The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
That’s a small description of the basic functionality. It does not address things like in the OP (where do you “meet” - mostly an analogy going bad from being overextended), what’s the point of different servers instead of a big one, etc.
I’ve been reading fxomt’s FAQ (Blaze linked it a few comments below), I’m going to do something like that.
Thank you!
Tights/leggings
Touka approves this rank!
Sorry. I couldn’t resist. (The intro of this anime is such a banger that I still remember the MC’s obsession with leggings and tights.)
The spread of fish tapeworm due to Roman conquest is well documented, and the only good explanation is garum. And I believe that larval cysts can survive pretty rough conditions, including high salinity.
The “right” way to get rid of them would be by heat, but you can’t simply use cooked fish to make garum, it denatures the proteins required for the fish flesh to decompose “the right way”.
But the most concerning part isn’t even the parasites you’re ingesting directly from garum. Sure, they’ll get into your belly, and you’ll become their definitive host. The problem is its offspring being literally shitted onto the soil, in a time where proper sanitation was non-existent; once you ingest their eggs, you’re taking the role of the intermediate host, and they’ll nest themselves across your flesh and brain.
History and Archaeology Online has some great introductory info.
Odds are that you won’t find leftovers of those factories / workshops in the ruins of either Herculaneum or Pompeii though. Garum wasn’t prepared in urban centres, as there were laws against it. (Garum production stinks really, really bad.) Instead it was prepared nearby, in areas with low demographic density, and then sent to the city for distribution.
And the region around Pompeii was great for that - it’s coastal so you have access to fish, it’s really sunny and garum fermentation is made under sunlight, and it’s close enough to Rome to make travel times short.
The text I’ve linked mentions it, but 30% of the garum production of Pompeii and the surrounding region (Campania) was owned by a single guy, called Aulus Umbricius Scarus. He lived in Pompeii, got killed by the Vesuvius eruption, and his house has been identified.
The usual: booze, games, cooking, gardening, anime.
This time I bought some Patagonia beers. I’m not a heavy beer drinker, but they’re great. One can of each type (Pilsener to share with my mum, IPA, and an amber lager). It’s 4AM and I’m seriously considering to crack the IPA open, I love it!
Games-wise it’s going to be Leaf Blower Revolution. I’m still farming witches and crafting leaves. (This sounds weird, I know.) I’ll probably also play some Oxygen not Included, I bought the Frosty Planet DLC a time ago and I didn’t play with it yet.
Cooking-wise, dunno, but people always ask me to prepare some stuff. It’s typically homemade pizza. Typical flavours are
Gardening is… well. I need to plant some new cacti I bought for my cactus garden, plus check outside for hail damage - yesterday [Thursday] evening it hailed really bad. I’m worried the most about my kale and pepper plants (the tree pepper is probably OK, but the bishop’s crown and ladyfinger are probably damaged). Malena (my Sicilian / rangpur tree) and the kumquat probably liked it.
Anime-wise I’m re-watching the series Log Horizon. It’s really good; I heavily recommend it for people who like “trapped in a game” style isekai series. I’ll probably also watch a few series airing this season: Dr. Stone, Re:ZERO, Hazure Skill “Kinomi Master”, Unnamed Memory…
…you know what, I’m cracking the IPA open right now.
I wonder how many glazed parasites they’ll find in it. Specially fish parasites - mostly from garum, and guess where garum factories were? Near Pompeii.
The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I’ve seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)
Kind of surprising given how much r/RedditAlternatives is biased towards people who didn’t find any alternative because they’re excessively picky and/or create problems out of thin air.
Regarding the smaller userbase: …seriously, nobody will find a Reddit alternative. It’s stuff that we need to build.
[I would contribute but Reddit shadowbanned my account so…]
As usual fxomt doing a great job with this stuff! I’ll probably suggest some stuff to add to the FAQ, like the question in the OOP.
Do you mean this one?
If yes: that FAQ is a good start, but it’s mostly help for people already registered. I was thinking on something to clarify how Lemmy works for people who are considering to register on it. Stuff like:
If there’s something already in this direction we could/should advertise it a bit more, and if it doesn’t I’m seriously considering to start it.
They’re thinking too hard about it.
You register in server A. The community is in server B. Server A and B send info back and forth. That’s it.
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Yeah, it’s wild how many times that root has been reborrowed for different vegetable names
The root is the same, but the stems and leaves are all different!
Even the etymological family is a mess. They all backtrack to Latin caulis stalk, stem, cabbage stem; but even in closely related language varieties they might mean different plant varieties, like
…and of course people had to reborrow the word from Latin to refer to stems in general, to make the thing even messier. (e.g. PT “caule” stem)
Individual tastes are a thing, too. At least someone out there is bound to dislike even the most beloved dishes; the thing, for me, is how many people claim to hate Brussels sprouts, even if they deserve some leafy and greasy love.
Selective breeding does play a role but also how you prepare them. Just like other brassicae if you cook them for too long they start smelling bad, so you want to use high heat and relatively short cooking times.
For example. My go-to approach is to cut them into halves and pan-fry in lard. High fire. People claim it’s delicious.
People have some hate boner against Brussels sprouts, but damn - if you know how to prepare them, they’re delicious.
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It’s a cool read though - I’m still reading it, but so far it did a great job showing that concepts are fuzzy and inside our heads, not those well-defined abstractions in some external realm.
Congratulations!
Correctly highlight when a programmer is being assumptive as a brick, even when assumptions are one of the biggest sins in programming. Done, you’ve triggered a lot of programmers.