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The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

I remember reading articles that warned something like this would happen eventually, probably would've done myself if i were in Russia's position.

Thanks, many interesting facts for anyone who can't be bothered to click the link but like to know more:

Most of the finer sort of medieval manuscripts, whether illuminated or not, were written on vellum. Some Gandhāran Buddhist texts were written on vellum, and all Sifrei Torah are written on kosher klaf or vellum.

A quarter of the 180-copy edition of Johannes Gutenberg's first Bible printed in 1455 with movable type was also printed on vellum, presumably because his market expected this for a high-quality book. Paper was used for most book-printing, as it was cheaper and easier to process through a printing press and to bind. The twelfth-century Winchester Bible was also written on approximately 250 calfskins.

In art, vellum was used for paintings, especially if they needed to be sent long distances, before canvas became widely used in about 1500, and continued to be used for drawings, and watercolours. Old master prints were sometimes printed on vellum, especially for presentation copies, until at least the seventeenth century.

Nice. Kudos for speed too! (At the time of writing the post is 9h old and still i received the provided context within 5 minutes of commenting. 💯)

Did they really make parchment from hides?? I'm so confused by this, would a book be even usable with pages that thick?

It's good to question intent of any op. I'm personally was also really happy with the no schadenfreude rule, so no downvotes from me. This feels as the maximum level of political news for me, but because there is less of that here lately my tolerance has grown as well.

This would be schadenfreude to me if the point was to discredit the politician / the party in question. I can't tell if that is the intent, but maybe if i had a different world view (and thought she did something bad), i could have.

I agree, I can't imagine the economic bonus gained by productivity is big enough to pay the medical costs at the end of ones life. Back in 1950 people had just a few years of life left when they stopped working. Now a lot of people have 10, maybe 20, healthy years left and another 10 in ill-health. There clearly is either a lot of money for a few years or a little money for a lot of years. Although i also think the wealthy and the top, now get a bigger piece of the pie now.

Considering how big the ocean is I'd still consider them/it lost though.

I don't feel this is the best article on this topic for this community either, but 'politician asks criminals to stand up for the vulnerable' isn't schadenfreude in my books

Also on Nebula (subscribers only): https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-could-orbn-actually-lose-the-2026-elections/

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I’m down with building a bigot seafaring civilization.