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I'll raise a counterpoint then: how many independent countries are now known as "China"? The difference is that the Roman Empire fell apart, and everyone kind of reverted to their original culture or became something new. Same thing happened in Greece after the
centuries-long Turkish occupation and war crimescomplicated events.The analogy is very messy now and it doesn't make sense anymore ~😂~. But I guess the end result is that it's not so simple at which point one nation ends and another begins. Real history is messy and once you actually look into it, it's not a simple thing at all.
In the first place "Greece" wasn't even one thing, it was a messy collection of city-states and alliances that kind of got along sometimes. I think many places in the world was like that back then, actually. Then Alexander the Great happened and a lot of the world was Greece. Then it wasn't.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯So yeah. You can make things as complicated or as simple as you feel like.
- Level 1 complicated: it's a 9000 year old ancient Greek skeleton
- Level 2: it's an ancient skeleton found in what is now known as Greece
- Level 3: it's a Pelasgian skeleton
I wouldn't call level 1 "incorrect". I would call it "simplified". People who know Greece didn't exist 9000 years ago will already know the truth. Everyone else won't really care. But I know many people here on Lemmy are "semantics enthusiasts".
I used to love watching UFO stuff on Reddit, before A.I. videos became a thing
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The analogy isn't quite right. It's more like, hypothetically, if those native people were left relatively undisturbed and not displaced. Then, hundreds of years later, their descendents are now a large proportion of New York. I would probably call them New Yorkers, yes. I don't know much about Native American history, so let me know if I'm off the mark somewhere here.
I say "relatively" because Greek people had a lot of… let's say… neighbourly troubles, and it got very "complicated" for a long time. But we still call the people living there Greek, even if their bloodline DNA is very mixed bag now. I did an Ancestry thing out of curiosity, so I should know, even though my family and I are 100% born there.
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Yeah this looks completely wrong to me... Like sure, they would look very different, but they wouldn't be indistinguishable from men. Even from an evolutionary perspective that's just silly.
Even today we have women that have "facial bone structures we associate with masculinity" as they describe. It's not like we are working blind and trying to reconstruct a dinosaur or an extraterrestrial. Though maybe for some scientists, women are similarly rare.
I looked up some examples of "masculine women faces" online in 2 minutes. Even though they look "masculine", they clearly don't look like Gigachad or whatever this reconstruction is.
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Pelasgians (7000 BC - 3200 BC)
The name Pelasgians (Ancient Greek: Πελασγοί, romanized: Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. In general, "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean Sea region and their cultures.
https://www.delphimuseum.gr/2025/02/greek-history.html?m=1
It depends on what you mean by "existed". They're the ancestors of Greeks, and they lived in what is now Greece, but didn't call themselves that name. As a Greek, to me they're "Greek by ascent", so the distinction is a bit trivial.
I had a really rough time once I finished school and was released into the world. It was like I left prison and didn't know what to do or how to act. I had a lot of "reactive" emotions and actions from years of living in that environment, that confused and scared me. I didn't understand myself at all, why I did things, why things upset me that others are fine with. I hated the way I acted and who I was, I didn't want to be that way, it felt like I wasn't "myself" or in control. People around me were confused and concerned.
Therapy helped, just having someone to talk to and say things out loud was really important. It didn't fix it, but I could see the shape of my childhood better. "Oh this behaviour comes from this trauma" kind of thing. Then the life-long process of untangling it began.
I've made a lot of progress, but I'll never be finished. Something will set you off and will take a long time to work through, and you'll keep finding little things. Like recently I discovered that I hate when people misrepresent me or lie about me or paint me in a bad light, because as a kid when that happened I would get severe institutional violence. If my reputation was attacked, I was in real physical danger. As a result, today I get really angry and defensive even about really minor misrepresentations that don't matter at all. Still working on that one.
It's all about self-improvement. Becoming who you want to be, not who you had to be to survive. Sometimes you don't know who you want to be, just that you don't like who you are now, and that's ok too.
It's interesting after you read the news, it feels like the world is on fire. But if you step outside, the grass is still green, when you were expecting ashes
Oh my God, they killed Kenny!
