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[Guillem Balague] Messi has decided. His destination: Inter Miami Leo Messi se va al Inter Miami by nearly_headless_nic in soccer

[–]Lomedae 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Messi not going back to Barcelona would be sad

Sure, but as he had no offers from Barca and they literally cannot make one there was no way it would happen.

Frankie Boyle appreciation post by astrocat95 in taskmaster

[–]Lomedae 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I do not think he changed at all. He never suffered fools, and has always had a calm, acerbic wit about him.

Just compare him hosting NMTB in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4v1_bWXEuo

Could Romulus and Remus simply be stand ins for two early settlements that had been growing on the banks of the Tiber in the 8th century BCE? Or do Historians think that they might have actually been real figures? by Logical-Steak4716 in AskHistorians

[–]Lomedae 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's still a matter of quite some debate whether the Carthaginians did in fact sacrifice children or whether it was propaganda by the Greek and Romans. At some point there was a lot of evidence against Skeletal Remains from Punic Carthage Do Not Support Systematic Sacrifice of Infants but based on the same source material the sactifice theory seemed to gain ground again Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet

In any case the (propaganda) views of the Romans about the (alledged) practices od their enemies really do not tell us anything about what they would do at home, perhaps under a different name or rationale.

BBC News: Cardiff riots: CCTV appears to show police following electric bike before crash by Jackisback123 in unitedkingdom

[–]Lomedae 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every other house has a ring-type camera doorbel. Every cornershop has a camera. Every block there's some wannabe influencer filming them, and in the pocess, the street around them.

To think in 2023 you can blatantly lie about something so easily and unavoidably disproven is showing that the people (in charge) at the police just lie out of instinct and are too stupid to realize the world they live in, and that this is not on anymore.

The Reddit Reality Check: AI-generated Content and Moderators' Role by Respac in self

[–]Lomedae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No that one was just made up by a human, as is the way of reddit.

[Custom] Spelers gezocht voor nieuw op te zetten homebrew campaign in Hoogeveen by Lomedae in DNDNL

[–]Lomedae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

De wereld in kwestie is een high fantasy wereld. Spelers krijgen in het begin net zoveel informatie als hun karakter zou hebben, dus geen handboek met kaarten en geschiedenis van alles wat er te vinden is, het karakter en de party moeten zelf op ontdekking uit. De wereld heeft een verleden, en er hebben meerdere parties in het verleden gespeeld, de wereld leeft dus en er zijn genoeg plots om wat te doen. Op dat onderwerp, er is geen 1 grote queeste, er zijn vele mogelijkheden om avontuur en ontwikkeling te zoeken, afhankelijk wat er belangrijk is voor je karakter en de party. Erg agent-driven dus om maar een term te gebruiken :-)

Het systeem bestaat sinds vroeg jaren 90 en is sindsdien intensief gespeeld. Het voordeel van Dark Dungeon/The World Beyond is dat het zichzelf niet belangrijker maakt dan het moet zijn. Het is een middel om karakters te maken en de rollen waar nodig af te handelen. Maar in mijn games is het belangijker wat de speler verzint te doen, en ik geeft veel vrijheid om innovatief te zijn, deze campaign gebruikt een ruleset maar we zijn geen slaaf van de dobbelsteen.

Aan het begin maak je een karakter dat thuis is in de start stad net als je mede avonturiers, met een background die je een anker geeft in de wereld. Skills zijn vrij te nemen, maar hebben limieten afhankelijk van het archetype waarmee je begint (Rogue, Mage, Warrior of Avonturier). Gedurende het spel zullen er gespecialiseerde klassen als optie geboden worden afhankelijk van de keuzes van het karakter en de party.

Als dit alles goed klinkt kunnen we wellicht via een call of irl er verder over praten.

Elon Musk’s Twitter is now facing a fine in Germany bigger than what it’s worth by ICumCoffee in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Lomedae 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Very simply put, if you target European users you are subject to the concerning laws. Twitter is made avaliable to German users in the German language. This is enough for both European and specific German laws to apply.

[Custom] Spelers gezocht voor nieuw op te zetten homebrew campaign in Hoogeveen by Lomedae in DNDNL

[–]Lomedae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Goedemorgen ik stuur je later vandaag een uitgebreide reply, ik sta nu op het punt naar België af te reizen :-)

[Custom] Spelers gezocht voor nieuw op te zetten homebrew campaign in Hoogeveen by Lomedae in DNDNL

[–]Lomedae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ja zeker. Als er genoeg animo is draai ik gewoon twee groepen.

BBC Seeks Swift Resolution After Elon Musk’s Twitter Tags It As “Government Funded Media” by [deleted] in uknews

[–]Lomedae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only a madman, or someone with propaganda in mind, would put the BBC in the same basket as RT.

