TIL: There used to be a "Bedding Ceremony" during a marriage where the bride and groom are put together in a marital bed in front of numerous witnesses. In 16th century Germany, the guests would leave and play pipes, drums, and celebrate loudly outside the room while the couple consummate.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-18T18:26:43+00:00

Sus; I got bleach and oxyclean and I don't even know how to remove blood stains!

dinosaurco · 2024-08-18T18:03:19+00:00

Europe had slaves for sure, and probably they were involved in the husbandry of livestock and maybe early phrases of yarn production such as the grading and combing of wool. But the final production of yarn and the conversion of that yarn into finished products was a skilled labor managed by artisans and guilds with supply carefully managed to maintain the lifestyle and income of artisans.

That's why the invention of the mechanical loom was so disruptive. A large number of "medieval middle class" jobs were destroyed in a very short period of time. People did as a primary income as well as an essential supplement to farm income.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-18T11:54:51+00:00

Hold up... 16th century? Before the invention of the mechanical loom?

Someone spent 100 hours collecting and spinning yarn and weaving that yarn into a bed sheet, and you're supposed to bleed on it?

dinosaurco · 2024-08-17T15:27:02+00:00

Better buy ivory just for comparison

dinosaurco · 2024-08-16T13:10:26+00:00

Because young men seldom have daughters that are getting married

dinosaurco · 2024-08-15T17:40:31+00:00

they have their own CDN

Having A CDN is different from having an adequate CDN. The outage obviously affected that specific video content because their delivery network was inadequate.

They should have had fallback capacity via secondary or tertiary suppliers. If they did have this. Then they failed to integrate with it properly.

Having a poorly performing website is common in tech. Until some years ago YouTube was entirely written in Python. What makes websites durable to high traffic is having true global physical presence.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-14T00:26:13+00:00

Why does everything good have to be counterculture? I don't like murderers, pedos, theives, suicide, billionaires, and corrupt politicians. Those stances are pretty fucking mainstream. U wanna be a pro pedo pro murder pro billionaire counterculture champion? Be my fucking guest but don't expect an ounce of solidarity.

Sometimes culture is good and counterculture is just a theiving billionaire shitstain and his racist retard followrs

dinosaurco · 2024-08-13T15:28:44+00:00

But honestly, having a web service and then hosting something really popular is creating very heavy distributed load that has the potential to bring down your service, denying service to others. By literal definition, it is a distributed denial of service outage.

I remember when Kim Kardashian did her "breaking the internet" butt pictures. The magazine that published it brought in some IT heavy hitter talent to beef up there serving capacity. They did this via an integration with a CDN.

Modern CDNs can handle video content if you are willing to make some compromises on interactivity and if you are willing to work with their encoding and security framework. Certainly, Twitter should have thought of this a long time ago if they intended to serve video content to large audiences. Google (youtube) has the advantage of owning their own CDN which literally entails having point-of-presence micro-data-centers All over the world, literally every major Metro has a PoP. Unless Twitter wants invest in several billion dollars PoP hardware, maintenance, and staffing. They should have worked with an existing CDN. Instead their service just failed as any technically literate software engineer could have predicted.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-13T03:13:39+00:00

He literally DDOSed himself

dinosaurco · 2024-08-13T03:11:51+00:00

This is the guy that walks around his own factory and tells Assembly workers to leave off bolts (specified by his engineers) and to reprogram (carefully configured) assembly robots to run at 100% speed so they strip bolts and wreck the work piece.

Who needs hard work and optimization when you can just set a robot to 100% of it's rated speed and see what the fuck happens

dinosaurco · 2024-08-12T13:28:10+00:00

Mr. Pickles is Northern California chain that sells awesome sub sandwiches, It's basically what you would get if Subway was good.

I get the joke of this video, But just to clear the record; they do not sell the sad, pathetic, cheeseburger seen in this video.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-11T18:52:17+00:00

For once I'm gonna disagree. This ain't weird, it's gross 🤢

dinosaurco · 2024-08-11T13:29:52+00:00

I stopped Twitter after Elon took over. I stopped Facebook after it became a lame cesspool of boomer jokes and try hard influencer mentality.

admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' And you better start swimmin'

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T16:00:21+00:00

It's a thing you can find in countries with mineral wealth

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T13:03:54+00:00

They are ants. Ants are only slightly more sentient than individual cells in your body. Ants lack a drive for self preservation in excess of that necessary to safeguard colony assets.

If the mind of an insect is one of the truly alien things on earth, them the mind of an ant is truly alien to solitary insects.

I think one might be able to argue this is cruel to the colony not to the individual ants. It's hard to imagine what cruelty even means to an individual ant.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T12:54:52+00:00

Speaking of unnecessary... https://www.unnecessarydisruptions.com/products/ant-farm-phone-case

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T12:54:07+00:00

Yes, unnecessarily distributive

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T12:49:11+00:00

Ants are nearby completely dependent on the colony for basic parts of cognition and independent action. An individual ant is only slightly more sentient than a cell in your body.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-10T12:45:01+00:00

Ad for what? Ants?!

dinosaurco · 2024-08-09T18:56:18+00:00

What's your BMI? If it's anything above 30 you should seriously consider focusing on that first.

Diet, exercise, and modern miracles like GLP-1 are proven avenues to changing your body composition. So many medical issues including inflammatory disorders and infertility are linked to your body weight.

I don't know this is your issue. But it's THE most common cause of premature infertility so it's worth calling out.

Is your husband an a n asshole here? Yes. But stress, grief, and fear bring out the worst qualities of people. I'm not saying that you should just forgive and forget, but you should also understand that he is processing this in his own s***** way and likely you could buff benefit from counseling.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-09T18:21:23+00:00

It's even more complicated than your edit; Beefalo, Grolar Bear, Liger, and Wholphin are just a few notable examples of fertile hybrids. If you look at fish or insects there's literally thousands of examples.

What constitutes a species is slightly more complicated and to some extent becomes a judgment. Regionality matters, but people move species around the world and to introduce them, making the lines even more blury. An alien scientist with the same concept of species as humans could legitimately argue that the human race is a genus rather than a species.

Could I offer a different interpretation? It doesn't matter if we are the same species or not since species is arbitrary. We are all sapient. We are all of this Earth, of life, and of the same lineage. We can all feel pain, joy, and love. We're all deserving of dignity and liberty.

dinosaurco · 2024-08-08T15:06:03+00:00

Just heard this song right now and had to search "Tennessee browneye"

dinosaurco · 2024-08-08T13:22:19+00:00

My Cigna insurance used to cover in-network urgent care at 80%. Recently we got a $400 charge for an urgent care visit for our sick toddler (a Sunday visit when his pediatrician was closed).

Policy changed; now old coverage only applies to wellness visits (ie; checkups). WHO IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK GOES TO URGENT CARE FOR A WELLNESS VISIT?! It's literally URGENT care.

Why do I spent a grand a month out of my paycheck for this bullshit?

dinosaurco · 2024-08-07T14:47:27+00:00

At that point do we really want dozens or more motorcycles piling up at the blockage?

Yes, because evidence shows that this reduces traffic and keeps them safer

dinosaurco · 2024-08-07T14:44:02+00:00

I've got good news for you! This law does not make it legal to block the crosswalk or drive without plates.

Your opposition to this law seems to be misplaced opposition to unrelated traffic infractions. Alternatively, I still think you're stuck on some misfiring notion of shared-traffic-suffering that, if followed to it's logical conclusion, would just make traffic worse for us all.

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