antbricks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We're speaking German after French aristocrats gave us the names for all the fancy things we couldn't afford when we were all peasants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, poor people need cars to survive in the US. Barely any public transport outside of the very biggest cities. Only richer people can replace their rusty cars every 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

20 minute drive out to the honey farmer, 10 minutes to my asparagus guy, 10 minutes to the butcher for some chicken, hmmm if only there were some sort of larger... super large market so that I don't spend so much of my life driving around...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting. Culturally, France seems like the most child-hostile country in western Europe. I wonder if this is them trying to make children more acceptable in public. Good luck France! You'll have to get over yourself first. Can't take yourself too seriously when children are in the mix.

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

it also has a log cabin... and Log Cabin is a maple syrup brand... and maple syrup is from maple trees... and maple leaves are on Canadian flags... so... a snowman?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Have you tried it on a hot day? For me it's the contrast that causes the headache.

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

I thought this was a special power that all middle-aged people got as their sleep quality gets shittier. Like your brain is still idling, tracking stuff, instead of fully resting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Doctor: I can't treat your fungal infection. BTW, your immune system is under arrest for murder.

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

I followed the cited source for the wikipedia claim, and it's just a guy writing a paper and saying his opinion. He's not citing anything deeper to cover his claim about an initial volley followed by targetting individual solders. Just because it's in a paper doesn't mean it's right, or even well-researched.

Sure, it FEELS right, and that does have weight with living history and experimental archeology, but I worry that "feeling" is the only thing anyone is actually citing in this whole conversation, including Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody was holding a ~90lb war bow at full draw waiting to hear "Loose". Not possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Volley fire wasn't a thing with bows. You ever try holding a 90lb war bow at full draw waiting for someone to yell "Loose"? Never happened.

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