People were mining, smelting, and forging many metals 650 years ago.

yep, 3000bc+ going back to copper and bronze.

but there’s a tremendous jump from being able to smelt metal in small quantities - obtaining enough ores for each, for example, is probably more than one person work to produce anything usable. smelting, gathering wood or other fuel, building ovens and water wheels etc… and no one to call on for expertise…

hard couple of decades to produce some wire :D

primitive technology youtube channel has him trying to make iron for a few years with everything handmade. watch it to see what you’d be up against.

Yeah, there’s that - the George Carlin / cynic view of if there’s a god it’s outlook seems really, really dark.

like, would an all knowing, all loving god create a botfly?

it would make me reconsider faith…

I mean not long but still

sometimes I really wonder if we’re worthy of our dogs.

this has been the greatest proof against higher powers for me. too few evil fucks autocombusting

I’m Belgian you clown.

all the more reason to stand up to tyrannical asshats you dumb fucking neville chamberlain shitwad.

holy fuck, your country has been trodden through and occupied for fucking ages and you don’t root for ukraine?

slava fuckin ukraine, you fucking fascist bootlicker

It’s an alternate timeline where Jessica had a daughter instead of a sun

this is what the bene wanted. a daughter Atreides to mate with Feyd Rutha Harkonnen - but Jessica wanted to satisfy Leto.

and Leto defeated the Harkoenens during their invasion, so Leto rules over Arrakis for the indefinite future, leaving space in the story for fetch quests and base building.

uhhh so this is an entirely different fiction huh

Apparently the firemen disappeared too, so you have to solve the mystery.

I suspect you mean fremen…

why even bother licensing the story if they’re determined to change everything?

how strange

your 3 day special military operation has killed nearly a million russians and hollowed out their economy lol.

why don’t YOU go volunteer? the russians need your idiotic ass a lot more than Ukraine needs me.

please, go, so one of your countrymen can murder you for retreating :D

time to decolonize that shithole anyway.

more plausible than anything else I suppose

… a dune mmo?

who thought this was a good idea?

love the frank herbert books. I thought the recent movies were ok. But MMO? what a strange fit for this universe… unless billions of the players die in the jihad lol

bwahahaha slava ukraine

dude how can you possibly see nearly a million dead russians as losing?

they’ve burned through damn near every soviet-surplus shitwagon they could send into battle. they use north korean artillery shells lol you have no fucking idea what’s going on do you?

Putin’s sending his own into battle on ebikes. come on make it make sense bro

oh shit he’s gettin edgier! watch out

slava ukraine biiiiioootch

oh shit it’s an edgelord watch out.

there’s always time for polonium tea.

I suspect… hubris.

They’ve - and really - Musk - have gotten away with so much for so long…

yeah a lil scandal here, a little scandal there, pretty soon everyone’s at least scumbag adjacent.

it’s hard for me to imagine “ze Germans” tampering with odometers to sell cars.

uhhhhh… this may surprise you, but… ze germans and everyone else suffer from unfettered capitalist fuckery.

this is the part that slays me about skeptics: it’s your kids and grandkids. wouldn’t you do anything for them? don’t you love them?

what the actual fuck, over?

it’s literally the only biosphere we have and we’re treating it like we have a package of biospheres from costco unopened under the sink.

it’s very hard to tell, I’m probably out of date on my numbers as well.

but teeeeeechnically, it’s over a hundred thou so… “rightish?” :D

they’ve torn through a tremendous amount of the soviet reserve hardware they had.

but also have lost over a hundred thousand people, which is gonna hurt any workforce.

woohoo keep going Ukraine!