That was me until my body finally gave out when I hit 30. Got flattened by the boulder and now I'm kicking rocks
Xitter is a bad example but I can imagine someone liking / sharing posts for their favourite video game or MMO. Like if there was an update for FFXIV, you might share it with your friends so they don't miss it. Or if there's a giveaway code or something. Stuff like that where it's actually useful and impactful to your life or hobbies.
I'm not here to argue, but after a certain point it becomes a game of "hide the data stream". You'd be amazed at how clever you can be with this, and inspecting the logic of embedded firmware is difficult.
It often looks something like this (in algorithm or nowadays A.I. functionality):
"When an accident occurs, keep a copy of the video file. After a random delay after the accident, during normal driving, when you don't feel like you're being observed, upload the video recording to one of these 40 IP addresses in 20–400 byte encrypted chunks over 7 days."
This isn't theoretical, I've seen it before, software being sneaky like this. Resistant to observation because it can detect an artificial testing environment or network snooping tools. Difficult to prove misbehavior because the data is routed through multiple hops before being stored, and you can't easily inspect encrypted traffic. It might not even be the car manufacturer, it could be whoever is making the cameras. Basically, if it has a data connection and a recording feature, it's not secure.
What the other person is trying to convey is the common operating rule of most businesses nowadays. Breaking the law is worth it to them if the profits outweigh the consequences. For example if they only just increase profit by 4% per year, a low chance of a 4% fine after say 5 years is absolutely worth it. The only way to curb this is with completely ruinous fines, like "we will fine you 50% of each year this happened, dissolve your regional organisation, or ban you from doing business in the entire regulatory area (in this case the EU)" kind of consequences. Anything else can be optimised away.
Also, if you're not willing to actually use it to restore from backup, it's not a backup. I remember once I fucked up surgery on the prod db (we didn't have a testing db...) and was like, ok well at least we can just try again.
Boss man was like "no! We can't restore from backup, people will lose 1 hour of their work!!!" I spent 7 days writing a script to surgically fix my surgery instead. I had to fudge and guess some of the data but wcyd
Yes. I believe that life will be worth living, even if it might look different in the future. There will always be struggle and suffering, but also beauty and joy. People had kids in the past during genocide, famine, drought, cruel regimes, civil unrest, war, natural disasters... But they did it anyway, because it's still worth it.
The original context of this thread was the claim that bringing any child into this world is an act of cruelty and selfishness. I say it's an act of love and wanting to share it with yet another person. Personal choices are their own thing, anyone can choose not to have kids as their own choice, that's fine. I'm only arguing against calling every parent selfish, and every child doomed.
Man I really don't like Roblox anymore... I used to play it a lot with the kids in extended family. I was the "funcle" so to speak.
I tried to log in one day and found my password and email address has been changed. Clearly it got hacked, dunno how, since it was a very strong password manager password. Probably a data breach or something.
Anyway, I recover the account, and I'm horrified. Some weirdo has been impersonating me and speaking to the young members of our extended family. Nothing serious yet thank God, I caught it early. But really weird stuff like asking what clothes they're wearing. I contacted Roblox support but they didn't give a shit. I told the family, but I don't think they really understood what I was saying or why it's serious.
I deleted my account to remove that attack vector because that's just terrifying. Worse than those baby monitors security.
The point is, it doesn't matter. Most likely your child would be perfectly average and live a normal life. You can't know for sure, so there's no reason to worry about it. It's the same as how you drive your car, even though you cannot guarantee an accident will not happen. You just do it anyway.
If you truly believe existence is not worth having, I'd actually treat that as a red flag to maybe talk to a professional about those feelings. This is not normally.
You're under arrest.
Why?
I really shouldn't be speaking to you at all, but it has to do with your vibes.
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Bugs can live outside. Not indoors in my production code. Don't ask where "outside" is in this metaphor.
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I feel like the A.I. data centre part of the news article was only put there because everyone is talking about them right now so you have to make everything in the world somehow related to A.I. data centres
You could say it's slop slop. The slopocalypse. Slopageddon. Ragnaslop