OP is complaining, but doesn’t appear to be otherwise showing signs of that, and men being outraged women don’t invite them into everything is a real phenomenon I’ve seen around.

That being said, yes, shittyness is evenly distributed between genders.

So is this pure desperation because they’re losing the war, or did one of their partners request it?

They’re looking for a way to feel persecuted, probably.

No, too controversial. More than the original, if anything. Hollywood is avoiding anything like that.

Bambi breaks no laws and respect’s other peoples opinions about the off-screen hunting, and there’s nods to “traditional family values” and how great the old days were because they know who’s in charge now.

I remember seeing a 9/11 era comedy sketch about how the US government keeps changing who the bad guys are, and the punchline was everyone in the future worrying about the “evil Canadian empire”. We’re not there yet, but I can see a pretty clear trajectory that ends in us as a “communist” adversary.

Yay, democracy at work supporting itself.

Cancel all Microsoft Office contracts. Cancel all Microsoft Windows contracts. Switch all government departments and Crown corporations to Linux.

Yeah, this is the national government that can’t even hire someone else to make an app effectively. Decades of cutting “wasteful bureaucracy” in the IT field has left them a sitting duck. They need to build that back, and then maybe we can discuss it in 10 years.

Announce $100 million fund to support Open Source software such as Krita, Gimp, Inkscape. Time to assassinate Adobe.

Bruh, we don’t even know how we’re going to pay for the things we already have as the US implodes our economy. And we have a housing crisis.

Ban all government departments from using foreign consulting firms. No more McKinsey or Bain.

More doable, although I’d go for more avoid than totally ban. Absolutes like that tend to run up against the nuance of whatever small procurement.

Cancel all F-35 jet orders. It’s better to have 5 F-16 than 1 plane that can’t fly.

We already paid.

Put all the top 50 executives from Fox News on a no-travel list. Put their spouses on the list.

A bit arbitrary (why not the Trumps themselves?) but sure.

Do they even have 50 top-level executives, though?

Well, not immediately. Usually they have to be pissed off pretty well first.

The Indian government monitors them, and seems to think they’re doing alright.

IIRC the guy from 2018 was an enormous tool that harassed them for a couple months, so maybe they’re just keeping their distance from this tool.

They’re so isolated it wouldn’t have reached them. There was no landings between 2018 and 2025, per the Wiki. Maybe they noticed less air traffic than usual.

Yeah, but there was a 3 century break before the the local Germanic rulers decided to give it to the pope as a temporal domain.

The Church in general is a solid example of a way Rome lived on very directly and relevantly after Roman period ended, it’s a good point. It’s also why we still have so much of their literature, while that of Parthia is lost. And I should mention that the Byzantine emperor Justinian got close to bringing the western half of the empire back.

I mean, the pyramids are huge, and they were built starting ~2500BC. There was stuff.

It’s true that in any discussion of today’s economics versus that in history (or in very different countries today) you run into the problems of an apples-to-oranges comparison. It’s most common for economic historians to default to hours of unskilled labour; early economists like Marx or Smith would be proud. Archeologists meanwhile tend to use house size in settlements as a proxy. That leads to ideas like the bronze age “palace economy” where all wealth would have flown through the ruler, although one wonders how that could possibly have been implemented in practice. When it comes to comparing modern global inequality, the best measurements are multidimensional indices, but that’s only possible because you can interact with people on the ground in real time. (No, two dollars a day isn’t the same everywhere)

Although there’s some dissent, the gist that pre-modern history included much higher levels of inequality than we see today holds. Here’s a recent example. Here’s an old AskHistorians reply about it, by alternate frontend.

There’s is some interesting comparisons out there. In certain periods and areas, medieval peasants were eating pretty well; much better than the modern global poorest, probably because of there was a lot of land relative to the local population. One the other hand, the poorest countries today have better infant mortality than the richest countries of the early 20th century.

Historical acts of oppression were often far more brutal and cruel but that’s because it wasn’t physically possible to maintain the constant, but relatively minor oppression that is characteristic of modernity.

Pragmatism might have had something to do with that, as did unfounded beliefs about the effectiveness of draconian punishments (the English bloody code being an infamous example). There’s no shortage of examples of historical suffering handed out on a consistent rather than occasional basis, though.

Well, in the short term that’s true, because they won’t be allowed to fail. You have to think either the government will get much more involved or all their civilian customers will go away if this continues on, though.

Vegetables that normal dogs don’t like.

Rome didn’t treat it’s lower classes and actual slaves very well from the start, though. Nor did the rulers before them or the feudal splinter states after them. I’ve had an actual historian of Rome tell me point blank nobody has any idea why it started to decline. Historically, scholars have pointed at too much generosity with the privileges of citizenship and senatorial appointments of those from humble backgrounds.

I think it’s fair to say that usually the peasants know they’re being screwed. Very rarely, the aristocracy has been complacent enough it develops into an actual movement, but before the French revolution it always ends like the English peasant’s revolt: it’s crushed, and everything goes back to normal. It’s kind of weird it’s worked better since then, really.

(There was also more than one financial crisis in the Rome, but that’s neither here nor there)

In theory you could, although I’d guess it’d be an incredible amount of work, and might cost more in the end. Most attempts at replicating natural flavours and scents have historically been unconvincing, although some of the recent stuff has been incredible.

I wonder if there’s any food scientists on Lemmy.

Really? I feel like this needs to be empirically tested.

There’s ways to accomplish that while not being rich, and rich people don’t usually do that, but then again people are dumb.

Same here. I’m like a classic bear IRL and I get attention. My luck with women is nowhere close.

It’s the facts. You don’t have to pay any attention to them if you don’t want, I guess.

Both. The fast-moving air really does have an almost frying effect, and mine takes like a minute or two to get up to temp (and fits a whole pizza).