. This map is just kinda bizzare. Why is Antarctica so prioritized? Why’s it in portrait orientation? I think it’s just intentionally weird, which is still cool.

That seems very precarious to me, I’d be constantly worried about nudging it and dropping the cups.

Yep, I got that mixed up, thanks.

TIL not everyone uses a duvet (also TIL that that thing’s called a duvet). That’s really surprising to me, so some people just use the blanket directly? What do you do when it gets dirty, they’re really hard to wash?

I was curious about Alert’s name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it’s cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.

Oh I didn’t know that, I thought they were locked to the server like Lemmy. Ok then I’ll just use masdodon.social for now until I know more about the rest.

Aww that’s a shame, the real Neptune looks really dull.

They’re not contradictory. All other headsets’ passthrough is just so bad that even though the Apple headset isn’t good it’s still way ahead of them.

Fallout but SS gets eaten by a radroach at the start so Nick Valentine is the main character now.

He’s a wizard, the revolver is actually firing shrunken 16 inch HE shells.

I mean, EVE hasn’t gone anywhere, it still has a large and active playerbase, there’s nothing stopping you from joining now.

Or that castle sieges were much more boring than made to seem and would last months

Huh, what media are you talking about? Might just be the generes I enjoy but I’ve never seen anything suggest that castle sieges didn’t last ages. Wouldn’t that kinda go against the point of a siege?

Which suprises me. Someone who was a kid when Minecraft came out would be 25 now. I wonder what the age demographics are like on Lemmy.

Suprised no one has mentioned Minecraft yet. That’s probably it for me.

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I mean this seems like an easy answer to me no? People in the past wouldn’t suspect you’re from the future, they’d think you were posessed or something. People in the future would be much more likely to think of time travel, plus they’d have records of old accents and stuff.

Huh interesting. Here in Hong Kong there’s a snack that is exactly that. It’s basically the exact same thing as ramen, but it’s meant to be eaten directly out of the bag and the seasoning is already mixed in.

Always. I kept a dream journal for a while and I definitely would have noticed if one of my dreams was in greyscale.

The main advantage of early guns wasn’t that they were more powerful, it’s that they were easy to use. You can train someone to fire a gun in a day, while it takes months of training just to get an archer strong enough to draw a bow.

Also the whole “the Europeans were dirty diseased peasants” thing isn’t accurate, and I have to say that IMO the right response to racist depictions of indigenous people as unwashed savages isn’t to just turn around and say “actually the stereotypes are correct it’s just that it’s about the Europeans this time”.

And Indigenous people had more advanced technoglogy than many give them credit for but "The Europeans were technologically behind indigenous people in nearly every way. " is just blatantly wrong.

I do think you’re right though that without smallpox and other diseases the Europeans wouldn’t have colonised the Americas, though there were several other major factors in it.

P.S. I’m not a historian, grain of salt, etc.

There are also some ants that farm certain types of fungus! It’s really cool.