You might get some downvotes for mentioning that book. The author makes a few sloppy assumptions, and the anthropology/sociology/history communities love to hate him for it. His overall thesis is still generally good though, IIRC.

One thing I don't think is in Diamond's book: once Europe had realized they could sail far and wide to get things, the Dutch invented the idea of a stock market to fund voyages (the British took this idea and really ran with it). This system made long, risky trips easier to finance. Instead of a single monarch funding a single expedition, many people could pool their money to fund many expeditions.

I agree that none of this means Europeans have some special intelligence or attitude. Any other civilization that developed in similar conditions could have followed the same path.

I didn't notice that! I wonder who originally made that edit, and when. Google image search comes up with both versions from multiple sources.

Another strong contender, to be sure.

Also saying “im cishet” is so odd lol.

Yeah, reading back I see that it's a clumsy choice of words. I'll work on that in the future.

I don't even try to hide it anymore. My manager and I send each other memes during the work day.

His left arm even seems to suggest his hand is between his knees

This is actually a crop of a famous photo. In the full photo he is nude, with his left hand between his knees and his forearm just covering his privates.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/news/a48108/burt-reynolds-cosmo-classic/

I believe user IP addresses are stored and correlated with a user's session token. Those tokens are valid for a while. The database does not have a post-by-post record of a user's IP.

Disclaimer: I am not one of the admins with direct database access, so I cannot confirm that this is true. My statement above about IP addresses is secondhand information from memory. I may be wrong.

I should leave this to the professionals:

https://lemmy.world/post/4754397/3291219

Each instance's database contains the email addresses of local users only. Lemmy does not share email addresses between instances.

Viewing users' email addresses requires directly querying the database. They are not visible through the API.

I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, "I don't like the DMCA."

From this view there's no way to tell. Look closely at the frame lugs, bottom bracket, and dropouts. You might get lucky and notice a name stamped somewhere.

Even if you do figure out the make and model, I would wager it's old enough that you won't find an old catalog with the frame geometry. You probably just have to measure it as best you can.

And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.

https://signmyrocket.com/

Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960's and 1970's it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.

There's an argument to be made that fire departments are somewhat obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people's long-term health issues before they become emergencies.

For folks with time on their hands, here's a classic law school talk explaining in more detail why you should shut the fuck up:

Don't talk to the police

I have a Rayhunter but have never sent a data capture to EFF. I believe you are supposed to download it to your PC then send the file to their Signal account.

https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/faq.html

This is a great time for people to start building and operating Rayhunters, and to share the results with the EFF to improve the tool.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it's a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.

"..._forever..."

"No way, man. We're going to keep on rocking forever!"