No seriously, evolution fucked up it's cable management. iirc, there's a nerve (essentially the biological equivalent of a data cable) that has an extreme detour, going from the upper neck, looping under the aorta (more or less the largest blood vessel), and then back up all the way to the throat. In giraffes, it's 4+ meters going down the neck and then back up. That is horrible cable management and can actually cause health risks/complications for certain surgeries

Woah, so the big 3 (Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy) of the fediverse text/discussion-based social media can all used from a single account/feed. That's awesome!

I didnt fan over him, but I definitely respected some of "his" earlier ventures, especially SpaceX. Now I just laugh when I hear his name

Lmao I literally did a double take with your name and the post

I mean, wasn't the thing differentiating OF vs regular stuff the idea you can actually make requests and stuff (for the smaller creators, at least)

Nowaday, you could also use the drone method for a similar effect

Ooo wefwef finally renamed itself

Honestly, with how fritzy the top few instances have been due to the recent traffic, I'd argue you did the opposite of err.

I was gonna argue that you'd see more bean posts, but at this point they're the same thing, both in the pun sense and the literal sense

I'm using 3 accounts on 3 seperate instances. Everything seems to work fine?

Oven cooked french fries are a thing, and have a surprisingly high popularity

Eh, I'd argue that it was less stupid games and prizes and more... Unusually equally matched candidates vying for the throne? I mean, think of the warring states, or the Chu-Han contention, or whatever the fuck was going on in Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

In each of the cases, after the fall/overthrow of the previous dynasty, multiple powerful folks threw their hats into the ring. Warring states ended with Qin beating its rivals. Liu Bang out maneuvered Xiang Yu to reunite all/most of China. The Song Dynasty succeeded where all the previous 5 Dynasties failed and absorbed the ten kingdoms. The Three Kingdoms era was mostly similar, but somehow the three major contestants managed to almost perfectly balance their power and just got stuck at an impasse for long enough that the good ol' classic causes of the downfalls of Chinese dynasties (corruption of bureaucracy and the imperial families) took hold.

On reddit, I once read a really good perspective of the whole thing. To summarize: one of the greatest tragedies of the three kingdoms was that Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan were born in the same conflict era, as each of them were more than capable rulers and leaders that had what it would have taken to unite china. Meanwhile, the other conflict eras had only one or two truly capable emperor-aspirants that had the potential to take it all.

You forgot discord and the username changes, which happened a few weeks ago

Every video about a laptop I've seen since he invested has had the framework disclaimer, including multiple shortcircuits by Alex.

Not 100% applicable here, but some websites use stored ip addresses as a safety measure, since a stored ip address' location can be compared against that of the current login attempt. This way, a guy trying to steal your account from the other side of the world would be flagged and you'd be alerted via email and such.

Even as an american, my mind went to cracked (as in /c/crackwatch, cracked games, etc) as the piracy term, and pipe, as in pipeline (like newpipe, etc)

Hmm, did someone ddos them over this or did they shut it down to stop the conversation? 🤔

Do it for the wine

(sorry for the bad pun)

The greatest tragedies are often the conflict between completely acceptable powers, not good and evil.

Yeah, that's a really good takeaway from this kinda of history.

Sun Quan was the weakest of the three leaders though. So indicisive!

In terms of individuality and becoming emperor of all of China, perhaps. He had a surprising number of really competent aides and generals, when compared to Cao Cao and Liu Bei. He was the kind of leader that was much more of a skilled manager of capable talent than a director who knew exactly what commands to give. In the long term, tho, this admittedly lead to politicking and infighting that cause Eastern Wu to rollover and die.

Also, it's worth considering that he was also arguably the most important of the three for their legacy. The Southeastern part of China is incredibly important /influencial in later chinese history, from Tang to Song to Ming and all the way to today, and Sun Quan had the unenviable task of fully absorbing the distinct jiangnan and southern chinese customs and idiosyncrasies into what we nowadays think of as chinese culture.

Also CNY!