Lemmywinks

Labour haven’t really been a left wing party since 1995

I appreciate the joke 😂 (though I’m not too surprised many others didn’t get it, relying as it does on a ~25 year old South Park reference)

Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.

There are no Americans involved in this story…

Even in the Western half of the empire a lot of the elites spoke Greek. For example: while he would definitely have been capable of speaking Latin, Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek.

That’s not true

The Eastern Roman Empire was every bit as Roman as the Western Empire.

At the point when the empire split in two the capital had already been moved to Constantinople, so if anything it’s the Western Empire that was the pretender (though that is also a stupid take, both empires were clearly roman, unlike the much later HRE).

It’s only really the hyper developed countries that are experiencing the massive drop off in birth rates, so immigration would actually help this problem significantly.

Also, the lack of immigration in Japan is as much a matter of policy as it is everywhere else. Their government heavily discourages migrant labour (due in part to cultural racism), which has made their plummeting birth rate much more of a problem than it needs to be.

This is the worst argument against immigration I’ve ever heard

This one’s easily solved by removing restrictions on immigration

Aye, “if it wanted”. I don’t have any experience with Highland Council , but I know that Glasgow City Council routinely refuses to take responsibility for any land that it can’t profit from, and I doubt they’re alone in that

“Handing it over to the council” is a non-starter. They will either refuse to take over responsibility for the area (if it’s not big enough to develop) or will take ownership and then promptly sell it to a developer.

“There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk light beer. Which is water that’s lying about being milk beer”

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One of the NPCs in your main camp will complain if you stay in the camp for a while.

This one annoyed me, to be honest. He’s like “Arthur, Arthur, you need to go out and earn some money for the camp!”, but when you look at the logbook most of the NPCs are bringing in about a dollar fifty per day in pocket watches and so on, whereas I’ve paid in over a thousand bucks in the past week and have singlehandedly bankrolled every single improvement to the camp since the game’s start. Ungrateful sons of bitches…

I got bit by a dragon fly once, and I wasn’t threatening towards it in any way. I just stuck my finger out in the hope that one of the many dragon flies would land on it, and one did, and then the fucker bit me for no reason and flew off

The “Land of the free” has jaywalking laws… They literally aren’t even allowed to cross the street without permission from the state

“Devine?”

What’s the high squiggle in March? I would have assumed covid but it’s the wrong shade of blue to be 2020 (it could be 2021, but that’s a year into the pandemic, so seems like a strange time to have a spike in deaths)

Not only are they leaving Lemmy :(, but they’ve been using pieface for the last few months (which seems to be why they’re leaving Lemmy, pieface has imposed voting limits for some asinine reason).

I was so excited to discover that there was an (essentially) “open-source reddit alternative” but so far the fediverse has served up disappointment after disappointment.

What? What a ludicrous thing to say.

Exactly. This is like when they publish articles about ‘the best untouched beaches in x country’ and then within a year or two those beaches are swamped with tourists, or ‘nice cheap neighbourhoods in x city’ which are then targeted by venture capitalists who buy up all the housing