Growing and learning

So… a process?

Who says this and what makes them think this phenomenon is exclusive to the US?

Che Guevara, Julius Ceasar and Galileo are household names globally and martyrdom is–in the words of religious leaders everywhere–“a whole thing, y’know”

No good Xbox games came out in 1896

Insurance companies seem slightly over-represented here

Lemmy is my niche community

Does this refer to the overall Lemmy meta or was there a specific “sucks your mum died; maybe it was from the shame of you using Adobe products” moment?

If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:

Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of “cleaning things up” by making everything a “Microsoft shop”, even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)

They’re happy, they own nothing and they don’t even know it

Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts

Pretty sure it’s actually missing King Kong given the design of those buildings and plane

How did that cat manage to keep its phone’s reflection out of this selfie?

For anybody else wondering about the roughly 1500 year gap, there are conflicting statements between the museum and an article (presumably the one above) written about it but I don’t see any explanation on either side’s reasoning:

https://etc.worldhistory.org/exhibitions/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/

We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead

Grub Rescue

Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game

The moment I realized the most one can gain from (pre-buyout)Twitter is the respect of other Twitter users, posting anything immediately became a chore

Not sure what the science is between 2 images with no source or timestamp and nearly 20 years of technological improvement between them is but this isn’t the peak of Katrina

Katrina ultimately reached its peak strength as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale on August 28. Its maximum sustained winds reached 175 mph (280 km/h) and its pressure fell to 902 mbar (hPa; 26.63 inHg), ranking it among the strongest ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.

It probably refers to its stats at landfall

Katrina weakened to a Category 3 before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast, first in southeast Louisiana (sustained winds: 125mph) and then made landfall once more along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (sustained winds: 120mph). Katrina finally weakened below hurricane intensity late on August 29th over east central Mississippi.

But power doesn’t equal damage for weather

[Katrina] is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, surpassing the record previously held by Hurricane Andrew from 1992. In addition, Katrina is one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Katrina

https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

Doesn’t sound familiar but I understand there’s very little to go off here

Can’t remember the name but there’s a novel set in Ireland in the not-too-distant future

Synopsis implied it had become a surveillance state but didn’t gave up before confirming due to the literal writing style

I swear every sentence was written in the passive voice (poorly remembered examples):

“It was made known through the clothes he wore they were sent from the department of security”

“As she walked outside the smell made Spring’s arrival clear”

Totally fine normally but do it every single sentence and it becomes a mystery novel where the mystery is what the hell you just read!

… Or idk, Harry Potter 5 is pretty meandering

“My parents didn’t try to get into school loans”

Weird flex

Technically accurate use of POV

Why is the date range backwards?

I see some of their paintings are dated at less than 2000 years old so it would be CE but that’s not necessarily true for all their artwork

Where are you watching drug dealers openly flaunt their money? Do you mean pharmacists?