I bet everything will get partisan right after if they got stuck on that island. Or stay for a year. This is delusional.

Almost done with Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford, I really enjoyed it. If someone can recommend other updated, history reads about empires, world history etc.

Oh, I read that some years ago. I am not sure if it's very similar, but I can recommend Debt by David Graeber. It is an economic history of the world that deals with the use of credit and bullion in different societies during history.

Another book I enjoyed this year is The Golden Road by William Dalrymple. It explains the crucial cultural, economical, and religious influence that India had in Eurasia before and during the middle ages. This one is more similar to Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world, I believe.

Thanks for the recommendations, will check them out!

I wonder how the UI will adopt with a longer name.

I remember hearing for the first time Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity over 20 years ago, life changing record indeed.

I had the absolute privilege of seeing them live during that era.

I saw their penultimate-ever concert (with Greg Puciato on vocals) in Prague, and it was a religious experience. By far the best concert I’ve ever seen.

Man I envy you, I live in Southeast Asia and there were only like 50 of us who's into hardcore in my whole country. This was late 90s I think.

I just discovered that they played some shows with their original vocalist recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WqIjayZ1qE

> paying $49 per month for productivity software

I wonder what software is this that cost this much.

Some foreign series gems also like The Asset, Mercy for None.

And some newer ones, American Primeval and the Beast in Me.

I just used Safari's hide distracting items feature. Popovers gone.

I used the close tab button. Same effect.

Heavy metal/hardcore is good music. Mumble rap is bad music.

So we’re calling our fellow programmers monkeys and losers now.

Just MSFT employees. Nobody important.

You have a toxic attitude.

No, I have two decades of negative experiences with them being belligerent assholes to the rest of IT and humanity in general.

All of them? Every single one of their employees?

Every single one of them is ok with working for a company like Microsoft. So, yes.

The other countries not mentioned are on Facebook's Messenger.

I think Germany has a high amount of users on Signal, it's quite interesting seeing the stats about messaging apps in different countries, it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders.

I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger, it's the clunkiest of them all, and since I don't like using it all I constantly miss important messages from friends from not having the app installed and checking Facebook once in a blue moon :/

This is probably a lot more work than you're willing to put in, but the Facebook Messenger bridge for Matrix has actually been reliable, set'n'forget, and headache-free for me, whenever I have to use it for Marketplace.

I wouldn't otherwise mention it, but this is one of the few sites where "Stand up your own messaging server" isn't a completely insane suggestion.

>it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders

I think it's caused by the network effect [1].

>I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger

I agree. Denmark is the same, everybody uses FB Messenger or, even worse, Snapchat.

And don't even get me started on payment systems: Sweden has Swish, Denmark has MobilePay, Italy has Satispay, etc. It's completely fractured and it's so annyoing when travelling across the EU.

At least there's a new European system called Wero [2], I wonder if it's going to help fixing this situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

[2] https://wero-wallet.eu/

That's not dominant anywhere right now. Facebook now somehow merged it back to the main app... again.