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Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

Great, now you are arguing in semantics. So tell me:
- What was the Roman salute?
- What was Roman about it?
- Was it different for Romans and non-Romans living in Constantinople/Rome?

This is the problem with dealing with disingenuous people. You know very well what is colloquially known as "Roman salute". You know very well that it was invented by idiots and used by Nazis who to shepherd idiots. But you want to argue that Roman is a valid adjective for whatever salute happened thousands of years ago so that the Nazis can hide in their make-shift cocoon of being technically correct.

Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was claimed to have been used in ancient Rome.[2] However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern "Roman" salute.[2]

Google-foo for reference. I would assume people would do at least that much before commenting. But it seems reddit has leaked to Slashdot while older generation dies off.

Comment ebikes are dangerous! (Score 1) 244

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

Comment No win11. Uh uh, (Score 1) 27

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

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