A group of american settlers got stuck there in winter and did some cannibalism to survive. I watched a YouTube “documentary” once.

Ahmet has English subtitles on many videos, so check out one of his recipes. Turkish man living in Germany, an absolute dad. Makes good food and cracks corny jokes while doing it.

bigclive, the most famous bear from the Isle of Man.

Money. Lots and lots of it.

Hosting video on a significant scale is very expensive. Stupendously expensive.

Convincing people to join is also going to cost a lot of money. Consumers are on YT because creators are there, and they are already used to the platform. Creators are there because the consumers are there. And there is a robust infrastructure to make a living from content creation.

Financing is especially difficult for such a project, because companies are willing to pay way more for targeted ads. For which you need some data about your users. The more data you collect, the better the and targeting can be, the more companies are willing to pay.
Assuming there are enough users for companies to pay for advertising at all.

If you want to work with the original project, you have to push to the server that controls the original project.

For each project there is one authoritative instance, one “server” that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.

Dunno if you’re German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you’re in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

Fellow Viennese person detected, must post song Workers Of Vienna https://youtu.be/A95Gu39oBrI

I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

Why does Athens have a USA flag and English text?

Two things can be true at the same time. Palestine is a horrible place for us queer folks, and Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian population.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

Fuck shopping centre employees amirite folks?

“Fifth June” in German.

I discovered Tinariwen through one of their live recordings. Pretty amazing stuff.

Oh for sure. When I joined, servers and communities dedicated to specific countries or even cities had a bit of activity. Used to see a lot of German, Austrian, french, Dutch, Australian and NZ content in my feed. Now only the Germans and Australians, sometimes.

It is though? Sure, you can’t just throw it on a compost pile and wait a few weeks for it to rot away. That’s why leather is processed (tanned) in the first place, otherwise it would be a pretty useless material.

But it will biodegrade. In a few years instead of thousands of years like plastics.

Fair. I would claim that’s saying something by itself.

It’s not just here, it’s everywhere. That’s why people like me are so sour about it.

Nein danke, ihr seids nicht das einzige deutschsprachige Land.