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Tar_Alcaran

@ Tar_alcaran @sh.itjust.works

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  • Knight of Steel

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  • getting kicked by an extra-large horse is pretty bad

    Important note: that's extra-large by medieval warhorse standards.

    Destriers, also known as the "great-horse", are what we generally think of as the medieval epitome of horses. The thing a royal knights would ride off the tournament into battle alongside their king, clad in plate and colourful fabrics.

    Those were about 14ish hands tall (yes, there an exists a unit dumber than the inch, and we thankfully only use it for horses)

    More common than the Destrier were Chargers. Generally more suited for regular cavalry because they were more maneuverable (which is nice since most of the time you'll be fighting, not running in a straight line). Chargers were also smaller than a Destrier.

    For those of you not into riding: in most countries today, anything under 14.2 hands is a pony (for competition purposes, it's complex). The noble tournament mount, pride of a professional knight, is about the size of a big pony.

    A regular warhorse for the regular rider was about 1m35 tall (from where the neck meets the back, which is where you measure a horse).

    And if you're thinking "wait a minute, isn't an armored knight way too heavy for a horse that small? Isn't that unhealthy?" Remember that these are warhorses. They do things that are MUCH more unhealthy, like going into battle. They would also have different horses to ride on their way to the battle.

  • Toch weer bijzonder hoe we hier in Nederland grappen over "Niet èèn, maar twee. soldaten naar Groenland" en Trump daar blijkbaar toch van onder indruk is.

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  • Ik stel voor dat we net zoals bij elke andere peuter, we deze driftbui gewoon reflecteren op iets anders waar hij al de hele tijd over zeikt.

    Ik stel voor: "Groenland is wel te koop, de prijs is slechts twee Nobelprijzen".

  • YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox

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  • Even edge has that nowadays.

  • Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969

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  • Gender and sexual minorities are all throughout history

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  • those tools look like the types of surgical tools I'd still expect to see up until the late 1800's.

    Getting any kind of surgery in the late 1800s also sounds terrifying.

  • If abortion gets legalized, then renouncing paternity should be allowed too, to ensure equality?

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  • Hey look, there's a MGTOW instance. And now it's blocked.

  • If abortion gets legalized, then renouncing paternity should be allowed too, to ensure equality?

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  • I mean, it's the mgtow instance...

  • If abortion gets legalized, then renouncing paternity should be allowed too, to ensure equality?

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  • The problem is that women already have a function that makes them nonfertile. Its MUCH easier to simulate that function, and at the end stop simulating it, than to create a completely novel mechanism to make a man nonfertile for a certain amount of time.

    Granted, the pill isn't exactly great, but there are quite a few options for women, and they all revolve around roughly the same mechanism. The alternative is shoving a mechanical device inside, and getting to the uterus (while exceptionally unfun) is still easier than getting to the testes.

    There's also a big problem with RISUG like vasalgel (slight conspiracy theory alert here). If you sell a guy vasalgel, it's a one-time thing. If instead you sell his partner the pill, you get to keep doing that every single day for potentially decades.

  • Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared

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  • I'm hoping it's not RAW sewage

  • TNL vraagt: hoe heet uw vuurwerk-buurtvereniging?

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  • Wat weer een geniaal idee van onze landelijke overheid. We gaan het soort-van-een-beetje verbieden, dus nu moet je vereniging starten, 30 euro aan de KvK betalen (die niets keuren of checken) en dan is het afhankelijk van de gemeente of ze nul vuurwerkclubs willen, of elfduizend.

    Wat weer een geweldige oplossing, die er misschien dus ook mogelijke nog steeds niet komt.

  • Can one man look more cucked?

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  • According to Wikipedia, yes, on the back

  • Rulemoveable helmet

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  • This is way cooler than my original vintage Luke Skywalker as a stormtrooper with removable helmet (and weirdly tiny head).

  • Can one man look more cucked?

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  • Just... Zoom in on the picture.

    Edit: ok this version is kinda low-res. You can see her name in the second plate

  • Can one man look more cucked?

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  • It even has her name on it... It's just pathetic

  • Stealth, AI, 250 kg Warhead and 450 km Range: Destinus Unveils the New Ruta Block 2 Cruise Missile | Defense Express

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  • Every single homing missile since the first builder of a heat-seeker first realized the sun is also hot, has had "Combat artificial intelligence". It's an absolutely meaningless term.

  • [meme] choochoo

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  • That's an INSANE cost.

    I can take the sleeper train Amsterdam-Vienna for 115 euros one way, that's 1100km by car. 130 euros will get me on a non-sleeper train to Budapest AND back. I tried my best to find a 180 euro train ticket, but couldn't.

    So, reason you hate the train is because the trains there suck.

  • If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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  • And now that you trust me, bonus me!

  • [meme] choochoo

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  • costing a lot more than just driving myself.

    Did you include the cost of buying and maintaining a car? Or is that just fuel costs?

  • [meme] choochoo

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  • Plenty of European cities were built walkable and with public transit because they were made before there were cars. And then we half-demolished them to make room for cars, and THEN/now we spent decades fixing the shit we broke to make room for cars.