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Explanation: The French MAS-36 rifle had a unique system for storing the bayonet, wherein the bayonet is simply reversed and inserted beneath the barrel and ‘locked’ in for storage. Efficient use of space!

However, a handful of goofing-off French infantrymen found out that the same system could be used to ‘lock’ two rifles together, and that doing so blocked the release button… making both rifles unusable without being disassembled.

Great work, GI Pierre! We salute your ingenuity in breaking guns designed to be impossible for any ordinary moron to break! o7

“For security reasons”

Gotta love this atmosphere of institutions kowtowing to fascists. /s

Explanation: A bit inaccurate in the details - Roman city traffic was godawful. Julius Caesar laid down restrictions on when carts could enter the city of Rome to cut down on the grotesque amount of traffic, and there was a dizzying array of traffic laws and one-way streets in the convoluted metropolis that was Rome. Or, in the words of the Roman poet Juvenal…

Who but the wealthy get sleep in Rome? There lies the root of the disorder. The crossing of wagons in the narrow winding streets, the slanging of drovers when brought to a stand, would make sleep impossible for a [Emperor] Drusus - or a sea-calf.

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Newly-patched tunics are torn in two; up comes a huge log swaying on a wagon, and then a second dray carrying a whole pine-tree, towering aloft and threatening the people. For if that axle with its load of Ligurian marble breaks down, and pours its spilt contents on to the crowd, what is left of their bodies? Who can identify the limbs, who the bones? The poor man’s crushed corpse disappears, just like his soul.

I can’t believe England exists in real life.

Big if true

ADVENCHA

ROCK GARDEN HOURS

If I wanted to be swarmed by insects, I’d go to the woods.

Abolish lawns

Monkeyshines

It’s kind of disturbing that we bred a variety of dog that can scream

Roguelike shopkeepers know this trick - that’s why they always stand in front of the door as soon as you pick something up.

NCD is leaking?

The best way to provide ! links that work for the most people is just to type them out as plain text, not as a hyperlink to anything.

Sorry, I’m used to Lemmy’s markup, which automatically makes them a hyperlink. I imitated that without considering that it might be different on Piefed. I’ve got practices to unlearn, it would seem.

Moving to PieFed OK, but why everything to the one instance? Didn’t we learn anything from having everything @world?

It would be one thing if this were several people moving their comms to Piefed.social, but it’s literally just me. Piefed.social is still small, I don’t think me moving is going to cause it to centralize, especially considering that there are other major Piefed instances already extant.

Decentralization should be done by different people and groups choosing different instances, but all of us federating with each other and participating in each other’s comms; not in expecting one person to spread themselves over half-a-dozen different instances.

Sorry, they work on Lemmy. I’m not sure how to do markup for non-Lemmy instances yet, I’m learning.

midwest.social has few active admins, and the most active one has made some questionable moderation decisions. Fighting instance-level administration is a bigger problem than comm-level moderation, so many of us chose to shift away from midwest.social.

Terminally online behavior.

Uh, yes, that’s why I pointed it out?

Unlike, of course, seven months’ worth of impassioned ranting and lying about a commenter who rarely even interacts with you

Any drama must be posted as an observer, you cannot post drama that you are involved with.

When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.

Both of the top rules of the Fediverse drama sub are kind of antithetical to the point of FediverseSlander.

There’s a Fediverse drama sub, but it’s about recording rather than disproving drama, and doesn’t allow drama to be posted by anyone involved in the drama.

This is more about disproving false claims that come about in the process of Fediverse drama, and allows people to bring up their own cases, so long as they come with evidence that the claim is false, and not just counter-accusations or unsupported denials.