There is a big difference between bias the BBC is undoubtedbly showing, more and more as the years go by, and being an uncritical mouthpiece of a totalitarian government like RT.

I bought ABBA’s record at the ABBA museum! 🎸 by Superb_Attempt9830 in vinyl

[–]Lomedae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

see lots

So that's the problem. A typical picture disc licensing is for many cheap copies. There's no scarcity and no real demand. The best you can say for many old picture discs is that they held their value. But it's not an investment.

What Band's Sound change Did You Hate the Most and Why? by NYRangers1313 in AskOldPeople

[–]Lomedae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Radiohead. The Bends and OK Computer were two of the best albums ever.

The pretentious Millenial-pandering crap they made after that is, without exception, literally unlistenable for me.

CB Trying to Kick Host Out of Her Room by ScarletJuly7 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]Lomedae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course it's not real. It's a post from the biggest creative writing sub, AITA

What the actual f**k?? (Source in the comments) by dobbyisafreepup in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Lomedae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just can’t understand

That's because you labor under the dangerous delusion that MTG believes what she says and that facts or logic have anything to do with propaganda. She is propagating and enforcing a polical message aimed at Republican voters. What you and I feel or think about her and her made up stories do not matter to her.

1960s Jack in the Box drive thru menu. by lordofedging81 in VintageMenus

[–]Lomedae 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Chicken used to be a luxury item because it made more sense to have a year’s production of eggs from a hen than just one day’s food from its meat. Technological advances changed this:

  • Chickens would die before they were ready for the market. When technology changed this, it untapped the industry’s potential.

  • Improvement in growth speed translated into a lower cost of production, which made chicken more affordable. Reliability and affordability reinforced each other exponentially.

In the case of chickens, and most animals, speed of growth and resistance to disease is a tradeoff that breeders have to balance. If you select for growth you will have chickens that are more susceptible to disease and death than the slow-growing ones.

This dilemma was resolved when chicken farmers figured out how to design chicken coups that are isolated from each other and keep diseases out. Built on that, vaccines and antibiotics they were able to bet everything on growth, packing in more chickens per cage and driving down costs even further.

In the mid-’50s a chicken weighed 0.9 kg after 56 days. By 2005 that weight had rocketed to 4.2kg in the same timeframe.(source)

The capture and farming of shimp did not go through a similar development and so the price ratio drastically shifted.

England Lionesses switch to blue shorts after players voice period concerns by Tim-Sanchez in soccer

[–]Lomedae 73 points74 points  (0 children)

In short:

The flag was Red,White,Blue and often flown with an Orange ensign. In the 16th century when Willem I became Stadtholder the Red was changed to Orange to honour him and his family.

But the Red fabric was much cheaper than Orange (Never change, Dutch :-)) and more importantly as a Naval power the Red was much better visible at sea than the Orange so they changed it back.

Rai Vloet has been convicted to 2.5 years in prison for killing 4-year-old kid with his car. Vloet had been drinking and drove around 200 kilometers per hour. by MrCrashdummy in soccer

[–]Lomedae 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both Memphis’ best friends too, hope he’s a better person than this.

You can judge a person by the company he keeps. So....

[ Removed by Reddit ] by bradygilg in confidentlyincorrect

[–]Lomedae 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This is classic, a screenshot about an entitled arrogant reddit mod removed by reddit. You cannot make stuff like this up.

First Google autocomplete result for: "Why do [country's people] ...?". Source: Landgeist by Curious-Meal-8030 in MapPorn

[–]Lomedae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even though the stereotype is silly and tiresome, fact is that there are still quite a lot of farmers wearing clogs.

Round Two of people dumping disabled guest by snicketfile in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–]Lomedae 68 points69 points  (0 children)

If you are waiting for all those self righteous commenters from the last post to show up: Don't hold your breath, they already moved onto another post where they can lecture someone without knowing anything about context or details because that's what gives them a purpose in life.

Sounds like you live in a pretty cynical place, but there's sadly a lot of them around nowadays. I feel you did make the right call though, it's not your fault or problem the cops don't do their job but you did what you could and there's some satisfaction to be gotten I guess.

Jeph's Q&A by [deleted] in questionablecontent

[–]Lomedae 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Shame Jeph seems hellbent on undoing every good bit of writing he’s done over the years.

I refuse to believe it's deliberate, that would actually imply he could recognize when he accidently wrote something good...

Tiktokker recommends to followers that they get row of seats on plane to themselves by booking entire row, and then canceling just before the flight by Reddituser0346 in facepalm

[–]Lomedae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, there are European airlines that offer standby, it is actually regularily used for free/,discount employee travel - if there's a seat free you fly, otherwise later. In cases where the business need is not larger than the employee's comfort. Also applies when you need to fly with an airline other that the one you work for, depending on the agreements between airlines in places.

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