RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don’t know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?

That’s one way to look at it. I would pose it as

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time providing the best user experience to the users who are on their platforms?

I’m sure RES doesn’t have a sweetheart deal with Imgur. It must be possible without their agreement.

You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.

A bunch of pictures smooshed together? Like a collage?

Mine is primarily a sports watch. The smartwatch features are just an added bonus.

This is the #1 reason Norway should join the EU.

Oh, this is a video game reference? Tbh I thought it was just a knock on the walkability and bad urban planning of American cities.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

Fructose consumed by real fruits is good.

Fruits are pretty good because they contain important micronutrients and fibre. But the fructose they contain is still just sugar, and not a whole lot better in its own right than the sugar in lollies and biscuits.

Damn, I missed it this year already?

But when is Boxing Day?

IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

It’s not like the Ottomans ever viewed vlad as a noble

The vampire Bram Stoker wrote about is not based on Vlad III. The title of the book was going to be “Count Wampyr” up until just a few weeks before publication, when he came across stories about Vlad Tepes, and he made a few very minor changes at this late stage to incorporate details about Vlad, so talking about the fictional character Dracula in terms of the real-life Ottoman-Wallachian politics is not necessarily the best approach.

That said, talking about the real historical Vlad Tepes, where does the idea that Ottomans didn’t view him as a noble come from? He was raised as a hostage in the Ottoman court, as the son of a recognised noble vassal. And after his father Vlad Dracul’s death, he took the throne after the presumed death of Vladislav II, with the backing of the Ottomans. (But then Vladislav turned up alive and threw out Vlad Dracula.) Wallachia was on such a knife’s edge between Hungary and the Ottomans that it flipped sides multiple times—and Vladislav and Dracula even each switched side themselves during this period. But he was definitely recognised as a noble, in at least the same way one nation would recognise their enemy’s nobles.

Count was just a way to integrate himself with Victorian peerage when he came to take Harkers woman

The version shown in some movies, where he wanted to get with Mina and that’s why he goes to England, doesn’t concord with the book. In the book, Dracula’s motivation for going after Mina and Lucy is much more ambiguous. Lucy first starts sleepwalking on 25 July (Mina writes about it 26 July), after the Demeter (carrying Dracula) entered the Bay of Biscay on 24 July, so it seems he has learnt about her by this time (possibly from Renfield, who is clearly working for Dracula by at least 5 June). But it’s also possible the sleepwalking is coincidence, and that as Mina says in her 1 October diary entry, it’s only because Lucy sleepwalks into the Whitby churchyard that Dracula gets a hold of her. It’s not especially clear which is true.

But there doesn’t seem to be much indication that he is going after Mina until much later. Possibly he only does it as revenge for the band of heroes taking out his containers of Transylvanian dirt, after Lucy has already died (he does mention “revenge” when the heroes encounter him on 3 October, but he’s not exactly a reliable narrator). I believe the first sign of Dracula going after Mina is in Jonathan Harker’s 5am 1 October diary entry.

Isn’t the premise that the life you’re now living is the coma? So tbh I’d welcome the wake up.

Yeah…they cross-posted. It literally uses the same URL and the automatic cross-post detection picked it up.

I’m confused. Americans are the only ones that do say “gasoline”/“gas”. For the rest of us, it’s petrol.

We learned that if you make an effort to speak their language, most French people are very helpful. But if you just assume they’ll speak English, they’re likely to be offended and won’t help you out.

You’re not the first person I’ve heard this from. It seems to be a pretty universal experience, particularly in Paris.

Personally, as someone who took French in school, when I went to France I wanted the opportunity to practise it. And I found the French to be very friendly with it.

I think that’s showing a total score of 501, and that the screenshot-taker downvoted. So at least 502 people upvoted it.

Land Before Time was a big one for me. But even bigger was probably the documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs. Which is available to watch for free on archive.org!

Some of my favourite dinos: