Kyrgizion @ Kyrgizion @lemmy.world

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You're kidding but this is actually true. Investing in funeral parlors and similar services is probably a good idea right now; first the excessive dying of the poors, then war. It's going to be a golden age for gravediggers.

"Investing" in anything perishable seems to be a bit of a... well, gamble to me.

Fucking idiot, everyone knows you go to south asia for that, not Europe 🙄

I hate that I read this and immediately went "yup, that's how it'll go" without a hint of irony.

It does work like 75%+ of the time for me. With those chances a nap is always worth the risk.

Not in a million years. But I'll still be rooting for him regardless.

3B is peanuts to them. I want to see fines that cripple a company's yearly profits so that, in lieu of criminal investigations and repercussions, the execs at the very least get punished by their board of directors and shareholders. There's only one language they understand. Another poster called it "operating costs". That's what we need to get rid of; punitive fines need to regain their punitive nature in order to be anywhere close to effective.

V-coins and ma-shops are reputable and you won't easily come across fakes there. Just stay away from Ebay and the like. Also, if you go for the affordable types (common denari or late roman bronzes) these are almost never faked since it's not worth the effort. They cost like 5 bucks for decent pieces, maybe just a bit more if you want a nicer specimen.

So many innocents are going to die in the coming years. I wish I could warn them, but most of them seem to not care at all...

Ancient coins (2000-1700 years old) are surprisingly common and can be had very cheaply unless you want a specifically rare or perfect one.

I went through most of my life believing that anything older than say 200 years was automatically a museum piece or equivalent. But most museums of ancient history who display ancient coins have multitudes of the displayed coins sitting in storage. The Romans alone minted BILLIONS of coins over the span of the Republic and the Empire (that's over 1000 years of history!) and if even 1% of them survive today, that's still many, many dozens of millions.

People seem to have forgotten, or worse - accepted this reality for what it is. I will never forget though and I will keep reminding people ad nauseam.

Instead of one central server divided in subreddits, we have dozens/hundreds of "instances" of Lemmy, which are almost all federated with each other. This means that posts, comments,... propagate between all the federated ones, not just the one you're on. This serves to eliminate the need for one central authority (which can be hacked/bribed/changed/...). The largest instance right now is lemmy.world. If you were to create a new community there, it would federate to all other connected servers and people can interact with the content freely. If someone else wanted to start the same community, they would be able to do this, including the same name, if they create it on another origin instance (for example lemm.ee). From that point onwards, both communities will be live and be able to "live" next to each other without crossing boundaries or running into any technical issues.

This also means it's almost impossible to get truly banned on Lemmy since you can simply create a new account on another instance. Since (shadow)banning is being massively misused by Reddit right now, this will eventually be the biggest reason for the growth of Lemmy. Reddit has become a staunchly anti-consumer/anti-user platform where trying to contribute is actively being resisted by power users/mods - and then they want to monetize your contributions through ads as well. No thank you.

You can appoint other people to mod, but if a community remains without moderation for a significant amount of time, someone else might ask admin to take it over. You can also create "copies" on each individual federated host which allows for competing subs without having to snipe for community names at creation time.

Not perfect but much better than any of the alternatives.

Called it. Can't be arsed to look up the exact comment but I literally said he'd park a carrier on each end of the canal and would do this.

Shit, when you put it like that...

Conspiracy theorists for the last few decades: "The government is trying to murder us!"

The actual government in 2025: "Yes, we would like it if a grand majority of you were to die"

Conspiracy theorists: crickets

Considering they must have known they couldn't get away with this undetected, I suspect there will be a sizable amount of rubles being deposited in his bank account or that of one of his relatives soon.

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

You get an achievement for that? Cuz I'm eligible.

Absolutely, but they'll have to jump through a few hoops to get it, which in practice already makes a massive difference.