ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Democrats Vow Not to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal 2 days ago:
The other murders were just an oopsie daisy still worth funding!
-The Baileys
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 week ago:
The bridge crossing level and using the crossbow to crucify combine soldiers were about the best parts of the game as I remember it.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 weeks ago:
That sign has a Z and letters with accent mark over it.
So I think this a picture of communism?
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 2 weeks ago:
Well first there’s the cutting technology. Scything is ancient. Industrial production of push mowers using cylinder blades were developed in the 1800s and the more modern gas powered rotary cutters came along in the 19th century with many other self-propelled and automated mechanisms. This started with coal and wood fired agricultural equipment used for processing, like threshing and winnowing. As internal combustion engines (gas powered) developed in the 20th century more equipment and processes could be incorporated on-site and in-field.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
I guess I meant more along the lines of: “An ear of corn can be husked by hand and boiled.” Individual processing is far more accessible and feasible compared the threshing, hulling, and winnowing processes of wheat.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Corn (Maize) is a selected grass. (Teosinte) Wheat is also a grass (Emmer) which hasn’t been nearly as modified.
The american indigenous people cultivated and developed corn over 10,000 some years. An ear of corn can be boiled and eaten. Wheat? Not so much.
- Comment on Rushmore 3 weeks ago:
squints
Civ… 4?
- Comment on I'm there! 3 weeks ago:
Surveying can be some worthwhile science gigwork.
Years ago I did some work with a research institute that was counting shellfish populations that was almost exactly this. A few weeks for a few summers hiking tidal zones. Most of the crews were college students, but not as interns or as a part of any programs. Some were just locals looking for some work.
I just don’t think a lot of that work is advertised outside colleges.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like they’ve been contacted by their local solid waste department who was lazy about how most sanitary codes don’t define garbage in a trailer as solid waste.
It’s one of the dumber and common loopholes, but a health department with resources (legal and political) would actually require progress at eliminating the garbage since the loophole is based on staging waste for removal.
States and local juridiction vary wildly.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 4 weeks ago:
I miss when being an audiophile was just using vintage equipment and/or opting for lossless formats over compressed mp3s.
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 4 weeks ago:
I have seen those Breaking Bad arguments before too, and I am more inclined accept that sentiment there.
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 4 weeks ago:
Misogyny is a massive problem on reddit
Yeah but this is Lemmy. There’s far more overlap between ‘sausage party’ and ‘women’ here than most other social media can even handle.
And like, I never watched GoT nor read the books but still caught the reference. So this doesn’t feel like a form of arcane misogyny.
- Comment on Blasting creed 4 weeks ago:
Why yes I do drive a Nissan.
- Comment on get out of my head 4 weeks ago:
The decision to keep the ring on. Nice.
- Comment on Drova is surprisenly reactive 4 weeks ago:
I immediately caught the Gothic references/influence which I think was actually a bit of a drawback for me. I was able to predict a lot of the mechanics and story, like being able to figure out essentially a frame perfect way to defeat the strong bandits early in the game and then coasted on that loot.
That said I think it had quite a bit more depth than I was expecting and I appreciated that a great deal.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 5 weeks ago:
Okay, but in oil or butter?
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
No doubt, but at least we’re acknowledging 'Nam.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
born in 1949 Don’t have to fight in a war
Hmmm
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 1 month ago:
So in that regard just be aware that serfdom is a really broad category that embodies the labor system that existed under fuedal societies. For example, one of the longest lasting systems of serfdom existed in the Russian Empire until the 1860s. The serfs of England revolted in the Elizabethan era and a system of tenant rent was implemented. So there are centuries long gaps in what serfdom was like depending on where you’re looking. Material conditions for the 14th century peasant and the 19th century vary widely, but do have common structure and function.
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky wrote extensive literature of Russian serfdom, and worth a read. Although, well, its Tolstoy ans Dostoevsky. I have barely read either, for context.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 1 month ago:
Places? At risk of sounding glib, your local library. It’s such a wide and broad topic you can read up on pretty much any country or regions history and get a picture of how it developed.
Now for the specific topic of economic and labor systems? Honestly I think I would venture to say start with critiques of F.A. Hayek since what I was referring to was the development of the centrally planned nation state.
Hayek’s influential work is definitely geared towards a Cold War era audience which is why I suggest critiques. Disentangling central planning from political ideology can be a valuable tool.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 1 month ago:
That’s accurate to what serfdom was but it was an evolution of pre-medival slavery. Instead of being the personal property of a king working the fields on the kings owned land, it was about being the personal property of the crown, the state, the system (owned by the king.)
A slave could earn their freedom, be set free, or even kill their master and be free. A lot of slaves in antiquity had a tendency to overthrow kingdoms.
A serf though, was never meant to be free. Except, maybe, by another, foreign nation state. And now you know the basis of most European medieval war history.
- Comment on I have no idea what's going on. 1 month ago:
Gotta respect the cern.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 month ago:
Sadly this fake Toilet Paper USA type stuff tends to provide cover for the heinous shit they actually say, while simultaneously obscuring the crazy things they do with the absurdity.
- Comment on Screw MS 1 month ago:
Twenty years or so ago I’d give MS credit for helping spawn a global PC hardware industry by standardizing an OS platform. I figured not just the Nvidias and Intels but the Dells, the EVGAs, and the MSIs all were a net positive and supported by there being a windows.
This was because I always compared them to Apple.
So much more now I understand the folly of being limited to comparing the bad choices and ignoring the good options.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
Yeah with veggies only and no noodle it stays solidly salad until 50%. The 80/20 veggie-water split is what separates dry salad from salad.
The noodle content just pushes a salad into a soup with less water content than the soup/broth interface does with salad. So clay of noodle.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
It doesn’t mean most soups have noodles, it just means noodle content has a fairly overriding influence on how the, uh, soup is defined.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
Think tuna salad, or chicken, or potato.
Keep adding water. The consistency then divides between broth and soup.
Roll it in your hand. If you can form a ball with tge leftover material you’re likely soup territory. If there’s nothing left over or there’s not enough consistency to form a ball it’s a broth.
…If you can form a ribbon with the ball it’s got some noodle content, I guess.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 month ago:
Humans before the Ice Age were fishing for tuna in the deep sea and were coastal hopping everywhere there are coasts to hop.
- Comment on WHO DID THIS? 1 month ago:
The mod.
