But in the comment sections, that bullshit is amplified to a worldwide audience, and in an audience of that size, there will always be multiple lunatics like that. And for some reason they will always find each other.

Fuck this damn fish in particular.

It also was the era where the pilots of some types of combat aircraft suffered more losses in training accidents than in actual combat. While they were fighting a world war.

The Romans even had a standardised ritual for stealing gods from a city they were about to conquer: Evocatio. In the ritual, priests would call upon the enemy god(s) to abandon their city and come to Rome, where they would receive a bigger temple and more devoted worship than in the city about to be conquered.

Cygwin is at least well integrated into Windows. It does respect and show its native file system permissions, and you can run windows binaries from within cygwin.

WSL is a load of shit compared to cygwin. No surprise, as it comes straight from Redmond.

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Meanwhile at the headquarters of the praetorian cohort:

Good news everyone! The emperor is dead, let’s prepare an auction!

Add another dude in France running around in a pope hat and claiming that he is, in fact, the real pope.

Everyone excommunicating each other, of course.

Why would anyone buy toilet paper that already has shit stains on it?

Navies will always use Morse code, even if not regularly for radio communication. Morse lamps are still the way of ship to ship communication that will work regardless of the time of day over relatively long distances when operating under radio silence. (signal flags don’t work all that well at night, and and are difficult to read from far away)

Just encode your porn with the character set available to Morse code, and you can send porn via Morse.

Or send lewd imagery as ASCII-art, which is a practice that originated with teletype operators and was widely used for testing their equipment in a fun way.

How humanity has managed to get that far without any written record of this splendid insult escapes me.

The methamphetamine pills issued to the troops also gained euphemistic nicknames like “Panzerschokolade” or “Fliegerschokolade”, (“Tank chocolate” or “airman’s chocolate”) due to those branches of the military consuming them like candy.

What modern ocean liners even exist?

Cunard still runs transatlantic liner service. The QM2 is built as a combination ocean liner/cruise ship and does serve the north atlantic route on a schedule.

That’s because the Olympic class liners were built with a power plant optimised for fuel efficiency, not speed.

They had two reciprocating triple expansion engines and a low pressure turbine driven by the exhaust steam from the reciprocating engines’ low pressure cylinders.

Fully turbine driven liners of the same era would easily clock service speeds well beyond 25 knots, at the expense of burning way more coal.

It’s just as in justice. Trust me bro.

Instructions unclear, engaged high range while in reverse.

Only 26 speeds? That’s pathetic. 32 speed transmissions are easily possible, do exist, and are less complicated to use than you might think, and the Morse shifter suggests.

A Standard heavy truck 16 speed transmission, combined with an off-road reduction in the transfer case, as very common in all wheel drives, will do the trick. This will additionally give you at very least 4 speeds in reverse. (Technically, at least 8 reverse speeds, but most transmissions have a lock-out that prevents reverse and high range from being engaged at the same time)

If you’re seeing a heavy 6x6 or 8x8 truck at a construction site, it very likely has this kind of transmission arrangement.