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billgamesh ,

rio’s color scheme may be modified by editing the .c configuration files and re-compiling:

Note: Someone will mock you for doing this.

What's wrong with the pretty gray background?

billgamesh ,

John Smith?

billgamesh ,

I think you misunderstood. they don't restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.

billgamesh ,

Women have breasts because some prehistoric dudes decided they were good. It's literally biological. No other animal (or not many) has massive tiddies like humans. They're definitely the result of sexual selection.

billgamesh ,

If the social conditions have existed for long enough to have an evolutionary effect, what's the difference?

And as another commenter mentioned you don't need to fetishize breasts to be attracted to them.

billgamesh ,

It's true that it's not proven. What is true is that human breasts are weird and no one is sure why. The theory I most support is sexual selection because it looks like it'd be good for feeding babies

Many cultures even today don’t “fetishize” breasts

I didn't say fetishize. Sexual selection just means it ihas informed decisions to mate

surely due to the production of milk that is supportive of the best growth for babies

You'd think this but apparently it's not true. This is why I think it's a sexual selection thing. Some stone age dude probably thought the same thing

if your idea of “sexual selection” was correct, wouldn’t every woman have massive tits

Humans are the only animal that have big tiddies when they aren't nursing.

billgamesh ,

It's more like, other animals don't have breasts at all when they aren't lactating. No specific sources to suggest it's sexual selection, I heard it somewhere. I like watching videos about archaeology but it's not my field. Breasts don't really fossilize, so don't think we'll ever know for sure. Idk about nipple size, but yeah too small isn't great.

To clarify, I'm not saying specifically large breasts were selected for but that the fact humans have breasts at all suggests it's at least a secondary sex charactaristic (like beards) and I don't think it benefits fitness in other ways

edit: Probably saying "big tiddies" was not the right way to put that

billgamesh ,

What, no socks?

billgamesh ,

I think they should also be paid using their state's disability/unemployment system and get food through their state's EBT system.

billgamesh ,

Especially because people who want to pirate games for playing have no qualms. Right now the restriction is specificall on people who want to research legally

billgamesh ,

But if it was illegal to research 99% of your current field even if the information existed you may feel differently

billgamesh ,

This is especially weird in late stage capitalism where our workplaces have more say in our liberal democracy than people do anyways

billgamesh ,

Solidarity Forever

billgamesh ,

Cuneiform scripts were frequently coppied by scribes, so the theorem could be even older

billgamesh ,

Good to know! TBH, I'm specifically excited to see it was present in the fertile crescent. I really like clay tablets.

billgamesh ,

There's also the https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/about
Obviously, losing a dimension isn't great but still pretty cool

billgamesh ,

Quite possible.

I'm not sure I understand this statement? Isn't that what the article says?

billgamesh ,

The recent "Fall of Civilizations" podcast talks a lot about the history of the pyramids. They may still have known a lot about geometery, but the slopes and angles involved in the pyramid building seem to have been trial and error as much as anything

billgamesh ,

What makes you say that? I'm not an expert. Accurate geometry or not, the pyramids are pretty cool. What about them means it couldn't have been trial and error?

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/pyramid

About halfway up, however, the angle of incline decreases from over 51 degrees to about 43 degrees, and the sides rise less steeply, causing it to be known as the Bent Pyramid. The change in angle was probably made during construction to give the building more stability

billgamesh ,

There are records of why it was bent though. It was one of the first pyramids. The king wanted it very tall and steep. he ended up being burried in a pyramid with less slope. Do you have any archeological evidence of complex geometry being used?

Again, the pyramids are an impressive feat of craftsmanship and the organization of labor, but does that mean they employed the pythagorean theorem?

They may very well have known geometry, or at least developed during the course of their civilization but I don't think the pyramids represent sufficient evidence for them definitely knowing the pythagorean theorem

edit: also if you haven't heard the podcast, i recommend it. It's pretty cool

billgamesh ,

Communists believe that justice can only be achieved by the violent overthrow of the oppressor, and tend to support the international proletariat in struggles for liberation. I think this is especially a refute to liberals whitewashing civil rights movements into "peacefully asking for rights". Historically, many civil rights leaders were very socialist

billgamesh ,

I'm not against religion, but that's not how evidence and proof works. Do you have any proof that tiny invisible pink elephants aren't hiding in your fridge?

billgamesh ,

The "black book of communism" includes german soldiers who died during WW2, it includes people who might have had 4 kids but only had 2, it includes victims of the US in vietnam.

billgamesh ,

Yeah. You don't get to revise away anything uncomfortable. USSR and China were socialist experiments that succeeded in raising quality of life and transforming rural countries into industrial, scientific states. If people wanna talk about what went wrong, great. Pretending they "don't count" just puppets capitalist apologia and doesn't help

InternetIsScary , to Lemmy French
@InternetIsScary@mstdn.social avatar

How did you come up with your username?

I’ll go first, it’s simple, the Internet is literally an open field where anyone can do whatever they want.

@lemmy

billgamesh ,

Because I am Billgamesh, king of
Uruk, the walled city

billgamesh ,

apparently "egypts slave economy" is largely debunked. they had slaves like every other stone age culture, but their economy (and pyramid building) relied largely on paid labor

billgamesh ,

For the records, saying that capitalism is temporary does not imply OP desires reverting to a previously existing economic system either, so the egypt thing was a non-sequitor anyways

billgamesh ,

Me reading this and the comments, wondering if I'll ever use all 4G ram on my Linux X201...

billgamesh ,

I feel like RAM is rarely the bottleneck for a lot of use cases. Often on old computers what I see is slow WAN or slow I/O on hard drives.

billgamesh ,

Ball jars are made by Newell Brands. Ball makes spaceships now instead

billgamesh ,

actually, i knew that too but admitting it would have ruined my fun fact...

billgamesh ,

Simple Keyboard on fdroid. Others have more features, but I can't switch. The swipe delete and swipe to move cursor are so smooth and I can't make any other keyboards work as well for me. I wanted florisboard to work, but it just felt clunky

billgamesh ,

the latter

billgamesh ,

Didn't notice that one. I'm using the first simple keyboard, from rkkr. Think the simple mobile one must be a later addition

billgamesh ,

Incognito/private are a bad name. You should pretty much use this to not save history, or to log into a site without using saves credentials and assume it's otherwise exactly the same as a normal browser session

billgamesh ,

Given the context of this thread, clearly not

billgamesh ,

Fair enough, but it should not be considered "incognito"

billgamesh ,

Drew Devault is building one to test HareLang now. It's called Ares

billgamesh ,

I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great

billgamesh ,

Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome

billgamesh ,

i agree. and for the rest, roff and latex do great

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone ( lemmy.world )

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

billgamesh ,

I think this is an extremely generous take. For anyone not in the loop, he gets called POS for famously weighing in on discussions of pedophelia by saying children 13+ aren't children so it's not pedophelia.

I think this goes beyond being bad at knowing when to correct semantics

billgamesh ,

I do too, but I think being that tone deaf after being called out says a lot, and I think it's pretty good reason to not make blanket endorsements for his statements/beliefs

billgamesh ,

Dropping ddevault's recent post about RMS here

billgamesh ,

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

billgamesh ,

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

billgamesh ,

But there is evidence that he defends it, and that he refused to back down after being called out. He is not a good person to look up to, and willfully makes harmful public statements, and willfully stabds by them. In other words, kinda a POS

billgamesh ,

The fact that you count as a dependent on FAFSA until well after your parents don't write you as a dependant is wild.

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