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I cant remember what the last serious issue I had with a printer was.

I do, it was immediately before I switched to a Brother.

A dishwasher is, IMHO, not unnecessary. If they’re used efficiently ie only run when they’re full, they use considerably less water than washing by hand does, does a better job than I do and I push a button and don’t have to participate any more until it’s done. Plus, depending on the energy makeup of your country/home setup, use a lot less energy to heat the water than your domestic hot water does too.

I don’t think you understand the meaning of the prefix proto from the Greek πρωτο- meaning before.

Specifically proto-fascism is the precursor movements that became fascism, particularly in Italy in the early 20th century. It isn’t some generic term for “kinda a bit like some parts of fascism, I dunno maybe?”

Kongo - Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga - first Catholic monarch of Kongo

Songhai - Askia the Great - zenith of Songhai’s power

Adal - Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad - founded city of Harar

For context in 1525:

King of England: Henry VIII (with all the wives)

King of France: Francis I (with all the fighting the Holy Roman Empire and Pope)

King of Spain: Charles V (with all the being Holy Roman Emperor and inbreeding)

Emperor of China: Jiajing (with all the torturing and murdering dissenters)

Edit: I chose these 4 because between them they were monarchs of the 4 most powerful countries in the world at the time, especially Charles of Spain and Jiajing of China but France and England were soon poised to eclipse the others.

I’m just glad no-one said hockey in here, if you find hockey boring there’s no saving you.

Found Megan Markle’s Lemmy account

And underrated genre classic Lawnmower Man

One of my all time favourite movie watching experiences was me and my brother watching Robocop (the original) which we taped off ITV, must have been 9 or 10.

All the gratuitous violence was still entirely in place, but all the swear words were dubbed into more palatable versions. Strangest was that we specifically recorded it when it aired at about midnight anyway so way past the time the swearing was usually considered OK.

Me and my brother still call each other “buddy funkster” all the time.

The idea is called Hypernormalisation. Everyone knows what they’re being told is a lie, most don’t care, some do but a powerless to do anything about it, the rest are actively perpetuating the lie.

Excellent documentary about it by Adam Curtis which is watchable here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

RADAR was one of those inventions that they thought was completely revolutionary, and it was, but was far less “unique” than the creators originally believed.

The large air and naval search arrays all over southern England had been spotted by the Germans even before the war and they accurately worked out what they were for and reverse engineered them purely from reconnaissance photographs.

The special thing about the RAF at the time was that they’d managed to make units small enough to fit on board planed which was the big advantage they hid as being carrots.

Funny story, so convinced were the British that the concept of RADAR couldn’t have been copied by Germany that when they surveyed the Graf Spee while in dock at Montevideo, with the RADAR antennas, identical to those on British and American ships clearly visible they still didn’t believe the Germans could develop the technology.

Moominmamma

On Cinema has better story telling and character development than most of Hollywood.

Yeah, but not annoying individually wrapped bags like this.

Tell me you’re not British without telling me you’re not British

Andrew Wakefield knowingly and intentionally misrepresented his scientific findings to further his own career ahead of the interests of humanity as a whole. Thomas Midgley Jr is the only person I’d put ahead of him in terms of the damage he’s done to the world.

Funnily enough, this was in Canada!

I saw a crow fish a big sharing bag of crisps (chips) out of a bin. The bag was nearly full and too heavy for it to fly away with so it landed pulled half the crisps out and onto the ground, then picked up the now lighter bag and carried it off.

Who told her about the squeezers?