So I was teaching some kids snowboarding, one kid started talking to me about musk on the chairlift. He tells me that musk is the greatest engineer to ever live. I say that he’s really more of a business man buying up companies. Kid is not convinced. I tell him that the only engineering that musk may have done was software engineering on PayPal. Kid thinks that’s great support of his claim.

Adults and 11 year olds are pretty much the same, so I would say there’s lots of people that think musk is a super genius. Probably a dwindling amount, but there’s a lot of people on earth.

On the bright side, no skaven problem to worry about down there.

I can fix her

I’m not usually an internet commentor, but I try to chip in on Lemmy sometimes. I think most people just treat it like the rest of social media today, where the smart idea is to just lurk

You know what I mean. Sorry my words weren’t good enough

The engineer guy on YouTube did an episode the engineering method explaining how ancient and medieval Masons built stuff without math. https://youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU?si=2N_iyZiBD8eDpltR

Though I am sure the Romans used plenty of math during the construction of many of their projects.

Now that you mention it, I seem to remember Xenophon stumbling across giant ruins that perplexed him while out on campaign. I think they were Persian? It very much could be drawing on the experiences of people seeing the ruins of fallen empires.

Edit: AI is telling me that Xenophon traveled through the impressive ruins of Assyrian cities, he was fighting the Persians.

I wonder who did this first? Didn’t ultima have a storyline like this, or am I misremembering a game from before I was born

I seriously don’t know how Danger 5 didn’t get more popular, it’s one of my favorite shows

Born just on the cusp of Gen z, so I’m debatably a zoomer. But weren’t pagers a big thing in hospitals for a long time? I certainly saw them while watching scrubs as a kid.

Can you just imagine how insufferable 4d tech bros would be? Yeah I’ll pass

The inuit folk I’ve talked to said that sometimes they have to shoot a polar bear if it’s harassing the village. When they kill one, it’s not uncommon to find bullets in it from the last time it was harassing a village. Polar bears are big and scary and we are destroying their habitat.

So this would mean all mammals would have 8 limbs. That would be odd, weird even

Burry yourself in manure as Hippocrates intended!

I feel like you’re getting pushback because your definitions. Do you think you could define, open source, free, libre?

Why does software licenced under the gpl not fall under open source? What problems do you have with the OSI’s definition open source.

That’s why I bring the cute women mountain biking, and then they complain when we have to bike up a hill…

I really want to make a joke about C, but I’m not a very good programmer. Maybe:

“A magical tome that makes you feel insecure.”

Folk punk sounds like a really interesting genre. Do you have any recommendations?

I mean I’ve seen more than a couple of shows at my local waterhole, and the price has been between free and $20. The $20 one was Moonhooch and absolutely worth it!

If you like listening to live music, it’s there, but it’s not T-Swizzle.

There is the old saying that “People don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses.” My advice is to go to therapy first, I think the question will sort itself out after that.