Tar_Alcaran

“socialism with lemming characteristics”

I know lemmings don’t actually run off of cliffs en masse, but this still feels less than flattering.

There are some 30 species of mosquitos that can transmit Malaria. There are about 3470 species of mosquitoes that don’t.

So, if you get rid of those 30, some of the other will probably be a decent food source.

Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.

Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard

Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

Holidays meant “you don’t have to work for the lord who owns your land”, but since they were subsistence farmers in the middle ages, that meant they still had to tend the animals and do the work on their own plots. They were absolutely still working during their “holidays”.

I’ve got this rough theory that we can get decently historic pieces from around 50 AD (but only in central italy, nowhere else), around 1200, 1800 and then from 1900 to now. Everything else is even more of crapshoot.

Anything between Commodus and Charlemange is especially cursed

I do historical reenactment, so I have a hobby that involves researching the age of a certain embroidery stitch, for example.

I’ve learned to just switch off that part of my brain for games and movies, or I’d cry a lot more. I just project them to an alternate reality where they totally had nylon in 1200.

Nothing a little ducktape won’t fix

And downvoted like all AI slop should be

The big “problem” for the farmers is that consumers don’t actually give a shit about the DOP system.

1997 is not I IX IX VII, for 1 9 9 7

It’s MCMXCVII for 1000+(1000-100)+(100-10)+7

There’s a saying: “it’s not your fault, but you are the only person who can solve it”.

Only you can reduce your calories, only you can stop smoking and only you can quit alcohol. That’s shitty that you have to, and in an ideal world it wouldn’t be like this, but it is.

Especially the ones who bought the debt. They want income, they don’t want to spend time. If you pay them some tiny amount that’s higher than the pennies they paid, they’re happy.

Brains ARE grey, they just hold a LOT of blood, making them look pinkish. But the neurons are grey.

The brain also has white matter (the axons) which is white due to a fatty layer.

And when it isn’t their spawning season, you’re not very likely to see them in the wild, so it kinda makes sense that people associated the colour with the fish.

I was going to make the same post, but you beat me to it. So for fun I checked my entire candidatelist for our 26 parties available for the Dutch lower house, and it DOES list a “Dane C. Harris” running for the Social Party. Very likely not a relative.

Turns out I COULD have voted for Harris.

Yeah but, cosplay is fun, that doesn’t sound fun at all

My new(ish) IdeaPad had the SIM option, but it was like 160 euros, and using my phone costs 0 euros.

Organise more and better LARPs

I parttimed it as a teenager and in my early 20. It was really great and I enjoyed it a lot, but it’s not a fulltime carreer if you don’t have a degree in it.

I loathe gardening. But i’ll gladly build you your gardening stuff! Teamwork, yeah!