Which is a big part of why I said “it’s the Dutch.”
I don’t know anything about this being an ‘infrastructure canary,’ however. TBH, I’d tend to hope that they don’t assign nearly the specialised resources to this project as they do far more critical works. Because this is mostly just a fun little project, right…?
Seems ever-so-slightly concerning that the mechanisms for preventing the bridge from overflowing are based solely on dams and pumps working. I.e., as opposed to building the bridge to float as necessary. Seems like that would be more versatile and lower-maintenance. *shrug* Then again: 1) it’s the Dutch, and 2) it’s only a man-made moat/lake, so what’s the worst that could happen?
Another, more relevant rabbit hole I’m skirting at the moment is reading about how Holland deals with the potential of mosquito populations, which seems like it could be vast for a country like that.
From what I understand, this was originally a royal residence of Ada, Countess of Holland. The walls make sense, as she was later deposed by her paternal uncle.
At first I was kind of skeptical about this smallish structure truly being a “castle,” but:
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars usually consider a castle to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a mansion, palace, and villa, whose main purpose was exclusively for pleasance and are not primarily fortresses but may be fortified.
Use of the term has varied over time and, sometimes, has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace. --WP
So I guess there are ‘castles’ and ‘genuine castles,’ FWIW.
I recently subbed to CasualEurope, myself. Some others I’ve been enjoying, lately: (sorry, my link formatting sucks)
Unfortunately, when Lemm.ee went down early, I failed to preserve my 2-year list of subscriptions from that acct. So I’ve got a boatload of work to do trying to repopulate that list. :S
I don’t understand. This is specifically an AI community, yet people are downvoting this post for some reason. Why?
I could understand if this AI art was posted to just about any other /c, for example “funny animal pics,” or such, but this is a place created specifically for this sort of thing, no?
Not to mention, I do find the image hilarious. XD
Ah, thanks. However, seen from different angles, the statues still appear unusually squat to me, as if the figures were little more than 5’ tall.
Checking with Google’s AI, I’m surprised to learn (tentatively) that the average Ancient Egyptian male was in fact about 5’6," which creates a little bit of a mystery, here. What’s more, Rameses II himself evidently stood about 5’11" in his prime(!)
But we are animals who can recognize and control whatever urges we have.
–> insert bark-like, high-pitched PeeWee Herman laugh! <–
Anyway, I think I lean in your general direction on this, but I’m open to the idea that it might help someone, somewhere. At least, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this type of /c before.
The Abu Simbel statues seem to be biggest in the world, about 2x the height of the one in the WP link.
As for the ones in the OP pic, assuming it’s not stretched horizontally, they certainly have the most unusual proportions I’ve ever seen in Egyptian statuary. That is-- squat, unusually thick front-to-back, and with disproportionally large heads. Interesting!
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I can understand Spanish & French if that helps you out.
Sounds like the name of a researcher with a French last name, who, likely being a scientist, would have conducted their research under routinely strict (i.e. not liberal) controls.
If you grew up in the States, you would have learned who Franklin was somewhere in the 5th to 8th grade public schooling range, so I guess neither of those things happened in your case?
So damn emblematic of the way we carelessly use tech on a major scale, as well as relentlessly re-order the environment to our taste.
So… TTB? (typical tankie behavior)
And yeah, I know who they are. Nutomic actually helped with a Lemmy issue, once. FWIW.
Do you have a particular bone to pick with them, PJ? I mean other than their general poly-ticks?
(love your contributions, btw; thanks for all you do!)
I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you’re just pulling ‘best of’ content from elsewhere.
So-- IMO it’s generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I’ve seen, most community founders don’t necessarily realise that, and aren’t actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).
IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the “ALL” feed. Whereas for example, that’s almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!
Oh! Vous êtes en fait l’auteur, n’est-ce pas?
Do you mind if I add a link in our “WEBCOMIX!” post? (2nd from top)
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
Oh wow, thanks for sharing the link! Lots of good stuff there. :D
Everyone in the building happened to flush their toilets at the same time.
Fun factoid: there’s an urban legend about so many people flushing their toilets during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl, that it actually broke municipal water mains.
And of course, most of the right-wing voters probably don’t know and/or care to understand that FOX was founded as a propaganda outlet in the first place.
Answering the real questions!