Saeculum

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they'd endured as independent groups into the 21st century without being colonised by Europeans, as the map shows, they would almost certainly have developed defined borders.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The Aztec empire being the dominant force on the continent could be a very unfortunate situation for everyone living there.

They were so unpopular with every surrounding nation (because of all the murdering and kidnapping and human sacrificing) that when the Spanish showed up, the vast vast majority of the soldiers that fought against the Aztecs were from the local peoples.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly, the design is unfeasible as eventually the rotational force either separates the bread from the butter, or liquidises the internal organs of the cat when they reach peak generating speed.

The rapid disassembly of the mechanism can cause quite an amount of damage as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks in my country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Meat is generally spiced more heavily in warm climates because it spoils faster and hot spices both preserves meat by killing bacteria and disguise a certain degree of spoilage.

I would be surprised if the trend towards hot spices in a country that is generally both warm and humid is because of a difference in palette rather than the reasons above.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

how much fake seafood do you see engineered out there?

Crab sticks are usually fake, but generally, fish is harder to immigrate accurately than other meats, and there's less demand for it since people in the west don't generally eat tons of fish anyway.

Less demand for real fish means less demand for imitation fish, though there is apparently a company somewhere making lab grown salmon and tuna.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fake stuff (and cultivated meat for that matter) are getting closer to parity every year. You don't go back to something "for the taste", if the alternative you switched to offers a near identical experience.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to stop eating meat, I want to stop the exploitation and suffering of animals.

While I want to stop the exploitation of animals more than I want to eat meat, if there is a path that allows me to do both, I will have a preference for that path.

The same goes for leather. It's use isn't worth what has to be done to create it, but it is a fantastic material with a lot of versatility that's better than near all alternatives in plenty of applications. Fake leather and synthetic leather are wonderful innovations because we can enjoy the benefits without the negatives, and that's something to be encouraged rather than avoided.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We did call those things AI back when they were being developed. It's just that advancements in AI that become immediately useful tend to get a different name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI has been able to do fingers semi-reliably for months now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

10,000 gold a year is enough to support ~14 people at a comfortable standard of living, it's not exactly buy a kingdom levels of money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its more legible for people with Dyslexia I thought?

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