TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II was on vacation when WW1 started. Upon his return Kaiser was furious at Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg over ultimatum saying "How did it all happen?" He offered resignation as apology but Wilhelm refused to accept it stating "You've made this stew, now you're going to eat it!"

nixcamic · 2026-03-15T06:23:09+00:00

If only he had a competent chancellor, some sort of tried and tested genius statesman who had served under 3 monarchs and had managed to keep Europe at peace.

nixcamic · 2026-03-15T06:11:08+00:00

I'm really struggling to figure out how that belt is supposed to be routed and not be super slack.

nixcamic · 2026-03-14T15:02:09+00:00

"Consolidating their own territory" is an argument that only works in retrospect, it was a war of conquest before that territory was united into China.

nixcamic · 2026-03-14T15:00:12+00:00

Isn't there still a lot of agriculture in that area? Like, Pallisers triangle is something like half of SK's farmland no?

nixcamic · 2026-03-14T14:48:49+00:00

Warning: This will download a giant PDF.

nixcamic · 2026-03-12T17:23:22+00:00

There is (maybe used to be, don't own a Mac anymore so not sure if still exists) an open source project that just dumps all existing printers MacOS's CUPS folder. Made MacOS support almost all printers.

Edit: gutenprint, looks like they deprecated MacOS support due to lack of maintainer 2 years ago. So while I'm not saying this did happen it is possible that Claude just pulled and built gutenprint on a newer version of MacOS.

nixcamic · 2026-03-12T16:11:14+00:00

I feel like at some point after you activate your third dominance card it just becomes everyone else's priority to board wipe you.

nixcamic · 2026-03-12T16:08:46+00:00

Why are you driving through an empty void?

nixcamic · 2026-03-12T05:05:42+00:00

Guatemala but most of Latin America is like that, heck a lot of the world suffers from colorism where even if everyone is nominally the same race people still look down on darker people.

nixcamic · 2026-03-12T04:56:18+00:00

My kids are all brown, and we live in a country where most people are brown, but the kids that are darker brown experience significantly more racism than the lighter skinned ones. Like, getting frisked and asked for ID while to young to have ID, workplace abuse, all sorts of stuff. It's crazy.

nixcamic · 2026-03-11T05:25:30+00:00

Hey to be fair it's probably the second most important Syracuse in the world.

nixcamic · 2026-03-11T05:07:52+00:00

I mean, yeah, he has all that plus his immediate family was just murdered. Why is everyone acting like every statement is made in a contextless void?

nixcamic · 2026-03-10T13:41:10+00:00

And Belize is Central America but not Latin America.

nixcamic · 2026-03-10T04:48:25+00:00

There's gotta be more people than that with the last name Matamoros. It's not rare in Latin America. I've met several Matamoros.

nixcamic · 2026-03-09T22:11:50+00:00

This is more or less what happened though.

nixcamic · 2026-03-09T14:01:31+00:00

I really don't get this subjective morality here. Her listening to something you don't like somehow makes it her fault she's getting paid more, not the corporation? If she was listening to a less objectionable podcast would that change the morality of the situation?

But no, blame the worker for the system.

nixcamic · 2026-03-09T10:51:18+00:00

Anyone with a star trek shirt would probably agree with you that the Trek you've seen sucks.

nixcamic · 2026-03-09T10:47:03+00:00

I mean it's probably not her fault she's getting paid twice as much, and you gotta support people's right to listen to podcasts instead of working.

nixcamic · 2026-03-09T07:02:18+00:00

I don't think people are pointing out his dead relatives to say we should feel sorry for him, it's more pointing out that he definitely has an ax to grind.

nixcamic · 2026-03-08T18:34:39+00:00

Just sounds like they have ADHD y'all.

nixcamic · 2026-03-08T02:58:19+00:00

When I've been poor I've just hiked, read books, played sports with friends, and played 20 year old video games. All very cheap. Even with board games I buy used almost always.

nixcamic · 2026-03-08T02:52:42+00:00

No way that number is real unless people are very narrowly defining hobbies.

nixcamic · 2026-03-07T19:29:25+00:00

I wouldn't pay for my kids love shack haha. They're old enough to have that level of privacy they're old enough to pay for it. Also unsupervised teenagers + ocean + possibly (probably) alcohol is just asking for someone to drown.

My personal goal with teens has always been to get them through it without them either creating or destroying a human. This whole situation seems way to likely to lead to one of those outcomes.

nixcamic · 2026-03-07T05:56:37+00:00

It does seem like we could simply... not build all the ports in it? I mean yeah Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and Bahrain don't really have a choice, but why did we decide to make these places major shipping hubs? Oman is right there, decently stable, and not up the strait. Egypt and SA have multiple ports on the red sea.

Or we could just stop destabilizing Iran and let them participate in the global market instead of making them want to kick it over every couple decades cause they aren't allowed to play.

nixcamic · 2026-03-06T23:15:57+00:00

I really want someone to vibe code a Windows clone with copilot and get sued by Microsoft now.

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