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 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”

generational conflict [kelly.png]

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

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

what do you count as tech?

techbros graced everyone else with disruptive, innovative methods of money laundering

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so