We're four months into the 24-hour peace talks to end the 3-day military operation that's been going on for three years.
...but man, am I bad at math
someone’s insane ramblings about the new world order.
We still have plenty of that, everywhere from Twitter to 4chan.
It varies, because YT periodically breaks it, but it gets patched up again usually quickly.
Man I completely forgot Gmail chat existed, and I used it for a while quite regularly.
Previously you claimed that using the Gmail domain is "extremely unprofessional". However, a company that considers email addresses with real names to be more professional is "petty". 🤔
The “actual” story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn’t as long for me to get through it).
Can you link it? If you still remember what/where it was...
it’s something that you’re actually supposed to think about while watching it
Says who? IMO the strongest aspect of Lain is the vibe (style, sound, art, the whole world). The overall narrative is jarringly structured, a bit chaotic, with sudden introductions and resolutions of subplots, and especially on the first watch it's futile to try to treat it as some sort of a (solvable) puzzle, or, even worse, a philosophical tractate. Not that it might not be treated that way on a rewatch sometime down the line (though honestly I wouldn't expect that to be possible even then), but the first time around it has to draw you into the world and into Lain's mind. Just relax, make yourself comfortable, and let it be an irrational, intimate experience that it's probably meant to be. (Or, well, don't, if you've already given up.)
the small minority of retards did the salute
The words "za dom spremni" are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.
There was little to no actual anti-communism at play at that point (although it was still relevant symbolically). Both sides were already capitalist. Yugoslavia had been on the path of liberalisation for quite a while before the breakup.
Btw, that excuse that Thompson and his fans regularly use is bullshit, the phrase was picked by Croatian extremists (especially the paramilitary HOS) in the 90s because it was used by ustašas (fascists) half a century earlier in the first place.
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Tiny Fossils and the Big Picture: Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs [lecture by Brian M. Davis]
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Presented by Dr. Brian Davis, University of Louisville, April 10, 2025.
The Mesozoic is commonly known as the "Age of Dinosaurs." The beginning of our own branch of the family tree was unfolding at the same time, mostly in the shadows. Mammals might have been tiny, but they experimented with a wide range of lifestyles. In this talk, Dr. Brian Davis explores what early mammals were like, and how palaeontologists find their fossils. This presentation answers the question, “What do mammal fossils tell us about how they lived, and perhaps why they went on to become so wildly successful?”
Admittedly even as a layman I think this 45-minute lecture could've gone into more depth and skipped over some of the basics, but it's still a nice watch. Sadly the sound quality isn't very good, I had to turn on the auto-generated subtitles...
Idk, I remember seeing some of his emails that were funny-rude, but this one is... just rude.