“Racism is when you don’t like the Chinese government”?

Teleporting to Albania seems OP, I’d definitely take it.

Funny enough, by the time I reached college, my professors were all extremely positive about Wikipedia. Though they emphasized that, as an encyclopedia, it was not valid to use as a source, they all praised it for its breadth, accessibility, and providing citations to valid sources that often could be used in an academic context.

Legitimately, Wiki is one of the great institutions of the modern net. One of the few things that I look at, with all its flaws, and say “Damn, that’s a fine contribution to human society”

Just gotta bargain 'em down

Also, 17th century pug, so precious 😭

[approving inexplicable pug noise in defiance of the basic dictates of natural selection, lung functioning, and God himself]

Government drones gone rogue

Cutting. I love it.

Mood

Bursting with love

One moment, I have to report you to my ATF supervisor first.

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Okay, here we go:

https://fronttowardfriend.com/

Nah, even they’ll concede it was only once.

An ‘anarchist’ instance which claims to oppose genocide, yet allows genocide denial if it’s painted red, and where the admins deny UN verified sexual assault.

Fantastic.

I think Lemmy is slowly losing the civil conversations that could be had here before.

Do you not remember the chaos back in 2023 and 2024?

It’s become much more civil, not less.

As if my demons weren’t already stronger than me

I was just responding to the ‘real crab meat is an illusion for most of the population unless they have money’ bit.

Gotta grow up in a good area for it

Unfortunately, as many times as I’ve tried crab, I’ve never gotten a real taste for it. 😔

You son of a bitch, you had me at ‘deep fry it’

Explanation: A bit inaccurate in the details - Roman city traffic was godawful. Julius Caesar laid down restrictions on when carts could enter the city of Rome to cut down on the grotesque amount of traffic, and there was a dizzying array of traffic laws and one-way streets in the convoluted metropolis that was Rome. Or, in the words of the Roman poet Juvenal…

Who but the wealthy get sleep in Rome? There lies the root of the disorder. The crossing of wagons in the narrow winding streets, the slanging of drovers when brought to a stand, would make sleep impossible for a [Emperor] Drusus - or a sea-calf.

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Newly-patched tunics are torn in two; up comes a huge log swaying on a wagon, and then a second dray carrying a whole pine-tree, towering aloft and threatening the people. For if that axle with its load of Ligurian marble breaks down, and pours its spilt contents on to the crowd, what is left of their bodies? Who can identify the limbs, who the bones? The poor man’s crushed corpse disappears, just like his soul.