You know, it's always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as "barbaric" or "Savage", but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.
200 years ago, the local "doctor" will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he's gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it's last use.
200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you'll be fine.
But it's better.
See? It's got the pointy bit at the end.
Who needs superior naval power when you can just turn any naval battle into a land battle? Well... Infantry battle, anyway.
Interpretatio ~~Graeca~~ Romana
So good at stealing things, they even stole the idea that stolen things weren't stolen!
"See? You stole it from those guys!"
"Steal? We would never! It's simply been incorporated into our society."
"See? Totally different."
Why invent when you can get a jump start on iterative design?
It's a bit harder without CAD, but they made it work.
Now I want a trireme with a Corvus painted to look like a crow.
And I will definitely be referring to it as my ship's Corvid. Any time a newcomer tries to correct me, I'll just point to it and ask "You sure about that?"
Push workdays later into the day so a 9-5 becomes an 11-5.
FTFY
work can get fucked if they think I'm giving up my evenings. We should be pushing for shorter workdays, too. Not just push them back.
I've lost my sea legs, unfortunately. It's been about a decade since I set sail and at this point I'm paranoid about any online interactions.
I wouldn't even know where to start with VPNs.
Is this what getting old feels like? Can I go back to limewire?
I ended up finally giving it a shot last month, and I recall having seen stuff about season 2.
I finished season 1 in 2 days, and then found out season 2 hadn't quite come out yet.
Then I did what I always do and waited for all the episodes to come out.. I got halfway through season 2 before my last month I'm paying for streaming services ran out.
So now I will indefinitely be halfway through season 2.
I should have started season 2 the day the last episode was released.
My wife thinks I'm obsessed too.
She's right, of course.
But she doesn't have to remind me of it...
Joke's on her, I turned her into a nerd. She bought the silmarillion.
I'm sure they'll have plenty of proper god fearing Christian good old boys just lining up to do their solemn duty.