Okay, RoughRomanMemes is fully leaking at this point.

I guess it depends how you define civilisation. Usually “they left momuments for us to find” is close to what gets used, which of course is going to correlate strongly with transportation.

(also aqueduct but less so)

It bugs me that after all the effort they put into aqueducts and sewers, they still ended up with a typical ancient parasite load, probably from unclean public baths and garum.

That seems like it implies humans are better on wheels, even though you’ve taken an anti-wheel stance in general.

Hmm. Sounds like Marx. Maybe it’s a general 19th century German thing.

War is when you get an idea to invade a place, and then just do it. Politik is the next president’s problem.

Wouldn’t any civilian endpoint they’re buying be designed to use IP?

Which happens, but then a different idiot tends to fix it. See what happened with the Starlink-controlled drones.

That would require someone who could stop a Trump invasion, and who also deeply understands and cares about the region.

Most people in America, and who run America DGAF. Some nerds from the State Department or DIA probably objected, but we can guess how that went.

The options, like, Europe has to stop this are not very good ones.

Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.

They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it.

In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.

Hexbear: It’s actually helping a lot with Chinese characteristics.

At least fast enough to meet the buyer’s deadline, EZ.

Well, realising you’re actually just going to sit in the dark transcends countries.

(More credibly, I’m guessing sending several thousand trucks through a random patch of the Middle East would not be cheap, regardless of borders)

So how much provincial power scope creep will be allowed before Carney steps in and does something? (Or the next PM, but Carney in particular seems well placed to do so gracefully)

In theory, no. They seem to be testing that.

Interesting. I’ve tried Linux phones, they’re not a bad idea per se. It looks like Waydroid is literally just emulating LineageOS, though, so I do start to wonder what the point is.

I suppose one advantage would be you can actually hack your system a bit, instead of having everything locked into the ROM.

And even this improvement wasn’t universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn’t ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate “the ease of programming” with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a “kids these days” paragraph too, though)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a “why do I even pay you” moment?

Clearly, Carney is basically the NDP.

Okay, I’m joking. But IIRC that was the Lemmy reaction with the Conservative floor crossers. (The reaction to this one seems like barely contained salt)

Two are needed, two are safe seats, the Liberals have a double digit poll lead.

If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.