Bytemite

joined 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Purple was sort of around. There was a dye derived by clams with a name that sounds like purple by the Phoenicians, Greeks, then Romans, and was more of a red-purple to red, but that eventually evolved into the word we use now. They also attributed it to the color of wine and of all things, the ocean.

Weirdly blue is a pretty rare color concept in the ancient world, and a number of cultures often just combined it with green, or vice versa. The closest to blue as a concept they usually got was indigo, another dye imported from India, and they'd dilute that into woad for a slightly lighter more pastel/ periwinkle blue (it wouldn't stick as well as true indigo though).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And not a single thing about this on the front page of the other site, except a single gif about Trump fighting Elon. Because their algorithms are cooked to hide anything that potentially hurts the tech oligarchs or trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Friend of mine went with another friend who is 100% gay with a boyfriend to a Six flags park. Random girl pulled this. Six Flags still banned them even though the police reviewed security video and said nothing happened.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Fuck, this is my daily struggle. At this point if I realized I messed up in text I let the conversation go for a bit then quietly edit that part out, because when I used to apologize I ended up just calling attention to the problem, which was annoying to my friends and caused it to hit worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This reminded me that I'm still watching some subs through still existing mirrors like undelete so I don't give reddit views, and I noticed that a big 21k upvoted post on subredditdrama about /r/conservative starting to panic over whether trump even knows what he's doing was deleted. ~~All I can imagine for why it was deleted was intervention because of this rule, I couldn't find a mod post on it, it might have been admin intervention.~~ EDIT: There was a mod post, that it was going to stay up, but then another mod who posts in dogwhistle subs and has a tendency of removing posts from /r/conservative did. It WAS mods this time, but it's still bad actors pushing a certain outcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would have been two days ago, but I was doing yardwork this weekend from when I got up until I dropped and wasn't online.

I don't tend to post things that would get me a ban, but the principle of it and who was actually catching the consequences made it clear who was taking the space over. I almost moved here back during the mod api protests and I refused to use reddit for about six months, but this is a point of no return. Hopefully activity will increase in the topics I read about.

 

We've gone from desk slams to leg slams, there's only a few more directions this can go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a good way to spread avian flu, though I guess Fox News probably doesn't care about that.

Also there was an article I saw that ran the numbers, and it would take way too many chickens plus selling some of the eggs for that to break even for most families.