It was me. Sowwy

Everyone could learn a thing or two from the Steamdeck. The twin sticks, the touch pads, the double shoulder buttons, the four on the back, the overall ergonomics, it’s really great to use.

Jack booted tool of oppression

No, that’s the wrong Caesar. Caesar became a dog behaviourist on TV

Necroing this post to just say, the idea that you could hit the right city with nothing more than a compass and a stopwatch is incredible.

These gramaphone records may be worse for you than the wax cylinder!

Well, if you want to get specific, the Doge of Venice built a fleet to transport the crusader armies departing from Venice, but due to them mostly not having the money to pay for transit, he instead of sailing them to Jerusalem, he got the sailors to take them to Zara (on the Adriatic coast of modern day Turkey) with whom he already had issues with (they were rebellious subjects of Venice he wanted crushing).

After that, the Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos persuaded the crusaders to restore his deposed father to the throne and in payment would help them in their goal of taking Jerusalem.

They did what he asked but Alexios backed out of the deal so the Crusaders then sacked the city instead and instituted the short lived Latin Empire.

Or the fourth crusade which was supposed to go to Jerusalem and then onto Egypt but they got lost and just thought “fuck it, well capture Constantinople instead”

I knew I did it wrong in high school

Got born ugly?

OP: gimme some contemporary music

Rudyharrelson: here’s some songs from a decade ago

^although I have to admit I agree with your choices^

My infinite money has built a space elevator to eliminate the need for rocket launches.

Create an energy efficient system for carbon capture from the atmosphere and the oceans. Something that can be used at the sites for heavy emitters and also generally around the world.

Create a system to collect the captured carbon and bring it to a central site.

Fire that carbon off into interstellar space.

Use the revenue generated from fees from heavy polluters who can’t decarbonise effectively (things like steel making, glass works, air travel) to fund low carbon energy projects and storage/distribution systems for developing nations like in sub-saharan Africa and SE Asia.

I’m not sure what’s worse: the awful AI slop, the late-stage Facebook level meme attempt or the obvious boomer baiting.

No referencing Big Bang Theory meme

Anything by the military advisor in Civ 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEccQp15dWQ

Couple are set to make $3.5 million in profit, are asked to pay tax, say no and greedily hoard their asset some more and cry about the hardship.

Fuck off.

As a dyspraxic, I feel you. Years of special classes to try and improve my handwriting and general coordination (this was before the condition was very well understood) and none of which really worked.

I have simply learned to avoid writing by hand as much as physically possible. It’s the main reason I was so interested in computers as a kid (again, before they were in everyone’s pocket) and I found programming as a creative outlet very liberating from the limitations of my physical abilities.

Allowing your kids to grow up and become Edmonton Oilers fans is a crime against humanity.

I remember the first time I saw the phrase “streaming video” was a website called “teen steam” (which I desperately wanted a credit card to access) in the late 90s / early 2000s.

I’m sure you can guess what the content of that site was and I was sure that “streaming” was some new sex act I had yet to discover and wanted very much to find out. Sadly I was too young, too poor and logged onto the Internet in the school library at lunch time so it was always going to be a long shot.

A curling gif? In the wild? Yay!