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me: yeah so a few years ago someone invented infinite scrolling and really it was a terrible idea

the elf I just hooked up with, taking the lavender and honeysuckle lollipop from their mouth: An infinite scroll... most elfmaidens learn to enchant a scroll to never end before they're a mere 300 years old. It saves on paper.

me: oh see that's just writing, with social media it's really bad, it just leads to people doomscrolling all day

the elf I just hooked up with, spluttering and panicked: The Doomscroll! Be silent human, thou shoulds't not speak the name of that fell parchment

me: oh so you get it

orochislayer

Positive affirmations:

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

geigercuntter

Instead of going to work tomorrow why don’t we all just dig a really deep hole

radicalgraff

"A man would shelter, if he could, in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagined that it were you"

Seen on an abandoned thearter in Rochester, New York

enki2

twinflamedreams

That’s absolutely the goal of applying more and more restrictions, nannying users and forcing everyone to use curated dumbed down nonsense.

Most people out there, if there isn’t an app for it, where they can click a button and the goal is achieved, they cant do it.

mushroomofficial

An Oven is a kind of European above-ground umu typically constructed from metal and ceramic. Originating in the 18th century, ovens are primarily used for preparing several kinds of Western-style hāngī, such as Sunday roasts, casseroles, and pies, which are cooked in various types of specialised poti. Ovens are usually constructed off-site in dedicated facilities before being installed in the whareumu, or kitchen, of a European whare. They are typically not able to be moved once installed, quite unlike umu which may be constructed anywhere and are readily deconstructed and moved as needed. Another limitation of ovens is that due to their small internal volume relative to their overall size, they are generally restricted in the amount of kai they can produce. An oven will produce only enough kai to feed a few people, whereas a hāngī cooked in an umu can feed an entire village.

estrapaded

Thank you for sharing this piece of quaint European culture (or is it Europeanne? so bad at spelling haha 😄) It's so interesting how the European word for umu, oven, is seemingly not contained in the European for whareumu (kitchen). It sounds like a product of evolution of the ancient language, coupled with the instability of warring tribes. Fascinating!

mushroomofficial

this is true, with some caveats: the earliest ovens in europe actually date back to 29,000 bce, but these kinds of ovens were also found across the indus valley and egypt about 20,000 years later so they’re not strictly european. more sophisticated ovens were found across the middle east and also greece and modern-day italy for many thousands of years after this, and there were other kinds of “ovens” used across europe during the middle ages, but i would argue that none of these were in a form that recognisably correlates with modern in-home ovens in the western world (commercial ovens are a different beast entirely).

the date i used in the original post was the invention of the cast-iron stove, which was circa 1700s, because imo it bears the most similarity to modern ovens in form, material composition, installation, and use, compared to all its predecessors. it is also i think the point where european ovens diverged significantly enough from umu for this post to make sense.

of course i put none of this in the original post because then it wouldn’t be funny, but now i have an opportunity to lore dump about ovens, so thank you :)

russianfolklore

Viktor Britvin's illustration for russian tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful".

evilwizard

just a girl and her god damn skeloton torch trying to make thier way in this fuckdup worl. d

nemfrog

Attention. Psychology As You May Like It. 1965.

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savrenim

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all

savrenim