Lol ok there might be no real birds left but they definitely exist in the fossil record, it was likely the inventions of trains that drove birds to the next highest dimension (which isn’t real, hence birds were real but now they are not).

People are making crude jokes but the truth is birds do have a back door it is whatever food they find tastiest. Birds are easily bribable like humans or dogs.

They ultimately lost out to silicon

for now…

Please leave, your voice is not wanted here.

If you continue to spread blantant disinformation about the genocide of palestinians I will report you.

Thank you for that wonderful image!

Stephen Miller is a nazi, he doesn’t give a shit about health except as a narrative device to create permission for more authoritarian violence.

I think this episode plot of Bojack is one of the most bitingly effective takedowns of US culture I have seen, these words live rentfree in my head as a future epitaph to put on the gravestone of the US.

Turns out they hated women more than they loved guns.

The US is corrupt enough at this point the only thing massive corporations have to do to survive is be massive.

Many companies that never even have turned a consistent profit are major players in the US economy.

The idea of valuing actual market competition is a distraction conservatives point to as a cool aesthetic and it has little to do with the economic reality of the US. So long as the right people are in power a dictatorship is totally acceptable to conservatives by and large and the inevitable end result of that as we are seeing are stunning displays of incompetency at the highest levels of power.

This is the answer unless you consider setting up a DIY home server fun, which often the kinds of people who recommend options for this kind of thing do… so just keep that context in mind here with recommendations.

Syncthing is a great solution and it is wayyyyy less a headache than any other DIY method I have done for replacing cloud/filesharing purposes.

Nope, you are actually the accelerationist here for refusing to lucidly deal with the mechanism of acceleration truthfully and instead are faffing around with half measures that ensure the problem will not be stopped but make you feel less scared.

RFK is literally a child murderer

Schatz recounted the story of how Kennedy traveled to Samoa in 2019 to discourage people from taking the measles vaccine which ultimately led to an outbreak in which thousands of people were infected and 83, mostly children, died.

“It is so chilling to contemplate the idea that someone as recognizable as a Kennedy would fly across an ocean to a small, developing country and basically tell everybody, ‘Be afraid of this lifesaving medicine’,” Schatz concluded.

https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-rfk-jr-whose-dangerous-lies-fueled-measles-outbreak-in-samoa-and-caused-preventable-deaths-unqualified-to-lead-hhs

He isn’t just a quack, he is a fascist.

No, GIMP got really good recently!

GIMP is the ultimate behemoth presence lurking below in the deepest extent of Linux it seems.

Yes but what was the statue built in 2006 meant to honor? They both appear to be referencing literally the same thing, the appearance is very similar.

I like the elder scrolls series of games too, especially Morrowind, but isn’t the most obvious answer here that the part of the team that was working on inspiration for different architectures and cultures might have googled similar things to you, stumbled on similar photos and thought “I am going to steal that”?

I am not saying this was nefarious, this is just how “exoticism” or seeing other cultures mundane as exotic can degrade our capacity to understand what we are perceiving.

Edit ok so Azura is an imperfect echo of Ishtar

Azura’s Moon is always shown as a Crescent, while accompanied by her single Star. Irl the Crescent and Star symbol can be traced back Sumerian iconography to the moon deity Sin and goddess Ishtar.

Sin (aka Nanna) is said to be what gave the name for the concept of sin in the Semetic traditions. The Moons being the body of Mundus’s god king (and diety to be associated with the first the sin of liberty) is an interesting note.

Ishtar (aka Inanna) is a goddess of love, sex, fertility, and war. She is also associated with the morningstar Venus. Also… …

The Sumerians were known astrologers, and traced these and other celestial bodies for many things, but most importantly, for divine prophecy.

I find the possibility of influence interesting, as well as the implications of Azura displaying Herself as a bridge between them, or perhaps a scale weighing them against each other."

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/57ms7g/what_is_azuras_moon/