Is it just me or the Venn diagram between people who refused to wear masks during covid, and those who insist on wearing masks while snatching people off the streets is a perfect circle? - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

Google is now available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license - sh.itjust.works

Full excerpt from the article: Google is now available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing it to be used for any conceivable project from the commercial to research.

Sun Tzu's Concubines - sh.itjust.works

This whole situation reminds me of the fable of Sun Tzu and King He Lu’s concubines. I’ve linked a copy of the story, better than my TlDr, but here it is anyway. TlDr; Sun Tzu was tasked with training the kings concubines as soldiers. He gave them instructions, and they refused to carry them out, laughing and not taking it seriously. He then had two of the Kings favourite concubines executed against his wishes. Suddenly they were taking it very seriously and doing the right thing. It doesn’t take much to control a populace. The arrest of Luigi will make people he might have targeted feel safe again. But if they didn’t feel safe - ie he was never caught - he might have made real change and the targeted group would start doing the right thing for fear of retribution. It would have been an interesting alternate timeline.

Content has gotten much better - sh.itjust.works

I’ll admit I’ve drifted off Lemmy the last month or so… content was a bit repetitive and felt like just an echo chamber of the same ideas. I didn’t go back to Reddit, Reddit lost me to tiktok it turns out. Jumped back on now and so many more posts have inspired me to comment. I’m a comment contributor generally but I wasn’t feeling it. Anyway… just wanted to pop in and say I’m really enjoying it. Not that I was ever going anywhere but this is a great trajectory

The history of rome in haiku - sh.itjust.works

Ancient Rome’s debut, Romulus, Remus, they knew, City’s birth in view. Monarchy did start, Seven kings ruled, played their part, Republic’s fresh chart. Power to the plebs, Senators and their webs, Cicero’s wise pleads. Conquests, Punic Wars, Carthage fell, triumphant roars, Empire’s first great doors. Julius Caesar’s fame, Brutus and the Senate’s aim, Ides of March’s claim. Augustus did rise, Pax Romana’s grandest prize, Empire’s steady ties. Trajan, Hadrian’s reign, Empire’s borders did sustain, Height it would attain. Christianity’s spread, Persecutions widespread, Faith the martyrs bled. Invasions, turmoil, Huns, Visigoths, Roman soil, Empire’s slow uncoil. 476 AD’s fate, Odoacer’s conquest state, Western Empire’s weight. Byzantium’s gate, Constantinople, strong, great, Eastern Empire’s fate. Justinian’s name, Hagia Sophia’s fame, Empire’s legal claim. Arab-Byzantine strife, Crusades brought further life, Empire’s later life. 1453’s fall, Ottoman Turks did enthral, Byzantine’s final call. Rome’s history vast, Kingdom, Republic, held fast, Empire’s echoes cast.

Thailabds rural cowboy villiage & the history if the curry puff. - sh.itjust.works

This is one of my favourite YouTube channels at the moment. Really high quality medium form documentaries. I particularly love this episode. They are growing but still pretty small.

Australian government hands out PVC pipe for tourists to beat off dingo attacks. "Dingo sticks" - sh.itjust.works

Elon Musk says he knows the age of the universe. Disputes existence of dark matter as "sketch" - sh.itjust.works