pauldrye

joined 7 months ago
[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

Hooray, but this was two weeks ago?

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whoever the writer thinks should be faster, so as to serve the needs of the story being told.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Partly. Their largest shareholder is RBI, which is Brazilian-American-Canadian. Head office is in First Canadian Place in Toronto. The terms of the deal that RBI cut to buy them has the Canadian government requiring them to keep most of their office side of things in Canada.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

No, they're a big box store, not associated with a mall like a department store.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's been a long time coming. Department stores in Canada have been dying off one by one, and they were the last. It's a business model that just doesn't work here anymore.

*oldmanyellsatcloud.jpg *

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

I'd say try reviving the group by posting there yourself for a while. There's probably a few people who are still subscribed to it, so you'll get more eyeballs right out of the box than you would starting a fresh one.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If it's in the Daily Mail, you can safely assume the opposite is true.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Cadbury is also owned by Mondelez, so many British chocolate bars are out too.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Canva is not European, but it's also not American -- they're from Australia.

[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 33 points 4 months ago (14 children)

The EU already has a land border in the Americas. French Guiana is part of the union and it touches Brazil and Suriname. So the gate is already open to work it from the south up instead of the north down.

I read somewhere -- great source, I know -- that the existing rule is that the country has to be in Europe, though, not that it has a border. Otherwise Malta, Ireland, and Cyprus would not qualify, and the UK too back when they were in.

Oddly enough, the Canadian/Danish border is a questionable one for this purpose anyway -- Hans Island (where the border is) is part of Greenland and Greenland is not in the EU. It left in 1985 and is now one of the "Overseas countries and territories" that have special rights in relation to the EU but are not actually in it.

 

The Jägermeister Adventure is a mini-campaign for Traveller/Cepheus Engine focusing on a bounty-hunting group searching for a war criminal in the generic Minerva Cluster, which for Traveller is set somewhere on the fringes of the Imperium without specifically saying so.

I'm not affiliated with the reviewer (@cybergoths@dice.camp on Lemmy) or the product.

 

These are some high quality, fan-made rules for Cepheus Engine (and so based on the Mongoose Traveller SRD) covering various Star Trek shows up until 2017 (TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, ENT).

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All of David Lynch's feature length films are now available.

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"The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home."

 

This flint axe was found in 1912 in West Tofts, a now-abandoned village in the UK between Cambridge and Norwich, It was made by a Homo heidelbergensis or possibly a Neanderthal, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago.

This kind of tool is fairly common throughout western Europe and Africa, but this specimen is unique for having a Cretaceous-era fossil of a spiny oyster in the centre that suggests the axe's maker wanted the shell on it as an adornment.

It's kept in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and you can see more details on their web site.

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Some psychedelic soul, released in December 1967 as a much-cut-down version of an 11-minute 1967 album cut that had been released as a previous, shorter single version to not a lot of fanfare in 1966. And there were two versions of this later single -- this is the longer one with a breakdown that was dropped in the other one. It went to #11 on the US charts.

 

Enjoying a bit of new attention after showing up during the credits of Agatha All Along.

 

Made of barracuda jawbone(*) and wrapped in red-dyed barkcloth, this scarifier was used by mourners to draw blood from themselves in honour of a dead chief. You can see the original here along with a second picture and some curator's notes.

(*) The source contradicts itself by saying both barracuda and porpoise -- googling for images suggests it's a barracuda, but I could be wrong.

This image is used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and requires this attribution: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Originally posted to Reddit by me in 2023.

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