Southern Italy doesn’t really have cold weather, especially pre-industrial. It’s very temperate.

I saw these in the Herculaneum in Naples, though there the roofs were slanted towards the opening to capture more rain. You could follow a few of the sluces through the town so you could see how they were connected.

I’ve been to Naples a couple times recently, and from my experience, rain in the summer is usually a sudden downpour, lasts no more than 20 minutes, drops a lot of rain at once and then it’s sunny again. I didn’t experience much wind beyond it being a bit gusty during the rain, but inside one of these houses, they’d be fine. It’ll still be 35°C or more, so a little light splashing would’ve been welcomed.

It’s rain. The Roman roofs were designed to allow rain water to fall into a pool in the middle of the atrium. These pools were connected to other pools in other houses, allowing for water to flow to houses that didn’t have atriums, bringing fresh water to the entire town.

Me on a Saturday night.

Lionsgate is just going to get worse, based on the news that they’re looking at AI for creating storyboards, removing that avenue of creativity and funneling it into a system of mediocrity that the entire rest of the production is then based on.

So the people who didn’t like the idea of short pints asked if they were messing with the serving size of wine, and when told no, they went with that. Everyone else just consumed the same amount as they would’ve, more or less.

I’ve been saying it for years, recreate the Global, god damnit! Best sci-fi tech ever.

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Say it with me, ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between:

The cruelty is the point!

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Baseball bats have a flared base, approved.

It’s because they’re alpha version. They haven’t gone through beta testing, been selected as a release candidate, sent to QA and finally released. They’re only alpha.

Porous material and no flared bases, not approved.

Here’s a source: https://lemmy.ml/post/19567861

• DVD: 55%
• Blu-ray: 26%
• UHD: 18%

So Wolfenstein is fair game because that’s clearly satire, with roided up, mecha Nazis, but this is bad because… robot Thatcher? Sure, that makes sense.

Dvds still account for around half of physical media sales. Far from obsolete.

I’m visiting Naples at the moment with my Italian boyfriend, and I remarked to him that Naples has a lot of places that people can just hang out without spending money, something that the UK has lost. Part of this is due to the climate, but also corporatism hasn’t hit Italy as hard as other western countries. It really is a shame.

Mastadon has definitely improved it’s user onboarding process. When I first tried, and failed, to use it 3 years ago it was awful. Signing up a year ago was a painless process. It may not be fully ready for the mainstream just yet, but it’s definitely getting there.

Having spoken to so many people about this subject over my many years on this planet, the number of people that would actually want a revolution is so low that it’s effectively zero. They don’t want that kind of change. Having seen how resistant people are to give up their cars for the sake of their children’s future, do you really think people would give up their many comforts to remove capitalism from the world? Fuck no would they.

But simple, small, understandable changes to the current system are much more agreeable. When I’ve suggested a cooperative approach, even the most resistant to change agrees that it would improve the situation for themselves, and that’s a change that can be worked with, without others perceiving that change as coming from an absolute loon.

As others have said in this very thread, the western world is so resistant to revolution that the very idea of it will always be fringe. But cooperatives have been demonstrated to work, they just need to be applied to a much larger degree. It’s understandable to the majority, it doesn’t rock the boat too much, it’s a feasible approach and it removes power from the top and returns it to the workers.