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Oh no. It's a barbarian
  • What the vulva did you just speak to me, you lowly barbarian ? I'll have you know I am a part of the Cohors Praetoria and I have been involved in numerous campaigns in Germania, and I have killed over 100 Blue-painted Gauls. I am trained in Testudo warfare and I am the top Legionary engineer in the entire 10th Legion. You are nothing to me but another Germanic man who rolls in the mud. I will throw a pilum at you with precision the likes of which has never been seen during the entire Bello Gallico, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with rambling that horse-shit to me in your filthy barbarian language ? Words fall from you mouth as shit from ass. By Jupiter's Cock, as we converse I am contacting my secret network of Legionarii Evocati across the entire Roman Empire and your little shit-filled village is being raided right now so prepare for the moment, when the Gods have seen it fit to remove cock from arse so you can finally see Roman might. The Roman might that will wipe out the pathetic thing you call your tribe. You're fucking dead, stinking Barbarian. I can ride anywhere over superior Roman paved roads, at anytime, and I can kill you in over 700 ways, and that's just with my Gladius. Not only am I extensively trained in a Castrum, but I have access to my entire Centurio of brave Romans and I will use them to full extent to wipe you cruel Germanics of the face of the earth. If only you could have know what amount of Ballista fire your little clever comment in your uncivilized language was about to bring down upon, you maybe would have shut your filthy mouth. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now the Gods will spread cheek from cheek and ram cock in arse. I will sell your people as slaves and you will march in my victory parade over the Via Sacra. You're dead, filthy Barbarian !

  • Oh no. It's a barbarian
  • The English Empire was actually still smaller than the Mongol one for most of their lifetime.

    A lot richer and more populous, of course, but you could make the argument that was just the times.

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?
  • Literally what happens in a lot of places. Even Europe has a noticeable pee smell sometimes.

    You're asking people to take on extra work. Some might. Others won't or even can't if they're really in a tight spot.

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?
  • Eh, It's a bit of both. No amount of societal pressure will solve a complete absence of waste disposal infrastructure. It's a matter of making sure the sense of shame and/or duty is greater than whatever distance there inevitably is to a working bin.

  • Really?
  • We're talking about stealth jets here, though...

    They don't give much of a conventional radar return. Which is why Musk even brought up his definitely-new definitely-original idea.

  • Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico
  • You must live somewhere with toll roads. They're not a thing in Alberta. There's not even an extra vehicle tax here. Traffic is a pure externality to someone like Encore.

    I can't say for sure for what the whole route to wherever would look like. Like I told the other person, research on it would be welcome.

  • A plant-based Thanksgiving meal is kindest to the climate
  • Yes, meat actually has a very limited flavour palette itself and you can get great variety without it. When I first when veg the "meat" was seriously ass, too. At this point if you're socially in a burger situation there's actual options.

    Butter can be subbed out pretty easy and cheaply, to my taste buds, though. The wonders of vegetable oil hydrogenation and diacetyl.

  • Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico
  • It all depends on upgrader capacity, port/ship capacity and, above all, what the actual profit margins are and how much of a loss our companies can take for how long.

    If you want to do that research, please do share. I might just myself.

  • Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts - CBC Radio

    This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

    I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.

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    Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications

    www.nature.com Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses | Nature Communications

    Many animals convergently evolved photosynthetic symbioses. In bivalves, giant clams (Cardiidae: Tridacninae) gape open to irradiate their symbionts, but heart cockles (Cardiidae: Fraginae) stay closed because sunlight passes through transparent windows in their shells. Here, we show that heart cock...

    Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses | Nature Communications

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552

    > Summary from the 404 media newsletter > > > Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients. > > > > Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.” > > > > “We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago. > > From the article in the link above: > > ! > > Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves. > > > ! > > Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).

    New plant evolution possibility just dropped?

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    This American had Regina on his bucket list for 30 years. He finally made the trip

    I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.

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    www.nature.com ‘Nuclear clock’ breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeeping

    Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.

    ‘Nuclear clock’ breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeeping

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517

    > A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit. > > I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped. > >Edit: > >So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz. > >Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."

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    www.bbc.com Netanyahu not doing enough to secure Gaza hostage deal, says Biden

    US president says he is 'very close' to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths

    Netanyahu not doing enough to secure Gaza hostage deal, says Biden

    Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".

    They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.

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    A guide to inter-Canadian trash talk (and island capitals I guess)

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    How do you find the center of two concentric circles with just a straightedge?

    The Wikipedia article on Steiner constructions mentions it, but doesn't explain it, and the source linked is a book I don't have. This has come up in a practical project.

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    Does anybody have a table of coke or charcoal burn rates?

    In air. This seems like it should be incredibly basic information but I can't find it anywhere.

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    Just watched this and thought it was dope. I especially liked the Roman buffets and Foreman grills.

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    Is there a community for general Rome content?

    I just watched Roman support on WIRED and it was dope, but it's not a meme.

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    spectrum.ieee.org Food Service Robots Just Need the Right Ingredients

    20 million meals later, Chef Robotics is making robotic food prep work

    Food Service Robots Just Need the Right Ingredients
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    jordaneldredge.com The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes

    The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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    www.nature.com Google AI predicts long-term climate trends and weather — in minutes

    Models that are more reliable and less energy-intensive could help us to better prepare for extreme weather.

    Google AI predicts long-term climate trends and weather — in minutes
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    You might want to make this meta community more obvious.

    People new to federation are wandering elsewhere. If the logged-in screen is anything like what I see as a guest, I'm not surprised. I found this through my own instance's search feature.

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    I'd just like to say, the banner is what I imagine a bigfoot from the backrooms would look like.

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    Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)

    I've been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.

    Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.

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    What's the chance the "traitor MPs" the news is going on about are literally just Han Dong?

    We have no idea how many there are, and we already know about one, right? It seems like the simplest possibility.

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    Nature Podcast: Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why

    www.nature.com Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why

    Kelly and Zach Weinersmith talk to Nature about the hurdles facing humans living in outer space.

    Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why
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    A pedestrian elevator that goes up and over something.

    (I hope it's okay if I just keep posting stuff here)

    This version of the multidirectional elevator is neat because it's not an exotic modern solution or just a concept, but an actual practical machine that's widely used. It's not quite fresh content but it holds up.

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    I assume this sort of thing also counts?

    The comments say it can run a lot faster, as you'd expect for the added complexity, but they don't usually use the full speed for liability reasons. I wonder if a version could be made that's fully enclosed.

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