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Ken Burns is in your future
  • It's probably just too broad to treat as one war, but I always return to reading the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Empire. So many poetic, cinematic moments that for western civilisation defined our subsequent history. Where are we if Crassus doesn't desperately need a triumph but gets fed molten gold instead? If Marc Anthony and Cleopatra rule the Mediterranean from Alexandria? If a comet doesn't convince half of Rome that Caesar is a literal God?

  • Egg Prices Surge Again As Grocers Face Shortages Amid Bird Flu Outbreak
  • Concentration helps spread alright, but any exposure to an infected... hang on we've just had a pandemic. You know this stuff.

    Wild birds are infected and dying all the time. They are the reservoir through which the infection spreads. Chickens are too controlled and, as you said, quick to die, to be good vectors.

    https://opendata.agriculture.gov.ie/dataset/h5n1-wild-bird-species-identification

  • Ace of Base - The Sign [1993]
  • This journalist seems either to not know what "fairly noncommittal" means or is looking for the type of reaction you've given them.

    Ekberg’s response has been fairly noncommittal. In a 1997 documentary, he is quoted saying “I told everyone I really regret what I did. I’ve closed that book. I don’t want to even talk about it, that time does not exist in me any more. I closed it and I threw the book away in 1987. I took the experience from it, I learned from it. But that life is not me. It’s somebody else.”

    None of what the original commenter said is referenced or even alluded to in article. One member of the band was previously in a neonazi punk band before Ace of Base, and says he regrets it.

  • The US is so racist, even the rise of Fascism gets blamed on minorities.
  • This is, of course, Ameri-centric horseshit. American voting is reported on as white, black, Latino and not-statisitcally-significant. Meanwhile they'll call other countries "ethnically homogenous" mostly because they don't know anything about any other countries or literally thousands of years of finding any reason to hate each other. Motherfucker I don't care if we're genetically identical I'll be dead and buried before I vote for a fucking Walloon/Protestant/Catholic/Silesian/Scouser/Galician/Lombard/Frisian (delete as appropriate). They haven't at any point all been thrown into a cage, deprived of their heritage and told "nah you're just black/mexican now". And it ignores that yes, global migration is global. Every colonial state has left people behind in its former colonies, and found themselves with former subjects as citizens too.

  • First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
  • No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he's pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn't exactly finished yet.