TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

This depends on your client. A lot of them hide responses in the same way Reddit did.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 13 points 4 months ago

The stones of Stonehenge have been there for millennia, yes, but they are only in their modern configuration since the 1950s, as a best guess reconstruction of something that had been lost long ago.

stonehenge

The Bamyan statues were much younger, but were largely intact as they had been for 1,400 years. And, y'know, got blown up rather than doused with a bit of colour (which frankly was probably a better recreation of what happened at the real Stonehenge than the LARPing the faux druids do).

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do you understand the difference between blowing up ancient statues with dynamite, and throwing some chalk on stones that have been in place since the 1950s?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are being tested on your comprehension of the text given, not asked for your opinion on piracy and copyright.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

I just hate the pathetic effort they put into the quotes. Sean Bean was a weird choice anyway ("what do people universally and forever like? Game Of Thrones I suppose!") but then they had him read quotes from literal blogs and often quotes that shat all over the technology you'd just researched. Oh! I completed a wonder! I definitely want to hear a quote about how it's obsolete now and its abandonment caused immense poverty in the Ruhr valley.

That and the movement towards nations instead of, yknow, Civilizations. Sorry Australia, you are not a Civilisation. Nor is Canada. Nor Scotland. How do we have Scotland - an independent country for less than 300 years - and not the fucking Celts.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So... is Bay over Bae canon now?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What on earth are you talking about? What start button is in the middle?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This attitude towards the downvote button came from reddit, because Reddit started hiding responses with an arbitrary number of downvotes, which most Lemmy clients emulate. That's how it stifles conversation.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this in answer to something or just a passing thought?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how you got from point 1 (which is valid - but do you think there aren't Germans who will say yes?) to point 2?

How does an something being an answer on a survey make it a reasonable answer? If surveys should be limited to reasonable answers, how do we ever quantify how many unreasonable people exist?

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