there’s indigo and another plant that grows in europe and also makes indigo but less, so you can just farm this thing, unlike purple dye that requires tons of work, and depending on period it was used by commoners (before 1200 or so, in western europe)

it’s a bit funny to look at this today, but woad (that euro indigo) trade was a big deal, it got protected by tariffs and blockades and diplomacy, and all for nothing, ultimately both woad and indigo farming was completely destroyed by synthetic indigo production. indigo wasn’t first/easiest dye to make, but it’s far from the most complex thing you can cook, even in 1900s. prussian blue is much cheaper than synthetic indigo anyway

blue leds may fuck up your circadian rhytm but won’t give you ballsack cancer (probably)

i heard it’s because leds get brighter per mA but circuits don’t get updated and leds are fed the same current as 5, 10 years ago

there were some ridiculously oversized tanks involved instead

• Decisive Iraqi cultural victory

waltuh

put down your guitar away waltuh

fedi is always broken, and if it’s not broken enough it’s a sign to start new software so that if lemmy federation is fixed you can have new and exciting problems with mbin/piefed/lemmy interactions

even worse if admin of remote instance with open signups is awol

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Stephen Hawking

you’re being shown the door. nobody is holding you there and at any point you are free to fuck off to rdrama or whatever other hole you’ve crawled from. but i already can guess you’re gonna get back here couple of days after you’ll get inevitably banned again, i’m starting to think that you like it

if your posts get you banned every other week, you’re not worth anyone’s time here. try to have fun if you are able to

bold talk for 2d old account

there is an ukrainian soldier who shared footage from his raids and became sort of internet nanocelebrity on reddit because of it. at one point somebody made anime girl character based on him, and asked about opinion he said something to the effect of “i feel secure enough in my masculinity to jack off to this”

fuck me sideways i’m no one then i guess?

Is the United States about to start testing nuclear weapons again?

no

Recent comments by United States President Trump suggested that he is strongly considering testing nuclear warheads in response to real and perceived tests by other nuclear powers.

tl note: demented pedo in chief conflates nuclear delivery systems tests and nuclear warhead tests. this one in particular is about alleged tests of russian burevestnik nuclear powered subsonic nuclear armed cruise missile, seen by nobody, detected by nobody, other than announcements of russians only

it’s a massively complex and expensive contraption, sold as russian wunderwaffe to unsuspecting public. with every new development like this, you have to wonder: did nobody did that before because it’s really hard, or because it’s really, really stupid?

it’s definitely both, which also makes it entirely unnecessary. it’s sold as a something to deliver nukes while avoiding american antiballistic missiles, and technically it’s true, but pointless, because as subsonic missile it would be intercepted by regular air defense surface launched missile, which is much cheaper and widely distributed, as compared to antiballistic missile, which are horrifically expensive and won’t work anyway. want to put nuke on enemy territory? we have a tool for that, it’s called ICBM

but did nobody did that? also no. americans did that in 60s and discarded that idea, because ICBMs turned out to work better at lower price

but can trump do a nuclear test? also no, because while there are some designs from much later than nuclear tests moratorium, preparation would take something like three years.

as usual, in uncertain times you can count on nothing ever happens brigade

this news is also 2 weeks old at this point. perun has already covered it in an hour long video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t8UYZ9rrQ

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these are iranian owned, american manufactured f14 tomcats, destroyed earlier this year by israeli airstrikes from maybe drones or f35s

the approval was always political. so all there is is that if political decision happens, then pentagon won’t stand in the way?

iirc there was a state backed bot farm on mastodon, some might have crossed over

there’s a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them

yah that’s direct fire, it’s how it’s supposed to work. what you say could also happen if crayon eater forgot to load one charge thing (MACS), or cut bag charge wrong way

for liquids there’s aluminum or glass