Wow… that’s surely the smallest guard I’ve ever seen. I guess this was not meant for swordplay, eh?

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Answering the real questions!

So on the one hand it sounds like the library made the draconian-style decision without anyone else’s input, and at the same time, Kråkström just kind of rolled over on his back and did CEO things, talking about “healthy societal discussion,” but offering no actual debate or pushback.

Kinda makes me wish that when someone objects to something on ‘racist’ and other controversial terms, that it would be nice if they could be asked to write a little essay explaining precisely what was racist / offensive / etc about the matter, if indeed they were actually insisting that changes be made for the ‘good of society.’

Otherwise it’s all just “healthy societal discussion,” mais non…?

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.

Also, presuming Native Americans to be “a people” (as in, homogeneous and unite-able) overlooks that they themselves frequently felt completely at odds with other, regional tribes & peoples. So, ‘divide & conquer’ usually wasn’t necessary for the Euro invaders.

Also, in quite a few cases, some tribes would actually fight alongside various Euro factions against other Euros and other tribes.

@SassyRamen@lemmy.world

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.

Well, thank you for all that you did! (I really, really appreciate that)

Sure, I’m willing to do anything I can to help the FV project. I mean, I’m not very technically-oriented myself, but I do my best to create and maintain fun / interesting projects like EGN, for what that’s worth. For example:

https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

Could you link me, please?

Excellent, thanks!

OP, I forgot to ask-- do you have any non-superhero favorites from the list? Anything you feel particularly unique or especially worth recommending?

Btw, my own sub is here, in case Euro comics are of interest:
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

Good to see some of my faves getting recognition, such as Mariko Tamaki, Luke Pearson, Vera Brosgol, Manu Larcenet and Eduardo Risso.

Nice also to see a couple BD’s!

Thanks, bookmarked!

While initial versions of the hypothesis regarded the Sea Peoples as a primary cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse, more recent versions generally regard them as a symptom of events which were already in motion before their purported attacks.

Interesting; I hadn’t heard or read that before. So perhaps the late BA situation was a bit like the late Western Roman Empire period, in that enough internal weaknesses had arisen such that neighboring peoples could take advantage of the situation, i.e. conquer them.

Of course the BA situation was vastly different as I understand it, in that it was a diverse trading network of regions and cultures, not a unification of any particular peoples in the usual sense. Still…

I recently subbed to CasualEurope, myself. Some others I’ve been enjoying, lately: (sorry, my link formatting sucks)

• HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
• https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube
• Illustrations of history@lemmy.world
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal@midwest.social

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

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Well, dang!

A lot of the old Popeye hasn’t aged too well for me, often being on the repetitive and dull side, but this sequence is hilarious, sharp, and has aged really well IMO. So… we’re looking at a date of… Dec 19th, 1937, is it?

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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