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What podcast do you enjoy so much you binge old episodes of? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This American Life and Heavyweight

I don't know why but I find the term "October Surprise" to be quite amusing? Do you? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Two-horse chariot races (bigae) were held in the Campus Martius, the area of Rome named for Mars, after which the right-hand horse of the winning team was transfixed by a spear, then sacrificed. The horse's head (caput) and tail (cauda) were cut off and used separately in the two subsequent parts of the ceremonies: two neighborhoods staged a fight for the right to display the head, and the freshly bloodied cauda was carried to the Regia for sprinkling the sacred hearth of Rome.

Alrighty then

Today, I left windows behind for good in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I just watched this YouTube video last night of someone setting up Bazzite on a mini pc to create a sort of Steam Machine, might be nice to check out. https://youtu.be/f45hDPOrzFI

Boomer Rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That show was such a joy to watch.

Discretion in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

My time to shine! It's in Dutch, it means "home delivery service".

‘Isn’t it past your jail time?’: Jimmy Kimmel wins cheers at Oscars with Trump jibe in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Don't forget Trump has only ever won once - in 2016 - and even then he lost the popular vote by 3 million. Every single major race since then - the 2018 midterms, the 2020 presidential election, the 2022 midterms - he or his endorsed candidates either outright lost or failed to live up to expectations. Don't get me wrong, I'm as anxious as anybody else and I'll believe it when I see it, but if I were to place a bet I'd bet he's going to lose yet again.

/r/theoryofreddit post asking why reddit seems dead in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Perhaps you moved from Europe to the States in the interim like I did.

Edit to add: sorry if this came off as snarky, was not my intention. Just wanted to point out that it's not always so clear-cut. I created my Reddit account in 2008 when I lived in the Netherlands. Then I moved to the US in 2016 and became a citizen in 2019.

Leaving the system [Watercolor ink on paper] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nice work OP! Can you name a few of those 70s/80s Euro space comics you like best? Would love to check some out.

If it fits... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Pawfection

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 132 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Navalny most certainly wasn't stupid. He understood what he was getting into when he got on that flight back to Russia. My guess is that he hoped his arrest and detention would spark an uprising, which sadly didn't materialize.

I would not have made the choice he did, but I'm also not as brave as he is. Fuck Putin.

Rainy Kyoto Days in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

One more reason to love Kyoto ❤️

Rainy Kyoto Days in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Funny thing you should say that because IIRC there actually is a Starbucks on the left right around the corner (though with a traditional facade at least). Source: wife and I were there last year.