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This isn't a cookie banner. It's a full page blocking modal FFS. Way to conveniently argue past the point.
It's not on desktop, I just clicked it away in under a second although I don't read German. The point isn't all that special, is what I'm saying. The advertising on the underlying page is significantly worse.
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I just spit my drink through my nose seeing that someone actually feels the need to defend cookie banners, lol. You have a fair point on how the inline ads themselves are trash, but I wouldn’t choose one over the other—I’d have neither of them.
I would prefer that cookies and tracking didn't exist, but given that they do I like having the option to opt out of them when I first visit a website.
It blows my mind that these godawful cookie banners is where we ended up. Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this. Go back to the drawing board and do better.
It blows my mind that people still browse the web without an ad blocker. Install Firefox + uBlock and the problem goes away.
This is mindblowing. Here we are, 3000 years in the future. But how many of us could make such a “primitive” thing?
This is mindblowing. Here we are, 3000 years in the future. But how many of us could make such a “primitive” thing?
The article is somewhat sensationalistic. Finding an octagonal type bronze sword ("Achtkantschwert" in German) from that period is rare, but we have quite a couple of them. Since bronze does not rust, the conditions of such swords are often quite good (and typically far better than that of medieval iron swords, for instance). Here is a map of the distribution of octagonal-hilted swords in Europe: https://www.research…
My knowledge of bronze vs iron comes purely from playing dwarf fortress. Are they fairly comparable in the damage they can cause?
Iron is extremely common and cheap, but requires much much higher temperatures to work with than bronze. Once the furnace technology was out there to make smelting iron and creation of steel feasible, poorer / less complicated civilizations were able to make iron weaponry and go up against their richer neighbors.
This is mindblowing. Here we are, 3000 years in the future. But how many of us could make such a “primitive” thing?
How many people could make them 3000 years ago? Im curious how many blacksmiths there were back then with the appropriate skill and resources to learn it and do it well. I feel as if there are still a surprising number of people that could make a sword today, although maybe not from raw resources.
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That trope is about something so forgotten that any discoveries would be entirely unexpected. But awareness of Rome was never lost, quite the opposite. Even bureaucratic connections survived, they just shifted back a gear from political to spiritual authority. Most nominal titles like count or duke assumed by european nobility derive their names from some role in Roman administration, they all considered themselves a…
Came here to say much the same thing. A great book that gets into the details of this is https://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Rome-Illuminating-Dark-40... TLDR; people considered themselves "Roman", or something adjacent to it, long after the western empire officially disintegrated, and of course in the east it didn't really die. Even on the outskirts (e.g. Romano-British) people held onto Roman, Christian, and Latin c…