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- Comment on cats are so silly 16 hours ago:
Sphinx cats are best walking sentient ball sacks.
- Comment on Currency 21 hours ago:
Gold and silver caught on because they are rare for surface deposits making them rare, non reactive making them good for coins. Soft and easy to work with, again good for coins. But durable enough and most importantly heavy enough but not too heavy to be not easily lost. Again making them good for coins.
It literally just comes down to they were useful to make coins.
Look to South America where they would “waste” oodles of gold on religious rituals.
Practicality is first, foremost and the only reason something catches on and then STAYS popular.
Over time that practical reason can fall away and stop mattering but to get started you need practicality
- Comment on Currency 21 hours ago:
Isn’t fist currency based on taxation and the value represented by the tax?
We have communal effort, we tax the community to pay for that effort to pay the workers, and the value created by that labor is thus the value of the currency.
The work makes debt, we tax to pay down that debt. The currency represents the movement of the value between parties.
So long as movement is sustained we have value that backs the currency.
Thus so long as we have community we have value.
- Comment on Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser 21 hours ago:
Fuck OP your the new cooler OP.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 21 hours ago:
Growing up it wasn’t uncommon for me to go to friend As house unannouced just walk in and find his mom in the backyard ask if flmy friend was there, she would say no. I would go 7 blocks away to friend B do the same thing find his dad in the garage and he say that friend B left an hour ago.
So I would walk 30 mins to the park and see friend D ask them if they seen friend A, they would say no. So I would go to the woods 20 mins away and friend friend A and B just hanging out then spend the next few hours chilling before running home cause the street lights came on.
Mom and dad would be out searching the same way I did for my little brother cause he went to friend A, then they went to B then D then the park. And none of them told their parents.
My dad would just track my brother’s friend group via where they left their bikes or random things in front lawns. So you could track the neighborhood kids that way.
So I would be home alone for an hour or so after dark before Dad and Mom pulled in with my brother and likely 3 other kids who would then stay the night.
Mom would then make dinner for everyone. I would eat the. Leave to back to friend A cause we agreed I would stay over and their parents would take me to school the next day since they left for work after school started instead of before.
So I would then just walk in the dark to my friend’s house
This was middle school for me. I would routinely cover 15+ miles a day back and forth all over the neighborhoods in a single day.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 21 hours ago:
Recently got a friend into anime and he was complaining how unrealistic it was for a unannouced guest to just be invited in, given a spare bedroom and given food and drink no questions asked basically.
To be fair while it was a shit isakai and very nonsense. This bit of it was an extremely accurate depiction.
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Iv always found Celsius makes way better sense for material tempature and Fahrenheit for the weather.
Celsius is no where near granular enough for the weather not by a fucking long shot.
I rather use the arbitrary jacket scale and shorts scale then Celsius for weather.
Is it jacket weather or shorts weather are the only two criteria. And it varies person to person and has zero ability to be translated between people. Yet everyone understands it natively and intuitively anyways.
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Of course a warner would know how to properly cook.
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Well for one of those two both the fake units and the American ones are the same.
- Comment on What a selection! 23 hours ago:
You can pry the white monster from my cold dead grippers.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 days ago:
And nothing is stoping the people of other countries in the Americas from calling themselves American.
Iv met plenty of people from European countries that have called themselves European. Why the fuck can they call themselves after their Continent but we can’t?
How about you fuck off and not tell an entire people to change their name that they have used for hundreds of years just because you have a stick up your xenophobic asshole.
Yeah our leader is a right dipshit and a horrid human. But WE get to fucking decide what WE are called. Not you, so fuck off.
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 3 days ago:
Sounds sexycational
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 3 days ago:
The Scotts will one up the English at any chance they get out of pure spite if for no other reason.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 4 days ago:
Yo be fair a large and I do mean VERY large chunk of those players are in the Chinese custom games. It’s not abnormal for like a third or more of the player base of dota 2 at any given time to be playing the custom Chinese games.
Dota 2 is as much a games platform as it is a game it self. Much like warcraft 3 was, or roblox or fortnite is now.
There’s been instances where a new update for some of the more popular Chinese custom games can spike the number of people playing. Them to half the entire player base.
It’s very very fair to say dota 2 isn’t that popular. Cause the game itself isn’t… It’s custom game modes and gatchas are.
Hell there’s one custom game that’s literally a mobile gatcha game that i saw pulling over 60k players by itself.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 4 days ago:
MNC and dota 2 had a baby that’s what deadlock is basically
It’s about as far away from smite as you can get
Smite is basically third person mobile league of legends overly stream lines and crappy. That and smite 2 is already dead. Hi rez is basically one bad quarter from closing up shop.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 4 days ago:
Ice frog is the handle of the dude that took dota from tryndamere and ryze and turned it into dota all star the version of dota most people think of when they think of dota 1.
- Comment on What it feels like shopping in 2026 5 days ago:
You would be easily able to find someone willing to butt chug an entire bottle of bleach before you find a single normal human that gives a single flying fuck about the security of their phones digital wallet out side of lemmy and the most shut in circles of nerdom.
It’s just not a real argument, care or reality.
Is that a problem? More then likely yes. But is it the reality of the situation.
Phones are something people already carry around. Most young adults don’t even keep their IDs on them anymore and just have pictures of them in their phone.
I work a job that requires frequently IDing people at a gate. In the last 3 months out of over 10k people only a handful even had their wallet on them while driving.
I’m just handed their phone with their gallery open to their id.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 6 days ago:
You just gave me elite dangerous PTSD flask backs…
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 6 days ago:
And if it’s not someone should check in with humanities veterinarian…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well no… There is a deadline, it’s called death.
Basically anytime before that is preferable really.
- Comment on Title is rule 1 week ago:
Air and proton are the two big ones I know that support it. Proton tends to be more reliable then air for torrents I find.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
The monkey paw curls you only get photoshopped dick picks from now on.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
We past that point a year ago if not longer. The only point that would have worked came went and is long gone.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
It’s shopped you can tell by some of the pixels also stopped being true after a few years and people just stopped caring.
We are just going though the same thing. People will just stop caring in a few years.
- Comment on Why? 2 weeks ago:
I can think of only like 3 instances a porn side has ever had good tagging.
Ones a furry site, ones a week site and the last is a brony site.
Sfw or NSFW, doesn’t matter. People can’t find tag.
- Comment on purely basedbon vibes 2 weeks ago:
It’s honest and I respect that.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 weeks ago:
I have 5 dollars on it being some kind of dresser!
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing there are plenty of people with no self respect or too much self respect and delusional so it’s a moot point.
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
He’s not a man, he’s a mer. Show some respect!
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
Looking though there account. I think they actually are just insane, like unironically. They seem to have a rather unhinged grasp on reality
They come across very strongly as a 16 year old furry who unironically believes their own delusions. Even by trans furry standards. They seem unreasonably unhinged.