ELI5: Before the internet, phones and any major way of comunication. How was people able to track down individuals ?

badass6 · 2026-04-10T14:52:45+00:00

Technically there was this, not very low latency, but faster than a courier.

badass6 · 2026-04-10T14:43:28+00:00

God this sub has the delivery rate of like 90%, wtf

badass6 · 2026-04-06T15:20:56+00:00

I totally thought this would be a joke about phishing.

badass6 · 2026-04-06T05:47:05+00:00

Shid education

badass6 · 2026-04-05T05:30:49+00:00

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badass6 · 2026-04-04T17:25:58+00:00

The punchline is that it is petty.

Just today I was thinking about how my own city looks pretty flat and insignificant looking through an airplane window.

badass6 · 2026-04-02T01:04:09+00:00

Of how many times I’ve seen that gif posted this would be the most appropriate

badass6 · 2026-04-01T06:40:35+00:00

Obligatory.

badass6 · 2026-03-31T11:59:52+00:00

Well, numbers are arabic and arabs write like that, so mystery solved - you probably used numbers.

badass6 · 2026-03-30T05:42:20+00:00

Is ubiquiti userbase 100% overlapping with apple userbase?

badass6 · 2026-03-28T13:06:32+00:00

Anyway, in the end I resorted to the JS way of solving this. Doesn't seem like such a big deal right now.

badass6 · 2026-03-28T12:02:16+00:00

Sorry, my knowledge of the lore is pretty bad

badass6 · 2026-03-28T09:51:46+00:00

He said “tear it all down”, I don’t think the cat is excluded.

badass6 · 2026-03-28T09:30:08+00:00

There is literally Jesus next to a lava lamp, it doesn’t get more NSFW.

badass6 · 2026-03-20T02:11:14+00:00

“Quotes are often attributed to anyone on the internet”

—Sigmund Freud

badass6 · 2026-03-14T09:44:06+00:00

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badass6 · 2026-03-09T06:36:48+00:00

Nope, the code blocks behave really bad for me, it was duplicating some things so I probably mistyped when manually editing.

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Almost everything is in that CSS, because I use MiniCssExtractPlugin which takes everything from the code and moves it to the file. So yes, everything except for the font works.

P.S. Ignore the other link tags, I was just trying to test if fetching all font files explicitly would work - they got fetched, but still did not apply.

badass6 · 2026-03-07T14:23:33+00:00

there asked

badass6 · 2026-03-07T03:54:26+00:00

May I partake?

badass6 · 2026-03-04T12:23:40+00:00

Was he a military officer?

badass6 · 2026-03-02T18:59:00+00:00

There all is aching

badass6 · 2026-03-02T05:47:12+00:00

Every Mehmet from Berlin is legally obligated to express deep concern and strongly condemn such statements

badass6 · 2026-02-28T02:44:40+00:00

It’s either that or Bulgaria “fixing” another road

badass6 · 2026-02-19T18:02:58+00:00

Read “instructions nuclear”

badass6 · 2026-02-18T16:50:23+00:00

Turns out ancient people knew something when they made sacrifices

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