Europe had practical seafaring since antiquity. European naval technology during the discovery of the Americas was on par with other Eastern Hemisphere naval powers.

No and no. In antiquity they followed the coasts most of the time, and followed really safe routes across mostly-closed seas the rest of the time. Trireme construction was good enough to take rough weather, while it existed, but for one thing they had trouble with navigation.

Chinese boats of the early modern era were leaky and unseaworthy by comparison, if sometimes extremely large for show, and their sails didn’t tack nearly as well.

The Vikings did manage seafaring, but they had a very specific design that was pushed pretty much to it’s limits. You can’t make a clinker-built longship any bigger or better really, and eventually economic conditions meant they stopped bothering with the big expeditions. Later on some of those same techniques made their way into the caravel.

The Polynesians managed it much earlier, and did spread around, but they were otherwise in the literal stone age. It is still pretty curious they didn’t leave more impact on the Americas.

Yep. The huge advancements in technology brought about by colonialism and capitalism in Europe compelled their naval supremacy

I think you’ve got that backwards. After Rome, it was pretty much a cold, marginal peninsula off of Asia full of starving peasants, until they invented practical seafaring. The wealth that made them a player in the first place came from their ability to travel to the New World and exploit the technological and societal gap present there, and to bypass the silk road.

It’s worth noting India and China were wealthier than both until pretty far into the modern period. Maybe Japan too, I’m not sure.

Edit: And maybe SE Asia, they had their own maritime empires and interacted with Australians before the Europeans, which is neat.

The former.

Other people did similar things everywhere, the Europeans just managed to be the top player right when the industrial revolution made it easier. There’s even cases of native groups getting a hold of European technology and using it to genocide other native groups.

People on the “left” turn it into an ethnicity thing, because humans have always liked to do that. It’s ironic.

Did they come back at some point since your last post?

Oh, I guess I can see they did.

There is a little bit of fine print about that if you look closely.

While it’s burning, it emits a bit more, since the combustion of whatever’s in there is less complete. Then it stops.

Methinks you were either looking at a century BC by accident, or specifically the 7th century. Although it’s China stuff, not SE Asia necessarily.

Exactly.

Statistically, there might be somebody. And there’s a small crowd worth of people who possibly were, to within the minute.

I feel like you need to give more details about what you mean by “do”. It’s a Turing complete system, but if you mean to advance gameplay objectives, that’s a more complicated question. Especially because it’s a fairly open-ended game in the first place.

This being Lemmy, everyone is going straight to computer science.

And by limited, we mean like, on the order of Hertz probably.

Well, I don’t know about okay. I’d give it a pretty shit review actually.

Even when they were doing the far-right backsliding thing, no, not really. There seems to be a lot of actual russophobia going on there, because history.

Before someone bugs me about it, no, shooting down the drones was not an example, and yes, there are plenty of reasons to not like Russia besides that. I do subscribe here after all.

Dope! So glad for you.

Trying to get a bit stronger and more ready for whatever awful thing every day. Activism with political parties and politicians that can potentially win, although that still feels like trying to piss out a forest fire.

Sure, except you get all the same issues with countries not getting along, and now something the federal government could handle, like a space program, has to either be done redundantly by all the states separately which is wasteful and might render the whole thing impractical, or in some politicised clusterfuck of an international organisation.

There’s a reason the trend has been towards less sovereign countries and borders over time.

Text is light. Images are a bit heavier, but there’s not too too many.

I was guessing that, but I’d never noticed it before.

Constructive replies are much more fun, so probably that, but if hundreds of people read what I wrote that does make it feel like it was worth the time to write. Especially if some devoted research or math went into it.

If there’s 100 upvotes on something socially relevant I want tens of downvotes. If it’s all upvotes you’re preaching to the choir, and that’s a circlejerking waste of time.