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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThese countries BAD
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    2 days ago

    My experiences have shown that anyone who wants to govern others isn’t someone who should. Any organization made of such people is undoubtedly responsible for an amount of attricities. That amount probably averages out to the same by age of country across the board. So I doubt there’s any country that’s genuinely better than another because at it’s very core they’re all run by assholes who should not be allowed power.




  • Kama sutra, and interestingly enough the sex positions part is a very small part of the overall text. It’s actually a practical philosophy on living a good life, the nature of love, romance, and finding emotional fulfillment. The way we refer to it today would be like publishing a bible with only Noah’s ark in it and saying the original was a book about animal husbandry.

    More to the point, that was written ~1300 years prior to the events mentioned in the post and not published in English until 200 years after. While tons of places in the world had really progressive views when it came to women and sexuality, Europe has never been one of them and referencing most of the ideas in the kama sutra during this period would have had you put to death for heresy.


  • Ther stereotype that natives and Mexicans are dirty and smelly comes from the fact that they bathed regularly as a culture and European invaders saw that as disgusting. If you’re bathing daily you’re going to have a smell by mid day, where the Europeans were nose blind to their own smell and have be replying perfumes to their filth crust for months.

    Also, Ben Franklin used to champion “air baths” which was the act of standing nude infront of an open window and letting the breeze clean you of your foul smells.





  • When I was a kid it took me several years of owning TimeSplitters Future Perfect to beat the story despite playing it literally every day. Id first seen the game when I was younger and watched my older cousin play it and the zombie house freaked me out so much that it would get my panic going when I got the game myself at around 13. It wasn’t until I genuinely set down with the goal of beating it that I realizes it had not aged well at all in the high point of the zombie craze and was actually hilarious.

    Easily my favorite game of all time and I can’t wait for TimeSplitters rewind to get to it. I still have my disk and of all things, the spot I used to stop it at is exactly where it throws a disk read error on my reclaimed Xbox.




  • I think you and the next guy are over thinking it. If a camera isn’t being watched by another camera, you stand underneath it and you can’t be seen. From there you simply reach into the field of view until you can hit the lens. That’s assuming the camera doesn’t have a parallax to it, which would refract the beam to the diode while the source is still in the deadzone.



  • Everyone else has the real details, but from my very amateur perspective thee big part is that it’s not connected anywhere else and it’s open source. I have to have an account with Plex to use Plex, so no matter what I do I always have to have there permission to get in the building. Jellyfin runs on my own box and stores its files in that box. I even know the exact directory my account is in. If they decide to push an update that doesn’t jive with me, I just won’t update my machine. If it goes off the rails at any point, there’s at least thousands of jellyfin users that actually know what they’re doing and we’ll have a new jellyfin with black jack and hookers in less than a fortnight.



  • The other guy gave a better explanation than I could have, but l will chime in emphasis that learning curve. I’m not great at computer stuff but I know my way around Linux and how to find a tutorial, home assistant is just not very user friendly. The ui is really pretty but not intuitive. Of wasn’t clear when I got into it that there’s a software and an OS version and they aren’t identical, the software is missing a lot of the things that the OS gives but the OS apparently isn’t great if youre running other things on your server, mine is set up primarily for jellyfin and I only wanted home assistant to take the stress of constantly dogging my kid about chores off my workload. Don’t let this dissuade you of you’re interested, I genuinely feel like it’s a great thing if you have the time to learn it, but it’s not something to start if you’re already struggling to juggle all your plates.